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Warner to distribute Longnose?

…a slice of the animated feature pie – think they’ve got their eye on Pixar, perchance?). Dark Horizons mentions the studio’s name along with a link to the {{link http://www.mysan.de/gate.html?name=coppermine&file=thumbnails&album=141&page=3…

Pixar gave Disney no advance notice, may be bluffing

According to {{link http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2004/nf20040130_5999.htm Business Week}} “like everyone in Hollywood, Disney execs learned about Pixar’s surprise move from the press release”. Even Disney’s studio chief Dick Cook, “who enjoyed a…

Roy Disney "highlights" Eisner record in SEC filing

…a helicopter crash and studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg left to run DreamWorks SKG… The document took issue with several controversial moves made by the entertainment giant since the early 1990s”,…

The State of Animation

…a report on the state of animation. Animators J. J. Sedelmaier and Gary Baseman, and animation studio Pixar are scheduled to be profiled. Thanks to Animation Insider for the alert….

The Disney empire strikes back

…has delivered the following in 2003: o The Walt Disney Studios became the first studio ever to generate $3 billion in worldwide box office receipts, and was number one both…

Aardman exhibition hits Bristol

As noted on their website, Explore At-Bristol will offer visitors, this February half term, the chance to see a new exhibition, Aardman At-Bristol, providing a glimpse of studio’s history and…

\\Aladdin\\ scribes interviewed for disc… but not paid

…they asked us to do an interview for the DVD as a ‘value added feature’ … … the studio went out of their way to assure us that there would…

Belleville's Triplets triumph again!

…competition in two categories at this year’s Oscar awards, Best Animated Film and Best Original Song”, reports today’s {{link http://www.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#1 IMDB Studio Brief}}. “The Lumières winners are selected by 200…

DreamWorks playing "stand off" with Disney/Pixar again?

…Atomic 8, in anticipation of the project. The Studio seems to be on a development spree currently, with several other new webnames being snapped up before word gets out on…

AnimWatch site updates with new profiles and a new DVD

…Jones and Wira Winata regarding their development studio Shadedbox and their multi-award-winning short \\Little Red Plane\\\, and information about Volume I of the AnimWatch Collection DVD, featuring the best finished…

Tokyo Godfathers DVD specs

Following yesterday’s news on Sony’s {{link http://www.animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/archives/00000955.html Triplets Of Belleville}} disc release comes news from the studio that they will be issuing their other international pickup film, Tokyo Godfathers to…

The Disney Board answers Roy Disney's Save Disney email

…business in the 21st century. The Disney management team has delivered the following in 2003: o The Walt Disney Studios became the first studio ever to generate $3 billion in…

Give Looney Tunes: Back In Action another chance on DVD today!

…dismayed the studio. Despite critical praise, it seems that the critics were the only ones watching”, writes Matthew Hunter for the Zone. “If the DVD is unsuccessful, it could spell…

Sylvain Chomet's next?

…new studio in Scotland to tell the story, which will take place during the repression of Paris in 1871. Its main character will be a monkey from the Jardin des…

More Marvel-ous movies; Spidey 3 set for 2007

…for release on July 2. All this comes in a report from Superhero Hype (via {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=104237 ToonZone}}) in which Marvel Comics Studio’s Avi Arad revealed the company’s upcoming movie…

Pirates Of The Caribbean: The TV Series

At the Disney shareholders meeting, Studio president Bob Iger announced plans to build on various Disney franchises, including Lilo And Stitch and Pirates Of The Caribbean, making references to the…

Disney's Dick Cook on films and the future: Pirates II and III, Toy Story 3 and Bambi II

Taking the stage to talk at the Disney shareholders meeting, Studio head Dick Cook played up the upcoming releases from Walt Disney Pictures, including such tent-pole pictures as Hildago, The…

New Chicken Little, Incredibles, Poppins poster art and CARS LOGO online!

…documents, such as Annual Reports and such, including Studio head {{link http://disney.go.com/corporate/investors/events/pdfs/dickcook.pdf Dick Cook’s presentation}} (link will open a large PDF file!) for the recent Disney Investor Conference 2004, held…

Home On The Range – Jerry Beck's view

…“The Disney studio has come a long way from its Kansas City roots, Mickey Mouse beginnings and Snow White heights”, he says, adding that Range “is a better note to…

New Disney DVD news

While not strictly animated titles, there are a bunch of highly anticipated catalog releases coming from Disney this year that will appeal to all those who love the Studio’s classics,…

\\The Three Musketeers\\ director campaigns for theatrical release

Studio have never seen the movie. Mr. Eisner has been quoted as saying that he doesn’t think there is a large enough audience for Mickey to be in the theaters….

More on "foreign" Disney Animation: India next?

After opening (and closing) satellite studios in Paris, Florida, Canada and Japan, the majority of 2D Disney animation is now being carried out at the ToonStudios facility in Australia. The…

Spain's best kept Secret

Spain’s Animagic Studio, responsible for The Three Wise Men is hard at work on a new traditional animated feature. Giacomo’s Secret tells the story of Giacomo, a con man in…

Brother Bear: the DVD Toons review

…the humor and heart that we’ve come to expect from the recent films from the Studio that it is able to stand on its own two (four?) legs. All in…

Ko-Ko sings again!

…Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes (1925-1927). Though the series has been put together by an independent producer, you’d never know from the quality that the discs were created without big studio money…

Dick Cook says Buzz and Woody deserve it: Toy Story 3 likely to hit theaters first

Animation World Magazine has a quick little article detailing Walt Disney Studio President Dick Cook’s vision of Toy Story 3 as being a full-fledged theatrical feature rather than a direct-to-video…

Gumby to play basketball

The Big Cartoon Database reports that The Sixers and Premavision, Inc., the studio that produced the 1995 feature Gumby: The Movie, have come together to create a promotional television ad,…

Sylvain Chomet's next finds a home?

…assembling a team and creating a new studio in Scotland to tell the story which, if this is the same film he has previously mentioned, will take place during the…

CYPM acquires Joongang; new company to "compete with Pixar and Disney"

Cyper Media Inc, a 3D animation studio currently producing the $15 million feature The 5th Glacial Epoch, has acquired Joongang Movie Entertainment Co. Ltd, a producer of animated content for…

Donkey Xote teaser

…is yet another example of the prolific production of this Spanish studio, that counts among its projects Nocturna, Pinocchio 3000 and El Cid. Donkey Xote is due for release “as…