Coming directly to video stores, from Mattel and Lions Gate Family Entertainment, are two brand-new Barbie adventures. The Barbie Diaries, scheduled for release in January 2006, places its title character, now with a new “toon-shaded” CGI look, in her sophomore year at high school. Meanwhile, Barbie Fairytopia Mermaidia, coming March 2006, continues the franchise began […]

Rumor has it that Peter Jackson is currently trying to convince the Director’s Guild of America to provide “Animation Directed By” credits for two unnamed collaborators on King Kong. Word has yet to arrive on the DGA’s reponse to Jackson’s request. The news comes courtesy of the Hot Blog, via Cinematical [note: open “Reader Comments” […]

Included in a healthy offering of Holiday projects at AOL Music, the Polar Express sountrack, featuring the Oscar-nominated ballad “Believe,” may be heard for free.

Toon Zone points to sources TitansTower.com and Titansgo.net to report that Teen Titans has been cancelled by Cartoon Network. No explanation regarding the move has been given yet. Nonetheless, fans of Teen Titans are already making an attempt to revive the show, with one group creating a petition.

On this day of Thanksgiving we can all be thankful for the teaser trailer of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest as pointed out by Kinoo in the Animated News Forums.

Five images from Disney’s direct-to-video title The Fox and the Hound 2 (due out Winter 2006) from the preview on the upcoming Kronk’s New Groove DVD (due out Dec. 13) can be found here:

Latino Review has the latest pic promoting DreamWorks Animation’s CGI comedy, Kung Fu Panda, revealing many of cast’s main characters.

MQ7.net brings an Inquirer News Service brief biography of John Aquino. The inspirational read recounts how a visit from a Disney animator to Animaction, the Santa Monica-based animation school, changed Aquino’s life. The animator would later go from being a trainee for Hercules to a character finaler for Chicken Little.

Variety, via Coming Soon, indicates that Walt Disney Pictures is teaming with the cable network Starz! to advertise their upcoming features Cars and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe. A 45-second teaser trailer for Disney/Pixar’s Cars will premiere over the Thanksgiving weekend, running as an interstitial. Likewise, a 9-minute sneak […]

Henry Selick, famed stop-motion director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk with Animated News about his new short Moongirl and some of his past and future projects. Henry has worked on projects as diverse as Pillsbury Doughboy commercials and the […]

TV Shows on DVD points to Amazon.com, where entries for the DVD arrivals of Goof Troop and Quack Pack await. Judging by their suggested retail price of $14.99, it is likely that neither release will contain as many episodes as the recent Ducktales and Rescue Rangers DVD box sets. UPDATE! Cover artwork for the Goof […]

The traditionally animated DTV film Ultimage Avengers: The Movie will hit stores in DVD and UMD form, on February 21, 2006. While a synopsis for the film may be found at DVDtoons, no word yet has arrived on the bonus specs for the single-disc release.

JoBlo exclusively has the final U.S. one sheet for Hoodwinked. The Weinstein Co.’s computer animated comedy will open in theaters December 23rd.

The first clip from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe is now up at AOL Moviefone. Featuring an introduction from director Andrew Adamson, the video reveals both good and evil troops marching toward the movie’s final battle. Also, at Dark Horizons, Adamson discusses Narnia, lending thoughts on his transition from […]

To promote today’s release of Seinfeld Seasons 5 and 6 (buy them together and they come with the infamous ‘puffy shirt’ and some other goodies) on DVD Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has re-imagined a scene from the classic television series in “Sein-imation.” The official Seinfeld page indicates that more “Sein-imated” scenes are included on the […]

For iPod Video fans, Pixar’s short Knick Knack has just been released on iTunes. Download Here

o-meon has updated with a review of holiday movies including a look at various animated versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol including the Disney, Muppets, and Mr. Magoo versions.

This past weekend, Chicken Little fell to #3 with $14,711,378, averaging $4,186 per each of its 3,514 theaters. This brings the Disney hit’s total domestic gross to $99,093,096. At #19, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit enjoyed its seventh week of release with $285,592, averaging $585 per each of its 488 theaters. Thus […]

TV Shows on DVD displays the advertisement for the January 31, 2006 release of the Pink Panther Show: Classic Cartoon Collection 5-disc box set. Bonus features for the package include: “Behind the Feline: The Cartoon Phenomenon” documentary, “Pink Patter with Art Leonardi: The Story Behind the Animation” featurette, “Remembering Friz: A Tribute to Friz Freleng” […]

Toon Zone houses three schedules providing air dates of animated movies and specials, many of which are Holiday-themed, for Disney Channel, Toon Disney, and Cartoon Network.

The episode listing, in addition to front and back case artwork, for the Nick Picks #3 DVD is now online at DVDtoons. Episodes to accommodate the release are: All Grown Up: “Dude, Where’s My Horse?,” Spongebob Squarepants: “Fear of a Krabby Patty,” Catscratch: “Bringing Down the Mouse,” The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: “Brobot,” […]

A unique Korean poster for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit has been discovered by the Internet Movie Poster Awards, at CineCine.

In the wake of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’s opening with approximately $101.4 million this weeked, Disney’s CGI hit Chicken Little experienced a 53% drop to third place, with an estimated $14.8 million. However, the sky is not falling for Disney yet, as the movie’s current domestic gross stands at $99.2 million, looking […]

Attempting to score award nominations, “For Your Consideration” ads for Chicken Little, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride are now online, with an ad promoting Hoodwinked found at eBay. All of the endorsements focus primarily on the music of their films.

Early box office estimates place Chicken Little in the third spot at the weekend box office, behind newcomers Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Walk the Line. On Friday, the Disney release slipped an understandable 71%, according to Box Office Guru, taking in approximately $3,480,000 for a domestic total of roughly $87,862,000, indicates […]

On Thursday, the Walt Disney Co. reported quarterly earnings of $379 million, down 26% from last year at this time. While solid gains have been made at its television and theme parks divisions, the company lost $313 million, thanks to the disappointing results of a string of films, from several Miramax pictures to such DTV […]

In an article expressing the long journey that Enchanted has endured to get to the big screen, Jim Hill subtly refers to an upcoming Disney animated feature called Rapunzel Unraveled. Could this be an error, or a quiet mention of a name change for Disney’s fourth computer animated movie?

Via Yahoo! Movies, the Associate Press writes that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the ten films eligible for consideration, in the category of Best Animated Feature. Three nominees for the award will come from a list that includes: Chicken Little, Gulliver’s Travel, Hoodwinked, Howl’s Moving Castle, Madagascar, Robots, Steamboy, Tim […]

Cover artwork, along with bonus feature and episode listings, are available at TV Shows on DVD, for the releases of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour: The Complete Series, The Flintstones: Season 5, and Teen Titans: Season 1.

Following the success of Chicken Little’s run with the new technology, Disney has announced, through Yahoo! Finance, that its next computer animated film, Meet the Robinsons, will likewise be shown in Disney Digital 3-D. Somewhere between 750 to 1000 theaters will present the movie in the format, beginning December 2006.