Good ol’ Ultimate Disney has given us another sneak peek at the cover art for three upcoming DVD releases. Well, in the case of the Aladdin: Platinum Edition (click the thumbnail for a larger image), it’s merely a closer look, but hey! Now we can scrutinize ad naseum! Speaking of nausea, the supposedly finalized Lion […]

The BBC’s disc review show, The DVD Collection, looks at the work of stop-motion animation director Ray Harryhausen today, plus the UK Looney Tunes releases and Belleville Rendezvous, on their 8.30pm show. For those in the UK with access to the BBC 4 digital cable channel, the show is repeated again at 11.30pm.

DVD Toons is running another giveaway contest, this time for the March 9th {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/530 Winnie The Pooh: Springtime With Roo}} DVD. The site has five chances of winning!

During yesterday’s annual Disney shareholders conference, it was revealed that Bambi will be next March’s “Platinum Edition” DVD release. Thanks to Ultimate Disney for the heads up!

Musicfan, at the Animated-News forum, has the details for the video games of Samurai Jack: The Shadow Of Aku and Astro Boy.

It’s been there a while, but we’ve only just picked up on it! Over at Disney’s {{link http://disney.go.com/corporate/investors/ Investor Relations}} webpage, you’ll find a wealth of business material and corporate documents, such as Annual Reports and such, including Studio head {{link http://disney.go.com/corporate/investors/events/pdfs/dickcook.pdf Dick Cook’s presentation}} (link will open a large PDF file!) for the recent […]

Raider Productions is conducting a search throughout the world for clay, classical, computer, and flash animated shorts to create its 90 minute World’s Best Independent Animated Shorts 2004 VHS and DVD compilations. “These VHS and DVDs will be created to promote the diverse range of stories that the consistently developing medium that animation is allowing […]

From today (March 5), hop on over to {{link http://www.delgo.com Delgo.com}}, the official Web site for the computer animated feature film Delgo, a new fantasy adventure still in production, and the first independently produced computer animated feature in the U.S., for a fun competition that challenges the player to guess the voice actor behind the […]

Tripping the Rift will air it’s premiere episode tonight 9:30 and 11:00pm CT on the SciFi channel. Well, you already know, if you have seen the original short a while back ago, that this show will not be for the faint of heart or little kiddies that stay up late. The first show’s story is […]

Michael at Mickeyfans website has posted the transcript to last night’s Nightline, which devoted its entire show to Michael Eisner and the recent situations at the Walt Disney Company.

The Los Angeles Daily News reports that Leslie Nielsen is “five episodes into recording the title voice in his soon-to-be-syndicated animated show, Zeroman.” Nielsen also provides the voice for Zeroman’s “mild-mannered” alter ego, a postman, with Doris Roberts voicing his mother. In response to Zeroman’s humor, aimed at both children and adults, Leslie Nielsen remarks, […]

FilmForce reviews the Looney Tunes: Back in Action DVD, saying that the film is, “Funny here and there, but overall it doesn’t work.” With the film itself receiving a score of 5/10, the video and audio receiving scores of 8/10 each, and the extras receiving a score of 5/10, the overall DVD receives a score, […]

Ultimate Disney has added a number of cover art images for upcoming Disney DVD releases, including The Haunted Mansion and the “Disney Princess” collection.

{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=104354 Toon Zone}} reports that “the rights to distribute the Appleseed movie have been aquired by Geneon Entertainment. The movie is planned for release this summer in the US with releases in Europe and Asia to follow”. More details on the film and a link to the outstanding-looking trailer can be found in our […]

News continues to pour in about Michael Eisner and his stepping down from the position of Chairman of the Board of The Walt Disney Company, following yesterday’s shareholders meeting which saw a huge 43% of shareholders withholding their vote for Eisner’s re-election to the Board. Eisner will remain the CEO of the Company, something that […]

Yahoo! News has more information on the latebreaking news. “The Walt Disney Co.’s board voted late Wednesday to split the roles of chairman and chief executive, hours after shareholders delivered a stinging rebuke by withholding 43 percent of their votes for CEO Michael Eisner’s re-election to the board.” Under the new arrangement, which is immediately […]

Just heard it on Fox News, but it seems that Disney and Gold’s uprising didn’t fall on deaf ears. Eisner is now just the CEO of the company. More on this later, but could this spell a change for the House of Mouse?

Those with high-speed and broadband internet connections can catch a two-minute {{link http://news.bbc.co.uk/broadband/console/news/newsid_3530000/3530923.stm BBC NEWS}} clip on today’s shareholder meeting. Click on “World” and the “Disney Boss Faces Shareholder Revolt” headline to play. The clip requires RealPlayer.

{{link http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2004/03/03/rtr1285218.html Forbes.com}} is saying that “Top U.S. public pension fund Calpers has called for the resignation of Walt Disney Company Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Eisner after more than 40 percent of shareholder votes cast at Disney’s annual meeting were withheld on Eisner’s re-election”. The number is far beyond Roy Disney’s hoped for 15-20%, […]

Follow the “More” link to read the text of an e-mail to subscribers of Variety on the recent events regarding the Disney shareholder meeting. The UK’s {{link http://media.guardian.co.uk/city/story/0,7497,1161679,00.html Media Guardian}} has more, including a full report on the meeting.

At 3:00pm central time, Fox News Channel’s Your World With Neil Cavuto will be talking about the rumblings at the Disney stockholders meeting. With 771,691,297 votes (preliminary figure from Fox News report) or 44% of all stockholders withholding Eisner votes, this could prove to be interesting. So if you are a fan of CNN or […]

The {{link http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=4490585&section=news Reuters News Agency}} is first out of the gate with a report on the just-finished Disney shareholders meeting. The article notes that “Mike Jenneman, who voted to re-elect Eisner, said: ‘If a year from now things aren’t different, my vote is going to be different’.”

Taking the stage to talk at the Disney shareholders meeting, Studio head Dick Cook played up the upcoming releases from Walt Disney Pictures, including such tent-pole pictures as Hildago, The Ladykillers, Home On The Range, The Alamo, King Arthur, M Night Shyamalan’s The Village, The Princess Diaries II and, of course, The Incredibles, to which […]

At the Disney shareholders meeting, Studio president Bob Iger announced plans to build on various Disney franchises, including Lilo And Stitch and Pirates Of The Caribbean, making references to the two theatrical Pirates features in development, as well as a proposed, and as yet unannounced, television series. More news on that as we get it.

At the Disney shareholders meeting today (March 3), Roy Disney and Stanley Gold were welcomed by a warm and rapturous applause as they took the stand for their 15 minutes allotted to them by the board to put their views across. While Gold spoke for exactly the 15 minute time allowed, Roy Disney spoke for […]

MLive’s {{link http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/business/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?f0037_BC_WSJ–Disney-Fans&&news&newsflash-financial Business News Flash}} has a great little story on the kinds of Disney fans who are standing up to help Roy Disney’s fight against the current Disney board, including self-described “Disney dweeb” Jim Hill!

{{link http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20040302005957&newsLang=en&beanID=202776713&viewID=news_view Business Wire}} reports that Bob Iger, The Walt Disney Company’s president and COO, will appear at the Bear Stearns 17th Annual Media, Entertainment and Information Conference at 12:45 p.m. EST on Tuesday, March 9, 2004. His remarks will be available live via webcast at the {{link http://disney.go.com/corporate/investors/events/presentations.html Investor Relations}} page at Disney’s official […]

As with many sequels nowadays, there is talk of a {{link http://superherohype.com/spider-man/index.php?id=951 third Spider-Man}} film being put on the development fast-track even as part 2 is being finished and prepped for release on July 2. All this comes in a report from Superhero Hype (via {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=104237 ToonZone}}) in which Marvel Comics Studio’s Avi Arad […]

AnimationHQ will welcome back animator/storyboard director Chris Headrick for his second chat session to be held this Saturday, March 6th, at 7pm EST in the {{link http://AnimationHQ.net/v2/features/events.htm AnimationHQ IRC chatroom}}. Chris says he is “looking forward to discussing and revisiting in greater detail such issues as the recent Looney Tunes feature film, the Pixar-Disney split, […]

We’ve just heard a rumor from a good source within the animation industry that a later, as yet unannounced Canadian DVD version of Sylvain Chomet’s The Triplets Of Belleville may be the disc release to wait for. The American issue, due May 4th, does not contain the original French-language version of the film, and drops […]