After the debacle of the Cat in the Hat movie, the widow of Dr. Seuss swore to never allow a live-action adaptation of one her husband’s books again. But she has now warmed up to the idea of allowing a CGI-adaptation Horton Hears A Who to be produced by Fox’s Blue Sky studio, according to […]

On Thursday, April 21, the Hollywood Heritage Museum/Lasky-DeMille Barn will be screening “historic ‘home movie’ footage shot by Ward Kimball,” one of Walt Disney’s legendary Nine Old Men. While animation is not specifically mentioned, knowing Ward Kimball’s reputation this footage is likely to be quite entertaining.

Jim Hill Media has a touching tribute for the talented artist Vance Gerry, who did layout, story, concept and/or consulting work on projects ranging from 101 Dalmatians, The Jungle Book, and The Fox and the Hound to Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, and Home on the Range. Thank you to Cory Mitchell at the Animated […]

IGN FilmForce has more exclusive pictures from Robots, opening in theaters this Friday.

Variety [paid registration required], via Coming Soon, reports that Vin Diesel’s One Race Films production company is collaborating with Blur Studio on a CGI feature based on the independent animation house’s short film Rockfish. In addition to producing with Once Race partner George Zakk and Blur creative director Tim Miller, Diesel will provide the voice […]

Kristin writes in to point out that one of the promotional posters for Pooh’s Heffalump Movie looks quite similar in concept to one of the promotional posters used for Lilo and Stitch. Compare the two images here:

Star Wars.com has the newest poster for Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, which hits theaters May 19, 2005.

This may not qualify exactly as animation news but Latino Review has posted the cover image for July’s Harry Potter and The Half-blood Prince.

Disney’s On the Record, the new stage musical revue that features 64 of Disney’s most popular songs, is currently touring the USA. Business Wire has the tour dates, along with the announcement that the On the Record two-disc original cast recording will be available March 15, 2005.

Yahoo! Movies has photos from the world premiere of Robots, held in Los Angeles this past Sunday. Robots opens in theaters on Friday.

BCI Eclipse announced yesterday that the company will bring He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and The New Adventures of He-Man to DVD, indicates Toon Zone. Through an agreement with Entertainment Rights, the owner of He-Man, BCI will release the series on DVD this July with a two-disc “Ten Best Episodes” DVD. Beginning this […]

Writer Mark Evanier at the site News From Me reports that June Foray, the voice behind characters such as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Silvester and Tweety’s Granny, will be appearing at the Barnes & Noble shop in The Grove at Farmer’s Market in Los Angeles, CA. There, the talented voice actress will be […]

DVD Answers has the cover art and specs for the DVD debuts of some films that mix both animation and live-action. Bonus features for The Mask’s New Line Platinum Series DVD release include a commentary with director Chuck Russell, a second commentary with filmmakers and New Line Cinema’s Bob Shaye, a “Introducing Cameron Diaz” featurette, […]

Chuck Oberleitner has posted a new article at his o-meon site discussing the visionary nature of the material contained in the Tomorrowland: Disney In Space And Beyond DVD from Wave 3 of the Walt Disney Treasures series.

‘Tk2’ reviews the Pocahontas Special Edition Region 2 DVD at Ultimate Disney’s forum. Scroll down the page there to see screen captures from the DVD’s menus and feature. The Pocahontas Special Edition Region 2 DVD arrives in stores on March 7, 2005.

File this one under “bizarre and unexpected.” Papadapolis writes in and points out a site where Napoleon from Napoleon Dynamite and Fender from the upcoming Robots have an online dance competition. It looks like it’s even an official Fox site.

Latino Review has three new, exclusive pics from Robots, which opens in theaters this Friday.

Variety reports that Tim Sullivan has been hired to pen Shrek 4, after the writer accepted an invitation to pitch his idea at DreamWorks. The news comes on the heels of the announcement that David H. Steinberg will write the Shrek 2-spinoff Puss in Boots. Meanwhile, Shrek 3, written by Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price […]

Some new pics containing spoilers from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest have appeared online at Photo Buckett.

Ain’t It Cool News has two of the first reviews for Robots, with neither of them posing the flick in a positive light. First off, ‘Father Geek’ writes of his experience seeing Robots with his 4 1/2 year-old grandson: “Colorful and very fast paced, the funniest thing was the Ice Age short [teaser trailer] beforehand, […]

IGN FilmForce has an exclusive clip from Robots, in addition to asking ten questions to Robots and Ice Age director Chris Wedge. Robots marches into theaters on Friday.

Kristin writes in to point out that the FOX Network is hosting a preview tonight at 8PM entitled Assembling ROBOTS: The Magic, The Music and the Comedy. Robots hits theaters next week, March 11, and is 20th Century Fox’s first CGI movie since Ice Age in 2002.

The trailer for Herbie: Fully Loaded is available exclusively at Yahoo! Movies. Expect to see the trailer in theaters with The Pacifier this weekend, while Herbie: Fully Loaded races into theaters June 24, 2005.

Coming Soon reviews the Incredibles DVD, giving the disc’s bonus features a score of 9/10. As for the film itself, the site provides another score of 9/10, stating its “bottom line” as, “Thanks to awesome animation, a funny plot, and lots of comic book inspiration, The Incredibles is a fun action/adventure for the whole family.” […]

Six screen shots of deleted scenes that can be found on disc 2 of the March 15 DVD release of Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles can be found here:

On the online auction block now at eBay is a Disney book from 1973 entitled Brer Rabbit and His Friends. Only difference between this and the original story is that the infamous tar baby has been replaced by a glue-coated stuffed bunny rabbit in an attempt to be politically correct.

Coming later this month at Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre is a three-part program centered on animator extraordinaire Genndy Tartakovsky. Genndy will be playing some of his Samurai Jack material, his brand-new Clone Wars cartoons, and works of others who have influenced him (original link via Cartoon Brew).

Yahoo! Finance reports that first day sales for yesterday’s release of Disney’s Bambi reached one million units, knocking out all of the other competition. Not bad for a sixty-three year old movie. Apparently the public does like traditional animation.

An exclusive sneak preview of Krypto the Superdog is now up at Cartoon Network. The new series is set to premiere April 4.

Apparently ads for Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 3 are starting to air on Cartoon Network. Read a description at TheForce.net and a related story.