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Nemo stays afloat overseas!
{{link http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031028/80/ecd91.html Yahoo News}} reports that Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo is still the number one catch to see at theaters in the UK – after three weeks! The movie has beaten… |
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Looney historian on two of Disney's legends
…interview with {{link http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Interviews/Babbitt/interview_art_babbitt.htm Art Babbit}}, who animated on a number of the classic shorts and features, and was most responsible for shaping the character of Goofy. All are great… |
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A look back at a wonderful Nightmare!
…wouldn’t accept the Disney brand name on such an innovative, PG-rated film, and despite the fact that early teasers went out with the traditional castle logo intact, it was actually… |
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Home On The Range and Teacher's Pet trailers!
…the teaser that appears on the Finding Nemo DVD and much more in-depth, with many more jokes included and humor of the kind that shows why the film has been… |
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\\Finding Nemo\\ drowns competition, breaks records
…home video of 2003 and the top-selling DVD of all time, company executives said”. DVDs made up 80% of the first-day sales. Consumers may have trouble finding \\Nemo\\. “According to… |
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Good Grief! It's Christmastime Again?
…well. The much beloved classic A Charlie Brown Christmas will be airing a week earlier (December 2) on the same station. It appears that they have left the second special,… |
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New additions to Disney websites
‘Buzz’ on the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=352#post352 Animated News Forum}} tells us that the {{link http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/liveaction/pirates/main_site/main.html Pirates Of The Caribbean DVD}} website has been updated to include “more info [on] content plus… |
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No long wait for SW: Clone Wars fans in the UK!
…III, is airing right now on the channel in the US. However, highly charged UK fans, who feared a long wait (or having to buy the DVD before seeing it… |
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Much, much, MUCH more Duck Dodgers on the way!
…ArcLight Cinema in Hollywood Los Angeles, including the original Dodgers, the brilliant Duck Amuck, and two cartoons not featured on the recent Looney Tunes DVD: One Froggy Evening and What’s… |
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Bionicle gets theatrical upgrade
The Lego Corporation’s successful collaboration with Disney’s Miramax, the Bionicle series, is about to get an upgrade to its CGI graphics. After the release of the first in the series,… |
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Witch Hunter Robin Coming to the Cartoon Network
…year or early in 2004. The stylish series, which has been described as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Meets The X-Files“, has demonstrated a strong appeal to the black nail polish… |
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New look Lion King 1½ cover art!
{{link http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=2730&n=1&burl= DVD Answers}} have posted slightly revised cover art for the upcoming region one release of Lion King 1½. Follow the link to see the new look, and thanks… |
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Jane Jetson passes away
‘dtemplar’ in the {{link http://forums.toontitan.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=17831#post17831 DVD Toons Forum}} posted that “Penny Singleton, who brought Jane to life on Hanna-Barbera’s 1962 primetime cartoon The Jetsons, died in California Wednesday two weeks… |
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Final word on Looney Tunes: Back In Action?
The Big Cartoon Database has just kicked off a new feature, {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view&post=14707 The Animated Word}}, which will be a review coulmn on new animated films and DVD releases. Alex… |
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Powerpuff Girls Christmas special on Cartoon Network
…which will debut December 12 at 9pm, “the girls are shocked to find themselves on Santa’s naughty list”. This is the same episode that was released on DVD in October…. |
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Analysis of this year's Oscar candidates, and The Polar Express…Expressed!
…the Academy can make their final selection of three from to put forward for the award. Profiling each of the 11 films, the article takes a realistic look at their… |
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Brother Bear and Looney Tunes get the Barrier treatment
…the theater, as he doesn’t seem to take to either of these films, though he backs up his arguments with professional insight. Also new is Barrier’s look at the differences… |
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Timon and Pumbaa's Interquel Page Update
…Leonard Maltin calls it “an animation extravaganza”), a picture of the final look for the DVD cover, and a hint that there will be a “Hot Tub” trailer coming soon…. |
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Looney Tunes around the world!
…a “lunchbox”-styled case, with the discs inside as individual editions in their own keepcases, this looks like a nice version. All special features in the set apparently remain the same…. |
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Toon Zone on a couple of interesting New York Times articles…
…at the three theatrical shows transferring to the stage: Mary Poppins (actually debuting in London), Tarzan, and The Little Mermaid, which is being worked on by original composer Alan Menken…. |
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Anchor Bay sold to…IDT Entertainment
…brings to home video, especially in the collectors DVD market. The company distributes a number of animation-related titles, including those of Rankin/Bass, as well as many live-action Disney Studios films…. |
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Variety on next year's short film candidates…
…Day Care in theaters, and Blue Sky’s Gone Nutty (which won the L.A. Short Film Festival, but was created initially for the Ice Age DVD, thus prompting the notion, as… |
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Thinking of Adopting a Lion?
…doing their best to raise the lion cub prince Simba. Follow the “More” link to view the image. Timon and Pumbaa find parenting a young cub can be exhausting in… |
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Bring Home the Adventure of Brother Bear
If you loved Brother Bear in the theater and can’t wait to get a copy of your own for home viewing the good news is that it will be released… |
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Battle Of The Synthespians!
…Cartoons}} looks at the phenomenon of animated characters in live-action films. Where should the very blurry line between these types of “actors” and their counterparts in fully CG films such… |
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It's here!
…four and a quarter hours! In fact, quite a few reviewers have been reigning in their appraisal of the current theatrical cut in anticipation of the Extended Edition being even… |
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Pixar's \\Tin Toy\\ and WB's \\One Froggy Evening\\ added to the National Film Registry
…{{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… |
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Update #1½ on The Lion King 1½: The Two Trailers
…At least some of the animation looks to be exactly the same high quality as the animation in the original Lion King movie. There is also a funny little clip… |
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Warner Bros. to buy MGM?
…put the studio up for grabs in 2002 with an asking price of $7 billion. MGM couldn’t find a willing buyer at the time. Whether the deal actually will come… |
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Ultimate Disney's ultimate DVDs!
The {{link http://www.ultimatedisney.com/ Ultimate Disney}} DVD fansite posted their “Most Popular DVDs on the Site” for December, which places Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl at… |

