Though bonus features have yet to be announced for the package, DVD Anwers has the cover artwork for the Corpse Bride DVD. Furthermore, the site also has revised cover art for the Madagascar DVD, now having a banner proclaiming its inclusion of the Madagascar Penguin’s short film, A Christmas Caper. Lastly, DVDtoons has the artwork […]

Toon Zone has the schedule of animated movies appearing on the Disney Channel this month. Included in the lineup are: Alice In Wonderland, The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, Mulan, Mulan II, Pocahontas II: Journey To A New World, Recess: School’s Out, Kim Possible Movie: A Sitch In Time, and Kim Possible Movie: So […]

Opening with $40.1 million ($10,961 per theater), Chicken Little surpassed the box office expectations of many critics and prediction websites. Box Office Guru provides a commentary on Chicken Little’s weekend, while Jim Hill Media shows how the film’s debut stacks up with the openings of other computer animated flicks.

According to DVDtoons, two more editions of Golden Age Cartoons are on the way, focusing on Felix the Cat and Aesop’s Fables. Previously announced Golden Age Cartoons DVDs also arriving on April 11, 2006, are Popeye, Attack of the 30’s Characters, Cultoons, and Cartoons for Victory.

Recent studies like one series conducted by Harvard University suggest that animated movies are becoming increasingly violent with more abundant mature undertones. SeattlPI comments that while cartoons have long had strong scenes, a recent trend in popular culture has led to a lowering of standards for what is considered appropriate in G-rated movies. Scenes from […]

Variety reports that Family Guy is seeking to take on the “anti-indecency squad” of the FCC. The popular Fox network animated series plans to air an episode that will be a direct criticism of the federal agency and its censorship practices. The show however, which will air November 6th, is going to push the bar […]

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Chicken Little enters more than 3,000 theaters this weekend, projecting itself as the first fully computer animated motion picture from Walt Disney Feature Animation. Thus far, reviews for the movie have been leaning on the negative side, considering its score of 30% on the Rotten Tomatoes meter. “Chicken Little, though it has its moments, mostly […]

In addition to being Disney’s first entirely computer generated animated film, \\Chicken Little\\ will also be the first film screened in Disney Digital 3-D, a new technology created in collaboration with Dolby Laboratories and Industrial Light & Magic. More information about Disney Digital 3-D, a commercial promoting the film in this format, and a full […]

Moviefone is home to the teaser trailer of Ant Bully, a CGI comedy from Warner Bros. Pictures. The film tells the story of Lucas Nickle, who is transformed to the size of an insect, after flooding an ant cologny with his water gun.

Those people who remain unsure on whether to purchase the Chicken Little soundtrack, released last Tuesday, may check the full project out online at AOL Music.

Toon Zone points to the new websites activated for the DVDs of Yogi Bear: The Complete Series, The Flintstones: The Complete Fourth Season, and The Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume 1.

Ultimate Disney indicates that Bambi II has been given a “G” rating by the Motion Picture Association of America. Meanwhile, it has also been confirmed that The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe has received a “PG” rating, for “battle sequences and frightening moments.”

A recent Variety e-mailing reports that Pixar’s John Lasseter will be presented with the George Melies Award for Creative Excellence by the Visual Effects Society on February 15. “The kudos for Lasseter marks the first time the VES has given an honorary award to anyone from the animation business.”

Animation Podcast has updated with the third and final part of its John Musker and Ron Clements interview in which the famed directing/writing pair discuss “their writing process as well as developing The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.”

The Associated Press, via Yahoo! Movies, investigates the subtle adult humor and cartoon violence found in many animated offerings today, including such films as Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Chicken Little. Despite these movies’ inclusion of certain features that may be more suited for adults, both were given a “G” rating […]

In a positive review for Chicken Little, at Ain’t It Cool News, one viewer notes that a teaser trailer for Disney’s next computer animated movie, Meet the Robinsons, will be presented in theaters this Friday with the Mouse House’s first venture into computer animation.

Latino Review has posted two stills from Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, with one of the pics providing a nice glimpse at Manny’s love interest, Ellie, in the sequel.

Thought little is known at this time regarding the package, the 3-disc Superhero Collection DVD set, offering cartoons from Superman, Popeye, and Hercules, will arrive in stores on December 6th. DVDtoons has cover artwork for the release.

Coming Soon offers a description of the opening sequence for Monster House, the latest film to use motion capture animation. From executive producers Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis comes the tale of a boy named DJ, who discovers that the house across the street from where he lives is alive. Monster House will open its […]

The Disney Power Board displays ten new pictures connected to Disney’s Rapunzel Unbraided. Along with an updated look at the film’s title art and title character, the images also reveal screencaps taken from a convention Glen Keane held at the Gobelins school in Paris, during last April. There, Keane specified that the main character of […]

Halloween isn’t over yet, not now that Michel Gagne’s Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets interstitials produced for Nickelodeon’s 2005 “Halloween Shriekin Weekend” have been posted online. And the sixteenth, all new Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons premieres this coming Sunday, November 6, on the FOX network.

Following yesterday’s collection of Chicken Little-related material found on the web, here are some more of the many recent online pieces dealing with the upcoming “chick flick”: Four tips, two new clips at IGN FilmForce Interview with Chicken Little in the latest Disney Insider ‘Zach Braff is a Chicken’ television spot at Coming Soon ‘Nervous […]

As we get nearer to the release of this year’s big Disney animated feature here are some of the many recent articles about Chicken Little that can be found on the web: World Premiere report at o-meon List of theaters showing Chicken Little in 3D at Laughing Place Will 3D help Chicken Little’s box office? […]

Steve Jobs, chairman and CEO of Pixar, has indicated that he might be willing to sell the company for the right price. The 50% owner stated in a published report that he was willing to consider selling to “two people with knowledge of the talks” to extend the studio’s current relationship with distributing giant Disney. […]

Michael Giacchino, who had his break last year writing the score for Pixar’s hit animated film The Incredibles, has opted to continue his relationship with the studio. Music from the Movies reports that director Jan Pinkava has tapped the composer to score Pixar’s upcoming 2007 film Ratatouille. Along with The Incredibles, Giacchino also has the […]

The Disney Power Board has scored the first image of the entire cast from Disney’s next computer-animated film Meet the Robinsons!

Reuters, through Yahoo! News, reports that Ralph Zondag, who directed Disney’s Dinosaur, will direct the computer-animated adaption of Kelly Alan Williamson’s children’s book Ollie the Otter. Its story follows, “a circus sea otter named Ollie who tires of doing the same old stunts at the behest of his demanding father. Ollie leaves his family and […]

Thursday marked the opening of Lucasfilm Animation Singapore, the 40,000 square feet animation facility located in the Changi area of Singapore. Employing over 35 people from 19 countries, the studio will increase its number of workers in 2006. Coming Soon offers a breakdown of the company’s key creative executives, along with other pieces of information […]

Continuing its marketing blitz, Chicken Little has unleashed more media to experience on the web. First, two more promos for the film have popped up at Ultimate Disney, one ad focused on the World Series, the other one focused on rapping. Also, JoBlo points to a downloadable interactive Chicken Little desktop, and then provides a […]