Disney's Animated Features and Shorts
…(or pretty close to complete) list of all the animated features and shorts produced by Walt Disney Animation from 1928 to 2010. Even with the glaring omission of Runaway Brain,… |
Metropolis
…comprehensive treat is Animax Special: The Making Of Metropolis (33:15). This comprehensive featurette runs in 4:3 video, in Japanese but with English subtitles. It offers just about everything you would… |
Disney wins battle over Pooh
Deadline Hollywood Daily writes that the Walt Disney Company has won a California appeals court ruling after a 16-year battle with the Slesinger family regarding hundreds of millions of dollars… |
Planet 51 doesn’t quite lift off
…match for the record-breaking numbers of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and was barely able to open above Disney’s A Christmas Carol, which continued its fairly solid run with a… |
Ten shorts to compete for Oscar nominations
…Ltd.) • Partly Cloudy Peter Sohn, director (Pixar Animation Studios) • Runaway Cordell Barker, director (National Film Board of Canada) • Variete Roelof van den Bergh, director (il Luster Productions)… |
Globes expand animation category
The Oscars aren’t the only awards show expanding. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced a new rule for the Golden Globe Awards that would allow five nominations in the… |
Simpsons Movie DVD details
…Rich Moore; deleted scenes (“Russ Cargill – ‘Levels’”, “Springfield News”, “DMV”, “Sausage Truck”, “Emperor Moe”, and “Alternate Ending”); Homer’s monologue on The Tonight Show; a Simpsons Judge American Idol feature;… |
Confirmation on this year's Walt Disney Treasures, and Real Ghostbusters!
Well, even though these had been long-rumored, and even got an Studio-released announcement earlier this year, Walt Disney Home Entertainment has finally officially confirmed the release of this year’s trio… |
Observation of Pixar's present and possible future
…the articles comes when Sanders Morris Harris analyst David Miller responds to the rumor of Disney buying Pixar – an action he does not believe will occur. “Disney would have… |
Oscar races heat up
…L.A. Times says Fantastic Mr. Fox’s impressive showing during it’s qualifying run and it’s critical success may make it a strong contender for an animated nod. Screen International has a… |
Another “Best Animated Movies Ever” list
…Giant in the bottom half behind Chicken Run or Toy Story 2, The Incredibles, and Beauty and the Beast not able to crack the top five might upset you, check… |
Pixar: 20 Years of Animation heading to San Francisco?
The blog Luxo gathers from Cartoon Art that after the exhibition’s successful run at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Pixar: 20 Years of Animation may move… |
Press release: The Wubbcast video podcast for pre-schoolers
…Girls, Ella Enchanted, Russell the Sheep and many, many more. In September, our new show Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! will premiere on Nick Jr. And now we’re giving you even more… |
Hollywood Reporter animation updates
One of the movie business’ industry Bibles, The Hollywood Reporter has updated its website with several new animation stories. It confirms Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham… |
Jetsons roles cast?
…Movie declares that Rosie O’ Donnell has landed the role of Rosie the Robot in the upcoming Jetsons. Time will tell which of these casting rumors are true or false…. |
Vision Film Festival Call for Entries
…Theme is “A HERO IS MADE” TRT DVD Reel (Total Running Time) submissions: (The DVD must also be able to be played on a standard TV DVD player!) ANI-Mini Spot:… |
Script for Roger Rabbit sequel in the works
…rumors in the past about potential sequels to the film, but this is valid material. You can expect more info about the sequel to be rolling out in the works… |
Oliver, Dave Pruiksma, and Company!
…reading about in such promotional interviews. With a nice additional rundown of the many characters he’s animated in the Studio’s films, simply don’t miss this article! Following up on the… |
Tooning In, and tuning up, with composer Shawn Patterson!
…and El Tigre as well as the upcoming pilot for Kung Fu Panda and his current project, Titan Maximum, which has just started its run on Adult Swim. In this… |
DVD news: George, X-Men, Turtles, Felix
…Aliens Among Us, has been changed to Hun on the Run, with the DVD being pushed to May 16th. Lastly, the site reports that Baby Felix – Vol. 1: His… |
Warner Archive: Captain Sindbad
…on a quest to reach the top of a far off tower in order to stab at the heart of an evil ruler out to kill Sindbad and his crew…. |
Animated coverage of the 78th Annual Academy Awards
…Runaway) Cashback The Last Farm Our Time Is Up Six Shooter Animated Feature Film Howl’s Moving Castle Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit… |
RIP, Robert "Tiger" West
…helped establish Hanna-Barbera Productions in Australia. Ruby-Spears and Marvel also served as places of employment for West, until his retirement in 1989. He likewise animated for DiC and DePatie-Freleng. For… |
Simpsons Movie DVD details
…Yeardley Smith); deleted scenes and promos. Concurrently, JoBlo notices that Rubbercat.net has posted a prank list of bonus features for what it calls The Simpsons Movie – Ultimate Collector’s Edition…. |
Thundercats to roar in live-action franchise?
According to Movehole, The Thundercats is rumored as being eyed by Warner Bros., for a potential live-action franchise. The project(s) would apparently be handled similarly to the X-Men films…. |
Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!
…the only one who is different as his eyebrows are white and bushy. • With the exception of Dopey, the dwarfs are dressed in woodsy russet, tan, brown and grey… |
Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…year and will run through March of next year. It’s called Dreams Come True: the Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio. If you go on… |
Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…with heavy dialogue due to its general tonality and unless it’s used in its lower range. But over all the ehru is an incredibly expressive instrument with a haunting sound…. |
X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 3
…half of the show’s entire run with more releases (hopefully) to follow. X-Men:TAS was a great show and it features some of my favorite Marvel characters. The episodes contained in… |
Flash Gordon: The Complete Series
…level beyond typical Saturday morning fair. So, one didn’t mind watching a glorious run cycle or Princess Aura turning over on a couch over and over again quite so much…. |