Toon Zone has two reviews for the first two episodes of The Batman’s second season. The Batman, which suffered from less-than-favorable reviews in its debut, gets along somewhat better this time around, with critics saying that the newest season “offers small improvements” and is “off to a promising start”. The Batman comes on Saturday mornings […]

The teaser poster for Curious George can be seen at Black Film, while the film itself will not hit theaters until February 10, 2006.

The ASIFA-Hollywood blog is now sporting some photos from last Saturday’s Animated Commercials from the 1950s & 60s program (original link via Cartoon Brew). The show was a sold-out success with a few people even having to sit on the steps in the aisles. Due to its success Jerry Beck has promised to put together […]

Riding on the upcoming Peter Jackson movie, Sony Music will release the animated King Kong tv series on DVD this November. The 4-disc set collects the 1966 TV series by Rankin-Bass and will retail for $39.95. TVShowsOnDVD.com has the full story.

The teaser trailer for Ice Age 2: The Meltdown has reappeared online, with its location this time being at MovieWallpapers.net.

The Sydney Morning Herald [free registration required], via Coming Soon, has a look at the set of Charlotte’s Web in Australia. One tidbit from the article is that unlike the 1973 Charlotte’s Web animated movie, the new film will be closer to the book. In other words, audiences should expect farm and animal life to […]

Tomorrow afternoon ASIFA-Hollywood and Cartoon Brew’s Jerry Beck will be hosting a program featuring animated commercials from the 1950s & 60s, television’s golden age. Come check it out because, “much of the material being screened on Saturday is not on video or viewable in any other format.” March 26th • 3:00pm The American Film Institute […]

While likely to be an early April Fool’s Day joke, somebody has gone to great lengths to explain why they need to auction off a plush Stitch toy on eBay that is supposedly possessed by a poltergeist or other restless spirit. Perhaps this is a Blair Witch-style marketing scheme on behalf of Disney to drum […]

JoBlo has the scoop that Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond, Finding Nemo) will play a chef in Pixar’s next film after Cars, Ratatouille, which tells the story of rodents living in a French restaurant.

In a new ad released at Ropes of Silicon, the cast for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s Curious George has been revealed. Joining Will Ferrell are Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Eugene Levy, Dick Van Dyke, Joan Plowright and Ed O’Ross in the traditionally animated flick, produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. Directed by Jun […]

Kristin writes in to point out that the image at Amazon.com for the DVD cover of the Rankin-Bass Easter special Here Comes Peter Cottontail mentions that there is a Peter Cottontail: The Movie coming Spring 2006. A look at its IMDb page confirms that this movie is in production and features several big name celebrity […]

“Bob Tucker Director Media Relations for the Disneyland Resort (DLR) has released a statement concerning the incident in Disneyland Park with author Jim Hill this past Sunday.”

After Rambo: First Blood Part II was released, Ruby-Spears Productions launched a Rambo animated series in April 1986, beginning with a 5-part mini-series. Starring the voice of Neil Ross (Transformers, G.I. Joe) as Rambo, the show continued to run in daily syndication with 60 more episodes starting in mid-September of that year. Now TV Shows […]

AWN reports that HIT Entertainment Plc. has agreed to a £489.4 million ($934 million) cash takeover offer from U.K. venture capitalists Apax Partners. HIT made the announcement following disappointing financial results for the six months ending January 31 and the firing of CEO Rob Lawes six months ago by the company’s board. HIT founder/chairman Peter […]

From March 18, 2005 – April 14, 2005, McDonalds’ Happy Meals and Mighty Kids Meals will feature one of eight retail-size action figures from each of Disney/Pixar’s movies. Characters include Mr. Incredible and Dash from The Incredibles; Nemo and Dory from Finding Nemo; Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan from Monsters, Inc.; and Buzz Lightyear […]

In honor of March being Women’s History Month, Wade Sampson at Jim Hill Media reflects on the all the women who, as the article’s introduction reads, “helped to make the ‘Magical World of Disney’ that much more magical”. Thanks to Cory Mitchell at the Animated News Forum for pointing the article out.

DVD Answers has the details on the DVD release of Father of the Pride: The Complete Series. Extras for the DVD include: the original unaired pilot, three never-before-seen episodes, the complete scripts for additional episodes, and audio commentaries. Father of the Pride: The Complete Series hits stores on June 7, 2005.

Coming Soon has the news on Lions Gate Family Entertainment’s announcement Monday that it will co-produce and distribute the upcoming computer animated film Foodfight!, animated by Larry Kasanoff’s Threshold Animation Studios. With the voices of sisters Hilary and Haylie Duff, Foodfight! focuses on the afterhours world of a supermarket. The film, now in production, is […]

In what appears to be an extended version of last week’s article from the Orlando Sentinel, Magical Mountain has a bit more on Disney’s new Glendale-based unit created for sequels to Pixar’s films. According to the article, a proposed script Toy Story 3 was “so good” that it is getting serious consideration for Toy Story […]

The Big Cartoon Database reports that The Triplets of Belleville was named Canada’s best film Monday night at the 25th annual Genie Awards, which is the equivalent of the Academy Awards. Producer Paul Cadieux accepted the top award at the ceremony, held in Toronto. Also nominated for best motion picture were Being Julia; Love, Sex […]

It appears that the Road Runner (Fastius Tasty-us) is the latest celebrity to get caught up in the blogging craze. Read all about his dealing with iPods, Jimmy Buffett music, Pilates, and that wiliest of coyotes, Wile E. Coyote (Apetitius Giganticus) (original link via Cartoon Brew; for further reading check out James T. Kirk’s Captain’s […]

Toon Zone informs us that a sequel to Blue Sky’s CGI hit Robots is very likely to be made. Producer William Joyce assures that the sequel will have a stronger storyline than the first, which was more of a set up for the audience to be introduced to the robotic world. Robots 2 is likely […]

If you’re going to be giving your own guided tours of Disneyland make sure you don’t charge for them and make sure folks who paid for an official tour don’t get confused and assimilated into your group or they might report you and you might get kicked out of “The Happiest Place on Earth,” as […]

Cartoon Network’s official site for Season 3 of Star Wars: Clone Wars is now up. This season will consist of five 12-minute episodes (beginning tonight) rather than ten 3-minute episodes as the first two seasons did. It will still be action-packed but also considerably more character driven. This season will also end by dovetailing right […]

Box Office Guru records that Robots dropped 40% to the #2 position in its second weekend, with an estimated gross of $21.8 million. After ten days, the CGI toon has pulled in $66.9 million, looking to end its domestic run in theaters with around $125 million. In comparison to its Twentieth Century Fox/Blue Sky predecessor […]

Ain’t It Cool News reports on some coming developments in the world of 3D cinema. The discussion centers mostly around the announcement made at the recent ShoWest that George Lucas’ entire Star Wars saga is likely to be shown in 3D in theaters worldwide throughout 2007, but there is also the curious mention that parts […]

Yahoo! Finance reports an Associated Press interview with Bob Iger, “CEO Elect” of The Walt Disney Company, in which he discusses the company’s future, its relationship with Pixar and Roy Disney, and more. “Our mission is to create more high-quality entertainment for more people to consume in more places more often. As challenging as that […]

TLA Video, via Ultimate Disney, has the specs for the Cinderella Platinum Edition DVD. Bonus features for the DVD include: deleted scenes, reconstructed deleted songs, live action-to-film comparison of the opening sequence, a featurette on Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men, a sneak peek at the upcoming Cinderella III, the documentary “The Cinderella That Almost Was”, […]

The teaser trailer for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will debut in April, indicates The Book Standard. It is very possible that the trailer may premiere in theaters with another Disney title, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, opening April 29, 2005. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the […]

IGN FilmForce has a detailed inside-look at the events which took place at the “Hollywood mixer” party thrown for DreamWorks’ computer animated comedy Madagascar.