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Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

Spider-Ham

Spider-Ham (Peter Porker) is a superhero appearing in Marvel Comics. The character is an anthropomorphic pig and is a parody version of Spider-Man. He was created by Larry Hama, Tom DeFalco, and Mark Armstrong.

KENEDA

Kaneda, the leader of a motorcycle gang in Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic anime feature AKIRA (1988).

Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck was created by Tex Avery for Leon Schlesinger Productions. He has appeared in cartoon series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, in which he is usually depicted as a foil for either Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, or Speedy Gonzales.

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Atiya Henry named Executive VP of Production for Disney Branded Television

Atiya Henry named Executive VP of Production for Disney Branded Television

Avatar photoJerry Beck|
March 25th, 2026
Henry will oversee all aspects of production for Disney Branded Television’s portfolio of award-winning animated and live-action programming for Disney+, Disney Jr. and Disney Channel, including titles such as “Descendants,” “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” and “Phineas and Ferb.”
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DreamWorks Drops First ‘Forgotten Island’ Trailer About Friendship and Philippine Mythology

DreamWorks Drops First ‘Forgotten Island’ Trailer About Friendship and Philippine Mythology

Avatar photoBill Desowitz|
March 25th, 2026
The trailer dropped today for DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island (Universal, September 25), the studio’s first embrace of Filipino culture about friendship and memory. The comedy-adventure follows two lifelong friends who grow up together in the ’90s in the Philippines — Jo (singer H.E.R./Gabriella Wilson) and Raissa (Liza Soberano) — and the stakes of potentially growing […]
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Illumination Highlights Heading Into Second “Mario” Movie

Illumination Highlights Heading Into Second “Mario” Movie

Avatar photoJackson Murphy|
March 24th, 2026
16 years after the first "Despicable Me", Illumination is widely regarded as one of the powerhouses in animation, in large part thanks to "Mario" and those Minions... some of the most iconic animated characters of all time.
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FIRST LOOK: Disney’s new “Chip n’ Dale”

Today at Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Disney announced the original series Chip ‘n’ Dale is in production for the Disney+ streaming service and shared a first look at the logo for the upcoming original series Monsters At Work. Combining a traditional style of animation with contemporary, comedic narratives, Chip ‘n’ Dale is being directed […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|June 11, 2019
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FIRST LOOK: Disney’s new “Chip n’ Dale”

TRAILER #2: Disney’s “Frozen 2”

A new trailer was revealed this morning for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen 2, offering a glimpse at the dramatic journey Elsa and Anna take into the unknown. From the Academy Award-winning team—directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, producer Peter Del Vecho and songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez—and featuring the voices of Idina Menzel, […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|June 11, 2019
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TRAILER #2: Disney’s “Frozen 2”

REVIEW: “The Secret Life Of Pets 2”

When we last saw the Secret Life of Pets crew in 2016, all of them were contented indeed. Doggies Max and Duke had learned to happily co-exist, Gidget the Pomeranian continued to dream of marrying Max, Pops retired, Snowball the anarchist rabbit was happily adopted, and pampered feline Chloe presumably busied herself packing on a […]
Avatar photoMartin Goodman|June 10, 2019
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REVIEW: “The Secret Life Of Pets 2”

Dreamworks “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous” Animated Series Coming To Netflix

DreamWorks Animation today announced Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, an animated action-adventure series, is set to debut globally on Netflix in 2020 as part of an ongoing multi-year agreement with Netflix to produce original animated kids and family programming. Set within the same timeline as the 2015 blockbuster film, Jurassic World, the Netflix original series is […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|June 4, 2019
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Dreamworks “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous” Animated Series Coming To Netflix

Warner Archive Collection Releases “POPEYE THE SAILOR: The 1940s” Vol. 2

More big news for classic cartoon fans, collectors and anyone who loves to laugh: Warner Archive Collection is releasing, on June 18th, 2019 the second set of restored 1940s Paramount Popeye cartoons POPEYE THE SAILOR: The 1940s Vol. 2. It’s a continuation of the Popeye cartoon series from Paramount’s Famous Studios – collecting the sailor’s […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|June 3, 2019
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Warner Archive Collection Releases “POPEYE THE SAILOR: The 1940s” Vol. 2

TEASER TRAILER: Pixar’s “Onward”

Check out the teaser trailer for Disney and Pixar’s Onward, a new original feature film in theaters March 6th, 2020, that features the voices of Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer. Set in a suburban fantasy world, Onward introduces two teenage elf brothers who embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|May 30, 2019
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TEASER TRAILER: Pixar’s “Onward”
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REVIEW: “Trolls World Tour”

I am continually amazed that recent animated films, even ones with five screenwriters (which Trolls World Tour has) continue to be so derivative, thematically redundant, and prone to replace originality with CGI eye candy. So far, in 2020, Pixar’s Onward has bucked this unfortunate trend. Now, Onward may not be a landmark film in that […]