Animated News Weekly Archive
One downside to getting to celebrate another big milestone like our 20th anniversary is that there's not a lot more left to show or tell about our history. However, after some major excavation deep into the embarrassingly cluttered AV archives, we were able to find another dusty bit of long lost content under some old boxes of cease and desist letters and moldy Norm Of The North promotional plush.
From the first week of our launch in October of 2003 and intermittently over the next six years or so, we had an email newsletter. Sure these messages may not be too useful anymore! But they're actually kind of fun as a sort of virtual time capsule. And perhaps some future animation researcher might find the links useful. Either way, they're part of our story and we're happy to be able to move them from the dark, cobwebbed recesses of the AV archives and back into the warm light of our anniversary celebration!
So travel back 20 years with us to see how we covered the top stories of the day!
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Subject: Animated News Weekly 12/14/03 – 12/20/03: Hi again, and we’re back with the Animated News Weekly. Please copy and paste any split links into your browser for more info on a given subject. Making waves this week were… ----FEATURE FILMS---- Cinescape scored another bunch of premiere images – this time for the recent El Capitan theater showing of Disney's HAUNTED MANSION: http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=News&action=page&obj_id=40401&type_id=270284&cat_id=272956?_id=0 Artificial intelligence? Apparently the first tests for the CGI warriors in THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING proved too “lifelike” – their first “reaction” was to run from the battlefield! The Montreal Gazette has the full story: http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story.asp?id=7530006A-C103-4E13-9A55-F6EFCC111ACC And as RETURN OF THE KING opens worldwide, Randall Cyrenne at DVD Toons asks “when does animation not mean cartoon”, pointing to the outstanding character work on the film’s digital “synthespian”, Gollum: http://www.dvdtoons.com/features/60 THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE is now out in a very limited Montreal run: http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=610#post610 Animation World Network announces that BELLEVILLE has also been doing the awards rounds, racking up a fair few this week: http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9828 LOS REYES MAGOS, an animated feature retelling the tale of three wise men and their journey to Bethlehem, opened this week in its native Spain. A trailer is online at the film’s website: http://www.losreyesmagos.net/ Superman gets animated: Christopher Reeve, who played the mighty hero in four big screen outings, is to supervise and direct an animated feature, set for release in 2005: http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9856 EL CID: THE LEGEND, the anticipated feature from Spain, has its technical merits looked at by AWN, in an interesting article: http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1950 SPIDER-MAN 2’s fairly impressive teaser is online at Apple: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/spider-man_2/ Dark Horizons links to the not very impressive looking MASK 2 / SON OF THE MASK (a Carrey-less sequel to the 1994 hit) teaser: http://www.darkhorizons.com/news03/031218c.php Tim Allen is to star in a remake of the Disney classic THE SHAGGY DOG. Could this see the resurrection of the whole Medfield College movies? http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117897260&categoryID=13&cs=1 After Osmosis Jones, the FARRELLY BROTHERS are heading back to animation: http://www.darkhorizons.com/news03/031218g.php ALADDIN’s IMAX adventure and HOME ON THE RANGE – Jim Hill has the latest on these two anticipated Disney offerings: http://www.jimhillmedia.com/articles/12192003.1.htm More skewed fairy-tales: Disney is developing a Shrek-sounding take on THE THREE PIGS: http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=2773 Talking of Shrek – the DreamWorks Fansite has a bunch of new hi-res images from both SHREK 2 and SHARK TALE: http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/fullstory.php?id=267 Italy’s comic animator Bruno Bozzetto is working on a new feature film. We have the links to his home page, a bio, and the trailer right here: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000496.html ----DVD RELEASES---- FINDING NEMO, still doing great business on DVD, has been named as one of 2003’s 10 Best Films by the American Film Institute: http://www.afi.com/tvevents/afiawards03/default.aspx Meanwhile NEMO is also on the list from the Broadcast Film Critics Association: http://www.bfca.org/ And the Golden Globes: http://www.hfpa.org/nominations2004.html A packed Tuesday last week saw a number of DVD releases, including for South Park Season 3. We have links to reviews and where to buy: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000466.html Katsuhiro Otomo's MEMORIES, which collects three science fiction stories from the author of Akira and the upcoming Steamboy is coming to DVD from Columbia on March 24. Movie Page has a trailer: http://www.movie-page.com/ The official LION KING 1½ site updates with three new very funny previews: http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/lionking112/index.html ----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY---- Amid Amidi's Animation Blast points us toward the second edition of DOING THEIR BIT: WARTME AMERICAN ANIMATED SHORT FILMS, 1939-1945, a solid read for anybody interested in understanding the shorts produced during World War II: http://www.animationblast.com/ Animation historian Michael Barrier updates his site this week with a bunch of new animation links and a great archive interview. Thanks also for the plug, Mike! Links: http://www.michaelbarrier.com/links.htm Clampett Interview: http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Funnyworld/Clampett/interview_bob_clampett.htm The NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY added the animated shorts ONE FROGGY EVENING, directed by Chuck Jones, and Pixar’s TIN TOY to its list of films that will forever be preserved by the Library Of Congress. One Froggy Evening is expected to turn up on WB’s next DVD collection, while Tin Toy is available on the Toy Story DVD: http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/filmnfr.html View Tin Toy online at Pixar’s site: http://www.pixar.com/shorts/tt/theater/index.html ----TELEVISION / THEMED / STAGE---- MARY POPPINS: THE MUSICAL had a website launch, with news and ticket bookings info: http://www.marypoppinsthemusical.com/ BELLEVILLE RENDEZVOUZ has had its BBC 2 showing on UK TV changed. It will now go out on Christmas Day at 7pm. Sylvain Chomet’s original 20-minute short film, THE OLD LADY AND THE PIGEONS is showing after, at 8.25pm, on BBC 4. ----BUSINESS---- Disney’s ABC network may dump their Saturday morning cartoon blocks to compete with other nets, reports USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-12-11-weekend-news_x.htm The Lion and the Rabbit? The WB are apparently eyeing up a merger with MGM Studios. It’s a seriously good fit, seeing that Warners own most of Metro’s catalogue thanks to an earlier purchase of the Ted Turner company, which owned pre-1948 Warners films. The merger would re-unite many film series and bring all the films from Warner Bros, MGM, Orion, and RKO under one roof: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7B4317F48D%2D9229%2D4E5A%2DA14E%2D2239558FA7B9%7D ----WRAP UP (and keep warm!)---- That’s all for this week, folks, but before we go, let us offer our best wishes for the festive season and the new year – happy holidays! Don’t forget to visit us online at http://www.animated-news.com and contribute through our forums: http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/ Have a great week, The Animated-News Team. ---------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: The news shared in this email contains material and links to other non-associated websites. 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