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Buena Vista Home Ent. will release a collector’s edition of its hit CG family flick A Bugs Life on DVD. This time around, Disney/Pixar comedy/adventure will be accompanied by grocery list of extra features including “Fishy Facts” from the upcoming theatrical feature Finding Nemo. Also included on the disc are [...]

Terminator2: Judgment Day broke new ground in the use of digital visual effects technology. Now Artisan Home Entertainment Inc. is set to bring something new to the DVD world with the release of an “extreme edition” of the film. This two-disc DVD set that will feature a digitally re-mastered theatrical [...]

ADV Films has picked up the anime series Azumanga Daioh, Magical Shopping Street Abenobashi and Final Fantasy: Unlimited for stateside release. The distributor also announced that it will release the director’s cut of the final six episodes of the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Azumanga Daioh is a comedy [...]

Disney’s Academy Award-nominated animated feature Treasure Planet docks at home video retailers today. In addition to an imaginative, futuristic updating of Robert Louis Stevenson’s literary classic, Treasure Island, the DVD offers collectors a treasure trove of extra features. Treasure Planet employs a blend of 2D and 3D animation to tell [...]

Artisan’s Family Home Entertainment (FHE) has released the entire first season of the animated cult phenomenon known as Speed Racer. The limited collector’s edition DVD contains the first 11 of the 52 classic episodes in the original series. Speed Racer follows the adventures of a young racecar driver who, along [...]

With nine titles available from its U.S. video distributor, Columbia TriStar Home Ent., PorchLight Ent.’s award-winning animated PBS preschool series, Jay Jay The Jet Plane, has logged an impressive two million copies sold on VHS and DVD. Created by Deborah and David Michel, Jay Jay The Jet Plane follows the [...]

The Simpsons may be the royal family of primetime animation, but do they have a talking, cigarette smoking dog named Brian and a maniacal baby who speaks with a British accent and tirelessly plots his mother’s demise? Well The Family Guy has all that and a big, fat, fumbling dad, [...]

In our coverage of yesterday’s DVD releases, we regretfully neglected to mention that Hayao Miyazaki’s 1986 classic Castle in the Sky is also now available on a two-disc DVD and special edition VHS. This first-ever English language release features the voices of James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek), Anna Paqin [...]

Two animated masterpieces from famed Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki are joined on video shelves today by a box set containing two seasons of a cult hit TV show. The Family Guy Volume 1 DVD collection debuts alongside the acclaimed Kiki’s Delivery Service and Best Animated Feature Oscar winner Spirited Away. [...]

THQ Inc. brings characters from the Disney animated classics Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin together on one video game. Disney Princess is now available for Game Boy Advance. Featuring six different stories, Disney Princess allows gamers to [...]


A special musical treat is in store for attendees of this year’s D23...

U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...

Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...

