British illustrator Roger Dean is working on an animated feature based on his Yes album covers. Floating Islands is the story is of a boy Loki, growing up, his imagination…

Mickey News reports that Disney is planning a CGI-animated prequel to Peter Pan. The story will be based on Peter and the Starcatchers by well-known humor columnist Dave Barry and…

Heard of Darth Tater? Well, here’s Darth Mickey….

…Moon is planning to produce four theatrical features: The Dino Bugs Movie, The Gina D & The Transistor Sisters Movie, The Mr. Bicycle Man Movie, and The Bobo Blocks Movie….

The Walt Disney Company, India, has acquired the television rights to the animated blockbuster Hanuman. Interestingly, the film will be shown as an eight-episode miniseries on Disney Channel, says India…

TheForce.net reports that in an interview with Swedish magazine Homevision, Lucasfilm marketing director Jim Ward revealed George Lucas is thinking about making an animated Star Wars feature film, in addition…

Creating a new cartoon and basing it on a popular toy has almost always been a safe bet. But {{link http://www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=1807 Animation Magazine}} has a report that may be taking…

…The Movie – 11.15am, BBC1 The Magic Pudding – 1.40pm, BBC1 Cabin Boy (producer: Tim Burton, 1994) – 12.40am, ITV1 December 24 A Goofy Movie – 1.50am, BBC1 The Santa…

Dark Horizons reports, “The duos next animated feature apparently follows lab animals that are tested for nicotine-addictions and are freed by animal-rights activists. The animals run amock in Manhattan and…

No silly, it’s Pixar’s latest Oscar worthy short directed by Industry vet Bud Luckey. VFXworld has a great article with some amazing images and detailed information about the production. Go…

…of all new material, each of the five principal songs from the first movie, and several songs “borrowed” from pop music, classical music, Broadway, and other movie soundtracks. Follow the…

{{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9786 AWN}} has more on the upcoming computer-animated feature film project with comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The DreamWorks film is “set in the anthropomorphized world of bees… a Manhattan-like setting…

The Disney Company, who until now have enjoyed an un-official online relationship with Apple to distribute clips and trailers for their movies, willl move over to Microsoft later this year,…

Kahani World, Inc., an independent animation company located in Toronto, Canada, and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Comics, LLC, are pairing on the co-production of Secrets of the Seven Sounds. Geared…

…for this wonderful franchise and for our Disney Video Premiere movies in general.” The previous owner of the “best-selling direct-to-video release” title was The Lion King 1½‘s predecessor, The Lion…

{{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040302c.php Dark Horizons}} has some post-Oscar bash talk, which covers everything from what the Lord Of The Rings guys are up to next, to talk of the Police Academy…

The New York Times breaks down the long journy from the book scene to the big screen that Maurice Sendak’s classic Where the Wild Things Are has endured. Mentioned in…

o-meon has updated with a report on the sometimes elaborate premieres for Disney movies. Special focus is given to the pending premieres for Cars and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead…

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…And on TV, where I saw it today in all its NTSC glory. Style is similar to the Stuart Little and Scooby CG characters. Well, I can’t blame Garfield for…

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…a little snippet of the song that was supposed to be sung by Mufasa. They said the idea for using the song in the movie was dropped when everyone realized…

{{link http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808451614 Greg’s Previews}} has a few tidbits on the upcoming \\Teacher’s Pet\\ movie. First of all, the title has been changed from \\Teacher’s Pet: The Movie\\ to just \\Teacher’s…

Over at {{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news.php Dark Horizons}} the site seems to have a ton of updates on animation-related projects. It seems that DreamWorks is looking to {{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040527g.php remake Forbidden Planet}}…

A Windows Media version of the trailer is now available at Dark Horizons….

Numerous covers for some of next year’s most anticipated animated films are now appearing at Amazon.com. For Shrek the Third, two titles in the mix are Mad Libs plus Storybook…

…The movie behind Disney’s next big DVD release has been seen as somewhat of an underdog when compared to Pirates of the Caribbean, which is on a grander and more…