DVDTimes reports that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Planet 51 on 9th March 2010. Extra features on these releases will include, “Planetarium – The Voice Stars of Planet 51“, “Extended Scenes”, “The World of Planet 51“, “Life On Planet 51: Behind-the-Scenes Featurette”, “Music Video Montage” and “Animation Progression […]

The L.A. Times was on hand for a screening of Waking Sleeping Beauty, a documentary which looks at Disney during the turbulent period from the 1980s to early 1990s. Financed and distributed by Disney, and produced by Peter Schneider and directed by Don Hahn, you might expect a white-washed version of events. Not so says […]

ABC7 in Los Angeles has a report and some video of the Roy E. Disney memorial service held yesterday at the El Capitan Theatre. The upbeat ceremony featured performances and clips from some of his work and guests were asked to wear bright colors instead of black. Disney CEO Robert Iger announced that Burbank animation […]

DreamWorks Animation made a splash at the recent Consumer Electronics Show. The company is teaming up with Samsung to promote 3D television, according to Variety. Buyers of Samsung 3D TV’s will get a free copy of the Monsters vs. Aliens 3D Blu-ray disc, the first ever 3D BD. Exclusive 3D trailers from DreamWorks will also […]

Now at 20 years and counting, The Simpsons is a pop culture institution. Intelligent Life compares and contrasts the show to another animation powerhouse — Disney. The piece makes several interesting points, including: while The Simpsons started as a sort of anti-Disney, over time the show has gone from rebel to establishment; perhaps counterintuitively, Disney […]

Disney has announced a 2-disc Special Un-Anniversary Edition DVD of Alice in Wonderland for release on March 30, 2010, reports UltimateDisney. New bonus features on this release will include the deleted scene “Pig and Pepper” considered in the 1930s, and the featurette “Reflections on Alice.” The site also suggests that The Great Mouse Detective, previously […]

Art Clokey, creator of the popular Gumby character as well as the Christian television series Davey And Goliath, passed away last Friday, reports Yahoo!News. The animator, who suffered from repeated bladder infections, died in his home in California at the age of 88. His character of Gumby arose from a student project he completed titled […]

Fans of the hit Nickelodeon animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender will be happy to know that a brand new TV spot for the live-action film based on it is set to air during the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 7th. Other confirmed TV spots for the game include the Martin Scorsese thriller Shutter Island and the hotly anticipated […]

With Sony’s Spider-Man 4 apparently no longer coming in May 2011, other studios are now taking the chance to claim new release dates for their own movies in that timeframe. Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is now set to be released on May 20th, which would allow for it to come out a week […]

On its way to yet another milestone, The Simpsons will air its 450th episode on Sunday night at 8pm EST. The episode, entitled Once Upon a Time in Springfield, will be followed by a new hourlong special celebrating the show’s history. The documentary, from Super Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock, goes by the humorous title of […]

In addition to the previously announced Disney titles retiring from their current DVD pressings, the Studio has added The Jungle Book (DVD) and Sleeping Beauty (DVD and Blu-ray) Platinum Editions to the list of films that will be discontinued from this January 30. The titles will remain on shelves until stock runs out.

The Hollywood Reporter announces that the fourth Spider-Man movie under Sam Raimi has hit another stumbling block after the director and the producing studio Sony couldn’t agree on which villains Spidey would face. Raimi wants the Vulture while Sony is after the Black Cat, a situation the two partners have faced before when Sony forced […]

The Producers Guild of America have announced their nominations for their Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Avatar alphabetically fronts the list, which also names District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious B******s, Invictus, Precious, Star Trek, Up and Up In The Air. Up […]

It was an unfortunate start to 2010 for Walt Disney’s grandson Patrick Disney Miller, son of Walt’s daughter Diane Disney Miller and the Disney Company’s former CEO Ron Miller, when the 42 year old pleaded not guilty to weapons charges. He was arrested after police found multiple illegal guns and other items at his Los […]

As well as announcing the closing of the deal to purchase Marvel Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company has also “expanded its ties” with Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment, with which it already has a first-look deal. Lee was the creator of many characters in the Marvel stable, and this new agreement will bring him closer to […]

Timed to the release of Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy coming to Blu-ray on April 6, distributors Warner Bros. will also upgrade director Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 animated feature edition of the first half of the story to the high definition format as a BD/DVD combo pack for $29.99. The film, notorious in […]

Summit Entertainment’s animated action adventure Astro Boy is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on March 16th, according to Amazon.com. No further details on the release are currently available. Starring the voice talents of Freddie Highmore and Nicolas Cage, Astro Boy was a dissapointment in theaters, grossing just $19 million against a production budget of $65 million.

The winners of the 2009 TV DVD Awards have been announced, per this article from Home Media Magazine (original article here).

After only a few weeks of release, Avatar has already accomplished what only a few films in the history of cinema have done, crossing the $1 billion mark in worldwide receipts yesterday and becoming one the highest grossing movies of all time. The James Cameron epic surpassed The Dark Knight’s worldwide gross yesterday and is currently only behind […]

Disney and Marvel have completed the deal that they announced last August, in which Disney revealed a plan to purchase the comic book entertainment company for $4.3 billion. The agreement was made final when Marvel’s shareholders approved the deal. The Walt Disney Company now has rights to over 5,000 characters from Marvel’s extensive comic history.

ComingSoon.net now has a brand new sneak peek at Disney/Pixar’s upcoming Toy Story 3.  The featurette introduces a new character, Mr. Pricklepants, a hedgehog voiced by former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton. The anticipated sequel hits theaters next summer.

Patrick Stewart, known mostly for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation and three X-Men films but also for his Shakespearean stage career and as an occasional voice actor, has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom for his lifetime of service to the world of drama, according to this article […]

MyTokyoBox reports that Disney will re-release Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Castle in the Sky on 2-disc special edition DVDs, alongside Ponyo, in March 2010. Studio Ghibli DVD re-releases will include, an interactive “World of Ghibli” experience, “Enter the Lands” and “Behind the Studio” features. Disc two will feature storyboard presentation of […]

Little Nemo, The Muppet Movie, Quasi at the Quackadero, The Red Book, and Scratch and Crow were added to the National Film Registry according to the head of the Library of Congress, James Billington. Each year the Librarian of Congress, advised by the National Film Preservation Board, selects up to 25 films that are culturally, […]

20th Century Fox’s Avatar has become a blockbuster on an epic scale…and at a very fast rate, too. According to the studio, the movie has already earned a jaw-dropping $700 million worldwide, with $250 million of that number coming from the US. Things have also continued to be good for Fox at the box office […]

SlashFilm points to a new image from Disney’s upcoming animated fairy tale Rapunzel. It’s hard to tell if the image is an actual still from the film or just concept art, but it’s worth checking out either way. Rapunzel hits theaters next Thanksgiving.

A new trailer for DreamWorks’ upcoming animated comedy/adventure How to Train Your Dragon is now online and can be found here. The preview begins with a montage of footage from some of the studio’s previous hits before going on to show some new footage from the film. Directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois of Lilo […]

With the movie not coming out until next summer, a third teaser trailer for the Steve Carell animated comedy Despicable Me has been released. The preview features characters not seen in previous ads for the film: jelly bean shaped minions who are in the service of Gru, Carell’s supervillain protagonist. The minions are also the focus of a new […]

Whether you love them or hate them, the Chipmunks proved yesterday that they still have plenty of box office power left in them, with their new movie Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel opening to an extremely impressive $19 million yesterday, according to studio estimates. Estimates regarding how Disney’s The Princess and the Frog was affected by […]

The teaser trailer for the live-action/animated family comedy Marmaduke is now online at Yahoo! Movies. Unlike the comic strip on which it’s based, the great dane Marmaduke–whose appearance will almost certainly remind some people of Scooby-Doo in CGI form–will be given a voice in the movie, provided by Owen Wilson. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, Marmaduke comes to […]