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Stop Motion Casts a Spell on SpongeBob
How the talented team at Screen Novelties brought a familiar 2D toon to 3D life in It’s a SpongeBob Christmas! special. You can call it the Rankin-Bass legacy—the reason we tend to enjoy our classic animated holiday programming spiced with a touch of stop-motion magic. It’s only natural that kids [...]
VIZ Premieres ‘Bleach: Hell Verse’ on Neon Alley
North American anime and manga giant VIZ Media will be premiering the latest feature from the Bleach canon—Bleach the Movie: Hell Verse—exclusively on its 24-hour subscription channel Neon Alley on Sunday, November 25 at 8 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. PST. The film will repeat at 9 p.m. PST / [...]
‘Animaniacs Vol. 4' Coming to DVD in Feb.
We’ve got some great news for Animaniacs fans, just in time for this Thanksgiving holiday! You can catch up with the zany adventures of Yakko, Wakko and Dot as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group releases Animaniacs: Volume 4 on DVD on February 5. This 3-disc collector’s set features 24 episodes [...]
Hot Discs: Pixar’s ‘Brave’ and ‘Short Films Vol. 2'
It’s a big Pixar week on the home entertainment front as the studio’s acclaimed summer hit Brave and its Short Films Collection Vol. 2 become available on Blu-ray and DVD this Tuesday (Nov. 11). Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, this lavishly animated feature centers on the red-haired Scottish [...]
Hot Release: ‘Muppet Christmas Carol’ on Blu-ray
Just in time for the holiday season, Disney Home Ent. has released a special 20th Anniversary edition of A Muppet Christmas Carol on Blu-ray this week. Directed by Brian Henson, this 1992 take on the classic Charles Dickens tale features Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy as Emily [...]
Focus Announces ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Fan Art Contest
Focus Features is hoping fans of Wes Anderson’s charming and quirky summer hit Moonrise Kingdom will come up with some good fan art for the studio’s Oscar season ads! Building off of the surprising outpouring of fan art for the movie, the distributor has launched a new contest, inviting fans [...]
‘SpongeBob Christmas,’ ‘Regular Show’ DVDs Arrive
We still are a few weeks away from Thanksgiving but the onslaught of holiday specials and movie releases on DVD and Blu-ray is already in full swing. This week, for example, animation fans can get their hands on Sony/Aardman’s Arthur Christmas, SpongeBob SquarePants: It’s a SpongeBob Christmas and Regular Show: [...]
Lionsgate and LeapFrog to Produce 4 Animated Pics
Canadian studio Lionsgate and educational toy maker LeapFrog Enterprises will develop, produce and distribute four new animated movies on the DVD and digital platforms, beginning in early 2014. The deal extends Lionsgate’s distribution rights to LeapFrog’s catalog of animated DVDs featuring the Leap, Lily and Tad characters that help children [...]
‘The Clone Wars’ Season 4 Arrives on Disc
Today is a stellar day for fans of Cartoon Network / Lucasfilm Animation’s CG series Star Wars: The Clone Wars as season 4 of the celebrated show comes to DVD and Blu-ray today, thanks to Warner Home Video. The season, subtitled “Battle Lines,” launched in fall of 2011 with Anakin, [...]
Disney’s ‘Secret of the Wings’ Flies to DVD/Blu-ray
Just when you thought you knew everything about Peter Pan’s feisty little friend, the creative folks at Disney come up with new twists and turns and reveal fascinating new secrets about Tinker Bell’s history. In Secret of the Wings, the fourth CG-animated feature starring the evergreen character, Tink (voiced by [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
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Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
