\\{{link http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-0105disney,0,1880058.story?coll=sfla-news-florida The Sun-Sentinel}}\\ reports that at this past week’s Orange Bowl college football national championship game Disney gave every member of the 72,000 member crowd a free Disney theme…

…film. The article gives a ton of information about the film, including this about the film’s genesis and an overview: “This is a very personal story,” [Lasseter] said. “It’s about…

The official website for Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, entering theaters on February 11, 2005, is now online, featuring sections for “Story,” “Characters,” “Videos,” “Cards,” “Desktops,” and “Games.”…

Song of the South.net reports the passing away January 15 of Ruth Warrick, who played Sally in Song of the South. Warrick also appeared in the movie classic Citizen Kane,…

…retells the classic story in an updated version, complete with futuristic settings (this time, Pinocchio is a robotic boy) and CGI animation. The English-language dub features the voices of Howie…

…movie tells the story of Egg Town, an idyllic village where neighboring chickens and rabbits live together in harmony. However, beyond the borders of this humble burg, lurk the mysterious…

…points for Disney’s live action hit Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl were stolen from a 1995 short film of his. Many of the plot points…

…Lincoln in the late 1800s—and decided to tell the ‘real’ story of the history that we read in books, like what would be between the pages of the history books.’”…

Over at Jim Hill Media, Veteran Disney animator Floyd Norman recounts working on his Brer Rabbit Christmas Story and offers his opinion on the oft-rumored Song of the South DVD….

…http://pixaranimation.blogspot.com/ Luxo}} report of a \\Variety\\ story. While at Lucasfilm Digital, Morris “oversaw effects and sound divisions of Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound. Morris served as General Manager…

According to \\{{link http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-pixar11feb11,1,7547317.story The L.A. Times}}\\, Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs have been publicly sparring with each other this week. When asked about Disney’s computer…

The Big Cartoon DataBase reports that a new lawsuit has been filed against Disney/Pixar claiming that the story of Finding Nemo was stolen from an idea presented to them by…

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…

…out some of the “thank-yous” and other big wins here: Best Animated Feature: The Incredibles Accepting the award, director Brad Bird thanked the “holy trinity of Pixar: my good friend,…

With nothing but good words for Disney’s {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/384 Bambi: Platinum Edition}} – out in stores today – DVD Toons says that the film really does “deserve the accolade of…

Apparently ads for Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 3 are starting to air on Cartoon Network. Read a description at TheForce.net and a related story….

On the online auction block now at eBay is a Disney book from 1973 entitled Brer Rabbit and His Friends. Only difference between this and the original story is that…

Jim Hill Media has a touching tribute for the talented artist Vance Gerry, who did layout, story, concept and/or consulting work on projects ranging from 101 Dalmatians, The Jungle Book,…

…a look at a recent entry in the new Miyazaki wave, {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/386 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind}}, commenting that the film is “a heck of a ride….

Just received some late-breaking news that two members of the crew for The Incredibles, Mark Andrews, story supervisor, and Michael Giacchino, music supervisor, will be signing copies of the DVD…

Follow the ‘More’ link to view five images from yesterday’s Incredibles DVD signing held at the Hollywood Virgin Megastore. Apparently writer/director Brad Bird was there (in addition to story supervisor…

JoBlo has the scoop that Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond, Finding Nemo) will play a chef in Pixar’s next film after Cars, Ratatouille, which tells the story of rodents living…

…the animated King Kong tv series on DVD this November. The 4-disc set collects the 1966 TV series by Rankin-Bass and will retail for $39.95. TVShowsOnDVD.com has the full story….

…tale long before there was a character named Jack Sparrow in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Perhaps the Pirates of the Caribbean writers were inspired by the earlier story….

…which we are envious of.” Katzenberg declined to comment on Bob Iger’s replacing Michael Eisner as the new head of Walt Disney Company. Yahoo! Movies has more on the story….

…animation company Vinton Studios according to a \\Variety\\ story reported by {{link http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8751 ComingSoon.net}}. In part one of an interview with \\{{link http://www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=3757 Animation Magazine}}\\ [paid subscription required], Selick talks…

…“despite a voice cast of big-name British stars including Ewan McGregor, Ricky Gervais and John Cleese, the movie almost certainly will head south for the summer” and that even though…

…Tale tells the story of Rover (Astin), a cat who is accidentally raised in Dogtown before returning to Catopolis to “find his roots”. Cuthbert provides the voice of Cleo, Rover’s…

…producing direct to dvd sequels. Of course the subject of Bambi 2 came up. It seems that Disney really wants to do a great job with this sequel. They want…

AWN covers the story of DIC Entertainment and Mainframe Entertainment’s announcement that the world premiere of Inspector Gadget’s Biggest Caper Ever: The Case of the Flying Lizard will be at…