It seems Invader Zim is back on the air, for how long I don’t know. All I know is that is playing right now on NickToons and wasn’t playing just a month ago. I’ve check my Tivo listing out and it seems Invader ZIM is playing at all sorts of times and dates from Saturdays […]

The official {{link http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/index.html Star Trek website}} is celebrating the 30th aniversary of the Star Trek Cartoon with a {{link http://www.startrek.com/startrek/cda/html/images/feature/community/contests/031202_animated/detail.jsp contest}}, {{link http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/features/bst/article/2843.html interview}} with the animated shows story editor and associate producer D.C. Fountana, and a {{link http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/features/specials/article/2674.html guide}} to the most memorable episodes of the short lived series.

Finding Nemo has moved into the Top 10 Worldwide Movies of all time according to Box Office Mojo and a few shakes of my Magic 8 Ball tells me that within the month it will break Spiderman’s web and find a home at Number 8. Stupid Magic 8 Ball isn’t telling me if Nemo can […]

Despite glowing reviews from critics, Teacher’s Pet was dismissed by audiences on Friday, giving the low-budget, traditionally animated film only $484,000, and placing it at 14th place, according to Box Office Mojo. Expect Teacher’s Pet to make a disappointing $2.5 million for the weekend, as predicted by Lee’s Movie Info.

The Video Premiere Awards reviews The Lion King 1½, saying, “Disney takes the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead route (for those who know the Tom Stoppard play that shows Hamlet from the point of view of two supporting players) for its second DVD premiere movie follow-up of The Lion King—and the results are just flat-out […]

Ultimate Disney has posted the press release for the Haunted Mansion DVD, arriving in stores on April 20. Special features for the DVD include bloopers, a deleted scene, the Raven “Superstition” music video, “Making the Mansion” behind-the-scenes featurette, “Anatomy of a Scene: Ghosts in the Graveyard,” and a feature audio commentary with Producer Don Hahn. […]

According to the Animation World Network, the computer animated In Search of Santa, co-produced by Tundra Productions and Colorland Animated Productions, will be distributed in North America by Miramax Home Entertainment. The movie’s premise is, “In the tradition of Christmas movies of holidays past, In Search of Santa tells the tale of two feuding penguin […]

Upon searching eBay, such finds as the Shark Tale teaser poster, four Home on the Range character banners, and the Garfield: The Movie theater standee and dangler were discovered!

Here’s the last three of the ten recently released pictures from the upcoming DVD release of Disney’s interquel, The Lion King 1½. All three are from the Virtual Safari 1.5, “Timon’s version of a theme-park ride, which includes spoofs on famous Disney attractions, including It’s A Small World and Haunted Mansion.” The second image is […]

Laughing Place reports on upcoming McDonald’s Happy Meals featuring Play-Doh toys that will center around Lilo & Stitch: The Series. There will be six different toys and each one will “feature an interactive figurine, a container of vibrant-colored Play-Doh and a two-sided coin stamp. From sprouting hair and hula skirts, to protruding Stitch tongues and […]

The Moose Hole gives a mixed review of the traditionally animated feature based on the Emmy winning animated series, Teacher’s Pet, saying “younger audience members will enjoy this heralding story about a dog wishing to be a boy while younger adults will be wishing for the quickest exit out of the theater”. Read the full […]

{{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=17980 The Big Cartoon Database}} reports that this year’s {{link http://www.sundanceonlinefilmfestival.org Fourth Annual Sundance Online Film Festival}} includes 12 films in the Animation section. The films were chosen to represent the diversity and creativity of online animators and artists. The Online Film Festival will run until Feb. 15th. Showcased are Ahnold for Governor, by […]

The Invader Zim fan site, BadBadRubberPiggy.com, has posted a new interview with Medias Blasters representative Meredith Mulroney about the upcoming Zim DVD release. Put up against very specific, detailed questions, Mulroney has encouraging, albeit vague answers about the progess of the DVD volumes and the limited box set. Truth be told, the DVD is still […]

“This marvelously quick-witted and gloriously goofy hand-drawn feature shows there’s still more than 21 grams of life left in the form,” New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell writes. Wagging into 2,027 theaters today, Teacher’s Pet is receiving mostly praise from critics, with an 85% Tomatometer Fresh Rating at Rotten Tomatoes, and a score of 71 […]

With a 99% Tomatometer Fresh Rating, Finding Nemo has been found as the best reviewd movie of the year, according to Rotten Tomatoes, at the 5th Annual Tomato Awards. In the “Best / Worst Animation of 2003” category, Finding Nemo takes first place, while The Triplets of Belleville comes in second with a 95% rating, […]

TV Shows on DVD reports that Batman: The Animated Series will be heading to DVD in seasoned sets this summer, not to be confused with the soon-to-be-released Adventures of Batman & Robin DVDs, which will contain various episodes from the series. The website also reports that the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, owners of […]

In late but important news, congratulations to Johnny Depp for his Screen Actor’s Guild Award nomination in the “Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role” category, for his performance as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean. See if Depp takes home the award at the 10th Annual SAG Awards, February 22, […]

{{link http://www.superherohype.com/catwoman/index.php?id=693 Superhero Hype!}} has the scoop on an \\Entertainment Weekly\\ article that discusses Pixar’s upcoming \\The Incredibles\\. Though you might expect an action stud like Vin Diesel or The Rock to be voicing the herculean Mr. Incredible, the superlead is played by…Craig T. Nelson. (Holly Hunter speaks for his wife, Elastigirl.) “There’s a school […]

Several prestigious children’s book awards were announced earlier this week by the American Library Association, {{link http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/01/12/newbery.caldecott.ap/index.html CNN reports}}. Some of the winners included: \\The Tale of Despereaux\\ by Kate DiCamillo won the 2004 Newbery Medal given for the year’s best writing. It tells the “story of a small mouse in love with a princess”. […]

{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/usatoday/20040109/en_usatoday/disneyraisingcurtainsonnewprojects&e=5 USA Today}} looks at what’s in the pipeline from Disney Theatricals. While much of the info has been reported in this space previously, Thomas Schumacher (president of Disney Theatrical Productions) does go into a little more detail on some of the upcoming shows.

Here’s an offbeat but interesting story from {{link http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/15/crime.haiti.reut/index.html CNN}}. Suppose you’re a former military chief in the Haitian army during the bloody military dictatorship of the early 1990’s. As the assistant commander in chief of the Haitian army you are convicted in absentia of murder in November 2000 and sentenced to life in prison […]

{{link http://www.awn.com/index.php Animation World Network}} {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=date&newsitem_no=10043 reports}} The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has produced its fifth high school teaching kit to promote understanding and appreciate the art of animation. This kit will be sent to 18,000 high schools throught the U.S., and all production and distribution-related costs will be covered by […]

Well take a peek at some pre-production work on a live action version of one of the best Anime series Evangelion. Harry over at Ain’t It Cool says it best, and I quote “Commence Drooling” or as Homer would say “mmmmm Evangelion ggrrgugul droooool”

Here’s four more pictures from the new batch of The Lion King 1½ promo materials from Buena Vista Home Entertainment. First is a picture of Simba and Timon facing off in a slug slurping contest. This image should be of interest to Lion King fans as it features Simba in the adolescent stage that we […]

As of January 15th, the all-new SaveDisney.com site has been put up! A vast improvement on the original temp site, SaveDisney.com now has five different areas of interest – “Vision,” “Families,” “Consumers,” “Employees,” and “Shareholders.” It also provides pages of FAQs, tips for taking action, letters from site visitors, and suggested links, among several other […]

Buena Vista Home Entertainment has recently released ten more images from The Lion King 1½ . Some appear to be promo art and some appear to be screen grabs from special features on the upcoming DVD. Featured today are a picture of Timon and Pumbaa lamenting the loss of their bachelor buddy Simba, Timon’s Ma […]

{{link http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3029 ComingSoon.net}} points us to {{link http://www.latinoreview.com/films_2004/dreamworks/shrek2/shrek2.html Latino Review}}, who have posted 6 new images of theatre banners from DreamWorks’ upcoming \\Shrek 2\\. The six banners are of Shrek, Donkey, Princess Fiona, the King and Queen of the Kingdom of Far Far Away, Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming, and Puss In Boots.

{{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1971 AWN}} and Jerry Beck take a look back at “the surprises and failures of the 2003 animated features in the US”. He also takes a look at what the coming year holds in a year when “classic theatrical hand drawn character animation – for the first time since… well frankly, for the first […]

{{link http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808468770 Greg’s Prevews}} confirms that \\Garfield\\ has been moved back a week and will be released on June 25th. This “puts it closer to the 4th of July, as the only family movie within two weeks before the holiday”.

{{link http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/15/robot.actor.ap/index.html CNN Online}} reports that Astro Boy got the help of a real life little boy robot recently, when Sony’s humanoid Qrio entered a voice booth to record lines for an episode of the new incarnation of the show. Qrio, which stands for “quest for curiosity”, isn’t a regular Sony product, but works instead […]