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Bionicle gets theatrical upgrade
The Lego Corporation’s successful collaboration with Disney’s Miramax, the Bionicle series, is about to get an upgrade to its CGI graphics. After the release of the first in the series,… |
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Disney signs writers for \\The Three Pigs\\
…Wiesner’s version of the story “updates the traditional tale and follows the pigs’ adventures” as they escape the Big Bad Wolf by going into other fairy-tale lands. “The film is… |
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Batman and Goliath Coming To DVD
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… |
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Reminder: Dave the Barbarian premieres today
…and their family from a world of oddball foes. Dave himself combines strength with an appreciation of the finer things in life, including origami, bird watching and even gourmet cooking…. |
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DVD Toons back online with major updates, including full Lion King 1½ review!
…recent DVD issue of {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/263 Spider-Man – The New Adventures: Season One}}, Sony/Marvel’s CGI retake on the comic book legend. Wrapping up the new reads on the site are… |
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L'Île de Black Mor opens in France
…story is based on the book that Laguionie wrote inspired by his youth’s favourite writers, from Joseph Conrad to Robert Louis Stevenson. Set in 1803, It narrates the adventures of… |
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Mainframe Animation develops ties with Tony Hawk
…its deal with extreme skateboardist Tony Hawk. Previously announced as Feasters, it now looks like the show, about “a rag-tag group of unlikely heroes trying to land tricks, fit in… |
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Popeye's 75th!
Over at DVD Toons, the {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/features/65 Ink And Paint Club}} is a great place to brush up on cartoon history and discover a few rarities. This time around, Randall… |
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HP and DW and WB…
‘Guardstone’ in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=2132#post2132 Animated News Forum}} points to an article at Wired.com that looks at Hewlett-Packard’s continued attempts to break into the lucrative Hollywood technology market. HP already… |
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Shorties Watchin' Shorties
…What could be edgier than Chappelle’s Show, a racially charged half hour with some of the best parodies on TV? And what could be more unusual than I’m with Busey,… |
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VeggieTales live again
…Cartoon Adventures (The Angry Eyebrows, Leggo My Ego, The Yodelnapper, The Good, the Bad, and the Eggly), while the set also retains all the extra features from the VeggieTales Classics… |
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News from The Front Lines
…historic Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA, hosted by Jerry Beck of Cartoon Research and Cartoon Brew. Follow the ‘Full Story’ link for my full review. Due to the free and… |
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Seinfeld And Superman to air on NBC
…the airtime, or if NBC simply views it as a way to get Seinfeld back on NBC”. The full story is relayed via {{link http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-tv.html?2004-05/07/10.30.tv SciFi Wire}}, and thanks to… |
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Cast and crew of Shrek 2 speak about the film
The cast and crew of Shrek 2 speak about the sequel to Coming Soon!. One interesting tidbit in particular comes from the film’s producer David Lipman, who states “Although DreamWorks… |
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Finding Nemo…again?
As with many big screen blockbusters nowadays, it seems the video game adaptations are the quickest to jump on the sequel trail. ‘Monkeyboy12’ in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=2472#post2472 Animated News Forum}}… |
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Fracturing Fairy Tales
…playing every 45 minutes at the AMC Theatre in the Downtown Disney section of the Anaheim Disneyland Resort and is also being promoted in the latest issue of Disney Adventures.)… |
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More Nemo
…game based on Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo. Take a look at The Continuing Adventures‘ {{link http://gba.gamespy.com/articles/516/516940p1.html details}} and a bunch of {{link http://media.gameboy.ign.com/media/684/684222/imgs_1.html?fromint=1 screen grabs}} from the Game Boy Advance game…. |
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Futurama: Volume Four specs and details
{{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/574 DVD Toons}} today posts what we can look forward to in the fourth box of Futurama comedy adventures. The new set will include commentaries and deleted scenes for… |
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Su and Mo poke "crude, rude and lewd" fun at the Film Festival experience
…transitions, and raster images that wouldn’t be possible to include in a standard Flash cartoon.” It couldn’t look too perfect, however. Su and Mo had been established as crude characters… |
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Clone Wars Resurrection
…movies Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III. Considered by insiders and outsiders alike to be complete after its initial run of twenty three-minute… |
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Shrek 2: number 1
…celebrated every record, but this latest hurdle – to become the top-grossing animated film in history – is something we hardly even imagined. Everyone at DreamWorks and PDI shares in… |
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Regal Entertainment Group's Free Family Film Festival
…Neutron Muppets From Space Rugrats Go Wild Looney Tunes: Back In Action Jonah: A Veggie Tale Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown Road To El Dorado Chicken… |
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Does whatever a spider can: The '67 Collection reviewed
DVD Toons’ Rand Cyrenne cracks open the Disney DVD release of Marvel’s {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/316 Spider-Man: The ’67 Collection}}, six discs of original animated adventures. “When I was eight years old,… |
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The Dark Knight returns… animated Batman on DVD; Mario Bros. not so Super
…you have demanded and waited for all these years”. Also on the site, the Super Mario Bros. cartoon show doesn’t hold up quite so well for Rodney Figueiredo as he… |
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Blue Sky Studios looking at \\Chili Wanton Willie\\
{{link http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=5526 Coming Soon!}} reports that Blue Sky Studios, the studio behind \\Ice Age\\ and the upcoming \\Robots\\, may be looking at a new project from Waldo West Productions. “\\The… |
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Anya Corazón hits the comics
…to those of Spider-Man. Even her name is a play on the Spanish araña, or spider. “In her inaugural issue, the superheroine is still pretty much a normal teen dressed… |
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Zombie to produce animated, direct-to-DVD Superbeasto pic
DPS Film Roman, an IDT Entertainment company, and Rob Zombie will produce a direct-to-DVD, animated feature based on his Spookshow International comic book El Superbeasto, which follows the adventures of… |
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Star Wars toons comin' soon
TheForce.Net reports that several Star Wars cartoon series, including Droids Adventures and Clone Wars will be coming to DVD soon with the Clone Wars series set for a spring release…. |
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New Disney Treaures up for pre-ordering
…the titles confirmed so far are Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Volume 2, The Complete Pluto, Volume 1 and The Mickey Mouse Club. A compilation of True Life Adventures… |
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Disney Treasures Wave Four specs
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… |

