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 […]

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Ain’t It Cool News now has a couple video clips up from Disney’s upcoming American Dog and A Day with Wilbur Robinson and a further report about the overall production design on Rapunzel Unbraided.

Talking to Moviehole, Robert Rodriguez, director of the first three Spy Kids films, stated that a fourth Spy Kids film may become a reality- but only if done with animation. “We might do an animated, straight-to-DVD thing but that would be it”, said Rodriguez, before adding, “Couldn’t do a live action thing – kids are […]

Comic Book Resources has posted an account of the happenings at Wizard World Chicago yesterday, as Wizard’s Richard Ho moderated a discussion of Ultimate Avengers, the first of a proposed series of direct-to-DVD animated releases with Marvel properties. Speakers in the discussion included Marvel’s Craig Kyle and Lion’s Gate Family Entertainment’s Ken Katsumoto. Set for […]

Available now at AnimWatch is a two-page interview with Josh Staub, director of the independent short-film The Mantis Parable. For more information on the short, one may visit its offiical site.

From August 20 – 21, the 90’s animated series of Batman and Superman will each be featured in five-hour marathons on Boomerang, Cartoon Network’s sister channel for classic animation. Afterward, the two series will appear during “Boomeraction”, a block of action-adventure animation running from midnight to 1am. For more info on the subject, please click […]

As expected, Warner Home Video will release the immortal 1933 adventure King Kong, featuring iconic stop-motion effects by Willis O’Brien, to coincide with the release of the new version coming to theaters in Novmber. {{link http://www.videobusiness.com/article.asp?articleID=11095&catID=0 Video Business}} reports that the 2-disc set (featuring archival interview commentary, deleted footage and documentaries) will also come housed […]

The Age [free registration required] writes of the latest short film from Pixar, One Man Band, which will play in front of Cars next summer. The article includes a fresh pic from the short. Also, Liudger’s spot at Blogger mentions his One Man Band experience at the 2005 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, where he […]

From Stone Bridge Press and author Gilles Poitras comes The Anime Companion 2, which contains hundreds of glossary-style entries to help one learn of anime’s distinctive content, images, and cultural motifs. For a better understanding of what the book covers, please view its press release by clicking “More”.

Yesterday, Pixar Animation Studios announced financial results for the company’s fiscal second quarter, which recorded revenues of $26.4 million and earnings of $12.7 million, or $0.10 per fully diluted share. Revenues for the six months prior to July 2, 2005 were $187.7 million, with earnings being $94.6 million, or $0.77 per fully diluted share. “We’re […]

Found at eBay is a two-sided character banner, featuring the characters Runt of the Litter and Fish out of Water, to promote Chicken Little, coming to theaters this November 4th.

We all learned in Aladdin that the Genie can do anything so it’s no surprise that he can transition from a hand-drawn form to a computer-generated form. The Magic Lamp Theater at Tokyo DisneySea is now showcasing a short Eric Goldberg-directed CGI film featuring the always morphing Genie in true 3D form (not just the […]

Two stills from the rare 1978 Don Bluth-directed short The Small One can be viewed by clicking on the ‘More’ link. The Small One will be released to DVD for the first time on September 27 as part of the Classic Cartoon Favorites: Volume 9 – Classic Holiday Stories collection from Disney.

Five final images and a bonus menu screen from Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch have been released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. The direct-to-video title debuts on August 30.

Now up at the Disney Motion Showcase is an extended sequence from Valiant, coming to theaters on August 19th.

On September 22 the Newport Beach Film Festival will be showcasing a free encore presentation of all the animated shorts that had been screened while the festival was in regular session earlier this year. This program will be held at the Orange County Museum of Art.

Jim Hill Media has artwork and brief plot descriptions for American Dog, A Day with Wilbur Robinson, Rapunzel Unbraided, and Toy Story 3, taken from Walt Disney Feature Animation’s booth at SIGGRAPH 2005. Thanks to Cory Mitchell at the Animated-News Forum for the notice.

At the SIGGRAPH 2005 computer graphics conference in Los Angeles, George Lucas mentioned his future computer animated Clone Wars television series, indicates the Internet Movie Database. According to Lucas, the show will be produced at Lucas Animation’s facilities in Singapore, where the Star Wars director is building a computer animation production plant.

Even though the Save Disney site is supposed to be shutting down on August 7 they have just updated with links to numerous articles of Walt Disney in his own words. Read on for Walt’s account of the creation of Mickey Mouse, his thoughts on prayer, his opinion on sequels, and more, as well as […]

According to Ultimate Disney, at last weekend’s Gathering of the Gargoyles convention in Las Vegas, Gargoyles creator/producer Greg Weisman revealed that the Gargoyles: Season 2, Part 1 DVD will be released this December. The three-disc DVD will feature 26 episodes of the series, specifically episodes 14-40, along with audio commentaries and other extras.

Popcorn Taxi is proud to present a special evening with animation giant Pixar at Cinema Paris, where the Sydney premiere screening of One Man Band will be held, with director Andrew Jimenez and producer Osnat Shurer in attendance. The event happens Monday, August 8th 2005 at 7:30pm. For more details, check out {{link http://www.popcorntaxi.com.au/Events.asp?Event_ID=400 this […]

The {{link http://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/JulAug05/julaug05_bride.html Editor’s Guild website}} talks to editor Jonathan Lucas about the grounbreaking work he has completed on Tim Burton’s stop-motion animated fantasy The Corpse Bride.

Just after the sad recent passing of Disney legend Joe Grant, Animated-News’ Christian Ziebarth lunched with famed animator Andreas Deja, who over the years has brought to life scores of Disney heroes and villains. Having recently completed overseeing animation on the direct-to-video title Bambi And The Great Prince Of The Forest, Deja reminisced with Animated-News […]

Warner Bros. Pictures has unveiled its 2005 Fall Preview, which includes some new shots from Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. Those pics are available to view at Latino Review. Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride will awaken on September 23, 2005.

The July 28th edition of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel examines Miracle Studios, composed of artists from both Disney and Warner Bros. Located north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the company, which has been producing small commercial projects for the past year, is busy working on their first feature length, traditionally animated film.