VARIETY reports that San Diego's Tourism Marketing District board is offering Comic-Con hotel tax revenue as an incentive to stay in the city.

A chance “meeting” changes two lives forever in the extraordinary claymation feature *MARY AND MAX*, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette and Eric Bana. The full-length debut by the Oscar-winning director of *Harvie Krumpet*, it comes to DVD and Blu-ray on *June 15, 2010*, from MPI Media Group, with SRPs, respectively, of $24.98 and $29.98.

NVIDIA announced that the GPU Technology Conference 2010 (GTC 2010) will take place on Monday, Sept. 20 to Thursday, Sept. 23 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, Calif.

Henry Selick has inked an exclusive long-term contract with Disney/Pixar, reports VARIETY.

Fans of Oscar-nominated Wallace and Gromit are to be treated to another dose of the favourite duo as they appear in npower’s new TV advert.

Deadline.com reports that Tim Burton wants to direct a 3-D stop-motion feature based on Charles Addams' THE ADDAMS FAMILY drawings.

Little Airplane Productions’ acclaimed preschool series “The Wonder Pets” has won the 2010 Gracie Award for Outstanding Children’s/Adolescent Program.

Now with the crazy award season over, AWN offers readers a chance to catch up with all the adventures of the animation nominees.

The Academy’s 2nd annual Animated Feature Symposium celebrates the work of the 2009 Oscar nominees in the Animated Feature Film category.

The National Film Board of Canada (http://nfb.ca/) and Warner Home Video (http://www.whvdvd-collections.com/) present a new live-action/animated adaptation of Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life based on the book by Maurice Sendak.