Coming Soon recently sat down with Antonio Banderas to discuss his involvement as voice actor in Shrek The Third, as well as revealing his role in upcoming installments of the popular franchise. A bunch of new promotional images and stills have also been added to Coming Soon’s Shrek gallery.

JV Pixar News reports that a clip of monday’s Dancing With The Stars revealed that John Ratzenberger, who has voiced a character in every Pixar movie to date, will lend his voice to a french waiter called “Mustafa” in Pixar’s upcoming Ratatouille. Meanwhile, CBS news and The Showbuzz have published an article on the upcoming […]

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Robot Chicken creators, Seth Green and Matthew Senreich are making a Robot Chicken: Star Wars Special for Adult Swim. The 30-minute stop-motion animation special, directed by Green, will spoof key scenes and favorite characters from the Star Wars universe, including the sci-fi saga’s creator, George Lucas. The special is created […]

Mlive.com reports that the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International will kick off this year’s festival with a preview of the new Shrek sequel at 7:30 p.m. May 17, the night before the film’s official opening day. “This is very unusual, for a film festival like Cannes to do something like this, it’s par for the course. […]

Cold Hard Flash has published an article on John Kricfalusi including an interview with the creative mind behind Ren & Stimpy himself. The article showcases an interesting retrospective on John K’s work, While the interview elaborates, among other things, on John K’s vision of using the internet for online directly sponsored cartoons and the evolution […]

Advertisements on Disney.com announce that a special 9-minute preview of Ratatouille will be available online at Disneys’ official site on May 1st. Meanwhile, two new high resolution images for Ratatouille have been discovered at El Blog De Superhéroes. Thanks to “JV PIXAR” at the Animated News & Views Forum for the notice of this news.

The LA-Times reports that Fox and Dreamworks are fighting over a Memorial Day 2009 3-D release. Both studios have chosen that date to release what each hopes will be its first 3-D blockbuster. DreamWorks’ Monsters vs. Aliens will be up against Avatar, a science-fiction thriller from James Cameron. The nation’s largest exhibitors say they won’t […]

Cartoonbrew has published a more detailed look at the bonus features of the upcoming Woody Woodpecker & Friends Classic Cartoon Collection DVD. Interestingly, one of the bonus features will be a short subject showing step by step how the Lantz studios makes an animated short, in this case an Oswald Rabbit cartoon. Oswald The Lucky […]

Reasononline has published an interview with Jackson Publick, creator of The Venture Bros, to celebrate the DVD release of Venture Bros‘ second season. The interview elaborates, among other things, on the creation of Venture Bros, its influences and Publicks’ view on sci-fi.

In celebration of 20 years of The Simpsons, Parade.com sat down with The Simpsons‘ executive producer, Al Jean, to talk about some of his favourite moments and experiences he had while working on the longest-running sitcom on television.

Aardman Animations is bringing their popular British stop-motion TV series, Creature Comforts, to American Primetime Television. The US version of Creature Comforts is set to premier on the CBS Television Network on Monday, June 4th. The series employs a unique format that uses actual interviews and places them in the mouths of a wide variety […]

AWN reports that Nickelodeon has partnered with media content company, Chorion, to present Olivia, a new children’s animated television series based on the best-selling books by acclaimed author & illustrator Ian Falconer. The new CGI series will be animated by Academy Award-nominated Irish animation studio Brown Bag Films. Nick Jr. will present 26 half-hour episodes […]

At Amazon.com, the cover artwork for The Secret of Nimh: Family Fun Edition has been revealed. Besides receiving a slightly changed logo, the cover artwork has remained pretty much the same since its previous MGM Kids release. The DVD’s extras have not yet been revealed to this date, while the currently listed specs state that […]

DVDactive reveals the specs and cover artwork for the R2 release of Stan Lee Presents: Mosaic and Stan Lee Presents: The Condor.The covers seem to have a very different look compared to the R1-versions wich you can find here and here. Both titles are set for a May 14th release.

Today AOL announced that it will launch an online interactive game based on the popular Shrek franchise on April 26, Titled: Ye Olde Shrek the Third Royal Tournament. The game will offer a series of online challenges over a six week period involving characters and settings from the movie. All together, 25 individual games will […]

JV Pixar News points to Disney.com wich now showcases a new Ratatouille Podcast named: Ratatouille – Cooking 101. The behind-the-scenes featurette mainly focuses on how the Pixar-crew handled the cooking-aspect of the movie, and how they went about in creating a digital Gourmet kitchen. The featurette also shows some previously unseen footage, as well as […]

A DisneyDVD advertisement found in Home Media Magazine displays a small version of the revised artwork for The Jungle Book: 40th anniversary edition. The 2-disc DVD is scheduled for release on October 2nd. A big thanks to “Daniel” at the Animated News & Views forum for the notice of this news.

TV Shows on DVD premieres the cover artwork for Underdog: The ultimate DVD collection, The Best of Casper and The first season of Silverwing. The site also displays the revised artwork for the new adventures of both Batman and Superman.

The cover of Broadcast magazine reveals that The Transformers are scheduled to reappear on TV with a new series in 2008. The new show, called Transformers: animated, will consist of 26 Episodes and a 90 minute special. The Colin Warhurst Website has the exclusive on the Broadcast cover wich also showcases the new shows’ logo. […]

Manchester Evening News and DigitalSpy report that Nick Jr. has acquired the rights to create a new CGI series based on the classic children’s TV show,The Magic Roundabout. The new series will be animated in France and will use the same character models as the recent 2006 movie. Nickelodeon UK managing director Howard Litton stated: […]

DVDActive displays the cover art of Hellboy Animated: Blood & Iron, as well as giving the titles’ specs and list of bonus features. As with the previous Hellboy: Animated release, a special 32 page comic will be included with the first 300,000 DVDs.

With only 36 days left till its US release, updates on Shrek The Third are coming in at an increasingly faster pace. Shrek.com has been updated, and now holds a production blog featuring interviews with both the directors and the producer. Concurrently, Coming Soon has added 9 movie stills, including 3 new ones, to its […]

Two time Academy Award nominee Bill Plympton’s fifth animated feature, Hair High, opens today in Los Angeles for an exclusive week-long run at the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theater. Several surprise guests are expected at tonight’s premiere and Bill Plympton will appear at both night shows this weekend to draw sketches for everyone in attendance. For […]

Adult Swim and First Look’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Colon Movie Film For Theaters opens today in approximately 877 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film has received a suprising 53% freshness rating at Rotten Tomatoes after the movie gained mostly negative reactions at screenings, with some crittics calling it “tasteless and totally pointless” […]

Pixar is scheduled to make an appearance at the RiverRun International Film Festival on Saturday, April 21. Visiting Pixar artists David Park and Don Crum will present a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Cars, explaining how their films evolve from their initial concept stage to final film, as well as showing film clips from […]

Macon.com have posted their coverage on the Shrek The Third set-visit wich occured last month. What makes this article stand out between the countless others already online, are the behind-the-scenes photographs wich show the animators working on The Third as well as a giant model of the Far Far Away castle.

AWN recently sat down with Bill Plympton, the creative mind behind Hair High. The interview offers some insight on the origin of Hair High as well as elaborating on the different stages of production, the voice cast and the struggle it was to bring the film to the big screen.

The Platform International Animation Festival, wich will take place in Portland, Oregon from June 25 to 30, has revealed the selections for competition on the offical website. From approximately 2,000 entries, 105 we’re selected to compete in 11 different categories including: Short Film, Student film, Television Series, Title Sequence and Music Video. Among the entries […]

TV Shows on DVD have discovered that Warner Bros Animation has put together a survey asking potential DVD buyers about their interest level in various cartoon properties they own, and that to this day have not yet seen a DVD release. The various cartoons listed include Freakazoid!, Tiny Toon Adventures, Shazzan, The Jetsons, Silverhawks and […]

Universal announced it’s finally releasing The Woody Woodpecker And Friends Classic Cartoon Collection on DVD on July 24th. This new DVD collection, consisting of three discs, will contain 75 theatrical cartoons, uncut and restored from the original Universal Pictures master negatives. Bonus material will include six Behind-the-Scenes with Walter Lantz segments from the 1957 Woody […]