Follow the ‘More’ link to view several images, complete with silly captions, from two Studio Ghibli anime titles being released today by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Pom Poko and My Neighbors the Yamadas.

In May 2006, the Museum of Modern Art in New York will pay tribute to CalArts. Celebrating the institution’s 35 years of excellence, this historical survey will include films and videos produced by the following departments: Film and Video, Experimental Animation, Character Animation, and Film Directing. Films and videos produced in the MFA program will […]

CNET News reports on the upcoming Valiant and its aim to provide an entertaining CGI feature on a modest budget. According to the report, “Vanguard Animation has successfully undermined the notion that you have to spend in the range of $100 million to produce a modern computer-animated film.”

Becoming the first ‘Featured Artist’ for Strut Your Reel, Mike Thurmeier, the supervising animator from Blue Sky Studios, speaks with the site, in a very in-depth interview. One may also find out more info on Thurmeier by checking out his official site.

At the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, John Malkovich mentioned that he has joined Anthony Hopkins and Robin Wright Penn for Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf, reports Dark Horizons. Scheduled for a 2007 release, the film will incorporate the same motion-capture animation technology used by Zemeckis in The Polar Express.

Gargoyles show creator Greg Weisman has revealed some of the details concerning the Region 1 Second Season DVD set of Disney’s 1990s animated series. The set will contain the first 26 episodes of the season, and will contain bonus features such as episode introductions. The set will be released on December 6th.

Jim Hill’s latest article reveals some interesting tidbits about Cars, Pixar’s entry for next summer. First of all, more details are given regarding the characters that George Carlin, R. Lee Emery, and National Public Radio’s Car Talk stars Tom & Ray Magliozzi will be voicing. Furthermore, it is noted that Cars director John Lassetter’s favorite […]

TV Shows on DVD have discovered via an anonymous source what the contents of the upcoming DVD set of the 1980s cartoon series DuckTales are going to be. It appears that there are to be 27 episodes following in general airdate order as a “Volume 1” release, although the pilot feature Treasure of the Golden […]

Disney/Pixar’s latest animated feature is slated to hit the rink this September. Disney on Ice has released a schedule revealing that the show Disney presents Pixar’s The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure will debut at The Lakeland Center in Lakeland, FL on September 2nd. The performance will then travel the eastern and central US […]

DreamWorks Animation has been plagued in recent months by SEC investigations, stockholder lawsuits, a slump in DVD sales, and rumors of corporate takeovers by NBC; but the studio did get some good news this financial quarter from its latest release. Guardian Unlimited Films reports that Madagascar brought in a cool $430 million plus in worldwide […]

Ultimate Disney have just posted a review on the first volume of the new Timeless Tales DVD line, a collection of shorts based on classic stories. This volume contains the four Silly Symphony shorts The Pied Piper, The Grasshopper and the Ants, The Tortoise and the Hare and The Three Little Pigs, as well as […]

Yahoo! Movies has uncaged eight clips from Valiant. The computer animated comedy from Vanguard Animation and Walt Disney Pictures will open in U.S. cinemas on August 19, 2005.

Ultimate Disney has cover art for the ‘Kermit’s 50th Anniversary Edition’ DVDs of Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island. These single-disc titles, along with The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, will hit stores in November.

Ultimate Disney have just posted the cover art (and also some of the disc art!) for this year’s wave of Walt Disney Treasures. The collector-aimed series of DVDs packaged in film canister-like cases have featured many pieces such as television programming and theatrical shorts, and Wave 5 is following suit with two sets devoted to […]

A Lilo Leroy & Stitch preview can be found on the upcoming Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has A Glitch DVD. Five images (some of which may be considered spoiler material by hardcore fans) can be viewed here:

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Bill Murray is in talks to voice Garfield again in the sequel to the hit 2004 film. Having already signed on for the sequel are Breckin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitt, both of whom also starred in the first movie. However, this time around, Hewitt’s role will be reduced, due […]

In his latest “Why For” column, Jim Hill reveals how one may still hear a glimpse of the music from the cancelled Disney musical A Few Good Ghosts. Meanwhile, the article further indicates that the Tinker Bell Movie will be the first of four films to star the famous fairy, noting that the quadrilogy may […]

Coming Soon has QuickTime, Real Player, and Windows Media versions of the international trailer for Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, coming to U.S. theaters on September 23, 2005.

According to {{link http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200508/200508080004.html Digital Chosunilbo}}, the traditionally animated film \\Empress Chung\\ will be released in South Korea today, and in North Korea on August 15. Eight years in the making, the film marks the very first time North and South Korea have collaborated to create a movie. The film follows one of Korea’s favorite […]

{{link http://www.ultimatedisney.com/ducktales-chipndale-dvdsets-factsheet.html Ultimate Disney}} reports that \\Duck Tales\\ and \\Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers\\ will be coming to DVD on November 8th. Both popular animated series of the late ’80s and early ’90s will get 3 disc sets priced at $34.99 each. No details on features have been revealed as of yet. Thanks to several […]

Jim Hill Media takes a look at DreamWorks Animation’s presence at SIGGRAPH 2005, in which the studio submitted four courses, two panels and seven sketches. At the event, info was revealed for Over the Hedge, Flushed Away, Shrek 3, Bee Movie, and Kung Fu Panda, with some of the sneak peeks including spoilers. Thanks to […]

On Friday, August 19, at 7:30pm the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be screening select Oscar-winning animated shorts from the last seven decades. The program begins with Disney’s The Three Little Pigs and ends with Pixar’s For the Birds. Ferdinand the Bull and Ward Kimball’s classic Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom are […]

To celebrate the U.S. opening of Valiant, coming to theaters August 19th, a six-minute special sneak peek at the computer animated film has been released. To view it, or to glance at other Valiant media, including the first trailer and an updated synopsis, please click “More”. To check out twelve images from the film, please […]

The Internet Movie Poster Awards has the international poster for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, coming to theaters on October 7, 2005.

Included with a group of journalists recently invited to visit DreamWorks Animation, Paul Fischer from Moviehole writes of the experience, in which sneak peeks from the studio’s future lineup were shown. Films which were previewed at the event include Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Flushed Away, and Over the Hedge. Closing out […]

TV Shows on DVD points to the Warner Bros official site, where a trailer for the Thundercats – Volume 2 DVD awaits. As the final shot of the trailer reveals, the DVD will be in stores on December 6th.

The SIGGRAPH reports are flowing in. Chuck Oberleitner reports at o-meon on the DreamWorks and Disney presentations, while Jim Hill focuses in on Glen Keane’s Rapunzel Unbraided presentation.

This fall, McFarlane Toys will release action figures of characters from Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, The Simpsons, and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Spawn.com has pics for each line of figures.

Jim Hill Media offers more speculation concerning the name and future of Disney Circle 7 Animation, the computer animation division created to develop sequels to Pixar’s films.

Universal’s newly formed family entertainment label, Universal Studios Home Entertainment Family Productions, today announced that production has begun on 26 episodes of a Land Before Time animated television series. Looking to debut on Cartoon Network in 2007, the show will later be distributed on DVD by Universal. Further details of the series, plus news of […]