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Nana’s back! Elisa Gabrielli on Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…in animation, sometimes you get the material when you get there, and then I just have to trust the character to inform me and hit the ground running. If I… |
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Disney movie roundup
…El Capitan Theatre (and Jim Hill Media looks at the new Bolt tie-in book, Disney Dogs). On the home release side, the CGI direct-to-video Tinker Bell was released to DVD… |
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New Burn•E images
PixarPlanet shares four new publicity shots from the upcoming Pixar short, Burn•E which will be available as a bonus feature on the upcoming Wall•E dvd and blu-ray…. |
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Lilo & Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!
…ideas was to propose a big change in the classical format of fairytales, with a villain that gets destroyed by the hero in the end. Stitch is a villain that… |
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Lilo & Stitch: Producer Clark Spencer on a Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride!
…DeBlois, the two directors. They’re the one who really developed the story, and they wrote the script, but they were always nice enough to allow me to be in the… |
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Wall-E concept art
SlashFilm shares a batch of concept art and production photos from Wall-E to promote the release of the film on DVD and Blu-Ray. The article includes sketches of Wall-E and… |
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M-I-C-K-E-Y…Happy Birthday, Mr Mouse!
…visitors to the Disneyland park and heading up The Mickey Mouse Club on television in the 1950s. In honor of his 50th Anniversary in 1978, Mickey became the first cartoon… |
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NASA robots give Wall-E a touch of realism
…past their life expectancies. This real-world NASA connection is also featured in the extensive collection of special features that appear on the Wall-E dvd and Blu-ray discs, released last week…. |
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Wallace & Gromit in A matter of Loaf and Death
…UK this Christmas, reports WallaceandGromit.com. The new film reunites Park with writer Bob Baker who co-wrote the Academy award winning Wallace and Gromit shorts The Wrong Trousers and A Close… |
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Pinocchio and Gulliver, but which one is the big lie…?
…little more than a public domain cash in. We’re just warming up in the AN&V Forum, but without even having to review the disc itself, we absolutely warn people against… |
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Animated Views roundup: Despereaux contest, Delgo review and more!
…of day’s big releases, The Day The Earth Stood Still, as well as thoughts on a couple of other films currently in theaters. In DVD Reviews, you’ll find our takes… |
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Disney announces 2009 animated Blu-ray slate, "Combo Packs"
…released in HD for the first time are Pixar’s Monsters Inc. and A Bugs Life (no dates announced yet), and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Platinum Edition (October). Disney… |
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Lilo & Stitch's directors speak!
…review will answer those questions soon but in the meantime this neat interview will put you in the mood to watch Stitch’s incredibly entertaining debut again. Stay tooned! — Ben…. |
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Like a Bolt out of the Blu! Plus The Odd Couple!
…screen that they reprised essentially the same characters as Amelia and Abigail the geese in Disney’s The AristoCats, played again together as Maid Marian and Lady Cluck in the Studio’s… |
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Lost And Found completed by Studio Aka
…Group, Lost And Found was adapted and directed by the studio’s Philip Hunt, with narration by Jim Broadbent, soon to be seen in this summer’s Harry Potter And The Half-Blood… |
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DreamWorks Animation income falls 45%
…the motion picture studios. Added concern for the Broadway musical Shrek and overall DVD sales are among the topics Jeffrey Katzenberg addresses in relation to DWA’s last quarter profit figures…. |
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Animated Views: first look at Captain Toontastic
…Vs. Aliens and the DVD release of The Zeta Project: Season One, Animated Views today discusses the traditionally animated superhero comedy Captain Toontastic, being animated in France for international release…. |
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Director George Scribner: Happy as a King with Prince and the Pauper!
I don’t believe Mark Twain, writing The Prince and the Pauper in 1881, would have ever anticipated that his novel would someday be transposed by the Disney Studios into the… |
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Tickled Pink: The Coolest Cat Turns 40
Hot off the heels of commemorating the 40th anniversary of Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room pop artist Shag has gone on to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the ultimate cool cat,… |
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Superman soars! Gulliver sinks! In a double dose of Fleischer fun!
…got stuck in to watching them again, my comments reaching to an overview of each title in the series, from Max and Dave’s originals, to the Famous Studios editions that… |
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Heathcliff to make comeback
…FitzRoy Media to develop a range of properties, from direct-to-DVD toons to a potential live-action theatrical feature, around the flabby tabby, updating the popular comicstrip character for the 21st century…. |
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Futurama is back… again
…going first… but if we wind up in second position, then the economics work out for us as well… One of the things that excited us even at the time… |
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Snoopy’s Reunion: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…out the origins of Snoopy further in 1991. The 1972 movie in some ways had adhered more closely to the comic strip continuity of the 1960s (where Lila had been… |
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Star Trekkin' across the universe! Plus Venture Bros. and Tiny Toons!
…funnier than the words themselves, and indeed that’s what I always loved about that show. But it sounds like the humor carries these edgy moments through, which is the main… |
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Open Season 2 Contest – Winner Announced!
…Boog, Elliot, McSquizzy (Billy Connelly), Buddy and the rest of the woodland creatures launch a full-scale rescue mission for their sausage-shaped friend and soon find themselves in enemy camp: the… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Volume Two: Bump in the Night
…the gang must solve the mystery to save the movie. The gang begins by investigating the set for the film with its many trap doors and special effects. The final… |
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Review Roundup: Up flies high, plus Hanna-Barbera classics
…the vault to post a review of the set presenting the space age family’s original series, in The Jetsons: The Complete First Season. Then, leaving the future to go back… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2
…the disc (see Scratch Tracks for more comments). Ink And Paint: All cartoons included in this release have been included in their original 1.33:1 aspect ratio. None of these shorts… |
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Green Lantern: First Flight
…who in turn bring him to meet the Guardians Of The Universe on the planet Oa. From there on, the movie takes place well away from earth, and the story… |
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Astro Boy And Anime Come To The Americas
…refers to “the Americas,” it is never made clear in the book if anime’s influence in the western hemisphere ever reached past the U.S. and Canada. I suspect that the… |
