Found at eBay is a beautiful 11″x14″ trade ad promoting The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge, and Chicken Little.

The Muppet Newsflash has the specs and episode listing for The Muppet Show Season One DVD, hitting store shelves on August 9th, says Ultimate Disney. The four-disc Special Edition DVD will include such bonus features as “Muppet Morsels”, the original Muppet pitch reel, The Muppet Show’s original pilot, a Season One promo gag reel, The […]

Disney’s PR department has just let us know that the full trailer for the studio’s “highly anticipated, first all-CGI animated movie will have its world premiere on Monday May 23, at 12:01am, exclusively on {{link http://disney.go.com/home/today/index.html Disney Online}} and {{link http://movies.go.com/ Movies.com}}. It will be available on {{link http://disney.go.com/disneymotion/ Disney Motion}} and {{link http://movies.go.com/moviesdynamic/motion Movies […]

Video Business reports that Buena Vista Home Entertainment will spend approximately $150 million in marketing the Cinderella Platinum Edition DVD, coming to stores on October 4, 2005. Twice the figure that was used to promote the Aladdin Platinum Edition DVD, the amount equals that which was used to promote the Lion King Platinum Edition DVD […]

The full press release announcing the selection of judges for The NickToons Film Festival can be read here:

A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, the first bout of Star Wars mania was closely linked with the antics of Jim Henson’s Muppets, thanks to the stars of those films appearing on The Muppet Show, the millions of shared fans of both series, plus behind-the-scenes ties including Frank Oz’s performance […]

Moviehole has posted a rundown of the question and answers offered at the press conference for Madagascar held in San Francisco. Featured in the interview are the film’s stars Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Ben Stiller. Madagascar will open in theaters on May 27, 2005.

Time Warner’s official website notes that Scooby-Doo will join the lineup in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this November. In addtion, the famous pooch will be Macy’s Holiday Ambassador as a kid-friendly collectible plush, available for $16.95 with a $35 purchase. Those currently longing for new Scooby merchandise may want to head to their nearest Subway […]

Bob Bergen, the voice of Porky Pig, is launching an animation voice-over seminar and cruise to Ensenada, Mexico. The cruise will last three nights aboard the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines “Monarch of the Seas”, beginning Friday, February 10th, 2006. For more info, be sure to check out Bob’s official website.

Melwood Pictures and Exodus Film Group have optioned the rights to magician and illusionist Nicholas Night’s computer animated/live action feature film Pavlov’s Dog. The synopsis for the film revolves around, “Pavlov, an uptight flea from out-of-town that catches a greyhound to the big city in order to claim his inheritance… a canine ‘property’. Once there, […]

A reader email sent into us reports that subscribers to Disney Magazine who have received their latest issue will find a letter stuck to the cover stating it is the last issue and that the rest of their subscription will be picked up by either Family Fun Magazine or Disney Adventures Magazine. Readers who did […]

Taken from the UK’s Daily Mirror newspaper, {{link http://www.arena.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/film/film.htm this site}} has three scans up of images from the new Wallace and Gromit movie, The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, as well as a high-res version of the teaser poster for the film.

The DreamWorks Animation fansite {{link http://animation.dreamworksfansite.com/fullstory.php?id=632 contest has one of six copies}} to be won of the Father Of The Pride 2-discer, set to hit stores on June 7.

As {{link http://ps2.ign.com/articles/614/614488p1.html IGN’s PS2 page}} says, “Avast, ye Kingdom Hearts fans! At Square Enix’s E3 conference, one of the surprises in the unveiling was that Jack Sparrow, the drunken mess of a pirate from the movie Pirates Of The Caribbean, would be in the upcoming KH sequel”. It is not clear at this time […]

Bishop Animation recently announced the opening of their full service {{link http://www.bishopanimation.com animation studio}}. Their own in-house project Paul And His Bananas continues in production.

Effects house Shynola’s most recent animation adventure involved the Guide entries for the big-screen adaptation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Chris Harding {{link http://www.vfxblog.com/articles/shynola_on_hitchhikers/index.html talks to vfxblog}} about the creation of the Guide’s graphics.

Coming this fall, Activision’s Shrek SuperSlam game pits the characters from the DreamWorks franchise against each other, combining “the twisted humor and pop culture parodies of the Shrek universe with the fast-paced action of a melee fighting game”. Signature fighting moves like Shrek’s Green Storm, Donkey’s Juggle Punt, and Puss-in-Boots’ Love-Stun bring variety and personality […]

Looks like the four penguins from Madagascar got ahold of some lightsabers.

The movie itself may be only partly animated but BigAnimation.com has a new article on that blockbuster of blockbusters, Star Wars, and they promise a George Lucas audio interview to come in about a week or so.

The newest trailer for Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, in theaters on October 7, 2005, has popped up at Moviefone.

CellSoft has released Take5, the PC version of the Take2 linetest software. Take5 allows users to capture video camera and webcam images, before playing them back instantly as animation. The timing and order in which the images play can be easily changed, using the virtual exposure sheet. These changes can then be seen with a […]

Jim Hill Media writes that though the film is not bad, The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz is being touted as a “middling affair” from several critics. However, the site writes that this may not be the fault of the movie’s production team. Apparently, the team was forced to make last minute changes to the film’s […]

Chuck Oberleitner’s industry watchdog site o-meon has updated with an article conjecturing on the possible reasoning behind the recent lawsuit filed by Roy Disney and Stanley Gold against The Walt Disney Company over the recent selection of Bob Iger as Michael Eisner’s eventual successor. The article questions the timing and propriety of the lawsuit and […]

The press release for the Samurai Jack: Season 2 DVD is available to view at Toon Zone. Episodes included with the DVD are: #14- “Jack Learns to Jump”, #15- “Jack vs the Worm, The Metal-Eaters, & The Fairy”, #16- “Jack and the Smackback”, #17- “Jack and the Scotsman II”, #18- “Jack and the Ultra-Robots”, #19- […]

According to a press release for the upcoming DVD set of both Ghostbusters movies, two episodes of the 1986 animated show The Real Ghostbusters will be included as bonus features for the set. Meanwhile, a slew of new information on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe DVD sets is listed in the latest issue […]

Toon Zone lists the Emmy Awards that Disney Channel series picked up on Saturday at the 32nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards creative arts ceremony in Beverly Hills. Among the recipients were Rolie Polie Olie, for “Outstanding Special Class Animated Program”; Kim Possible, for “Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing – Live Action and Animation”; and Brandy […]

Guardian Film Unlimited reports that DreamWorks Animation missed earnings expectations in the first quarter, due to their expectation that Shrek 2 would bring in more than it did. DreamWorks, which distributes through Universal Home Video, over-projected the amount that the Shrek 2 DVD would make, thus allowing Universal’s costs on marketing and distributing the film […]

Within Project Firefly’s portfolio is a 3D animation reel that features some early animation from the now-cancelled A Few Good Ghosts, which was being worked on by Florida Disney Feature Animation before its demise.

Coming Soon has two featurettes, four TV spots and nine clips from the computer animated comedy Madagascar, coming to theaters on May 27th.

IGN FilmForce reviews the Son of the Mask DVD, hitting stores tomorrow. Their verdict: Son of the Mask is a “mindless, noisy, derivative, flat-out unfunny and pointless sequel that should bury the franchise forever.” Nonetheless, the DVD’s video, audio, and extras garnered scores of 10/10, 8/10, and 7/10.