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 […]

DreamWorks Animation is planning on going into the world of horror comedy in their recently announced upcoming movie Fright Diner. The movie, based on a novel by A. Lee Martinez, will center around a werewolf and a vampire who battle zombies and other mayhem, all within a diner in the desert where supernatural creatures gather. Written by […]

Annie Award winning actress Brittany Murphy has died of an apparent heart attack at age 32, several sources (such as the New York Post) are reporting. Murphy is best known to animation fans as the voice of Luanne Platter on the long running series King of the Hill. She also had roles in the TV […]

Avatar made a very solid $73 million during its opening weekend, according to studio estimates. Were it not for the massive snow storm that was sweeping part of America over the weekend, the James Cameron picture might’ve made even more. As things turned out, it fell about $6 million short of claiming the record for best December opening, which […]

Six new international posters for Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel are now online at the IMP Awards. The ads feature close-ups of the chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, as well as the Chippettes, Britney, Eleonor and Jeanette. The Squeakuel opens in the US on Wednesday.

The extended clip of Toy Story 3, set to air along with The Incredibles on ABC Family tonight, has appeared online and can be viewed on ComingSoon. The final addition to the Toy Story film series hits theaters on June 18th, 2010.

With virtually all eyes in the industry watching it, James Cameron’s Avatar kicked off its box office run yesterday with a gross of $27 million, according to EW.com. It was a strong start for the sci-fi extravaganza, and should probably be enough to confirm an opening weekend of around $55-65 million.

The King of Pop himself will be returning to Disneyland one last time, Disney Parks Blog reveals, in the park’s popular attraction Captain Eo. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by George Lucas back in 1986, the 17-minute 3D movie hasn’t been seen since it’s closing in 1997. Its limited engagement in Tommorowland begins in February […]

It has just been announced that next summer’s Toy Story 3 will be getting the IMAX 3D treatment. It will be the first time that a movie from Pixar has ever been released in that format. Those who can’t wait for the June 18th release date to see some of the movie can tune into ABC […]

James Cameron’s Avatar (finally) opens in 3,453 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film scores a solid 82% at Rotten Tomatoes, with their consensus being that “It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but Avatar reaffirms James Cameron’s singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking.” The Tomatometer […]

New trailers for what are poised to be two of the biggest films of 2010 are now online in high definition at the Apple trailers site: Shrek Forever After (opening in May) and Toy Story 3 (opening in June).