Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
This is the story of a leader of an expedition, its sole survivor, who washes ashore on an unknown land and discovers a civilization of talking apes. He is nursed back to health by a pair of compassionate scientists. They wish to show him as an example that there is intelligent life outside their country. […]
Tom Rogers, Emmy-winning writer on Elena of Avalor, is now the executive producer of The Chicken Squad. The new series based on the popular books premieres this Friday May 14th at 7:30pm on Disney Junior. Rogers is excited for the show’s launch… on what just happens to be National Dance Like a Chicken Day. (This […]
Add this to your “wish” list: Wish Dragon – the American/Chinese computer-animated co-production written and directed by Chris Appelhans. It’s the first film produced by Base Animation, a new animation studio that is part of the VFX firm Base FX. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, the feature will makes its debut on Netflix, on June […]
Hot dog, especially if it’s a pug! Sony Animation’s The Mitchells vs. The Machines is finally out by way of Netflix, and it’s one of the best animated family films to hit the screens in quite some time. The producing team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) are proving to be […]
Many recent anime TV programs reflect Japan’s daunting socio-economic problems in the post-Bubble economy: An aging, shrinking population; a bleak financial future that makes many young people undesirable as potential marriage partners; growing economic inequality; the persistent trauma from the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident Westerners call Fukushima—and the government’s ineffectual response to it.
Perhaps Lindsay Lohan, playing identical twins in the 1998 remake of Disney’s live-action classic The Parent Trap, summed it up best when she declared: “My mom is too cool!” We can all relate. As we approach Mother’s Day and plan to celebrate our moms or fondly remember moms who are no longer with us, we […]
Paramount+, the streaming service from ViacomCBS, today revealed the trailer and key art for the all-new Rugrats, following the even bigger adventures born from the colorful imaginations of Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Susie, and Angelica. Premiering exclusively Thursday, May 27th on Paramount+, and produced by the Nickelodeon Animation Studio, the reimagined babies continue to explore […]
Star Wars opened 44 years ago this month. Nearly half a century later, the phenomenon is bigger than ever. The latest addition to the franchise: new animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch. It premieres tomorrow (May the 4th) on Disney+. Producer and head writer Jennifer Corbett and producer Brad Rau take me on a […]
James and the Giant Peach, created through the hand-crafted art of stop-motion animation, debuted just five months after Toy Story, the blockbuster computer-animated feature that signaled a shift coming for the industry. At the time, the world was looking more toward the bright and shiny technology of computer-generated imagery on the horizon. In a 1996 […]
Get ready to head to Italy this summer for Pixar’s new feature Luca. It debuts June 18th on Disney+. I’ve screened 30 minutes so far and look forward to seeing the entire film soon. Academy Award nominated director Enrico Casarosa (La Luna), producer Andrea Warren (Cars 3) and effects supervisor Jon Reisch (The Good Dinosaur) […]
