…considered too ‘old fashioned’) and one using two comics with the same characters. Thus it’ll be the sunken treasure adventure ‘The Secret of the Unicorn’ and ‘Red Rackham’s Treasure’, the…

…underway to restore the old films and talks are ongoing between WB and King to reach an agreement so the Fleischer cartoons can be released on video and DVD. Also…

…Tokyo-based electronics and entertainment company, using software that changes text into an electronic voice. “I couldn’t believe it was a robot” said impressed 16-year-old Miki Maruyama, an actress who used…

…special features on the upcoming DVD. Featured today are a picture of Timon and Pumbaa lamenting the loss of their bachelor buddy Simba, Timon’s Ma talking with wise old Rafiki,…

…have never looked so forward to seeing an animated short! The story is told in song (with an old-timey western theme) and is about a lamb who, after losing his…

…Japanese live action movie Ping Pong. The movie will be 100% computer animated, but will retain the 2D look of the original manga. 21-year-old actress Minowa Asumi will play the…

…of settlers traveling through the Old West. When the ferry boat they are aboard begins to sink, one of them produces a map disclosing the location of El Glitterando, a…

{{link http://www.playbill.com/news/article/84041.html Playbill}} quotes a \\Variety\\ report about Laura Michelle Kelly, the 23 year old actress who has landed the title role in the upcoming stage musical \\Mary Poppins\\. Kelly,…

…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……

…by the outcasts Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog and lives a footloose and fancy-free life until his old girlfriend comes back into his life and helps to convince…

…a costumed worker in Walt Disney World. Though details are still coming, the 38-year-old man was allegedly hit in the head by a parade float in the staging area behind…

…Justice League Unlimited, which incorporates a bold new look and a much larger scope. Atomic Betty – This new series, set to premiere in September, follows the adventures of Betty,…

…a young man who discovers an old copy of Helter Skelter (former Los Angeles D.A. Vincent Bugliosi’s account of Charles Manson’s killing spree) and decides to interpret it as a…

…short’s popularity grew so much that the creator, 17-year-old Neil Cicierega, and his sister, Emmy, soon posted a second, longer short – “Trouble at Hogwarts” – in mid-December. Since then,…

…Old Man River: “There’s a shooting, and there’s a beating; It’s like a Disney and Eisner meeting” he crooned. Another song lampooned, this time in the cause for the eventual…

…years now – totally against (I think AFRAID is a better word) of re-releasing Song Of The South, which happens to be one of my favorite of the old Disney…

…fields surrounding Marceline, and it is widely believed it was his childhood days that later inspired the nostalgic Main Street in Disneyland. An old cottonwood tree became a favorite spot,…

The \\{{link http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-bk-tigger040204,0,396560.story?coll=orl-home-headlines Orlando Sentinel}}\\ reports that a Walt Disney World employee dressed as Tigger has been arrested and charged with molesting a 13 year old girl and her mother….

…the Pokemon series. Joongang is a profitable 13-year-old animation company with more than 60 different Japanese TV clients, and which also has numerous contacts in Europe. Duk Jin Jang, CEO…

…– tuned in to watch. It was the highest ratings the Comedy Central show has received since 1998 and was the top-rated cable telecast last Wednesday in the 18-49-year-old demo”….

…traditionally animated movies and the music featured in them: Can a few WDFA die-hards really make a difference? and Hey, smack my big old rump if that ain’t art ……

…the choice of that date could be “a direct challenge to Universal’s \\Curious George\\, which is old-fashioned ‘traditional’ 2-D animation instead of 3-D CGI. Will Universal flinch or hold tight…

…are beginning to surface around the web. ‘WolfTooth’ in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=2185#post2185 Animated News Forum}} links to one such page, which features first look pictures of Howl and old Sophie….

…black-and-white pictures… And now, because of the successive digitally animated box-office winners from Pixar… hand-drawn animation seems to be on the way to theatrical obsolescence”. Mitchell adds that “old-fashioned hand-drawn…

Ultimate Disney has the brand-new, revised video and DVD cover art for The Three Musketeers, starring Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. Click here to see the old cover art, for comparison….

…which apparently is an update of an old rumor that the attraction would take on a Little Mermaid theme. Free subscription to the Orange County Register Online required to read…

…history watching these while sitting in a 79-year old theater, realizing that many of these shorts had probably played in the same theater six decades ago during World War II….

Over at {{link http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17618 Ain’t It Cool News}}, Scott Essman takes an extremely informative and interesting interview with 84 year old stop-motion animation legend Ray Harryhausen, promoting his autobiography, An…

…house and its small garden. It is here that Geppetto, the old computer craftsman enthusiast, carries out his dream of having a son. With the help of his assistant, Spencer…