Dakota Fanning will voice the title character in Laika Entertainment’s animated feature Coraline, accounts The Hollywood Reporter, by way of Coming Soon. With Bill Mechanic of Pandemonium Films and Mary…

…Cæsar and Aladdin’s! – Next time they’ll think twice about swimming in the King’s money bin. – Glomgold: Looks like our oil investments went bust. Scrooge: You said it. –…

…in launching successful marketing campaigns for such heavyweight Disney classics as Fantasia and Mary Poppins. He is remembered as an honest businessman who never sacrificed personal relations to business endeavors….

…short about humanity’s fight for survival, for Universal’s Focus Features. After doing a rewrite on executive producer Robert Zemeckis’ Monster House, she was offered many horror projects, but says in…

…Cosby impression] “What are you talking about? It’s Jell-O, you see, because you don’t get much…” So, anyway… AN: I remember hearing about Art. I knew about him as I…

Courant.com points to a British television poll which lists the greatest family flicks of all time. Animated movies chosen in the poll include: Shrek (#2), Mary Poppins (#3), Toy Story…

…Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit may have inspired studio executives to make certain humor changes to Flushed Away, My Friends Tigger and Pooh, and the Mary Poppins Broadway show…

…many as possible.” The entire list of “least politically correct” films includes: Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, There’s Something About Mary, Caddyshack, Love and Death, Kentucky Fried Movie, Team America: World Police,…

Celbi Pegoraro has posted his report on The 14th International Animation Festival Anima Mundi 2006 held recently in Brazil. John Canemaker gave a lecture on the contributions of Mary Blair…

…on the Ball”), Wyclef Jean with Kontrast (“What You Do”), Lonestar (“Take Me Out to the Ballgame”), Mary-Chapin Carpenter (“The Bug”), and American Idol’s Paris Bennett (“The Tigers”). Meanwhile, John…

…Beast, coming in at #22. Containing some animation as well, The Wizard of Oz landed in the third position, while Mary Poppins arrived at 6th place. As for the top…

…Flushed Away to Madagascar, Chicken Run, James Bond, Toy Story, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Caddyshack, Star Wars, Mary Poppins, Superman, Batman, X-Men, Lady and the Tramp,…

The holiday season may be winding down now but you can still have a jolly holiday with Mary Poppins during its three week engagement at Disney’s own El Capitan Theatre…

…television event will include interviews with Liza Minnelli, the godchild of creator Kay Thompson and inspiration for Eloise, and Mary Matilyn Mouser, the voice of the show’s title character. Eloise…

…lasting impact on the practice and appreciation of visual effects as an integral, artistic element of cinematic expression and the storytelling process,” said Roth. We are equally thrilled about the…

The nominees for the 61st Annual Tony Awards have been announced. Among them, the Broadway incarnation of Mary Poppins scored seven nods, including: Best Musical, Best Leading Actor (Gavin Lee),…

…Bare Necessities” on the Hollywood Palace television show in 1968. Then the evening’s host, Don Hahn, came on stage to introduce the panelists after first quipping about the “cold” 90-degree…

Richard M. Sherman, half of the famous Sherman Brothers songwriting team, speaks with LAist about his latest project, the children’s album Sing Along with Me! During the interview, he also…

In the list “Accent-uate the Negative,” MSN unveils some of its choices for “the 10 all-time worst movie accents.” Included in the list is Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Mary…

…Tony award winner now in its tenth year, set a new record at the Minskoff Theatre with $1,571,937. Mary Poppins set a record at the New Amsterdam Theatre with $1,465,793….

…“What I am most excited about is the first class creative team that has been assembled for this production. These are some of the most talented and exciting artists working…

…Hollywood Reporter) 1. Bee Movie 4. 101 Dalmations 6. Beowulf BROADWAY (weekly box office from Broadway.com) 2. The Lion King ($1,323,304) 3. The Little Mermaid ($1,186,297) 4. Mary Poppins ($1,162,183)…

…features The Iron Giant (1999) and The Incredibles (2004), in which the perfectly appropriate line “There’s no school like the old school” was uttered. Not only is that truer than…