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.

In what appears to be a cross between March of the Penguins and Dirty Dancing, the teaser trailer and website for the Warner Brothers computer animated comedy Happy Feet are now online. Those wishing to see the trailer in theaters may do so this weekend, with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

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Reuters, via Yahoo! News, indicates that for the eleventh consecutive year, Buena Vista International, the foreign distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company, has hit the $1 billion mark. The achievement is due largely to the success of four films: The Incredibles, National Treasure, The Pacifier, and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Thus far for 2005, Buena […]

Activision, Inc. and DreamWorks Animation SKG have announced a new “long-term, broad-based strategic alliance,” says a press release at Coming Soon. The deal is a multi-year agreement providing Activision with exclusive video game rights to DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming slate, including Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, Rex Havoc, and How to Train Your Dragon. Shrek 3 […]

Disney’s print campaign for their next collaboration with Pixar, Cars, has started up with a fun new teaser poster that looks like it may update itself and reveal more as the summer release date gets closer. Take a peek here:

Wondering how Chicken Little has been crowing at the top of the box office two weeks in a row when three weeks ago most people thought it didn’t have a wing and a prayer? Adroit industry observer Chuck Oberleitner helps to make sense of it all with his report at o-meon. And if you are […]

The print edition of Video Business magazine out today carries a brief but detailed review of the upcoming Walt Disney Treasures release of The Chronological Donald: Volume Two, the second collection of shorts featuring Walt’s iconic Duck star. We have a copy of the review, which includes details on the bonus features featuring Leonard Maltin […]

DreamWorks Animation SKG’s summer hit Madagascar comes out on DVD tomorrow and we have an advance look at some of the many bonus features packed onto the disc.

The X-Men fansite Xverse makes a brief mention that Hugh Jackman will make a guest appearance on The Simpsons in 2006.

Larry Loc has posted some photos from last night’s Kimba Reunion at the ASIFA-Hollywood blog and has made a few extra available to Animated News:

Those people still wondering where they may see the most recent trailer for Open Season can find it at TurboNick, in the “AD: Movie Trailers” section of “Nicksclusives.”

Post Magazine reports that Brickyard VFX is venturing into computer animation with a new division. Recruiting Jay Lichtman and Yafei Wu, both from London’s Glassworks, and Robert Sethi, from UK-based feature film and television effects house Double Negative, this CGI department will thus provide Brickyard with the capabilities of character modeling, animation, and rendering. Concurrently, […]

Other actors have signed on to join Jack Black in the DreamWorks Animation comedy Kung Fu Panda, indicates Coming Soon. In addition to Black, who will voice the main character, Po, the cast now features Dustin Hoffman as Shifu, a conditioned kung fu master; Jackie Chan as Master Monkey, a model kung fu warrior; and […]

Pixar Animation Studios announced Tuesday the beginning of sales of the program RenderMan for Maya 1.0. The Academy-Award winning program “is specifically engineered to deliver high-end feature film quality standards to a new and broader audience” in this version. The new RenderMan for Maya can be purchased from the studio for $1000 and is available […]

Brad Bird, director of animated films The Incredibles and Iron Giant has been selected to receive the first Texas Avery Animation Award. AWN reports that the Oscar-winner will be honored at the Deep Ellum Film Festival on Sunday, November 13, 2005 at North Dallas High School, the alma mater of legendary animator Tex Avery.

Kristin points us to a Japanese site which provides a very initial sneak peek at some Brother Bear 2 content and, yes, Rutt and Tuke are returning.

We have just been informed that Ollie Johnston, veteran Disney animator and the last surviving member of Walt’s Nine Old Men, will be awarded with the National Medal of Arts which will be “presented by the President and Mrs. Laura Bush in an Oval Office ceremony at the White House on November 10.” He will […]

Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers, Volume 1 and DuckTales, Vol. 1 are both being released today on Disney DVD through Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Animated News has one copy of each to send to the two winners of our caption contest. This caption contest is now over. The winning entries and some that deserve honorable […]

We mentioned it after it was first announced but are giving a reminder that this Thursday night ASIFA-Hollywood will be holding a reunion for the 40th Anniversary of Osamu Tezuka’s KIMBA, The White Lion. “Guest panelists will be famous animator Sadao Miyamoto (alumnus of Tezuka’s Mushi Production,) Jared Cook, translator & interpreter for Tezuka himself, […]

Nick.com exclusively has the trailer for the Weinstein Company and Kanbar Entertainment’s Hoodwinked, the CGI movie which tells the “true” story of Little Red Riding Hood. Hoodwinked will be released in theaters on December 23, 2005.

In a report on the box office of Chicken Little and the upcoming slate from Walt Disney Feature Animation, the Internet Movie Database indicates that American Dog has been pushed to the summer of 2008, as Rapunzel Unbraided has been moved to sometime in 2009.