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REVIEWS INTERVIEWS FEATURESCALENDAR FORUM All Reviews Home Video Film Television Book Music Review Index All Interviews Directors Artists Composers Filmmakers All Features Retrospectives Event Coverage Yearbooks Blogs Contact Browse Archives Review Index More From AV The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish? Yearbooks / by Dacey Booker, February 25, 2024 Comments Enabled! Time to relive the past year again, which kind of, sort of, not really quite got us back on track but still served up some treats. We share our faves, and your picks too! Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True… Composers / by Jérémie Noyer, December 17, 2023 The veteran composer, arranger, and orchestrator discusses composing the score for Disney’s latest film, intended as a celebration of the studio’s 100th anniversary year. Flip The Frog: The Complete Series Blu-ray / by Randall Cyrenne, November 26, 2023 Thunderbean’s greatest achievement is here, as Steve Stanchfield and his team bring Ub Iwerks’ 1930s creation to high definition disc, with all shorts lovingly restored and accompanied by scads of quality bonus features. The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 Blu-ray / by Randall Cyrenne, October 29, 2023 With 21 stop-motion puppet films and seven hand-drawn animated shorts, this third volume of George Pal’s classic cartoons is overflowing with creativity, fun, and simply amazing artistry! Twenty Questions with the AV Staff Yearbooks / by , October 20, 2023 Whether you started reading in 2003 or found us in the years since, how well do you actually know the writers who bring you ? For our 20th anniversary, the AV staff answers 20 questions about the site, their opinions, and themselves. From the Archives: The Animated News Weekly Yearbooks / by James R Whitson, October 19, 2023 After some excavation deep into the embarrassingly cluttered AV archives, we discovered some long lost content: the newsletters we published in the years after our 2003 launch! Best Animated Year Poll – 20th Anniversary Edition AV Interactive / by James R Whitson, October 18, 2023 On our 10th anniversary we asked you to pick the best year for animation during our existence. Now it’s time to vote again, this time for the top annual slate of movies during our second decade. Twenty Years of AV Tooning In / by James R Whitson, October 18, 2023 Comments Enabled! Wow. Twenty years. There’s no way we’ve been doing this for two decades! But it’s true. turns 20 today. That puts us among the ranks of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Twitter – in terms of longevity, at least! HEADLINES Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up to premiere at Annecy as it looks for distributor via The Wrap posted by Dacey, May 13, 2024 Let It Go” surpasses 10 million copies sold, earning song Diamond status via Laughing Place posted by Dacey, May 13, 2024 Next Stop Paris , the first ever AI-generated animated movie,” launches trailer, sparks controversy via MSN posted by Dacey, May 10, 2024 John Leguizamo turned down Happy Feet because he was sick of doing Ice Age movies” via ComingSoon posted by Dacey, May 9, 2024 Bluey wins Peabody Award in Children’s/Youth category via THR posted by Dacey, May 9, 2024 Andy Serkis and Peter Jackson to return to Middle-Earth with The Hunt for Gollum via The Guardian posted by Dacey, May 9, 2024 The Garfield Movie scratches up $22 million overseas ahead of domestic debut via Variety posted by Dacey, May 6, 2024 The Super Mario Bros. Movie was the most profitable movie of 2023 via Deadline posted by Dacey, May 6, 2024 Rotten: Behind the Foodfight YouTube documentary explores history of infamous animated movie by Dacey, May 6, 2024 Star Wars: Skeleton Crew features old school matte paintings and stop motion by Phill Tippett via Collider posted by James, May 6, 2024 MeTV Toons channel, featuring Bugs Bunny and other WB properties, to launch in June via Variety posted by Dacey, May 2, 2024 Celebrating SpongeBob’s 25th anniversary via NPR posted by Dacey, May 1, 2024 Live-action Masters of the Universe movie finally happening (again!), gets June 2026 release date via Deadline posted by Dacey, May 1, 2024 Airbnb lists the home from Up , and it floats via The New York Times posted by Dacey, May 1, 2024 MORE NEWS Original content © 2003-2024 . All other copyrights belong to their respective owners....