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Disney New Release Tuesday: The Little Mermaid (Grab Bag #2)
…art from 1940. The pictures shown here barely scratch “break” the surface of all the contents made available on this eighth release in the prestigious line of The Walt Disney… |
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The Little Mermaid grab bag #3: Two press releases
…The campaign, which prominently features scenes and characters from Disney’s ocean-themed animated classic, The Little Mermaid, marks the first time that the three environmental organizations have partnered on the important… |
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Good Wilt Hunting comes Home for Thanksgiving
…out on a road trip to find him. Hindered by Bloo’s far-out theories and Wilt’s overly good nature, the chase takes many unexpected twists and turns and all the while… |
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Flushed Away new media
…strangest thing you’ve ever flushed down the toilet? The stars and directors of Flushed Away share the items they’ve lost to the sewer in a bundle of soundbites, available to… |
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Christmas specials scheduled for Cartoon Network
…– When the Rustbucket’s a/c goes on the fritz in the middle of the desert, Ben, Max and Gwen take refuge at Holiday Village, an over-the-top Christmas theme park that… |
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The Beatrix Potter Collection
…television in the 1980s, but the Americanisation of the voices didn’t match the very British nature of the setting. These versions are much more authentic, “based on the original and… |
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Peter Pan panel reports and photos
Ultimate Disney and Mice Age have both reported on last Thursday’s panel discussion held at Disney’s own El Capitan Theatre before a screening of the digitally restored Peter Pan. Read… |
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Cars wins Grammy Award
Randy Newman picked up the 2007 Grammy Award for “Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media” for Our Town from Cars. The film’s album lost the… |
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Care Bears Movie: 25th Anniversary Edition coming soon
…the lost Care Bears television series episode “Professor Cold Heart and the Freeze Machine,” as well as a sneak preview of the upcoming CGI feature Care Bears: Oopsy Does It…. |
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Happy Feet dances to Oscar gold
On a night where Hollywood touted and awarded environmental awareness, Warner Brothers’ Happy Feet fit the theme better than Pixar’s gas-guzzling Cars to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature…. |
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Horton Hears a Who!
…leap to 3D very well, but Horton and the Who’s do. The animators have done a wonderful job of getting the iconic style of the book into the film —… |
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Director Anderson, producer McKim talk Robinsons
…– the one from Lost in Space. In addition, producer Dorothy McKim explains to the site why Robinsons could very well be “the biggest 3-D release ever in movie history.”… |
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New Pooh Christmas tale coming to DVD
…Pooh and his pals, including a six-year-old girl named Darby, must return Santa’s magic sack and a lost reindeer to the North Pole. Extras for the DVD feature a bonus… |
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The Animated Seuss
…Tunes of the time, the Snafu films had racial caricatures of Japanese and Germans, in keeping with the wartime desire to dehumanize the enemy. The idea of the Snafu shorts… |
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Sabrina, The Animated Series: Witch In Training
…is wearing them, and because they think that Harvey likes how skinny girls look. The girls use the family “Spooky Jar” genie to help them. He gives them the means… |
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TV to DVD: Davey and Goliath, Sonic the Hedgehog
…details have arrived on the DVD extras for The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog, coming July 17. In addition to the series’ first 22 episodes, the 4-disc package will feature… |
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RIP, Erica Cassetti
…Disney, working on such films as The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Hercules, Tarzan and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Eventually, she left Disney to work on DreamWorks’ Sinbad: Legend Of The… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
…the children theme, the heroic theme, the family theme and Aslan’s theme. These themes didn’t seem to want to change. They wanted to be the same themes as we’d had… |
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Rodriguez to meet The Jetsons?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Robert Rodriguez might direct a live-action adaptation of The Jetsons. Although Rodriguez could instead helm the big screen version of Land of the Lost, sources… |
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Robosapien to start shooting in November
…He steals one of his creations, a robot boy named Toby, who, by a series of accidents, gets lost and broken, and then found and fixed by the lonely 11-year-old… |
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Bravestarr comes to two-disc DVD from BCI
…one of the toughest lawmen in the universe, Bravestarr comes to the planet of New Texas to face the good, the bad, and the weird. Aiding him in keeping the… |
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Animated News & Views does Comic-Con 2008!
…to witness the biggest geek get together on Planet Showbiz! And when we’re done and exhausted having trekked miles to catch the most important (to us!) panels and snag the… |
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South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season
…spirit of the show itself, from the electronic score and the “hand held” camera work, to well-worn lines of dialog, the split-screen technique, ticking clock and even the right phone… |
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Bravestarr: Volume Two
…continuity, and though there was lots of characterization there was little real character development. I tend to skip around these sets and watch whatever interests me at the time, and… |
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TV on DVD: Looney Tunes, Funhouse, Bullwinkle, Titans, Batman, Kappa Mikey
TV Shows on DVD has the latest information on the fifth installments in the Looney Tunes Golden and Spotlight collections. Likewise, the site shares the press release for Comedy Central’s… |
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Paddington enters the real world
…they find him lost at Paddington Station. Heyman commented, “Paddington is a universally loved character, and I have wanted to bring him to screen for some years. Michael Bond’s books… |
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The Reluctant Dragon: Disney Exclusive Edition
…and the next two in the pipeline (Dumbo and Bambi), keeping a Disney production in the theaters. Although The Reluctant Dragon is a hybrid film made up of live-action and… |
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Cauldron book made into "not-so-good" movie?
A.V. Club presents the countdown “Lost In Translation: 20 Good Books Made Into Not-So-Good Movies.” Animation is represented in the list by Disney’s The Black Cauldron, with the article referring… |
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Speed Racer: Widescreen Edition
…but not offend long-time followers either. The Sweatbox Review: If the Wachowski Brothers (Andy and Larry) took us into the blackest of the dark for The Matrix then Speed Racer… |
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Shrek the Musical World Premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre
…musical theater. In 1980, the non-profit 5th Avenue Theatre began producing and presenting top-quality live musical theater for the cultural enrichment of the Northwest community. The 5th Avenue Theatre maintains… |
