Here is a trailer for Bardel Entertainment’s direct to video CGI feature Dragons: Fire and Ice. Based on the Mega Bloks toy line, the film tells the story of two…

…Award in the first Nicktoons Film Festival. Ito currently works at Film Roman as a feature storyboard artist on Yankee Irving. Outside of filmmaking, Ito likes to design toys. She…

According to Variety, Warner Bros has optioned a script by Paul Sopocy to turn the popular 80’s animated series and toy line Thundercats into a live-action feature. Sopocy has written…

…to launch this June. The definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy, Lightyear follows the legendary Space Ranger after he’s marooned on a hostile planet…

…the appointment of Dan Wilson and Dave Gilbreth as screenwriters for the project. {{link http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117894445&cs=1 Variety}} first broke the story, {{link http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=2011 Coming Soon}} has the full story for non-subscribers….

In an in-depth article, {{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1898 AWN}} follows the story behind \\Brother Bear\\, from its inception to its debut. This one is a must read! Besides telling an interesting story,…

{{link http://www.dvdfanatic.com/news.php?id=0310241 DVDFanatic.com}} reviews the direct to video \\Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman\\. The reviewer believes that “the story just isn’t compelling and the supporting cast doesn’t get to support…

…one. How could you go wrong with “very good”? Roeper calls it a “sweet, little adventure story” with all the classic Disney story elements and humorously warns that “your children…

Rushing around the web this morning is a story that originated at {{link http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-film-looney-tunes,0,4463883.story?coll=sns-ap-entertainment-headlines Newsday}}, which reported that some first day owners of the Looney Tunes Golden DVD Collection were…

{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=794&ncid=790&e=8&u=/eo/20031030/en_movies_eo/12815 E! Online}} reports that the Disney sold 3 million copies of \\The Lion King\\ in its first two days of release. Most surprising was the fact that DVDs…

…interviews prominent female artists as well as draws on her own experiences to deliver this insightful article” called {{link http://www.cgnetworks.com/story_custom.php?story_id=1752 “From pots and pans to polygons – Women in CG”}}….

…Enki Bilal was born 1951 in Belgrade and came 1960 to Paris. His first story Le Bol Maudit was published 1972 in the French magazine Pilote. In this utopian history…

The Associated Press reports (via {{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=493&e=3&u=/ap/20031202/ap_en_mo/winnie_the_pooh_lawsuit Yahoo! News}}) that “the holders of the North American rights to the Winnie the Pooh characters have hired celebrity attorney Johnnie Cochran to…

…TV show, produced by the company’s Touchstone Television in association with Smallville production company Tollin/Robbins Productions. The update, which shifts the story’s emphasis away from the twins, will be a…

…{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1941&ncid=2020&e=3&u=/variety/20040105/va_fi_re/el_cid__the_legend__el_cid__la_leyenda Variety}} (via Yahoo). Jonathan Holland calls the film “engaging, if unadventurous, [it] succeeds as lighthearted kids’ entertainment, but refuses to break through into darker, more challenging terrain, which…

…Roy Disney has {{link http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-12-2004/0002087971&EDATE= spoken out}} about the closure, with comments similar to those that have appeared on SaveDisney before, and the site also gathers a number of links…

{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=493&e=4&u=/ap/20040117/ap_en_mo/disney_speech Yahoo news}} reports on last night’s appearence of Roy Disney and his talk to around 200 collectors of Disney memorabilia at the semi-annual NFFC: The Club for Disneyana…

…have never looked so forward to seeing an animated short! The story is told in song (with an old-timey western theme) and is about a lamb who, after losing his…

The {{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=790&e=2&u=/ap/20040125/ap_en_mo/brf_disney_roger_rabbit AP reports}} that a lawsuit against Disney brought by Gary K. Wolf, the author of the novel on which the \\Who Framed Roger Rabbit\\ was based, has…

According to {{link http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/story/?story=NewsStory/dowJones/20040129/ON200401291955001877.var&column=P0DFP Dow Jones Newswire}}, Warner Brothers may be the most natural fit for Pixar “based on their domestic and international film-distribution strengths”. If a Time Warner/Pixar deal…

\\{{link http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117900376?categoryid=13&cs=1 Variety}}\\ reports that Sony Pictures Animation has greenlit \\Open Season\\ as its first film. “\\Open Season\\ tells the story of a 900-pound domesticated grizzly bear named Boog and…

{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040223/film_nm/france_nemo_dc_3 Yahoo News}} reports that author Franck Le Calvez is continuing with his crusade against Disney and Pixar, whom he says stole the core idea for Finding Nemo from…