The New York Times (registration required) reports that Disney are entering the personal computer market. With a childish design, built in content control and other kid-friendly features, it could be a breakthrough or just another specialized device flop. The $599 Dream Desk PC would be available through the Disney catalog and at www.disney.com beginning Aug. […]

Six screen shots from the preview for Disney’s upcoming CGI-animated feature Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas on the Three Musketeers DVD can be found here:

According to Newsarama and Heidi McDonald’s The Beat weblog, the estates of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster have filed papers to terminate Time-Warner’s copyright of Superboy. Additionally, Shuster’s estate may be considering to reclaim the rights to Superman himself. Both articles provide an in-depth look at the situation’s background history and consequences.

Paramount Pictures is inviting Sky Captain and the World Of Tomorrow fans to contribute to the film’s official website by designing it’s fifth and final theme. The grand prize winner will receive an AMD based Alienware Aurora Desktop. Please see the official Sky Captain and the World Of Tomorrow website for details.

Rope of Silicon has three new stills from The Polar Express.

Batman: Yesterday, Today and Beyond interviews Rino Romano, the voice of the title character in Kids WB/Cartoon Network’s upcoming The Batman.

Yahoo! Finance indicates that the U.S. District Court, Central District of California yesterday issued an important decision in the ongoing Federal copyright case between Disney and Stephen Slesinger, Inc., among others, in which the heirs of A. A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard are seeking to terminate the rights of Slesinger to the Winnie the […]

IGN FilmForce has released the first installment in a series of regular production updates from the set of Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

On one of the official Spawn website’s message boards are two model turn-a-rounds from the upcoming Spawn animated series. As Toon Zone notes, “The two models depict an ‘evolved’ Spawn, the current suit that he appears in the comic line, and has since Spawn #32, as well as a more comic-oriented Clown, reminiscent of Greg […]

The new poster for the Spongebob Squarepants Movie is now online at the Internet Movie Poster Awards.

From Don Bluth – master animator, artist, and director of such cartoon classics as The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Anastasia, and Titan A.E. – comes The Art of Storyboard, a one-of-a-kind textbook that describes in detail the technical and artistic processes involved in crafting […]

‘Avdcd’ in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=4606#post4606 Animated News Forum}} links to Amazon.com, where this year’s selection of Walt Disney Treasures are now up for pre-order. Set for release on December 7, the titles confirmed so far are Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Volume 2, The Complete Pluto, Volume 1 and The Mickey Mouse Club. A […]

Just a quick reminder of news we posted last week that {{link http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=thursday&service_id=4224&filename=20040805/20040805_1100_4224_10234_95 BBC 2 will be showing Walt Disney’s Song Of The South}} tomorrow, at 11am on Thursday, August 5th. Though the film is unavailable officially and is rarely seen, this marks the seond time in a year that the channel has run it […]

Luke over at Ultimate Disney has posted a page of some great preview shots of deleted scenes and games from the upcoming Aladdin Platinum Edition DVD, which will be released on October 5th. Check them out!

Kristin has sent in news from the Paul McCartney e-mail newsletter concerning more animation coming from the Beatles superstar (it appears be talking about the UK release of the Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection which was released in the US a couple months ago). Full details here:

The trailer for Pooh’s Heffalump Movie can now be seen at Disney’s Trailer Park. Thanks to ‘cartoni’ in the AN Forum for the heads up!

PR Newswire indicates that promoted from Director of Acquisitions, Adina Pitt has been given the position of Vice President of Acquisitions for Nickelodeon and Nicktoons, in which she will handle pre-sales and acquisitions for both networks. Pitt will work directly with the head of Nickelodeon programming as well as the Nicktoons programming team to develop […]

Just-Style reports that the Brown Shoe Company is adding more than thirty Disney characters to its footwear line-up through a new licensing deal signed by its kid’s division Buster Brown & Co. The agreement with Disney Consumer Products will see the launch of shoes featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Bambi, Lady and […]

Business Wire has the press release for the Mickey – Donald – Goofy: The Three Musketeers soundtrack. Songs to be featured on the album include All for One and One for All by Troubadour and Musketeer Chorus; Lovely So Lovely by Troubadour and The “Lovely” Chorus; Petey’s King of France by Peg Leg Pete; Sweet […]

Scripts and screenplays – methods commonly known to not work in the production of an animated feature – are now king in future Disney projects. Animation vets complain about this latest production policy change at WDFA. This means that only projects with screenplays that Disney executives approve of will now be allowed to begin artistic […]

Our friends at the The Disney Database have posted an exclusive interview with Greg Hill, a former artist and animator at the now-defunct Florida animation studio. Greg worked as an inbetweener, production assistant and cleanup-artist, and gives us some human perspective on a traditional animator’s life after the fall. Check it out!

Star Wars mega-fan site TheForce.Net reports on the opening of Lucasfilm Animation Singapore, which will take place sometime in Spring 2005 and “will produce digitally animated films, television and games.” According to George Lucas, “I’ve been a fan of Asian animation and illustration all my life . . . By having a base in Singapore, […]

Back in January, we reported on Mickey Mouse-shaped vegetables. Now there’s word of Simba from The Lion King being made out of fruit. Check it out at Yahoo! News UK. Link from Laughing Place.

Square Enix has announced it will screen a special preview edition of its upcoming 70 minute CGI film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children at the upcoming 61st Venice International Film Festival, which runs September 1st through 11th in Venice, Italy. The film will be part of a new category at the festival called “Venezia Digitale” […]

The Drudge Report reveals that White House officials are furious about Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s Team America: World Police. “I really do not think terrorism is funny, and I would suggest Paramount give respect to those fighting and sacrificing to keep America safe” said one Bush advisor this weekend about the film, which will […]

With NBC/Universal dropping out of the running in the bid to pick up “mini-major” MGM Pictures, it’s now back down to Sony and Warner Brothers to take control of the lion. The bidding battle has been raised due to MGM’s 4000 strong library (it already owns films from such independents as Orion and Polygram, as […]

{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20040801/tc_nm/tech_apple_jobs_dc Reuters}} reports that Pixar Animation Studios and Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas. In a company-wide email sent to employees Sunday, Jobs said “I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of […]

The Disney Database has some new storyboard stills up, as well as a production reel of Mulan’s wedding. Check them out!

DVD Toons has posted the cover art and an {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/641 announcement}} for the animated film that beat Disney’s Destino and Pixar’s Boundin’ as favorites to win this year’s Best Short Academy Award, Adam Elliot’s Harvie Krumpet. The 72-minute run time indicates that there will be more on the disc other than just the short: […]

Don’t say we didn’t warn you! After months of rumored production stories and the reportedly terrible film that emerged, the Spy Kids-update of Thunderbirds has crashed and burned in the US top ten, following a less than stellar debut in its UK homeland last week. With estimates entering the film in the {{link http://www.boxofficereport.com/wbon/daily.shtml American […]