Upcoming Pixar notes that Marketplace posted a great interview, also available as an audio podcast, with author David Price about Pixar’s transformation from failing computer company to Hollywood darling. A new Wall•E featurette entitled A Space Journey In Sound can also be viewed at Rotten Tomatoes, and Variety explains why merchandise for the movie is […]

Amid at Cartoon Brew takes a nostalgic look at the wonderful View-master reels of classic Hanna-Barbera characters created back in 1960, unearthed by Bob Logan.

While the repercussions of the writers’ strike on the animation industry were relatively limited since animation is handled by a different guild, an actors’ strike would be a totally different story; no acting or publicity would be allowed for the duration of the strike meaning no new recording sessions for shows like The Simpsons, the […]

Upcoming Pixar alerts fans that the John Goodman-hosted showing of Monster’s Inc. on ABC 7 tomorrow night at 8:00/7:00pm Central will include an exclusive sneak peek at the new attraction, Toy Story Mania.

DisneyShopping.com opened today the online Wall•E boutique and offers free shipping on all items this weekend only. Simply apply the code “walleship” when checking out.

This year, Anime Expo® has teamed with Bang Zoom!® Entertainment to offer free voice acting workshops at Anime Expo 2008. In celebration of Bang Zoom! Entertainment’s new DVD release of ADVENTURES IN VOICE ACTING™-Volume One there are scheduled one hour free classes that will give participants a taste of voice acting with insiders’ tips, general […]

Clay Kaytis posted part 2 of yet another fantastic interview on his Animation Podcast website, this time with veteran animator Ken Duncan. Ken’s credits include All Dogs Go to Heaven, Aladdin, Hercules, Shark Tale, TMNT and he is currently serving as supervising animator on the Tim Burton-produced feature adaptation of Shane Acker’s 9. Make sure […]

Got You Beat and Braver, the two deleted sequences from the 2003 Jungle Book theatrical sequel getting a Special Edition DVD release next Tuesday, are online at the film’s official site under the “Video” section. Save your pennies if you already have the Jungle Book 2 DVD: the only new feature on this Special Edition […]

A slew of new Wall•E posters have appeared on Empire’s website. There are four one-sheets featured on the page, each portraying the film’s title character interacting with various pieces of garbage. Wall•E hits theaters on June 27th.

Filemon Trevino accomplished his lifelong dream of entering the Guinness Book of World Records thanks to a quarter-mile-long pencil drawing now certified as the world’s largest. The Mexican artist said he spent 6,000 hours and used 800 pencils to complete his representation of the heart and circulatory system, with symbols including doves, geometric shapes and […]

Disney hosted a press demonstration of its new BD Live features earlier this week, which will be launched with the Blu-Ray release of the Sleeping Beauty‘s 50th Anniversary Edition disc. Movieweb offers several stills from the demo along with a detailed rundown. While the new features do sound impressive, sadly they will only be available […]

The actress recently dropped a tidbit to Reuters about her part as Susan Murphy, aka Ginormica, in DreamWorks’ March 2009 stereoscopic feature: “[It] will be a real achievement for myself in that it’s the first female lead of an animated film from a major animation studio in quite a while. I just work with studios […]

NOLA reveals that Bullard said the New Orleans Museum of Art blockbuster will host an exhibit of cartoon illustration next year called Dreams Do Come True: Classic Fairy Tales from Disney Studios, and set to coincide with the release of Disney’s New Orleans-based The Princess and the Frog.

MTV offers an exciting first look at Spike Jonze’s troubled adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are which will incorporate voice performance, live-action puppetry and computer animation. The film, which Warner Bros. will release theatrically on October 16, 2009, features the talent of Catherine Keener, Benicio Del Toro, Forest Whitaker, and Catherine O’Hara.

In anticipation of the New Zealand opening of the second Narnia film, the Dominion Post takes a closer look at the special effects for the film created by local studio Weta.

DreamWorks Animation SKG was downgraded today to sell from neutral at UBS Investment Research, which said the current share price implies domestic box office receipts for future films above the historical average. The share price, driven up by enthusiasm over Kung Fu Panda implies the company will average domestic box office receipts of $202 million […]

Head over to MovieWeb for a vintage clip of Walt Disney doing some magic of his own. This clip is included on the 45th Anniversary Edition DVD of The Sword in the Stone which will be available next Tuesday and also features a Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers featurette along with two classic Disney shorts: […]

The Hollywood Reporter published an interesting article this morning outlining the huge success of Disney merchandise, driven by franchises such as Hannah Montana, High School Musical, Cars and the Disney Princess line. The record $30 billion-plus global revenues expected for this fiscal year represent 5 times the retail sales generated by Warner Bros. Consumer Products […]

A new theatrical trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars has debuted online at Yahoo. Star Wars: The Clones Wars, which serves as a prequel to an upcoming animated series, hits theaters on August 15th.

DreamWorks unveiled a teaser poster, featuring what looks like visual development art, for its March 2010 feature adaptation of Cressida Cowell’s book How To Train Your Dragon, at the ongoing New York Licensing Show this week. AICN has a snapshot along with an exclusive look at new artwork from DreamWorks’ first stereoscopic 3D film Monsters […]

Suite 101 posted part 1 and 2 of a very interesting, insightful interview with Wall•E director Andrew Stanton.

DreamWorks just launched a fun plane-themed official website of its November sequel. Not much there yet but keep checking back for more over the next couple of months.

The Ultimate Wall•E robot, priced at $179.99 and produced by Thinkway Toys (a company Pixar has been loyal to since its very beginning) and scheduled to ship on September 13, is now available for pre-order online from Toys ‘R’ Us, says Upcoming Pixar. For those with a tight purse, small action figures are also in […]

The Pixar Blog alerts fans that Peter Gabriel’s 6-minute original song Down to Earth, written for Pixar’s latest film, is now available for download from the iTunes Store for 99¢ (U.S. and Canada only).

Disney will stream full-length movies on its Web site for the first time, as part of its “Wonderful World of Disney” series on ABC, says The Hollywood Reporter. The films are scheduled to stream through August. Finding Nemo is available at Disney.com/WWoD through Friday. Monsters, Inc., Haunted Mansion, and Peter Pan also will be available […]

In news that will surprise noone, Jack Black told AAP while promoting Kung Fu Panda in Sydney earlier today that he was confident there would be a follow up: “My eight ball says signs point to yes.” Jack says he’d jump at the chance to be involved if “all the stars are aligned to make […]

According to TheForce.net, Christopher Lee will reprise his role as Count Dooku in the animated feature film Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Interestingly enough, his scenes were apparently animated before he recorded his lines; says a message board member on the actor’s official site: “Mr. Lee has recorded the voice of Count Dooku for this […]

A NY Times article profiling Mac Rebennack, the 67-year-old New Orleans pianist, guitarist and songwriter better known as Dr. John, drops an interesting piece of news: the artist recently recorded Randy Newman’s theme song for Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, about old New Orleans. “They wanted his voice, which is not a bad idea […]

The closing credits for DreamWork’s hit animated flick Kung Fu Panda have appeared on the official website of Shine, the studio responsible for the creation of the sequence. These credits are unique in that they feature traditionally animated snippets of the main characters from the martial arts film, reflecting the film’s opening scene, which was […]

An interesting article over at O-Meon brings to light the common perception of animation as purely “kid’s stuff”. The story discusses how modern films like Kung Fu Panda and Wall•E are considered to be aimed solely at children, despite a large portion of their audiences being teenagers and adults. Older animated shorts and films, such […]