…holiday 2006 to summer 2007. Jobs said the studio is not currently in the discussions with Disney about extend their currrent distribution contract, and said Pixar is getting know some…

Shaping up much better than the 66-minute length DTVs that Disney usually puts out (which helpfully add up, with commercials, for a snug 90-minute later TV showing), the studio’s Mulan…

\\{{link http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,,1348509,00.html The Guardian}}\\ has a feature article titled \\How Pixar Conquered the Planet\\ that looks behind the scenes of “the most successful studio in the history of cinema”….

…sets, and “signed” by Roy Disney. This is understandable given his own resignation from the company and his subsequent relationship with the Studio, but surely a similar, non-signed replacement would…

…was a producer on \\The Simpsons\\, \\The Critic\\, and \\King of the Hill\\. He was the founder of the independent animation studio Film Roman. A trailer for \\Grandma Got Run…

…up at the company’s DTV arm, DisneyToon Studios, and animated by The Answer Studio (made up of former Walt Disney Animation staffers) in Japan. The animation doesn’t quite reach the…

…more time in its negotiations for a new distribution partner. Pixar “has said that it wants a new agreement in place with a studio 18 months ahead of its first…

Valiant, the UK-based Vanguard Animation feature that the Disney Studio sees as the first in a new CGI partnership with the company (and whose {{link http://www.animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/archives/00002763.html teaser trailer}} we recently…

{{link http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117914431&cs=1 Variety reports}} that Fantastic Films International has picked up distribution of the computer animated feature Thru The Moebius Strip, produced at Hong Kong animation studio GDC Entertainment, and…

With all the switcheroos in release date changes hopping around the studios at the moment, it’s perhaps no surprise to find that Disney will plug their Chicken Little-missing summer slots…

The Hollywood Reporter speaks of the past, present, and future of Walt Disney Television Animation, noting the studio’s current trend of more creator-driven projects….

Jerry Bruckheimer tells MTV that Geoffrey Rush has yet to sign on for a third Pirates of the Caribbean film- if the studio signs on for a third film, that…

Before you pitch that next big movie idea to a studio or star, you may want to check out Animation World Magazine‘s helpful guide, “The Pitch Bible”….

…Human Story 11 – Animation Mentor 12 – Maya 6, Alias 13 – \\Warhammer 40,000\\ Opening Cinematics, Blur Studio 14 – \\Spider-Man 2\\ VFX 15 – Mental Ray 3.3, mental…

…by Johnny Depp himself, to the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Walt Disney World. In addition, the studio is considering holding the premiere for Pirates of the Caribbean 2…

…is not clear when these films will become available again, but it has been confirmed that the Studio will wait until Blu-Ray (Disney’s choice of high-definition disc format) has significant…

Animated News’ Christian Ziebarth attended a special preview screening last Saturday of Mulan II in the Frank G. Wells Screening Room on the The Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank,…

Blur Studio’s home page has a teaser for their Oscar nominated short Gopher Broke (Jeff Fowler, director; Tim Miller, executive producer). The short features a hungry gopher that tries to…

In a story at Yahoo! Movies that discusses the new Glendale, California-based studio Disney is preparing primarily for the sequels to Pixar’s films, Disney Chairman Dick Cook revealed that Toy…

…movie, the site responds, “We’re currently working with a studio on a new film. If we can come to an agreement on the script and they can find a distributor…

…veteran animator Glen Keane, director of the studio’s forthcoming film \\Rapunzel Unbraided\\”. Later that week during a conference call with analysts Jobs responded sarcastically, “Our films don’t stack up to…

…in L.A. in January 2003. The principal production was then shifted to Ealing Studios, West London, where Vanguard established Europe’s first purpose-built, digital CG production studio. Maya modeling, animation and…

Canada’s Metro News profiles the creation of one of this year’s Oscar-nominated animated shorts, Ryan. “The project began when director Chris Landreth, lacking studio and crew, stumbled upon Seneca to…

Check out Electric Tiki’s new statue of Popeye based on the Fleischer Studio’s design of everyone’s favorite spinach chewing sailor man. Thanks to GeorgeC for pointing this out in our…

…John Lasseter, Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs for making the greatest studio on the face of the earth”, adding praise for “producer John Walker, and Dick Cook, and the great Disney…

…and mass-audience pleasing narrative structure, it can be argued that it was the last of the truly Golden Age feature films to emerge from the Disney Studio. Though this 2-disc…

Variety [paid registration required], via Coming Soon, reports that Vin Diesel’s One Race Films production company is collaborating with Blur Studio on a CGI feature based on the independent animation…

…has now warmed up to the idea of allowing a CGI-adaptation Horton Hears A Who to be produced by Fox’s Blue Sky studio, according to The Hollywood Reporter (original link…

…A&E, The History Channel, Lifetime, ESPN and ESPN-related businesses. He began his career at ABC in 1974 as a studio supervisor in New York, then moved to ABC Sports, where…

Ultimate Disney has just posted Buena Vista’s huge new sales announcements, which shed some light on many of the studio’s upcoming DVDs expected through next autumn. Among the revelations are…