…and father, Roy, and to our faithful employees and loyal stockholders. I don’t know if you and other directors can comprehend how painful it is for me and the extended…

…Heidi Guedel, a 25 year veteran animator for Disney, Don Bluth, and Warner Brothers. Some of her credits include work on the films \\The Secret of NIMH\\, \\An American Tail\\,…

…character. Others in the cast include Joan Cusack as the ugly duckling, Steve Zahn as a pig named Runt, Amy Sedaris as Foxy Loxy, Katie Finneran as Goosey Lucy, Don…

…is in French even in the English edition anyway – so don’t let that stop you seeing this amazing film. In related news, Belleville has been racking up accolades, including…

…this, apart from making good on his promise to return to Middle Earth and complete the cycle by directing a prequel film of The Hobbit? Well don’t forget that, next…

…{{link http://www.pixar.com/shorts/tt/theater/index.html Pixar’s website}}.) According to Don Markstein’s Toonopedia, “not many characters achieve lasting fame just from having appeared in a single six-minute cartoon. In fact, Michigan J. Frog may…

…Disney Feature Animation. You Don’t Know Jack About the Beanstalk (’03) A Day with Wilbur Robinson (’02) Chicken Little (’02) Just So Stories (’02) Emperor’s New Groove 2 (’01) Wild…

…locations it’s playing at now, or coming to soon. Not playing anywhere remotely near you? Don’t despair – the news broke back in October that a 2004 DVD was on…

…at The Garden Grill Restaurant. Follow the link for more details and don’t be surprised if they follow with other vegetables in the shape of Donald Duck, Pluto, and more….

While Jim Hill {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/legacy/index.htm?../articles/01062004.1.htm~contentFrame continues}} his spotlight of the WDFA – Florida situation, don’t miss {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/legacy/index.htm?../articles/guest/norman.01062004.1.htm~contentFrame Floyd Norman’s article}} on why what Disney needs right now is a…

…aware of the glut of Disney movies in the last few years, but is laying them off going to solve anything? If you don’t like hard-hitting articles then pass this…

…Lilo, Changing Stitch, X-Buggy, Jumba, and Pleakley.” If you buy your kids one of the Happy Meals just make sure they don’t get their Play-Doh mixed up with their food….

…“Superstition” music video, “Making the Mansion” behind-the-scenes featurette, “Anatomy of a Scene: Ghosts in the Graveyard,” and a feature audio commentary with Producer Don Hahn. DVD-ROM computer features include “The…

It seems Invader Zim is back on the air, for how long I don’t know. All I know is that is playing right now on NickToons and wasn’t playing just…

So big I don’t think there is a rod and reel combo big enough to pull this big boy in. Not only did Finding Nemo move up to the #8…

…VOTE FOR MICHAEL EISNER, GEORGE MITCHELL, JUDITH ESTRIN AND JOHN BRYSON. DON’T LET YOUR BROKER VOTE FOR YOU. UNLESS YOU SEND BACK YOUR PROXY WITH AN “X” MARKED IN THE…

…a child, won’t be watching it again anytime soon. “I won’t see it again until I’ve finished the Mary Poppins run. I don’t want to pick up any Julie Andrews-isms”….

…if they could just settle it all with a good old game of death volleyball. You remember that game don’t you? Maybe not if you didn’t play it to well……

…theater so that he could hear the sound just as home viewers would be hearing it. Next up was Don Hahn, producer of The Haunted Mansion. He started out by…

Despite recent news that the movie has been cancelled, Don Hahn talks about Gnomeo and Juliet, in a new interview with Sci Fi Wire, as if the film is still…

…Pixar might team up with Marvel. “Pixar until very recently has been committed to creating their own characters,” Cuneo said. “Will their strategy change now? I don’t know. It’s possible.”…

…to by the movie’s creators. In fact, producer Don Hahn referred to the movie in its production phase as a sort of “Moses and Joseph meet Hamlet and Elton John…

After Sci Fi Wire’s interesting interview with producer Don Hahn, Jim Hill Media provides an article that further investigates if Gnomeo and Juliet has not been cancelled after all….

…will be attended by the cream of British animators – who probably don’t get out that much”. Various venues, Sunday 8th to 26th February. {{link http://www.exeter.gov.uk/animatedexeter/ Animated Exeter}}: “A festival…

…the art of animation – Gene Deitch – John Hench – Thurl Ravenscroft Ub Iwerks Award – Scott Johnston Certificate of Merit – David Derks & Mike Judge/Don Hertzfeldt (Team)…

…remarkably successful partnership, an effort later halted by the animation firm’s chief, Steve Jobs. A day before the screening, Disney said, Eisner e-mailed him. “He said, ‘I don’t want Disney…

…the meeting, one shareholder demanded her stock perform better or else, she claimed, she would “have to marry again, and I don’t want to marry again”, while another in support…

…to Comcast that they don’t want to be taken over, Disney needs to get a strong competent manager in there quickly’, said Bob Monks, principal with Lens Governance Advisors, a…

…while another division head adds: “I know Michael is trying to give people the impression that everything is OK, but inside the company I don’t think anyone feels that way”….

…doesn’t] really lift past strict DTV fodder, the buoyant nature of the film will keep audiences entertained”. However, the disc’s bonus features don’t rate so highly: “At the end of…