Golden Age of Cartoons: Aesop’s Fables and Golden Age of Cartoons: Adventures of Cubby Bear are coming soon to DVD, indicates DVDtoons. Aesop’s Fables will present 16 classic cartoons from the 1930s, while Adventures of Cubby Bear will offer all 20 episodes, created from 1933 to 1934, of Van Beuren Studio’s answer to Mickey Mouse. […]

According to NarniaWeb, Douglas Gresham, co-producer of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe and stepson to C. S. Lewis, has already begun work on the follow-up to Wardrobe, Prince Caspian.

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 2. The Chronicles of Narnia with $15,427,000 ($247,561,000 total in its 5th week over 3,514 theaters) 3. King Kong with $12,466,000 ($192,522,000 total in its 4th week over 3,482 theaters) 24(?). The Polar Express – IMAX with $275,000 ($10,457,000 total in its 7th week over 65 theaters)

Idina Menzel, who enchanted audiences in Broadway’s Wicked and was recently announced as being in Bambi II, has signed on for Disney’s Enchanted, coming to theaters in July 2007. The news comes from Variety, through Movie Musicals. The latter of the two sites also confirms that Glenn Slater, lyricist for Home on the Range and […]

A trailer included on the upcoming Funny Factory DVDs starring Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse indicates that a special edition DVD of Dumbo is coming sometime in 2006 but does not indicate whether it will be a 1-disc or 2-disc edition.

A Young Elijah fansite, titled “Blue”, has obtained the Happy Feet teaser trailer found on the March of the Penguins DVD. The video may be seen in either QuickTime or Windows Media. The site likewise confirms that the teaser poster, reported here, is real.

Ultimate Disney has recently collected a large assortment of news regarding the Mouse House. First of all, the release date for Disney’s next computer animated film Meet the Robinsons has been unveiled. The film will fly into theaters on December 15th, where it will face competition from Charlotte’s Web on December 20th. In other Disney […]

The Big Cartoon Database reports that coming soon to Google Video are such cartoon favorites as Felix the Cat, Casper The Friendly Ghost and Rocky and Bullwinkle, among other Classic Media titles. The news, announced Friday by Google Inc. at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, further reveals that the Google Video Store […]

At the age of 72, the Grammy-winning artist Lou Rawls died Friday, due to cancer. Diagnosed with lung cancer in December 2004 and brain cancer in May 2004, the talented singer died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where we was placed last month for cancer treatment. At the time of his death, Rawls’ wife Nina was […]

According to the Los Angeles Times, through the San Francisco Business Times, two sources close to the talks between Disney and Pixar are reporting that negotiations between the studios are leaning toward Disney acquiring either all or part of Pixar. Shoud such occur, Steve Jobs of Pixar would likely become a major Disney shareholder, with […]

A random post at the Internet Movie Database states that the official trailer for Disney/C.O.R.E.’s The Wild will be in theaters and online beginning Monday, January 9th. Interestingly, the film was absent from the Disney/Touchstone 2006 Preview released yesterday, at Coming Soon. Update! A press release from the Starz Entertainment Group LLC, posted at Coming […]

Available now at Flickr is a unique way to search for images, in which one may draw whatever picture he or she is looking for, rather than typing its name or definition.

Ultimate Disney has the cover artwork for the standard Widescreen Edition and Special Two-Disc Collector’s Edition of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe.

From Variety via Dark Horizons comes news that in addition to selling the family-friendly pitch for The Missing Link to Disney, Chicken Little writers Ron Friedman and Steve Bencich are likewise working on a number of projects for Sony Animation. It is worth noting that Bencich has also earned a writing credit for Cinderella III, […]

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 1. The Chronicles of Narnia with $25,686,555 ($217,677,877 total in its 4th week over 3,853 theaters) 2. King Kong with $24,772,410 ($167,505,310 total in its 3rd week over 3,627 theaters) 18. Chicken Little with $799,028 ($131,944,653 total in its 9th week over 803 theaters) 19. The Polar Express – IMAX […]

{{link http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6296434.html Video Business}} indicates today that Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings and King Kong films will be among the first titles offered on high-definition DVD disc, alongside Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire and the Mission: Impossible trilogy, the third of which is out in theaters this summer. Other titles that feature […]

Yahoo! Finance reports on the recent addition of some historical Disney animated shorts. According to the chairman of the Walt Disney Studios, Dick Cook, “We are pleased that in addition to offering our classic animated shorts on DVD, we will now reach an even broader audience with programming on Apple’s iTunes Music Store.”

Before we forget 2005 too much, Chuck Oberleitner has listed many of those in the entertainment/animation industry who passed away last year, those who have left a mark in the hearts of all of us. Those from the realm of animation will be remembered later this month at the Afternoon of Remembrance, an annual event […]

A recently released full synopsis of Flushed Away by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features can be read here:

The website for the Lionsgate and Marvel DTV animated effort Ultimate Avengers: The Movie has opened, offering a trailer, downloads, forum link, and peek at the film’s DVD artwork.

Luxo focuses on the Museum of Modern Art’s website, where an audio tour of Pixar: 20 Years of Animation awaits, along with a Flash arrangement of images from the exhibit.

Ultimate Disney reports that the Lilo & Stitch Special Edition DVD will finally hit U.S. stores in late July. Likewise, the website confirms that the Classic Cartoon Favorites DVD series has not been cancelled, as speculation of the matter came with the introduction of the Funny Factory DVD series. A fourth wave of Classic Cartoon […]

Starting today and lasting until March 13th, the Studio Ghibli Museum in Japan is presenting three new short features from Hayao Miyazaki, notes AWN. The three shorts include: House-Hunting, the tale of one spirited girl’s journey to find a house; Mon-Mon, the Water Spider, in which a water spider falls in love with a water […]

During John Lasseter’s presentation at the Pixar: 20 Years of Animation Museum of Modern Art exhibit, some new footage from Cars was presented. A description of the sights shown in the clip may be found at Kottke.org via Route 66 News.

Discovered at Dolby’s official website is a Curious George-themed trailer promoting Dolby Digital sound and the puzzled primate’s February film.

TV Shows on DVD has a slew of news for animation lovers young and old. First up, Louie Anderson has acknowledged that his ’90s series Life with Louie is coming to DVD in the near future. The information was made known when the comedian stopped by the KQRS morning show. Meanwhile, Rhino will release My […]

An English-language version of the theatrical poster for Bambi II has been uncovered at eBay. A similar, French version of the poster was posted at the Animated-News Forum, in November.

Cinematical contemplates who is playing the role of Wilbur in the upcoming live-action/CGI hybrid Charlotte’s Web. The site’s search spied a forum post at the Internet Movie Database, created by a user known as “soybeanoil,” which reveals that Wilbur will be voiced by a young actor under the age of 18 years old, rather than […]

The website Little-Elijah has what may be either an official teaser poster or simply a promotional image for Warner Bros. animated comedy Happy Feet, found here.

In a list of the best DVD extras of 2005, Sun-Sentinel.com has named Mr. Incredible & Pals, from The Incredibles DVD, the “best satirical extra.” Concurrently, the site provides the honor of “best-looking DVD release of the year” to the Cinderella Platinum Edition DVD, though the project must share the award with The Wizard of […]