The 3rd movie from Disney Pixar’s famous Toy Story has taken a whopping $109mil in it’s first weekend, making it the second highest earning animated theatre feature ever (behind Shrek the Third).
An article on Entertainment Weekly also suggests that it’s not primarily the kids that are flocking to see the movie, but adults who were enchanted all those years ago by the first are also making sure they get themselves a seat, as well as the general masses who seem to be finally letting go of the age-old idea that animation is strictly for kiddies.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has given out their 2010 awards, the category we all want to know about of course, is the animation awards.
Not surprisingly, Up took the prize. You can watch the winner interview on the BAFTA website by clicking the picture above.
“Meatwaffle” by Leah Shore.
Producer Roy Conli has updated Disney’s Animation Studio’s page over at Facebook to announce a change in the name for the upcoming feature based on the classic Rapunzel story.
The film will debut at the end of this year in cinemas and yes there will be 3D, worth every penny extra.
Now live on Youtuve (as of 11/02/2010 actually), Disney have posted a generous, mouth-watering trailer for the upcoming sequel to the Toy Story franchise.
Best viewed in 1080p of course, click the image to open the Youtube page (since Disney disable embedding… Boooo!).
“The Clod” by Jaromir Plachy.
“My First Crush” by Julia Pott.
“Without Thunder” by Daisy Edwards
At long last, MTV are bringing the complete Daria experience to DVD this May with a box set that consists of all five seasons (including pilot), both movies and a portion of exclusive extras.
Total run time for the collection is listed as 1606 minutes!
Sunrise have begun distributing several series from the legendary Mobile Suit Gundam series online for free.
Anime News Network is currently offering the entire Zeta series with subtitles, while Crunchyroll is at the same time offering the English dub of the original series, but only for a limited time (expires 22nd April).
Youtube will join in later this month by offering both of these series with English dubs. This will happen on the 20th of February.
Watch Mobile Suit Gundam on Crunchyroll.
Watch Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam on Anime News Network.
June 21, 2010 5:52 pm | 
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