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First read on Andertoons, the Garfield sequel movie trailer has been posted.This second movie keeps Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer, and Jennifer Love Hewitt as Garfield, Jon Arbuckle and Liz Wilson, D.V.M. respectively.

Over on Movies Online is a post about how creatively bankrupt Hollywood has become and the new trend for movie markers is to take comic strips and make them into movies. That’s probably not very revealing – it’s happened several times before, but at the end of the article the writer lists some of the […]

From Cagle’s blog comes news that David Catrow is moving into animation and is working as a character designer for the upcoming movie “Horton Hears a Who.” Cagle also reports that David won’t be returning to editorial cartooning in the near future.Copley News Service announced that David was taking a sabbatical to work on animation […]

Aaron McGruder never mentioned why he was taking his six month hiatus from his feature, Boondocks. Among the list of reasons mentioned on bulletin boards was that he either burned out or needed more time to work on the second season of his television show. In a story in today’s Vibe online magazine there is […]

Slightly off-topic, but of interest. An article on this weekends NY Times about how chatty modern animation has become and how they’ve lost the art of pantomine. It’s an interesting read by itself, but with the announcement of a new feature called “Lio“by Mark Tatulli – which is being sold as a pantomine feature, I […]

According to this site, The Game Factory will be developing a new Garfield game that is set to release next month. Garfield already has 12 titles. The site also mentions that a Garfield movie sequel is to be released later this summer. I’ve been able to confirm that on Wikipedia. while looking for information on […]

A couple of days ago, I posted a link to Apple’s web site pointing you to the latest Over the Hedge trailer. It appears that a new trailer has been posted today on Yahoo. Go check it out. Quicktime or Windows Media.Enjoy.

A couple items in the Peanuts universe:Two Peanuts movies are going to DVD.Both A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) and Snoopy Come Home (1972), each released in theaters a few years after A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown aired on television, will be available in digital versatile style on March […]

Aaron McGruder, creator of “Boondocks“, has desires to expand his empire. According to this little tidbit on EURWeb, Aaron is aiming for a full feature film as well as video games.Aaron McGruder has revealed plans to expand his ?Boondocks? comic strip and Cartoon Network television series into a feature film and video game, reports Karu […]

With a May 19 release date, Michael Fry and T. Lewis’s movie adaptation of their strip ‘Over the Hedge’ will be going up against stiff competition as “The Da Vinci Code” opens that same weekend. “The Da Vinci Code” is starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. Regarding opening up against Da Vinci Code:I […]

Slightly off topic, but the Museum of Modern Art has a exhibit called “Pixar: 20 Years of Animation.” The exhibit runs through February 6. In celebration of Pixar Animation Studios? twentieth anniversary in 2006, and as part of its exhibition of Pixar animation art, MoMA presents a complete retrospective of the company?s theatrical shorts and […]

I noticed that the Madagascar DVD had a work in progress teaser for the “Over The Hedge” movie coming out this summer. Apple’s movie trailer site also has an ‘Over The Hedge’ trailer posted.