To Sci-Fi Wire, Patrick Dempsey mentions that he has joined the cast of Enchanted, playing a single father and lawyer who helps the princess find her way throughout New York. The article further notes that the film will be using computer animation, rather than traditional.

AWN lists the animated films to be present at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, including At the Quinte Hotel, Fable, The Wraith of Cobble Hill, Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot, and Wristcutters: A Love Story.

Ain’t It Cool News has posted an early review of Curious George.

From February 2 -14 Lady and the Tramp will be shown in an exclusive engagement at Disney’s historic El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. This may be the only chance to see this classic animated feature in a proper theatrical presentation for years. A panel discussion will be held prior to the screening of the […]

The Disneyland news service has issued a press release and photos announcing the official opening of the new Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! ride at Disneyland’s California Adventure which can be read and viewed here:

Podcast enthusiasts should take note that Disneyland has recently begun their own monthly podcast, “featuring many of the magical moments from the biggest celebration in Disney history. Join host Michael W. Geoghegan as he brings interviews, stories and event highlights from the 50th Anniversary of Disneyland® to your mp3 player.” Some of the podcast moments […]

The poster for Sony’s computer animated Monster House has been found at eBay. This particular one sheet is lenticular, meaning that as one walks past it, the image transitions from a normal house to a monstrous abode.

A teaser website for the Disney/C.O.R.E. project The Wild has opened, currently only containing the movie’s trailer in a variety of sizes and formats.

From a “very reliable source,” TV Shows on DVD brings the news that Darkwing Duck, one of Disney’s hit animated series from the early ’90s, will arrive on DVD in 2006. The site further speculates that the DVD set will be released simultaneously with another Disney animated series’ DVD debut.

The writer and director of Hoodwinked, Cory Edwards, makes a surprise visit to Animation Nation, responding to questions and concerns some people might have regarding his film.

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 2. Hoodwinked with $11,078,000 ($29,304,000 total in its 2nd week, over 3,002 theaters) 7. The Chronicles of Narnia with $6,067,000 ($271,682,000 total in its 7th week, over 2,757 theaters) 11. King Kong with $4,134,000 ($209,788,000 total in its 6th week, over 2,205 theaters)

The trailer for Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild may be seen at Video Detective. The film itself, which has already been released in a number of countries, will hit stores in the US and UK in February.

Ultimate Disney has the press releases for Dinosaurs: The Complete First and Second Seasons, coming May 2nd, and Little Einsteins: Team Up for Adventure, coming April 25th. One may view cover artwork for Dinosaurs at DVD Active. Meanwhile, Ultimate Disney confirms that an April 4th release date appears to be set for the Chronicles of […]

There’s been a lot of talk and rumors floating around this week about a possible buyout of Pixar by Disney. Chuck Oberleitner helps to make sense of it all at o-meon (see the “Mickey and the iSteve” article). Also, see a recent Motley Fool article in which Rick Aristotle Munarriz draws a particularly apropo analogy […]

An updated press release for DisneyToon Studios’ Bambi II emphasizes that the film will go into moratorium only 70 days after its release on February 7, 2006. This is “in tribute to the 70th anniversary of Walt Disney’s inception of his animated classic, Bambi,” referring to the year 1936 when work on Bambi commenced.

Cartoon Brew reports on the recent passing of animation legend Norman McCabe. “Between 1934 and 1999, McCabe worked at Schlesinger’s, Warner Bros., US Army Air Corps Training Film Unit, MGM, Swift Productions, Five Star Productions, Telemation, Pacific Title, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, DePatie-Freleng, Ruby-Spears, Filmfair, Marvel and Universal.”

Yahoo! News reports on a new Peter Pan book being written by a Geraldine McCaughrean and commissioned by the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The sequel will be entitled Peter Pan in Scarlet and will feature the well-beloved characters “Peter, Wendy, Tinkerbell, the rest of the Darling family and the fearsome Captain Hook.” No […]

This week’s AutoWeek.com had some “spy photos” from Disney/Pixar’s Cars. The two pictures (large file sizes!) can be viewed here:

Three images from the Brother Bear 2 trailer found on the Bambi II DVD can be viewed here (yes, Rutt and Tuke are in it):

Ultimate Disney indicates that the Dumbo: Special Edition DVD is due for release on June 13th. The site also records that Little Einsteins: Team Up for Adventure!, the sequel to last year’s Little Einsteins: Our Huge Adventure, will arrive in stores on April 18th. On a final note, Dinosaurs, the ’90s Michael Jacobs/Jim Henson sitcom, […]

Following up on our report from earlier this month about Disney shorts coming to iTunes, Cartoon Brew mentions that the shorts are due this summer and will include all of their Oscar-nominated shorts from Three Little Pigs up to Lorenzo. Their report also mentions a pending DVD box set of said shorts and a brand […]

The Internet Movie Poster Awards has a French poster for The Wild, in addition to having a promotional image for Ice Age 2: The Meltdown.

Variety, through Coming Soon, reports that The Weinstein Company and Kanbar Entertainment have begun planning a sequel to their successful Hoodwinked. The sequel, currently titled Hood vs. Evil, will be equipped with twice the budget of the first film, which worked with less than $20 million. The plot for Evil follows “a teen Red training […]

CineMovies TV has the international trailer for DreamWorks’ Over the Hedge. Meanwhile, the independent CGI comedy KungFu Gecko, coming from Eggstory, now has a trailer on its official website.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and two Massachusetts parents, Sherri Carlson of Wakefield and Andrew Leong of Brookline, have threatened to sue Kellogg Co. and Viacom Inc., should the companies fail to stop using characters such as Spongebob SquarePants to promote “sugar-filled” cereals. “As a […]

Buena Vista Games has announced the video game adaption of Walt Disney Picture’s forthcoming film, The Wild, says IGN. The project, a tie-in for the Game Boy Advance, “follows Samson the Lion in his quest to save his son, Ryan, who has been accidentally shipped from his New York City Zoo home back into the […]

DVDtoons has the advertisement for The Adventures of Brer Rabbit, a new traditionally-animated DTV feature from Universal Studios, coming to stores on March 21st. The site likewise reports that Golden Age titles Cultoons and Cartoons for Victory! have been moved to April 11th. Lastly, the press release for Baby Looney Tunes: Volume 1 – PlayDay […]

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 2. Hoodwinked with $16,879,402 (1st week over 2,394 theaters) 4. The Chronicles of Narnia with $12,809,767 ($264,020,859 total in its 6th week, over 3,224 theaters) 7. King Kong with $9,061,690 ($204,527,690 total in its 5th week, over 2,814 theaters) 31. Chicken Little with $296,502 ($133,235,508 total in its 11th week, […]

At the Animated-News Forum, “bambifan56” links to several clips from Bambi II, posted at the New York Times’ office website. Meanwhile, a few visitors of Amazon.com have written in to post their thoughts on Disney’s latest midquel. “All in all, the movie is a success at preserving the spirit of the original story and definitely […]

Rotten Tomato’s {{link http://www.rottentomatoes.com/features/rtawards/index_2005.php 7th Annual Golden Tomato Awards}} has awarded \\Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit\\ their top prize for The Best Reviewed Film of 2005 in Wide Release. This is the second win for an Aardman film – \\Chicken Run\\ won the top award in 2000. It is also the third […]