Today, Disney released a teaser for their upcoming return to 2D, hand drawn animation feature, The Princess and the Frog. It’s being helmed by long time Disney animation directors, Ron Clements and John Musker, and also sports animation by Mark Henn, Andreas Dejas, and Eric Goldberg. Every one of those names are heavy hitters. Needless to say, as this is not only Disney’s but all of Hollywood’s first tradionally animated feature film since 2002’s Treasure Planet 2004’s Home on the Range, this teaser is gaining a lot of attention. Check out the teaser here at Disney’s site!

It sports your typical princess story with a not-so-typical black female lead. A first for Disney and I believe feature animation. Some critics of the teaser say the acting is bland and cookie-cutter, and that the designs are boring. I disagree. I think the acting and animation are spot on, and the designs are what one would expect from Disney. Its also a movie that is probably going to appeal to a younger audience.

Hey there Shamoozal Fans! We’ve just added 14 Brand new Avatars for you to download and enjoy. They’re 150 x 150 and average 50Kb so they should conform to most Message Boards out there. So show some Shamoozal pride and slap on one of your favorite Shamoozal GFGames characters!

We’ll also be adding some new desktops and forum sigs in the coming days, so keep an eye out! Download them here.

For years I’ve been denying the MP3 revolution so to speak. I remember when I had a bunch of MP2’s (yes, ther once was MP2s) on my old computer, and when MP3’s came out I remember being blown away by the jump in sound quality. We couldn’t do anything else with the computer while playing an MP3 then. Even moving the mouse made it skip. What a dinosaur that computer was…a whopping 486 with 8MBs of RAM.

I don’t even have a scary collection of CDs. I just had no desire whatsoever to rip them all, and it didn’t bother me to grab a few CDs for the car or to bring in to work. A few weeks ago I suddenly realized I had like 10GBs of MP3s on my hard drive…not including any of my CDs, and figured it was time to make a purchase on an mp3 player.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay – John Cho and Kal Penn return as stoners Harold and Kumar who are heading to Amsterdam when they are mistaken for terrorists. They’re sent to Guantanamo Bay where they have to escape and run from the feds. And drugs are involved.

Doomsday – a deadly virus destroys the population of Great Britain. Thirty years later, a team of specialists, led by Rhona Mitra, are dispatched to one of the quarantined areas of freaks in an effort to develop a cure. Madness Ensues!

Okay, so I’m about two weeks late in posting this, but I just wanted to give a big thanks to everyone who donated during our NES Marathon for Child’s Play. You can read all about what went down that night by clicking here. We ended up raising $1,336 during the 24 hour drive and we couldn’t have been happier with the results. Of course, we couldn’t do it without everyone’s huge support during the night.

A big thanks to everyone!

All the names after the break.

That’s right folks. Next weekend is SRP time. Get ready for more nonsense from your favorite podcasters this Saturday, August 2, at our normal time of 8PM EST. As always, you can catch us LIVE through our UStream account and watch the mania unfold before your own unbelieving eyes. Plus, you can chat with us live there too, and thus complete the circle of life. We always embed the video feed and chat room here at the Nerdlog, but for whatever reason UStream doesn’t allow you to log into your account from here. You’ll have to follow the above link to do that.

So mark all 15 of your iCalendars for this Saturday. Its going to be awesome.

A Talladega reteaming.
A resurrection of a series.
Two movies take on the powerhouse that is The Dark Knight. In case you have been living under a rock for the last week, TDK has broken all kinds of box office records with it’s already over $200 million stashed.

Step Brothers – Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are two adult men who have been spoiled their entire lives. When their single parents end up getting married, they unexpectedly become step brothers and start a sibling rivalry.

21 - Inspired by the true story of five students from MIT who train with one of their professors, Kevin Spacey, to become experts in card counting in blackjack. They go to Vegas to take the casinos for millions. Also starring the kid from Across the Universe and Kate Bosworth.

That’s the only big new release today.
But there’s a whole bunch of other crap in case you’re interested.
L.A. Ink Season 1, Robot Chicken: Star Wars, Spaced entire series, Las Vegas Season 5, Comedy Central’s TV Funhouse, Steve-O: Out on Bail, Masters of Horror Season 2, and Case Closed Season 1. There’s some other stuff and a buttload of blu rays too so check JoBlo’s DVD Clinic Release Dates.

A cage rattling superhero returns.
A musical father search.
Animated apes in space.
Three movies do battle, but everyone in the entire world knows the outcome.

The Dark Knight – Christian Bale returns as Bruce Wayne/Batman. This time around he teams up with Gotham’s Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to take on the city’s biggest villain, The Joker (Heath Ledger). Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over Katie Holmes’ role as Rachel Dawes.

ColdHardFlash.com wrote a nice little post about “The Last Copy” today. Thank you, Aaron! In other news, “Man-Bot: Stomach Crunch” is being featured in this week’s episode from Channel Frederator.  Head on over to both ColdHardFlash.com and Channel Frederator to check out some really great animated shorts. Both are regular stops for myself. Enjoy!