Annually the National Film Registry from the Library of Congress chooses twenty-five movies to be stored for posterity. This year Disney’s 1942 cartoon classic centered on Felix Salten’s novel was included: Bambi and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull’s 1972 film A Computer Animated Hand, one of the first 3D animation movies. The movie is one minute long and goes through a hand’s movements, after it was included into the 1976 movie Futureworld.

The Film and Score Grammy Nominations have been announced. Disney’s Tangled has a nomination in the Best Soundtrack category, and also has a Best Song nominaion for the love ballad I See the Light. Also nominated in that category has been  So Long from Winnie the Pooh and Christmastime is Killing Us! from the Family Guy holiday special Road to North Pole. In the end, Daft Punk’s score for Tron: Legacy was nominated in the Best Score category. The winners will be announced when the Grammy Awards will be held on February 12th.

Since the launching of Coraline in 2009, admirers of stop-motion cartoon have been looking with bated breath for more Laika Entertainment plans. The Neil Gaiman adaptation informed not only an incredible tale, but has been full of stunning pictures and we even rated it as one of our favorite 3D movies. The company's following task ParaNorman, a movie that Coraline director Henry Sellick names, "A funny zombie story," arrives  the coming year.

In line with Variety, Laika is now intending to adapt Wildwood, a young mature book written by The Decemberists singer Colin Meloy. The novel was released just last week and is anticipated to be the first in a trilogy. Placed in an "alternate version" of Portland, Oregon, the tale is concerning a young girl called Prue McKneel who has to deal with down danger in the Impassable Wilderness to be able to save her kidnapped brother.

It kind of appears like a simple tale, but evidently it is quite the contrary. Described by the trade as the company's most ambitious task yet, studio Preident and CEO Travis Knight states that it has the epic level of the Lord of the Rings, and also "a wonderful modern quality as well." Said Knight of the job,

    "Nothing of its kind has been attempted in our medium. You have these epic scenes alongside very nuanced character moments, which are the two hardest things to do in stop-motion. It's exciting to imagine how this might all come together."

What's interesting concerning this report is that Colin Meloy and wife, Carson Ellis (who did the sketches in the novel), declared they would not allow the project be optioned unless it was completed in either stop-motion or in the fashion of Watership Down (the killer bunny film that scarred us all as kids).