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Spotlight on Famous Fone Friends
…popular personalities, having assistance from the actual voice actors behind the characters. Mickey Mouse (Wayne Allwine), Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright), Winnie the Pooh (Jim Cummings), Aladdin (Scott Weinger) and Rocky… |
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Disney, Target reach agreement in DVD dispute
…carry. To settle the dispute, Disney will grant Target an exclusive Winnie the Pooh product line, as long as the store chain gives fair treatment toward the Mouse House’s DVDs…. |
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RIP, Tim Rooney (January 4, 1947 – September 23, 2006)
…with the muscle disease dermatomyositis. According to the World Entertainment News Network, Rooney “was chosen as one of the original Mouseketeers for the Mickey Mouse Club in 1955, but never… |
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Joe Barbera, RIP
…making a name for themselves on the small screen. From the late 1950’s on Hanna-Barbera Productions became the name in television animation, winning 8 Emmy Awards along the way. The… |
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Lasseter at Disney Feature Animation
…from The Denver Post for the article “He Runs That Mickey Mouse Outfit.” Included in the piece is a new photo of Lasseter. Thanks to Lindsay at the Animated News… |
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Walt Disney Treasures Wave 7 Announced
…the Disney Vault The Newest Additions to the Popular Walt Disney Treasures Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Chronological Donald, Volume 3 Disneyland: Stories, Secrets, and Magic Each 2-Disc DVD Set Includes… |
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The Astro Boy Essays
…those wish to study the field. In his new book, The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom And The Manga/Anime Revolution, Schodt examines the life and work of the… |
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Disney unveils Hollywood Studios logo
Blue Sky Disney showcases the new logo for Disney’s Hollywood Studios, currently known as Disney-MGM Studios, at Walt Disney World. The artwork prominently features Mickey Mouse operating a clapboard…. |
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Animation among 50th Grammy Awards nominees
…•The One And Only Shrek * Meryl Streep & Stanley Tucci [Audio Renaissance] •Who’s Got Game? The Ant Or The Grasshopper? The Lion Or The Mouse? Poppy Or The Snake?… |
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Mickey of the desert
Yahoo! Video has two recent animation-related segments worth pointing out. The first is rare video footage of a Mongolian rodent known as the “Mickey Mouse of the desert,” while the… |
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More WALL•E, plus Tink, Popeye, Clone Wars and happy birthday Mickey!
…the Navy to assist in the war effort loses some of the “bounce”, as Rand puts it, of the earlier cartoons, with the heavy stereotyping of the time prevalent though… |
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Disney to produce Jungle Junction, also Clubhouse, Tigger & Pooh get third seasons
Variety reports that Disney Channel’s preschool Playhouse Disney block has put the animated skein Jungle Junction in production. The series, which will be produced in the U.K., revolves around animals… |
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3D Speed Racer Poster
…poster for Speed Racer – in 3D! To view the three-dimensional effect, click and drag your mouse over the image. Speed Racer hits theaters and IMAX 3D on May 9th…. |
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The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian – Winner!
…movie that can be viewed on a variety of portable devices for the whole family to enjoy anytime, anywhere. From the creators of The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The… |
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A Miley Cyrus-John Travolta duet in Disney's Bolt?
…sing with Miley.” The two stars are teaming up for the Mouse House’s November 26th CG release Bolt, in which John Travolta voices the canine title character and Miley Cyrus… |
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Preview some new Disney music
While the quality of the DisneyMania series from the Mouse House has been very inconsistent, Volume 6 sounds rather promising with songs performed by Colbie Chaillat, Elliott Yamin, Plain White… |
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DisneyWorld's new grim grinning gracious ghosts
…warns you in his latest Monday Mouse Watch and talks about the new spiel that Magic Kingdom cast members are expected to recite whenever they work at the Haunted Mansion…. |
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Disney projecting $30 billion in branded retail sales for 2008
The Hollywood Reporter published an interesting article this morning outlining the huge success of Disney merchandise, driven by franchises such as Hannah Montana, High School Musical, Cars and the Disney… |
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Very first images of Disney's Bolt
/Film finally offers us a first look at Disney’s CG follow-up to Meet the Robinsons, which has had a rocky production and the Mouse House kept under wraps until today…. |
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Tinkerbell to join Hollywood Walk of Fame
…get her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame later this year. She will join other imaginary characters there including Winnie the Pooh, Kermit the Frog and Mickey Mouse…. |
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New trailer for The Tale of Despereaux
Yahoo! Movies exclusively debuted the trailer for the December 19th animated feature film The Tale of Despereaux, Directed by Sam Fell (Flushed Away) and featuring the voices of Matthew Broderick,… |
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Disney drops Destino DVD release plans
Ultimate Disney reports that the Mouse House has revised its press release for Walt Disney Treasures: Wave 8 by dropping from the track list the 2003 realization of the long-unfinished… |
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The Tale of Despereaux clips, featurettes, and more
Coinciding with the release of the film, COLLIDER shares six movie clips, two featurettes and more from Universal’s upcoming animated feature The Tale of Despereaux. Directed by Sam Fell and… |
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Disney and DreamWorks deal is done and dusted
…their new “long-term distribution arrangement”, which will be presented under the Studio’s Touchstone Pictures banner. The first as yet unspecified film under the agreement will come to theaters in 2010…. |
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¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!: Speedy Gonzales Set for Guest Appearance
Toon Zone reports that everyone’s favorite fleet-footed Mexican mouse, Speedy Gonzales, will be making a guest appearance on the November 8 episode of ¡Mucha Lucha! on the Kids WB. Set… |
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Superman soars! Gulliver sinks! In a double dose of Fleischer fun!
During the 1930s there was but one outfit that could lay legitimate claim to rivaling Walt Disney in the animated cartoon stakes: the Paramount-sponsored Fleischer Studios, run by producer Max… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…from the existing elements, mostly evident in the opening titles where a soft focus, smudged “halo” is visible around the Paramount logo. As for the rest of the images, they… |
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More X-Men, plus A Bug's Life is back!
Rodney’s been back over the weekend with his promised look at the second of Disney’s recent superheroic offerings, X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 2, which picks up where Volume… |
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Off the beaten track…alternative animation 9 and Astro Boy
…fortunate to speak with today. Jeremie’s latest interview reveals the terrific amount of detail and work that clearly has gone into every frame of the new feature version, the result… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…too much about them, so the fact they apparently warranted a big screen adaptation suggested there was more to the negativity I had picked up and maybe even good things… |
