Ultimate Disney has a small pic of the potential cover art for the Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD, coming in March 2006. In other Disney DVD news, the…

…center of attention in a new television special: a Dean Martin-esque roast, hosted by Miss Piggy. Speaking of television, the Muppets have a few more small screen projects in the…

…Magic Kingdom Adventure will debut at The Lakeland Center in Lakeland, FL on September 2nd. The performance will then travel the eastern and central US through at least March with…

Latino Review has added a number of Chicken Little images, with the pictures featuring the title character center stage in a variety of poses. In addition, another poster for the…

…center on the character Wolverine. According to the deal’s terms, FST will begin pre-production immediately on 26 episodes, which will mix traditional and computer generated animation. First Serve Toonz will…

…Arnold (1996-99) and a Newborn Baby in The Rugrats Movie (1998). Also in 1998, Rawls appeared in the cast of Saban Entertainment’s short-lived series The Secret Files of the Spy…

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and two Massachusetts parents, Sherri Carlson of Wakefield and Andrew Leong of Brookline, have threatened…

Don Knotts, most famous for his role as Deputy Barney Fife on \\The Andy Griffith Show\\, died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly…

Red Herring reports that on Tuesday, Jerusalem Venture Partners launched Israel’s first media center and multimillion-dollar animation studio, hoping to make Jerusalem a major presence in the animation and gaming…

The third teaser trailer for Happy Feet is now online, at Yahoo! Movies. This time around, a lightheard penguin, voiced by Robin Williams, takes center stage, performing his version of…

Yahoo! Movies reports on the Disney shareholder meeting which took place earlier today at the Anaheim Convention Center across the street from the Disneyland Resort. There appeared to be no…

…search of hundreds of U.S. chicken farms for the perfect “real-life” poultry star, chicken finalists were flown to Hollywood, where they strutted their stuff down a special chicken “runway” to…

Nike co-founder and chairman Phil Knight has bought 30 acres of land south of Portland, Oregon, for the placement of a “state-of–the-art” Laika Entertainment campus. Scheduled for a 2008 opening,…

The Mainichi Daily News reports that “Pixar: 20 Years of Animation” is coming to Asia. The exhibit which experienced acclaimed success in New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the…

…event will begin at 7pm on Friday, July 21st with a Q&A with some of the voice and behind-the-scenes talent from the film (panel participants listed below), followed by the…

The nation of Iran has made efforts to revise policy in hopes of preserving the animation field in the country and harnessing its “unique potentials.” The Islamic Republic News Agency…

Jim Hill Media spotlights the Meet the Robinsons display Walt Disney Feature Animation is offering at SIGGRAPH 2006. Located at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, concept art for the…

…watching. AN: I noticed at the last Oscars the head of the Academy mentioned a couple times the “special-ness” of going to the theater. EG: It’s true. It’s their agenda…

Playbill reveals that before the musical hits Broadway, The Little Mermaid will make its world premiere in June 2007 at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Ellie Caulkins Opera…

Leeward Community College is now just one of the educational facilities in Hawaii sporting a “state-of–the-art animating computer system.” TheHawaiiChannel.com writes that the Animation Render Farm Project is allowing students…

In preparation for a retrospective screening of his work at the Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium last Wednesday, Henry Selick was interviewed by The Oregonian. Topics the director discussed include…

…of Gumby creator Art Clokey. In addition, the claymation character is at the center of new licensing and marketing partnerships with national advertisers. Meanwhile, Classic Media will now manage rights…

…Disney Productions. The musical achieved respectable box office results, while also marking the movie debut of Robin Williams, in the title role. For more information on the life of Robert…

The New York Times covers the history of two Rankin/Bass puppets of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus. Crafted from wood, felted wool and wire, the figures were created…

…program. The DVD will consist of the half-hour episodes that air on G4 Network and will feature the following bonus material: Storyboards Commentary A look behind the scenes And a…

…Broadway event. Speaking of the Mermaid musical, Jim Hill offers his thoughts on its “out-of-town try-out” in the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts….

The Hollywood Reporter reports that French video game publisher Ubisoft is hoping for success in the computer animation business. The company plans to spend nearly $400 million for the expansion…

Van Eaton Galleries, the “full service animation art gallery, and resource center for the animation art collector and enthusiast,” is featuring original art from many works of animation, from many…

At Animated Views, Ben Simon examines the Special Edition DVD for Sony Pictures Animation’s Open Season. “Overall this is a schizophrenic movie that has an ill-advised smattering of truly outrageous…

…on display from the ASIFA-Hollywood Archive, including part of the set from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, the stop motion model from the animated short Africa Parting and a…