A silent animation showing the key movements of the protagonists of the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings. Shows movements of Harold, Harald, William & Tostig in brief.

A Jefferies & Co. analyst upgraded shares of computer-animated movie house DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. to "Buy" early Friday, saying the stock is a good value after its recent pullback.

DVD - TV/ANIMATION Lil' Bush: Resident of the United States, season 2 A few may remember that President George W. Bush and his family first got the Comedy Central treatment in the short-lived sitcom "That's My Bush," which aired from April to June 2001. Its satire, however cheeky about the commander in chief, was mild compared to the insolent, scatological, ...

Tokyo-based Toei Animation has lined up a number of sales in advance of MIPCOM next week.

Farokh Balsara, media analyst, Ernst & Young, says any player looking at international funding will face some heat. "Tie-ups like Sony Pictures and Disney who want to 'experience' Bollywood by making films with top directors will not get affected. But animation and gaming companies like Shemaroo, Maya, even Rajshri and People Pictures, might find the going very tough, since they were going to ...

Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg called the latest 3D movie technology "the greatest innovation to occur in the movie business in 70 years."

The animation is so crisp it almost distracts from the movie. I remember reading Shrek when I was little. I loved that book. That book is also why I initially hated the first Shrek movie. Sure, there was an ogre and a princess ogre he falls in love with, but the movie wasn’t really anything like the book. After pretending it wasn’t supposed to be based on the children’s’ book by...

This week's edition of SundayArts - the weekly cultural series on New York's public television station Thirteen (WNET) - covers a wide array of the city's offerings and leads into the Great Performances presentation of Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf in stop-motion animation.

Kids 8 and older "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" (PG, 90 min.) Stereotypical ethnic humor and trite doggie poop jokes intermingle with genuinely funny bits in this very uneven live-action (well, mostly) family comedy from Disney. The live dogs talk to one another, their lips forming words (thanks to computer animation), though humans can't hear them. The movie features a bit of ...

On track: DeSales offers path to make video games. Justin Palatsky has designed more than 200 spaceships. Someday, one or more of those ships could be racing through intergalactic space in his first video game, ''Mourning Star.'' Though his strength is in design, Palatsky, 18, plans to develop his programming and animation skills at DeSales University in Center Valley, where a video game ...