Toon Zone lists the movies and specials coming to Disney Channel for the month of June and Toon Disney for the month of July. Included in the mix are such Disney classics as The Fox and the Hound, Mulan, Robin Hood, Alice In Wonderland, The Black Cauldron, Dumbo, The Great Mouse Detective, Hercules, The Hunchback […]

Latino Review has a batch of images from the impressive Chronicles of Narnia booth at this year’s E3 Expo. If one looks closely at the last pic on the first row, he or she can also partially see the display for the Chicken Little video game as well. Videos from the displays are also available […]

Coming Soon has the latest clip from Howl’s Moving Castle. The clip, entitled ‘We’re Moving’, is presented in both high and low Quicktime resolutions. Howl’s Moving Castle will open in U.S. theaters on June 10, 2005.

Those who like to plan ahead on what DVDs to buy may want to check out Ultimate Disney‘s review for Spider-Man: The Venom Saga, the latest compilation release of the 90’s animated Spider-Man series, coming to stores next Tuesday. Says the site, “Spider-Man: The Venom Saga provides five diverting episodes with satisfying audio/video quality and […]

Jim Hill Media presents the first part of a two-part article containing a detailed sneak peek into the making of the Monsters, Inc.-themed dark ride, Mike and Sully to the Rescue, still under construction at Disney’s California Adventure. Especially worth noting are the several images of concept art located in the article.

The Post-Standard, via Coming Soon, indicates that Ben Burtt, sound designer for all the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, has moved to Pixar Animation Studios. Though the Star Wars films provided three years’ worth of employment, Burtt was guaranteed nothing past that, seeing as how most employees at Lucasfilm work from project to project. […]

Yahoo! Finance has the press release for the North American premiere of Walt Disney Studios’ and Studio Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle, with the article noting the attendance of the film’s director, Hayao Miyazaki. In related news, Ain’t It Cool News is holding a special Saturday Morning Kids Club screening of Howl’s Moving Castle. Though admission […]

Jim Hill Media speculates how the lackluster response for The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz will affect the future of the Muppets, as Disney’s PR staff attempts to make the project look like a success. In addition, Jim Hill also speaks with Ken Plume, journalist and Muppet fan, who offers some advice concerning how to get […]

Exodus Film Group announces the addition of two new projects in the studio’s lineup: The Hero of Color City and Amarillo Armadillo. The two new projects come as a response to the industry buzz surrounding Exodus’ first CGI film Igor, which is still in production and scheduled for a 2007 theatrical release. All three films […]

The full soundtrack for Madagascar, now playing in theaters, can be heard online at AOL Music.

Providing an update to our “Bob sets off for MIPCOM” story from September 2004, Wendy Griffiths, the CEO of Dark Prince, Paris, has written in to speak about the current state of Dark Prince Productions, the intentionally small Parisian studio with two ‘hats’: producer and service studio. It is worth noting that GenerActor, the company’s […]

Quint at Ain’t It Cool News recently visited the set of Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, coming to theaters June 29, 2005. Within this revealing two-part article is not only interesting information regarding War of the Worlds, but small details on Spielberg’s other upcoming projects as well. For instance, after discussing King Kong with […]

Ain’t It Cool News has a string of both good and bad news regarding the Last Unicorn live-action film. As it turns out, Continent Films recently paid $250,000 to go through with a buyout clause in their deal with Granada Media, owner of the rights to the 1982 animated movie. This payment shows the studio’s […]

TV Shows on DVD has the latest on a DVD release of Count Duckula. Following speculation that A&E would release the show to DVD, Jano Rohleder, webmaster of Duckula Online, has discovered that Capital Entertainment will release the DVD set in the USA. The Count Duckula DVD is rumored to be available this September.

Screencaps from the trailer for Open Season are online at JoBlo. Sony Pictures Animation’s CGI comedy Open Season, starring the voices of Ashton Kutcher, Martin Lawrence, Debra Messing and Paul Westerberg, is scheduled to hit theaters on September 29, 2006.

Dan Ritchie, responsible for the Project Dogwaffle Pro Digital Painter, has unleashed a free update patch for users of Project Dogwaffle Pro 3.x. Version 3.1a comes equipped with new tools for traditional animators, improvements on existing tools, and a few minor bug fixes. One can read the press release for the Project Dogwaffle Pro Digital […]

The first poster for Nickelodeon Movies’ Barnyard, coming to theaters on January 13, 2006, is up at The Internet Movie Poster Awards.

Box Office Guru provides a Saturday update of the box office for Madagascar. On Friday, the CGI flick gathered an estimated $14.4 million. Considering that on holiday weekends, family films often gross less on Friday than they do on Saturday and Sunday, Madagascar should have no problem collecting $62-68 million over the four-day weekend, easily […]

Following in the footsteps of the famous dance-off between Napolean Dynamite and Fender from Robots, the characters from Madagascar are the latest entries into the dance-off game. Be sure to vote for the best at the Ultimate Madagascar Dance-Off official site. Thanks to an e-mail from Buzz Lightyear (no, not that one) for the heads […]

Ultimate Disney points to Nausicaa.net, where Cindy Hewitt, Don Hewitt, and Rick Dempsey, supervisors for the English translations and releases of Studio Ghibli films, reveal the aspects of the dubbing process and plans for Region 1 DVD releases. Also included in the interview is the reason for the delay of My Neighbor Totoro’s Disney DVD […]

Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away)’s latest film Howl’s Moving Castle will premiere at the El Capitan Theatre on Thursday, June 9, at 7pm. Already the film has collected over $200 million internationally. Click “More” to read the official press release for the event.

Variety [paid registration required], via Coming Soon, indicates that Kevin Lima (Tarzan, 102 Dalmatians) will helm the romantic fable Enchanted, a mixed live-action and computer animated feature from Walt Disney Pictures. The film’s plot outline is this: “A wannabe-princess [is] banished from the animated world of Andalasia to a place where there is no true […]

While not much has been said or written regarding the film, which may have led some to wonder if the production has been cancelled, The DreamWorks SKG Fansite reports that Kung Fu Panda is still in pre-production at DreamWorks Animation. The studio is hoping for a 2008 release for the movie.

Walt Disney Studios and EMI Music are teaming up to release four different soundtracks for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Yahoo! Movies reports. One disc will contain mainstream Christian music artists, the second disc will feature both pop and rock, the third disc will contain Harry Gregson-Williams’ score and […]

Amazon.com has posted one of the first reviews for Tarzan II. Critic Lynn Gibson writes, “Despite the star-studded voice cast, there is a sense of re-tread ground here, and the story (loosely based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ distinctive tale) shows signs of formulaic Disney. Nonetheless, Phil Collins’ trio of original songs livens the pace to […]

Coming Soon speaks to Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, the directors of DreamWorks’ CGI comedy Madagascar, opening in theaters this Friday.

Available at Petition Online is an appeal to Univeral Pictures from Balto Source, which claims that none of the three Balto films, particularly the first one, have received the recognition they deserve from the studio. At the moment, the petition, calling for more promotions for the three films, has 449 signatures.

What began as a Shrek-like spoof on fairy tales, followed by a supposed turn into a tale about a squirrel and a bassett hound, the plot for Disney’s Rapunzel Unbraided has supposedly been revamped once more. With a story more along the lines of such traditional Disney classics as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs […]

Three animated DVD releases hit stores shelves today. First up is Pooh’s Heffalump Movie [press release here], the latest Pooh offering from Disney. Budgeted at around $20 million, the film received positive reviews and garnered close to $18 million, in theaters. As the review from Coming Soon suggests, “Pooh’s Heffalump Movie is fun for kids […]

At the age of 85, Henry Corden died of emphysema on Thursday night, at AMI Encino Hospital. Though he voiced several characters during his lifetime, Corden will be especially remembered as providing the voice of Fred Flintstone, following the death of original voice actor Alan Reed in 1977. Television series in which the actor voiced […]