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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
…‘hoops & yo yo’s Haunted Halloween — Hallmark Scott Brandon James, Lee Keith Justin Time: The Rubbery Dumplings — Guru Studio Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Kendal Cronkhite-Shaindlin,… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…set of the complete Flip series, thanks to Thunderbean – that little operation based out of Michigan and run by cartoon mensch Steve Stanchfield. But who is Flip the Frog?… |
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Spider-Verse big winner at Annie Awards
…• Incredibles 2 Pixar Animation Studios Nominees: Brad Bird • Mirai Studio Chizu Nominees: Mamoru Hosoda, Mamoru Hosoda, Stephanie Sheh • Ralph Breaks The Internet Walt Disney Animation Studios Nominees:… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…we still have more Shrek and the Hood Vs. Evil sequels to come!) should have been in the running with a fair chance, seeing as it lists one John H… |
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46th Annual Annie Awards nominations announced
…2 Pixar Animation Studios Nominees: Brad Bird • Mirai Studio Chizu Nominees: Mamoru Hosoda, Mamoru Hosoda, Stephanie Sheh • Ralph Breaks The Internet Walt Disney Animation Studios Nominees: Phil Johnston,… |
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Court to rule on whether park rides are "public transportation"
The California Supreme Court will review a lower court ruling that holds Disneyland “to the same passenger safety requirements as operators of buses, trains, taxi cabs, escalators and ski lifts”… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…plus supplements, $35 Rumors of Robert Zemeckis’ motion-capture remake be gone – here’s the original looking like never before! After MGM’s non-16:9, degraded film print DVD from several years ago,… |
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Mickey And The Roadster Racers
…bouncy songs, and goofy comedy. Though it “officially” ran for four seasons, various TV specials kept the show going for more than a decade, making it Disney’s longest running cartoon… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…rule of staying with his protagonist all the way through his stories. Most of the time he’s right! AV: Was director Simon Wells already involved with Mars Needs Moms? BH… |
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Rumor mill: Smurfs, Turtles, Flushed Away
With none of the following rumors confirmed yet, a few tidbits have been found at Wikipedia regarding some anticipated films coming soon. Concerning next year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…Bunny Movie and Jones offering a more pragmatic view in his Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie. With the death of Clampett, Tex Avery and Freleng, Jones became pretty much the sole… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…but the rules will drive younger ones crazy, while Tarrrget Practice is a slow point-and-shoot endeavour that soon becomes boring. Lastly, Tink’s Fantasy Flight is the kind of “fly-thru” in… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…and seeing the chance for “freedom”, Scamp runs off into town, coming across the Junkyard Dogs – a bunch of strays who live the easy life – and meeting Angel,… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…This short, based on a book, introduces the dreamer kid Rusty, who has a love of vehicles. Rusty would return in better cartoons over the next couple of years, as… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…shout “Action!”, and Solomon Grundy notes that a car horn ruined a shot. Half of the runtime is actually just alternate audio for Mordu’s big, evil rendition of That’s Entertainment,… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…in 1937, and the then less than stellar box office runs of Pinocchio and Fantasia (partly based on the cutting off of revenue from foreign markets involved in the Second… |
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Shrek The Third
…seat and run out, right now, to buy the disc, but there is one moment that’s almost worth the price of admission. However, it is just the one moment, and… |
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Exclusive! Another Conversation With Eric Goldberg
…the premise and there were some rough storyboards done by Dean Wellins, they kind of let me run with it in terms of putting a lot of content into it… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…run, John Henry wound up being tipped for an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short, although the way it was dumped meant it did not qualify. Eventually, it made… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…by Dean Wellins, they kind of let me run with it in terms of putting a lot of content into it and really making the characters alive, giving them specific… |
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Shrek 3, Bambi and the Great Prince, and Rapunzel casting ruminations
…Teulan (the upcoming Great Raid) has landed the role of Rumplestiltskin in Shrek 3. Meanwhile, young actor Anthony Ghannam (Kronk’s New Groove) has been cast as the voice of Ronno… |
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Netflix announces cast and first look for animated feature My Father’s Dragon
…the Newbery-honored children’s book from author Ruth Stiles Gannett. Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer (Jacob Tremblay) runs away in search of Wild… |
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Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…tried to rush and pack too many releases together, and especially that Monsters, Inc. itself tanked, because if ever there was a film almost “pre-designed” to get an extra screen… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…– couldn’t help out isn’t explored either). But all this happens rather quickly; the opening is more than a little rushed and somewhat “over animated”, as if the artists are… |
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Shrek Forever After
…nauseatingly sweet birthday party, Shrek finally loses it. Rumpelstiltskin, a huckster with a grudge who specializes in magical transactions that always come with strings attached, offers to let Shrek experience… |
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Russian Despicable Me poster
A new Russian poster for Universal Pictures’ animated Despicable Me has just been revealed on the internet. It features supervillain Gru sitting on a platform of some sort while surrounded… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…If you will, Nightmare is Disney gone goth, but in a very nice way; a now-solid brand that still generates enough interest that guarantees further perennial limited theatrical runs and… |
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Tombstone
…critical (winning Best Picture and other accolades) and commercial success suggesting that there was still gold in them thar hills. A slate of new, contemporary westerns were rushed into production,… |
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Warner Archive: Red Skelton Whistling Collection
…the freedom of his also kidnapped girlfriend, Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford, who had previously played a similar role opposite Mickey Rooney in his Andy Hardy series) and his radio sponsor’s… |
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The Disney Channel…in Russian
The Hollywood Reporter this morning reports that the Walt Disney Company is to launch a local, Russian-language version of The Disney Channel, and is looking to additionally produce two to… |
