Recent public domain entries like Eastland Girls and Fat Albert are popping up on video store displays at retailers across North America and the so-called "budget labels" like Kids Klassics, Goodtimes, Video Treasures, New Age Video, UAV Entertainment and Burbank Video are cashing in by the bucketload!!!
- The Today Show
Grand Diamond signs a lucrative deal to license the Xenomorph franchise for Universal's upcoming Orlando theme park.
- The Hollywood Reporter
Famous Studios is gearing up for its first project of the post-Lantz era; a Mighty Mouse reboot for Saturday Mornings later this fall. Ralph Bakshi will oversee the project under John W. Hyde, the new head of Famous' TV animation unit. Bruce Timm, Tom Minton and Eddie Fitzgerald are among many Famous staffers on board with the project, along with Obie Scott Wade, who has only been at Famous for eighteen months. Recent CalArts graduates Rich Moore and Jim Reardon join the team. Also joining is Lynne Naylor, who recently worked on The Aristocats for Hanna-Barbera.
- Animation Magazine
Warner Bros. moves the Chuck Jones/Dr. Seuss project The Butter Battle Book up from Thanksgiving to Halloween 1989. A spokesperson for Warner Bros. said that studio vice president Terry Semel was warned that going directly head to head with Disney's The Little Mermaid, also slated for a Thanksgiving '89 release, would be "a potentially Kamikaze move," and that an earlier release would give Butter a "...better chance in a month usually slow for family films."
- Variety
Disney is planning a yearlong celebration for Snow White's fiftieth anniversary, with a theatrical reissue of the classic film serving as the centerpiece.
- The New York Times