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Justice League Action – Superpowers Unite: Season One, Part One
…likewise was thrilled with the adventures of the World’s Greatest Superheroes. However, television network people apparently thought that smaller kids needed a show they could enjoy too, telling simple stories… |
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First How To Train Your Dragon TV Series Trailers
…are moving to Cartoon Network. Don’t go flying with your dragon just yet, as the series isn’t set to launch until this fall (their article says 2014, but that’s the… |
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Dora the Explorer finds an end to her lawsuit
Caitlin Sanchez, the former voice of the popular children’s program Dora the Explorer recently ended her multimillion dollar lawsuit against Nickelodeon. She sued the cable network for lack of compensation… |
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Sherlock: Season One
…in the UK, and the Sunday night timeslot in the middle of summer didn’t exactly display great faith in the program from the network. But with a surprising 30% audience… |
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Disney buys most of Fox
…39% of the European pay-TV operator Sky; FX and National Geographic Partnersn Fox’s regional sports networks; $13.7 billion of Fox’s debt. Not included are the Fox broadcast network, Fox News,… |
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Arrietty Drops Down to 14
…It remains the fifth largest US opening of an anime film and according to Anime News Network it is only $400,000 shy of beating Pokemon 3-The Movie. So far Arriety… |
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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies gets a poster, trailer tease
…to the first-ever big-screen version of DC Entertainment and Cartoon Network’s animated TV show, which also stars Greg Cipes (TV’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”) as Beast Boy, Scott Menville (TV’s… |
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Disney Advertises With Anime
Anime News Network reports that Disney has turned to anime for their latest advertisment. A 30 second commercial for Tokyo Disney’s “Where Dreams Come True” campaign aired earlier this month…. |
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Green Lantern revealed
TV Guide has an exclusive first look at Green Lantern: The Animated Series. The Warner Bros. Animation series, coming to Cartoon Network in 2011, is being previewed this weekend at… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition
…two title characters (and the fun banter/interplay between two of the character animators), and a further two Disney cartoons: The China Shop and Music Land, as well as an excerpt… |
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Ghibli to release Anne of Green Gables compilation film
Anime News Network reports that Anne of Green Gables, a compilation film of Nippon Animation and Isao Takahata’s classic anime series, will open in Japan on July 17. The animated… |
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Vanguard producer's Happily N'Ever After taps German talent
{{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9423 Animation World Network}} has reported that Shrek producer John H Williams, who has a four picture CG deal set up with Disney in the US under his Vanguard… |
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Dinosaurs: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…satire on our times, as reflected by characters that had ostensibly lived millions of years ago. The show hence worked on the same two levels noted in the best cartoons—… |
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ABC to air classic and new \\Charlie Brown\\ specials
The ABC television network will once again air the holiday classic \\A Charlie Brown Christmas\\ tonight at 8pm ET. Created by the popular Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in 1965,… |
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\\Drawn Together\\ housemates together for another season
{{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=cat&category1=Television&newsitem_no=12411 Animation World Network}} reports that after only three episodes aired Comedy Central has already ordered a second season of \\Drawn Together\\. The show, hyped as “television’s first animated… |
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Vote for the 100 Greatest Cartoons
The UK’s Channel 4 wants viewers to vote for the 100 Greatest Cartoons of all time. The network later show a 4-hour marathon broadcast showcasing clips from the winners and… |
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AFI to name 100 greatest movie quotes
…three-hour television event on the CBS Television Network in June 2005”. AFI’s Director and CEO Jean Picker Firstenberg said, “Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary. When you… |
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The Emperor's New Groove TV series coming to Disney Channel
Disney Channel has given the go-ahead to a cartoon series based on the 2000 theatrical release The Emperor’s New Groove. The kids’ cable network has ordered 21 episodes of Emperor’s… |
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Frank Thomas remembered
Animation World Network has an exclusive new article collecting remembrances of animation great Frank Thomas from many of today’s heavyweights in the animation industry, including John Canemaker, John Lasseter, Leonard… |
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Upcoming CBS animated specials
A holiday tradition continues this week when the CBS television network begins airing its holiday animated specials. First up is the 40th anniversary broadcast of \\Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer\\ on… |
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Clone Wars DVD release date announced
…1 and 2 of the Clone Wars animated micro-series will be released to DVD on March 22, 2005, which is one day after season 3 first airs on Cartoon Network…. |
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Animated News’ PICKS OF THE YEAR 2004
…been picked up by Cartoon Network for (standard definition) broadcast in mid-2005. Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Special Edition CD Soundtrack In all the deserved hoopla around the recent DVD release… |
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Website helps creative talent stay connected
{{link http://www.creativetalentnetwork.com/ The Creative Talent Network}}, a virtual community of industry animators, designers, production artists and others, is online as a resource for people who want to “come together to… |
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Video Effects Society award nominations announced
…“Storm Front Part 2” Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial British Telecom: Network Citroen ‘Alive With Technology’ Johnnie Walker ‘Tree’ Outstanding Visual Effects in a Music Video Britney Spears “Toxic”… |
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Sarah Jessica Parker to lend her voice in Shrek 3
World Entertainment News Network, via Coming Soon, reports that Sarah Jessica Parker has been added to the cast of Shrek 3, expected to hit theaters in May 2007. An official… |
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Beyoncé's Oscars duet
…Josh Groban on the Oscar-nominated song ‘Believe’ from the animated film The Polar Express.” The Oscars are scheduled to air Sunday, February 27th at 8 Eastern, on the ABC network…. |
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Interview: Pet Alien's Schlatter, Milo, and producer Bill Schultz
…learn more about it. Pet Alien airs Sundays at 10:00 and 3:30PM and Saturdays at 1:30PM, on Cartoon Network. Thanks to Aaron B. at the Animated-News Forum for the notice…. |
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Love Stinks!: Pepé Le Pew Marathon on Boomerang
For those in the mood today for some amorous animation Animation World Magazine has all the info on a 24-hour Pepé Le Pew marathon showing on Cartoon Network’s Boomerang channel…. |
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Post posts commentary on "reimagined" Looney Tunes, "Loonatics"
The New York Post comments on the “reimagined” Looney Tunes, the “Loonatics”, coming to Kids’ WB and Cartoon Network this fall. Loonatics includes new versions of Bugs Bunny (now referred… |
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Clone Wars ads starting up
Apparently ads for Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 3 are starting to air on Cartoon Network. Read a description at TheForce.net and a related story…. |