With a third Mission: Impossible proving to be an impossible mission to pull together, Tom Cruise will at last join Steven Spielberg to star in the re-make of {{link http://www.iesb.net/movies/movie81204.htm The War Of The Worlds}}, now that Spielberg’s other planned project has also hit a stumbling block. The film is expected to mark a return […]

Always on the look out to poke one in the eye of computer animation, Amid Amidi at Cartoon Brew asks…is the Warner Brothers character Eggbert (AKA Egghead Jr.) reviving his career in Disney’s upcoming Chicken Little? Check out exactly {{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2004_08.html#000399 what he means}} and spot the uncanny resemblance…

The {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=31357 Big Cartoon DataBase}} reports that “Michael Chartrand, the Walt Disney World employee charged with fondling a 13-year-old girl while dressed as Tigger, was acquitted last week and came back to the Florida theme park Sunday [saying that] he doesn’t expect to be back in the employee rotation for at least two weeks. […]

Despite a poor approach to the material, reflected in a poor movie and ever poorer box office takings, the one decent thing in the new live-action Thunderbirds movie is its special computer animation effects. {{link http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=319b255d&atype=articles&id=2178 AWN’s VFX World}} looks at how it was all done.

The {{link http://www.cineme.org/ CINEME International Animation Festival}}, held each year in Chicago, is gearing up for this year’s event, to be held September 24-26, 2004. Guests from Weta, Cartoon Network, DreamWorks, Nick and Disney will be on hand to speak and several will also judge the Halo competition, which offers $20,000 in cash prizes. We […]

Feeling the pinch from being scooped by a couple of sites with yesterday’s release of the cover art and release date, series contributor Jerry Beck chimes in on his {{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2004_08.html#000401 Cartoon Brew}} website with a partial list of goodies to expect in the set. For starters, he lists 31 audio commentaries, six featurettes, fifteen […]

Ultimate Disney DVD has posted the complete specs for this fall’s {{link http://www.ultimatedisney.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4796 Mary Poppins: Definitive 2-disc 40th Anniversary Edition DVD}}. Highlights to look foward to include commentary with Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Richard Sherman and Karen Dotrice, a 50-minute documentary, original teasers and trailers, and an all-new animated short produced in the style […]

Character animator hang out The 10 Second Club has a couple of recent additions to their site: a look at director Andrew Goode’s independent short {{link http://10secondclub.net/reviews.php?id=10006 Love Tricycle}} on DVD, which contains a hefty behind the scenes section, and another review, this time focusing on a new dedicated 2D traditional animation package, the {{link […]

Spumco, the makers of Ren And Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon have let us know that a {{link http://renandstimpy.thetma.com/ new promo site}}, showcasing the new episodes returning to Spike TV from August 20th, and put up with the direct support of John Kricfalusi, has gone live. The site (warning: mature content) features clips and a gallery […]

Director Brad Bird and prodcuer John Walker continue to spread the good word on their new Disney/Pixar computer animated film The Incredibles in a recent ComicCon {{link http://movieweb.com/news/news.php?id=4675 interview with MovieWeb}}.

Pixar Animation Studios and THQ Inc. have recently announced an exclusive multi-property publishing agreement granting THQ the interactive rights to four upcoming Pixar animated feature films. The new agreement begins in 2006 with Pixar’s first wholly-owned feature film produced outside of its existing Disney deal, and continue with the next three wholly-owned Pixar feature films. […]

Dan Whitney (AKA Larry The Cable Guy) is to play to a “new crowd” in 2005, when he provides the voice of a tow truck in the upcoming Disney/Pixar film Cars. Speaking to the {{link http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2004/08/08/entertainment/local/dbcfaa1b1d68728386256eea0015cab4.txt Sioux City Journal}} (subscription required), Larry, whose voice was heard by director John Lasseter after hundreds of auditions, says […]

The Second City.com have announced the winners of this year’s {{link http://www.secondcity.com/news/article.asp?nid=1720466689 ShortCuts Film Festival}}. Lee Lanier and Jeffrey Dates of Boulder City, Nevada. Lee and Jeffrey wrote, directed, and animated their film Day Off The Dead and will each receive a scholarship for one term of the Second City Writing Program, and the opportunity […]

The official site for Disney/Pixar’s {{link http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/incredibles/main.html The Incredibles}} now has a coloring game up in which younger fans can fill in the character’s costumes and print them out.

Dark Horizons posts a report from the set of Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s new ‘super-marionette’ musical movie {{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040810b.php Team America}}, where the boys reveal their Thunderbirds influences and the tricky act of juggling South Park and making an action puppet blockbuster!

Yes folks, The Digital Bits have reported a November 2nd release date for the second volume of Looney Tunes: The Golden Collection, with a retail of $64.92. Though a final list of shorts and specs have yet to surface, the excellent website ‘TV Shows On DVD’ posted a list of 60 shorts back in June, […]

Toon Zone has the details on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume 3 and Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume 2 DVDs, both coming to stores on November 16, 2004.

Narnia Web reports that Ray Winstone (Cold Mountain, the upcoming Magic Roundabout Movie) has been cast as the voice of Mr. Beaver in Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe.

Ultimate Disney has the revised cover art for the Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas DVD and a larger look at the Mary Poppins 40th Anniversary DVD cover art, while DVD Answers has the DVD cover art for Garfield: The Movie.

DVD Toons takes an in-depth look at Disney’s new Mickey Mouse movie, {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/327 The Three Musketeers}}, also starring Donald and Goofy. “For a medium that is supposedly running out of steam, this traditionally animated feature looks refreshingly vibrant and colorful. With character models and actions absolutely so spot on, certain sequences will have even […]

It’s official: we’ll not be getting a set of Walt’s True Life Adventures this year as part of this year’s wave of Disney Treasures releases, due in part to the fact that we’ve already had one series this year (the delayed wave three) and Disney didn’t want to flood the market with the same themed […]

The British animation web site Skwigly has several exclusive images from animated features presented at Siggraph 2004, which is taking place in Los Angeles this week. Among the pictures, there is concept art for Disney’s Rapunzel Unbraided and American Dog, characters from Chicken Little, advertising art for DreamWorks’ Madagascar and much more.

{{link http://www.ultimatedisney.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4764 Ultimate Disney}} has scored another first: screen shots from three of the upcoming Walt Disney Treasures titles. Still no word on whether True Life Adeventures has been postponed for now, but check out stills from Mickey Mouse In Black And White Volume Two, The Complete Pluto and The Mickey Mouse Club.

To grab a peek at Paramount’s animated DVD line-up for October/November, hop on over to {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/643 DVD Toons}} for a full list and some early artwork.

The nostalgic, simple-yet-elegant graphic art designs have become a staple of the excellent Walt Disney Treasures DVD line, and the upcoming fourth wave proves to be no exception. Ultimate Disney has now posted the cover art in their upcoming release section for the three titles, which arrive in stores on December 7th. Hopefully with no […]

The following links contain story, photos, and video clips from the event this morning where the irascible Donald Duck was honored with the 2,257th star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, as well as a story by Jim Hill on what Donald’s star looked like before it reached completion: Yahoo! Finance PR Newswire Jim Hill Media […]

If you don’t like your choices of candidates for political office when election time comes you can always write your own candidate on to the ballot, even fictional characters, as did citizens in a recent Bulloch County, Georgia, election. The Big Cartoon DataBase reports that animated characters Spongebob, Goofy, Snoopy, the Three Stooges, and Mickey […]

‘Special Ed’ in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=4710#post4710 Animated News Forum}} links to a few classic Rankin/Bass animated specials coming to DVD this winter: Frosty’s Winter Wonderland, T’was The Night Before Christmas and Rudolph And Frosty’s Christmas In July. The discs are now up for pre-order from Amazon, with an October 5 release date.

Fay Wray, one of the first actresses to star with an on-screen animated co-star, the stop-motion special effect King Kong, has died at her Manhattan home this past Sunday. A full look at her career can be found here:

Dark Horizons is reporting that the sequel to Fox and Blue Sky’s 2002 hit film will have a March 2006 release date, while Coming Soon! has a more specific date of March 31, 2006. This is the first time since last October any rumors or information about the film has appeared, when rumors of a […]