Pixar's Cars topped the weekend box office for the second straight week, taking in an estimated $31.1 million.

Focus Features, a division of NBC Universal, has picked up the world distribution rights to Coraline , the stop-motion film based on Neil Gaiman' children's novel.

Eureka 7 topped the Television category at the 5th Annual Tokyo Anime Awards.

Brad Bird, the award-winning director of The Incredibles , will direct Ratatouille .

Disney is acquiring Pixar Animation Studios, which created the Toy Story franchise, Finding Nemo , and The Incredibles , for stock worth $7.4 billion.

Three comic book-related films managed to make it onto the list of the Top 25 DVDs sold in the North American market in 2005.

Disney's Chicken Little won the weekend with a $40.1 million opening, big compared to recent opening weekends, but small relative to CGI features by Pixar, its former ally and current rival.

Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have confirmed that the release of the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith DVD is set for November 1st. Retailers and distributors will be allocated to prevent excessive returns.

Already reeling from a months long box office slump, Hollywood absorbed another body blow at midyear with the realization that the DVD boom was over as home video sales for the first half of 2005 inched ahead only 1.1%.

Geneon Entertainment has announced that its DVD release of the Appleseed movie has sold over 85,000 units since its release on May 10th.