Animation 

WALL-E, Waltz with Bashir honored at Critics’ Choice Award - Variety reports that WALL-E picked up honors for animated feature and Waltz with Bashir won top foreign language film at the 14th annual Critics’ Choice awards. Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner, nabbing five trophies. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:34:02 +0000

Batman, WALL-E, Simpsons winners at PCA - WALL-E was named Favorite Animated Movie at last night’s People’s Choice Awards, while The Simpsons won for Favorite Animated Comedy. The Dark Knight was the big winner picking up five trophies: Favorite Movie, Favorite Action Movie, Favorite Cast, Favorite On Screen Match-up, and Favorite Superhero. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:10:22 +0000

New Christmas Carol poster - A photograph of a new poster for Robert Zemeckis’ motion-capture film A Christmas Carol can be seen at MarketSaw 3D. The one-sheet features a look at the character of Scrooge, who will be played by Jim Carrey. Carrey is also set to portray six other characters in the upcoming Disney movie, which will be screen [...] Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:41:18 +0000

Kimball to receive Oscar’s Bonner Medal - Mark Kimball has been named this year’s recipient of the Academy’s John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, which is awarded in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy. Kimball worked at Walt Disney where he spent two decades working as the CAPS logistics system lead, a senior [...] Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:19:27 +0000

Disney announces 2009 animated Blu-ray slate, “Combo Packs” - Walt Disney Home Entertainment announced their slate of Blu-ray titles for 2009 today. In addition to the previously announced Pinocchio: 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition BD (coming March 17th), also being released in HD for the first time are Pixar’s Monsters Inc. and A Bugs Life (no dates announced yet), and Snow White and the [...] Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:06:21 +0000

Waltz with Bashir and Persepolis up for foreign film BAFTA - Variety reports that Ari Folman’s animated war documentary Waltz with Bashir and Marjane Satrapi’s semi-autobiographical animated feature Persepolis are among the five shortlisted films which will compete for best foreign language film at BAFTA this year. The full list of nominations for the awards will be announced on January 15 and the awards ceremony will [...] Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:55:54 +0000

The Secret of the Magic Gourd DVD in January - DVDTimes reports that Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment have announced the DVD release of Disney’s first Chinese-language film The Secret of the Magic Gourd on 27th January. In addition to the English soundtrack, the DVD will also feature Mandarin and Cantonese language tracks. Extras will include “Too Many Toys” – Multi-level game, “Behind the Scenes” [...] Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:46:55 +0000

Catmull to receive Oscar’s Sawyer Award - Ed Catmull, currently the president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, has been named this year’s recipient of the Academy’s Gordon E. Sawyer Award for “his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the field of computer graphics for the motion picture industry”. Catmull co-founded Pixar, as well as the computer graphics laboratory at [...] Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:19:55 +0000

Seven films compete for Effects Oscar nods - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the films that will compete for the three Oscar nominations in the Visual Effects category at the 81st Academy Awards: Australia, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Iron Man, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and [...] Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:05:07 +0000

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa DVD in February - DVDActive shares some early details on 1-disc, 2-disc, and Blu-ray releases of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa which will be out in stores on 6th February. The 2-disc release will include an exclusive all-new Penguin Adventure The Penguins of Madagascar. Full details are yet to be announced. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:24:19 +0000