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.

Reuters via Yahoo! News reports that Disney is looking to produce character-inspired bridal gowns, with templates arriving from such Disney Princesses as Aurora and Belle. Designed by Kirstie Kelly, the 34 gowns are priced from $1,500 to $3,000, below high fashion prices but above the average wedding dress price of $1,000.

In an summarization of recent toy sales, MSNBC notes that with her Fairytopia line, including computer animated films, Barbie found her domestic popularity down 21 percent in the first quarter. That drop contrasts to the 2 percent growth seen internationally for the brand. In the meantime, Disney Princesses continued its steady stream of success, while […]

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 3) Meet the Robinsons with $12,467,155, averaging $3,850 over 3,238 theaters ($72,367,907 total; 3rd week) 14) Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters with $3,005,175, averaging $3,426 over 877 theaters (1st week) 15) TMNT with $2,259,322, averaging $1,217 over 1,855 theaters ($50,819,085 total; 4th week) 48) Happy Feet […]

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.

Just a reminder that Bill Plympton’s Hair High is playing until this Thursday at Laemmle’s Sunset in West Hollywood. The following are links to some new interviews with Bill Plympton and reviews of his film: Movie Hole The Animated Films LA City Beat LA Weekly Rotten Tomatoes

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.

The popular animated series Bobby’s World (1990-1998) is arriving on DVD, thanks to Taffy Entertainment. “Created by and featuring the talent of actor and comedian Howie Mandel, Bobby’s World follows a four-year old boy by the name Bobby Generic… as he grows up in suburbia dealing with all of the highs, lows and in-betweens of […]

The Monterey County Herald takes a look at Maddy, the 19-year-old heroine in Disney’s highly anticipated The Frog Princess. Specifically, the article summarizes most of what is known thus far about the Disney princess, underlining the acclaim and even concerns surrounding the film.

A press release at PR Newswire reveals that American Greetings Properties and DIC Entertainment are bringing more educational and informational programming to the Saturday morning line-up on CBS. Coming to the block are brand-new adventures of Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake and Sushi Pack. All three series are scheduled to launch this September.

Taffy Entertainment announces at Animated Bliss that it has signed a UK deal for the animated series Fantastic Four (2006). Thus, GMTV will bring the show to its weekend children’s block, Toonattik, airing on ITV1 and CITV. In similar news, Fantastic Four has likewise been signed by TV Globo in Brazil, MRTL in Hungary, and […]

TV Shows on DVD premieres the rear artwork for Pink & the Brain – Volume 3 and the two New Adventures sets featuring Superman and Batman. The site also shares the news that The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 has been delayed until June 26th, whereas the original due date was June 5th.

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 […]

For those getting geared up for ASIFA-Hollywood’s Stop-Mo Expo or just interested in stop-motion animation in general, Wink! has a webisode online for beginning stop-motion animators that itself is a stop-motion video. The webisode demonstrates that “stop-motion” doesn’t necessarily equate exactly with “claymation” since many of the stop-motion moments in the video are done with […]

After our last mention of the Newport Beach Film Festival we were informed by the organizers that this year’s festival comes complete with animated commercials. See them now on YouTube: Promo 1 Promo 2 Promo 3

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.

Cartoon Brew elaborates on the new Fox series Oleg the Taxi Man. What is unique about the series, however, is that each “episode” lasts only eight seconds, airing in-between commercias. Apparently, Fox is hoping that the cartoons will keep encourage viewers not to change the channel during commercial breaks.

“ASIFA-Hollywood will raise the curtain on a timeless art form by hosting the Stop-Mo Expo, a daylong event celebrating the art of stop-motion animation at Woodbury University on Saturday, April 21, 2007.”

TV Shows on DVD has some early specs regarding the DVD release of Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show (1984). With 16 “epic adventures” and approximately 20 minutes of bonus features, the 2-disc set is due August 7th.

According to Film Buff Online, Roy Disney admitted that a re-release of Song of the South is overdue, while speaking at the 16th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival, where he received the event’s Inspiration Award. “I’ve got a bunch of cohorts working with me to convince the powers that be that it’s the smart thing to […]

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 […]

Animated Views presents a new conversation with Kevin Munroe, the director of the hit computer animated action-adventure TMNT, the latest theatrical entry in the Ninja Turtles franchise. With the site, Munroe speaks about his career in animation, referring to his work on Cat Tale and how he landed the job of directing TMNT. Likewise, he […]