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'Finding Mick-o' in 2012
The Big Cartoon Database notes that the now rumored release date for The Search for Mickey Mouse is in 2012…. |
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Fantasia 2006 Is a Music Project?
Also noted by The Big Cartoon Database is that Fantasia 2006 may be more simply titled The Music Project…. |
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Real Life Imitating The Simpsons
The forum at the Big Cartoon DataBase has a new report on an Oregonian scientist who has bred his very own ToMacco plant (a blend of tomato and tobacco), inspired… |
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Another online comic strip!
Derrick Fish, the creator and artist of an online comic strip called {{link http://www.dandyandcompany.com/ Dandy & Company}}, a cartoon about the trials and tribulations of a dog and his boy,… |
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Press Release For Delayed Treasures DVDs
Animation historian Jerry Beck comments on the delay of this year’s wave of the Walt Disney Treasures DVDs on his Cartoon Research news page: “Originally scheduled for release on December… |
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SaveDisney Movement Plans Investor Meeting Pre-Meeting
The Big Cartoon DataBase reports on an alternative Disney investor meeting set up by Walt Disney Company dissidents Roy Disney and Stanley Gold. This meeting will be held in Philadelphia… |
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Disney gives Disney the boot
…with other individual investors, attend a two-day meeting for institutional investors and analysts planned to begin Wednesday in Orlando, Florida.” Go to The Big Cartoon DataBase for the full report…. |
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Tigger clears his name and goes back to work
The {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=31357 Big Cartoon DataBase}} reports that “Michael Chartrand, the Walt Disney World employee charged with fondling a 13-year-old girl while dressed as Tigger, was acquitted last week and… |
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More Jetson speculation
In an interview with IGN Filmforce, Catwoman producer Denise Di Novi stated that her next project may be the live-action adaptation of the cartoon classic The Jetsons. Director Adam Shankman… |
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Crunch Toons discontinued
The difference between {{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ Cartoon Brew}} and “other animation news websites” is that, instead of reporting the news of Shrek 2‘s box office achievements or the award winning films… |
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Ben Stiller on the look of Madagascar; Serkis for Kong
…like a 2D slip-‘n’-slide in which the animals are a little more cartoon-like”, he says. The website also {{link http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-film.html?2004-06/11/11.00.film confirms reports}} that Andy Serkis, who brought Gollum to life… |
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More Krypto!
…Luthor are set to make appearances in the first season of Krypto The Superdog, which will debut on Cartoon Network in the US on April 1st 2005, and consist of… |
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Lots in the Brew today!
If you haven’t made a trip over to Jerry and Amid’s {{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ Cartoon Brew}} recently, you’ve been missing out on some fantastic stuff! A couple of reports from the… |
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Get set for Krypto
Toon Zone links to new images from the WB’s upcoming kids animation series based around Superman’s amazing canine, {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=113309 Krypto The Superdog}}, coming to Cartoon Network for spring 2005…. |
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The Sweatbox – Disney's Smoking Gun No One Will Ever See
…is about the making of the film The Emperor’s New Groove and its transformation from a serious cartoon called The Kingdom of the Sun to what came out in theaters…. |
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New Garfield: The Movie sweepstakes
At the AN Forum, ‘monkeyboy12’ points to a new Garfield: The Movie sweepstakes at Cartoon Network’s official website. One could win a trip for four to see the Garfield balloon… |
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Shrek bigger than Christ; Garfield no slouch
The {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=28466 Big Cartoon DataBase}} reports that, in its fifth week, Shrek 2 has overtaken Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ to become this year’s biggest film, also… |
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More traditional animation on the way
Following Michael Eisner’s quote on “the end of 2D animation”, {{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ Cartoon Brew}} has an amusing take on that comment, and news of a new Spanish-themed animated feature coming… |
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Eisner says "yes" to Pixar sequels
…Pixar’s Mouse House films are in development and going forward. The {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=26859 Big Cartoon DataBase}} confirms a Hollywood Reporter story that says Disney is looking to “mirror Shrek 2‘s… |
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The Art Of Robots
Over at the Cartoon Brew, Amid Amidi updates with a quick look at what is happening with the print edition of Animation Blast No. 9, as well as previewing a… |
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Paul Dini leaves Warner Bros Animation!
…that Dini says he “wants to do more writing for live-action features and comics, and is working on a hush-hush ‘Project X’ that is neither a cartoon, movie or comic… |
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Can't get enough of Lorenzo
…of a new article by animation art conservationist Ron Barbagallo and pointed out to us by Jerry Beck of Cartoon Brew. The article includes some of the same stills seen… |
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\\Wired\\ cover story on Pixar
{{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ Cartoon Brew}} notes that the June issue of \\Wired\\ Magazine (on sale now) has a “major article about Pixar and Brad Bird”. Brewmaster Jerry Beck calls it “a… |
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Disney animation insulting to the mentally ill?
{{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=26428 The Big Cartoon Database}} has the info on a study recently conducted on how mental illness is treated in Disney animated features. “The researchers discovered that almost all… |
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Game Boy Advance adds an animated extra
…console per title, with animated shows ranging from Pokemon, Spongebob Squarepants and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Fairly Odd Parents, Jimmy Neutron and compilation Cartoon Network and Nicktoons collections already… |
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Boomerang Goes to Hollywood
Animation Insider is reporting that Boomerang, Cartoon Network’s sister network dedicated to classic animation, is planning to air 24 hours of historical shorts featuring various Hollywood actors and actresses between… |
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Brian Wilson in the Twenty-fourth and a Half Century
Toon Zone reports that Beach Boy band leader Brian Wilson will get animated soon in an episode of Cartoon Network’s Duck Dodgers, starring as himself playing a spiritual advisor to… |
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Justice League Unlimited review
…up superheroics cafeteria-style, with speed and convenience. Those needing their Justice League are unlikely to be disappointed.” Justice League Unlimited premieres on Saturday, July 31, at 8:30pm on Cartoon Network…. |
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CINEME 2004 shedule
The {{link http://www.cineme.org/ CINEME International Animation Festival}}, held each year in Chicago, is gearing up for this year’s event, to be held September 24-26, 2004. Guests from Weta, Cartoon Network,… |
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More on Looney Tunes: Golden Collection 2
…http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2004_08.html#000401 Cartoon Brew}} website with a partial list of goodies to expect in the set. For starters, he lists 31 audio commentaries, six featurettes, fifteen isolated music tracks, and a… |