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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…of the crop in terms of animation releases has to be the Disney trio of Sleeping Beauty, The Nightmare Before Christmas and WALL-E. You’ll find those titles – and a… |
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Three Warner animated classics coming to Blu-ray
…A Charlie Brown Christmas will include a bonus Peanuts TV special, It’s Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown, and a featurette. Cover art can be seen here, courtesy of TV Shows… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
As part of ABC Family’s annual 25 Days Of Christmas programming, the network is set to host Walt Disney Pictures Presents Pixar Short Films, a collection of 20 of the… |
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What’s New Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season
…appeared on the first DVD season set of this series. Is This Thing Loaded? The most substantial extra on this set is the 2002 Christmas special A Scooby-Doo Christmas. It’s… |
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Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!
…on the right. Promising “fun and interactive holiday-themed bonus material to get the whole family celebrating, including a sing-along version of The Twelve Days Of Christmas starring the entire gang… |
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ParaNorman
…remain known best for their Christmas programs, but check out some of their other work and it’s not always all snow and jingle bells, and remember they made the original… |
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Santa Inc.
Candy Smalls is a feisty Christmas Elf who has risen up the ranks of Santa’s workshop to become his number two helper. With the current Santa approaching retirement, it’s time… |
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Henry Selick speaks about Moongirl and more
Henry Selick, famed stop-motion director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk with Animated News about… |
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Lists offer Holiday fun for "inner Scrooge"
Entertainment Weekly humorously presents two lists that Santa is more likely to ignore rather than check twice. In “Christmas with the Cranks,” ten Christmas movies with an edge are presented,… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…the D23 show. I was very happy to finally make a purchase of his uniquely engaging From All Of Us To All Of You: The Disney Christmas Card book, as… |
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The Grinch
Believe it or not, we’re just a few days away from Christmas! If you have a family tradition of going to the movies this week, you have several good options… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
…Empire Strikes Out’ — Threshold Animation Studios Penguins of Madagascar ‘Action Reaction’ — Nickelodeon Animation Studios SpongeBob SquarePants ‘It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!’ — Nickelodeon Animation Studios The Amazing World of… |
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The Animated Seuss
…special Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol. The Television Specials Dr. Seuss forever was immortalized on celluloid when his 1957 book How The Grinch Stole Christmas was adapted by Chuck Jones for… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…A second Oscar nomination came their way with The Night Before Christmas, a classic that still gets a lot of airings today, from the December of 1941. The film begins… |
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Stop-motion Holidaze coming in mid-November
…city to find his role in Christmas. He eventually discovers his role, but in the most unexpected of places—a church basement housing an anonymous support group for Holiday Icons.” Christmas… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…and impressive locations. Like Arthur Christmas before it, Sony’s disc didn’t plunder the depths of the production but the presentation was superb. Support Animated Views and buy The Pirates! from… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
…there, too. So, I started quite early, around about Christmas last year. Just after Christmas, I left the States with all my gear, my studio, I set up and about… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #53: Charlie Brown Holiday Specials – 1/2 Star for Nostalgia
…Charlie Brown Christmas. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV3813010135.mp3 Highlights • Guest host: Alissa Roy! Getting to know her and “Catch & Fire!” • Vote for the show in the Podcast Awards. • News: 500… |
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The Rise of Skywalker rises to $175 million
…Jedi–let’s take into account that Disney made the rather curious decision to release Skywalker only five days before Christmas. This meant that many people were busy getting ready for the… |
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ABC to air classic and new \\Charlie Brown\\ specials
…the hour long special will also include a series of Christmas-themed animated stories entitled \\Charlie Brown Christmas\\ Tales, based on Schulz’s work, in which several of the characters – Charlie… |
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Shrek the Halls premieres tonight
…Shrek Goes Fourth, Shrek the Halls tells the tale of one year’s Christmas in a swamp not too far away from the land of Far Far Away with Donkey excited… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…the Studio to produce high-profile digital or 3D movies – the most obvious example being Robert Zemeckis, who strangely never got the Burton-level contractual credit on A Christmas Carol. In… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…of Halloweens ago, following Disney’s own move into featurette-style specials with the Christmas-themed Prep & Landing. While not precisely themed to the holiday itself, it was still a slightly spooky… |
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Nightmare at El Capitan Theatre
…Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Also playing with Nightmare will be two Tim Burton shorts, Vincent and Frankenweenie. Meanwhile, exclusive limited edition collectible Nightmare Before Christmas buttons will be provided… |
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The UK's 100 Greatest Cartoons!
…(1978) 85 = Droopy Dog (1943-55) 84 = Roobarb (1974) 83 = Dumbo (1941) 82 = How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) 81 = Babaar (1989-91) 80 = Yogi Bear… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…for Beauty And The Beast (in the form of an Enchanted Christmas mid-quel) and The Lion King (Simba’s Pride, which showed great promise), the unit that would eventually become known… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…the first week of December. Because of the money we will be spending on this trip, I’ve warned our kids that Christmas will be a little lighter on presents this… |
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The Venture Bros.: Season One
…homages to Christmas specials and movies gives way to the story of a fiendish plan by The Monarch to destroy the Ventures on Christmas morning. After that, there are about… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…. . . the first one was the Christmas show, of course. And then he did more, and then he got really into it. AN: The Christmas show, is that… |
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The Grinch steals $66 million
…Panther, mind you, but it could certainly show some sturdy legs as Christmas draws nearer. Christmas, however, probably won’t be enough to save Disney’s The Nutcracker & the Four Realms,… |