A sequel to ROBOT CHICKEN: STAR WARS has been greenlit, days after the show earned an Emmy nomination for Best Animated Series. The episode is scheduled to air on November 16.
Most of the voice cast is back, including Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams, who will reprise their roles of Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian. Seth MacFarlane will voice various characters including Emperor Palpatine.
The sequel will focus on the bounty hunters and their stories.
Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender’s series finale scored the series’ highest ratings ever, earning the number-one ratings spot with kids and tweens.
Ratings highlights include:
– The finale, “Sozin’s Comet,” was the number-one telecast on broadcast and basic cable television for the week of 7/14/08-7/22/08, averaging 5.6 million total viewers.
– All of the week’s new Avatar episodes, including the Saturday finale, reached 19.0 million total viewers combined.
– On average, the week-long Avatar premieres earned a 7.6/1.7 million T9-14; a 7.3/1.5 million K6-11; and 4.6 million total viewers.
– The new Avatar online Game of the Week on nick.com, RISE OF THE PHOENIX KING, generated almost 815,000 game plays and in just three days, became the number-two online game for the week.
– During the week of premiere episodes, Avatar became the number-one message board on Nick.com.
The series has inspired the 2010 live-action movie directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Avatar’s creators, Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, will serve as executive producers.
Check out the trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s latest animated film, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.
During a recent interview, Seth MacFarlane revealed that a Family Guy movie is in the works. Along with that juicy bit of news, he also spoke about The Cleveland Show, a Family Guy spin-off show.
Thru the Mirror is a Mickey Mouse cartoon short released in 1936. In this short, Mickey has a dream that he travels through his mirror and enters a world where everything is alive. While there, he engages in a dance number with a pair of gloves and a pack of cards, until the cards chase him out of the bizarre world.
Brave Little Tailor (1938) is a one-reel animated short in the Mickey Mouse series, produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions, and released to theatres on September 29, 1938. It was nominated for the 1938 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, losing to Disney’s own Ferdinand the Bull. In 1994 it was voted #26 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.
Felix in Hollywood is a 1923 short featuring Felix the Cat. In this short, Felix goes to Hollywood and meets Charlie Chaplin and other stars of the day. In 1994 it was voted #50 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.
The 250th episode of King of the Hill is set to air in May 2009. The show’s 13th season will premiere Sunday, September 28 on FOX.
The 250th episode, “Serves Me Right for Giving General George S. Patton the Bathroom Key,” takes place a year after the death of Hank’s father, Cotton Hill. In the episode, Cotton’s widow, Didi , delivers Hank a box full of his father’s prized possessions including one last crazy Cotton request to have his ashes flushed down a toilet located in an old bar and once used by General George S. Patton. When Hank enlists Bill and Dale’s help in his “flushing Cotton” mission, the guys’ bickering gets them kicked out of the bar. When Hank snaps, his friends come together to help him fulfill his father’s final wish.
Via AWN
The folks over at NPR have interviewed Andrew Stanton, director of the year’s best reviewed movie WALL-E. The audio interview lasts 38 minutes, so grab a drink and enjoy.
Check out a video preview of the upcoming animated TV show, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, scheduled to premiere in 2009.
Release date on DVD & Blu-ray: January 2009
“HULK VS.” is comprised of two short movies: HULK VS THOR (45 minutes) and HULK VS WOLVERINE (33 minutes). Below is a preview of HULK VS WOLVERINE.
On July 29, 2008 Avatar Book 3 Volume 4 will be released, featuring six more episodes from the incredibly popular Nickelodeon show Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Episode Titles:
Chapter 16: The Southern Raiders
Chapter 17: The Ember Island Players
Chapter 18: Sozin’s Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King
Chapter 19: Sozin’s Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters
Chapter 20: Sozin’s Comet, Part 3: Into The Inferno
Chapter 21: Sozin’s Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang
Bonus Materials:
Free Exclusive Avatar Comic Book Inside*
Audio Commentary by Creators, Cast and Crew
In VeggieTales: Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry’s Big River Rescue, Bob and Larry star in an adaptation of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
DVD release date: July 15, 2008, priced at $14.99.
Synopsis: Tom and Huck look forward to owning their own land, building a home and opening Huck’s Jerkyland and Tom’s Tax Preparation. But everything changes when they meet a mysterious stranger who is on the run and trying to find his mama.
Will Huck and Tom risk losing all they’ve worked for in order to help someone they hardly know?
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