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Nightmare "Create Your Own Character" contest

…fit within the world of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Prizes include a one-sheet signed by the filmmakers, a 6-foot tall Jack Skellington theater standee, a 2-Disc Special Edition soundtrack and…

Is there Room On The Broom for the Best Animated Short Oscar?

…big part of that,” says Lang. “It was an obvious choice to work with him again, because his music is so great.” Broom premiered on BBC last Christmas, to glowing…

RIP, Steve 'The Crocodile Hunter' Irwin

…of numerous lighthearted spoofs, coming from The Simpsons, South Park, It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002) and Looney Tunes: Reality Check (2003). In 2002, Irwin leaped to the…

Director Jimmy Hayward talks turkey about Free Birds

…attraction Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem to the TV special Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas. But in 2010, Reel FX decided to develop its own animated features. Budgeted at roughly $35…

Candlewick Press releases Moongirl DVD gift set

…animated films The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, also wrote the book, with illustrations by Peter Chan and colorist Courtney Booker. Chan and Booker also worked…

Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2

…director of Cloudy 2, has previous credits including Arthur Christmas, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and Surf’s Up. Prior to joining Imageworks, Nash worked for Blue Sky Studios on…

New Walking With Dinosaurs trailer

…them, several international “character posters” for the film made their way online last week and can be seen at the IMP Awards. Walking With Dinosaurs walks into theaters this Christmas….

New posters for Free Birds, Walking With Dinosaurs revealed

…Walking With Dinosaurs, which rather than featuring imagery from the movie appears to be painted instead. Free Birds opens on November 1st, while Walking With Dinosaurs comes out this Christmas….

The Minions are coming in the summer of 2015

Originally slated for a Christmas 2014 release, Universal’s Minions is now going to scramble into theaters during the increasingly busy-looking summer 2015 movie season. Box Office Mojo is reporting that…

Director Stephan Franck tells The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow

…2D Smurfs at this quality level. AV: Sony’s first Smurfs short retold Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Now we have a Smurf version of Washington Irving’s classic The Legend of Sleepy…

The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition

…also offered. In addition, subtitles in a choice of languages can also be selected. Final Cut: Opening on Christmas Day 1963, The Sword In The Stone may not rate as…

Free Birds creators explain why Reel FX’s first theatrical feature is no turkey

…shop for other studios and companies, offering animation and visual effects. Reel FX provided significant animation for both direct-to-video Open Season sequels, TV special Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas, theme…

Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection

…started to replace the older home video disc format, with then-recent titles such as The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Lion King, Toy Story, Pocahontas and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame…

Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie

…Enchanted Christmas, The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, and The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea. As those films flew off store shelves, creator DisneyToon Studios began producing 2…

The Smurfs 2

…the A Christmas Carol mini-movie shown with the first Smurfs Blu-ray. Five Deleted Scenes (3:52) focus mainly on Gargamel’s narcissism and cruelty, with a tiny scene extension of the Smurfs…

New Walking With Dinosaurs trailer

…look to many eyes like Dinosaur 2, the movie is actually based on the BBC miniseries of the same name. It is set to open in theaters everywhere this Christmas….

Wart, Robin, Oliver and more Pan come to Disney Blu-ray

…Matthews (The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea, Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas) Release Date: August 20, 2013 Product Packaging: US: DVD + Digital Copy; Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray…

Walking With Dinosaurs gets a first trailer

…follows “two brothers looking to follow in their fathers footsteps, which leads to a showdown with dinosaurs in the arctic north.” The movie comes to theaters in 3-D this Christmas….

Actor/comedian Jonathan Winters dead at 87

…Miramax cut of Richard Williams’ The Thief and the Cobbler. Winters can be heard every Christmas season as the Narrator in Frosty Returns. But for many animation fans, it is…

Disney Infinity opens “Toy Box” trailer

…Carl Fredricksen’s house flying past the iconic hilltop of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Disney Infinity will be available August 18, for the Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo…

Saving Mr. Banks gets PG-13 rating

…letting him adapt her Mary Poppins stories into a feature film. Starring Emma Thompson as Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt himself, the film comes to theaters everywhere this Christmas….

Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition

…a masterpiece of styling, performance and character movement. Mike’s little green man approach perfectly compliments Crystal’s manic twenty-words-a-second delivery, and the whole Randall design (a very Tim Burton-Nightmare Before Christmas

Interview with Disney producer Don Hahn

…by One. The conversation covers topics like the Disney Digital 3-D release of The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Little Matchgirl, a 2-disc DVD for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the…

Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues

…first four programs of Season Three, which perhaps points to a fifteen-episode final volume to include the final three specials (It’s A Wonderful Tiny Toon Christmas Special from 1992, 1994’s…

Burton recalls Nightmare

USA Today and Tim Burton discuss the re-release of the cult classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. In the conversation, Burton relays his thoughts about the success and marketing of the…

Get ready to visit Night at the Museum again in a third film

…Battle of the Smithsonian, opened over Memorial Day weekend in 2009, the third film will come out during the holiday season like the 2006 original, opening on Christmas Day, 2014….

40th Annual Annie Award winners revealed

…SpongeBob Christmas! — Nickelodeon Animation Studios Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Feature Production Travis Knight ParaNorman — LAIKA/Focus Features Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Live Action Production Erik…

From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting

…indie film A Fare to Remember, in which a high-powered business executive enlists a cabbie to drive her from Seattle to Los Angeles over Christmas. Malcolm-Jamal Warner in A Fare…

Holiday box office numbers: Is Walking With Dinosaurs already extinct?

Christmas started early at the box office this weekend, and movies performed more or less as they were expected to. Saving Mr. Banks got off to a decent start with…

Mr. Burns, Cosmo Spacely among TV's worst bosses

CNN Money posts the results of a poll conducted by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, dealing with the eight worst bossses on TV. The list includes The Simpsons’ Mr….