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 02/01/04 – 02/07/04: Hello again to a new Animated News Weekly. Please copy and paste any split links into your browser for more info on a given subject. And we’re off! ----FEATURE FILMS---- Animation Blast announces a West Coast premiere of Bill Plympton's independent animated feature HAIR HIGH at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival on Saturday, February 14. Bill will be there in person: http://www.hairhigh.com/index_flash.html ANOTHER SHARK TALE has been confirmed as the official title to the Shark Tale movie out in October. Still a rumor until DreamWorks says so, but that name was also trademarked by them lat last year. Also on the way…more SHREK: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000798.html As the run up to the Academy Awards begins, Sylvain Chomet (THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE) writes to John Lasseter of Pixar to congratulate them on the success of FINDING NEMO. “It’s not a 2D/3D showdown”, he says: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000802.html FANTASIA 2006 could have had a set back, and not just from Roy Disney’s departure. Seems one sequence produced for the film, ONE BY ONE, which had African imagery set to new music by Lebo M, is going to surface instead as an extra on the African-inspired Lion King II: Simba’s Pride DVD later this year: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000805.html More Incredible superheroes from Pixar? The CG wizards have apparently been talking to Marvel Comics about translating their characters to the big screen: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2082584 Monkey business: DreamWorks this week hired John Ridley to pen THE UNPROFESSIONALS, a comedy about three hapless monkeys: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1944&ncid=1944&e=18&u=/variety/20040204/va_ne_al/d_works_sets_toon_scribe THE LAST UNICORN, the long in the planning live-action/CGI adaptation of Peter Beagle’s book, has had its website updated: http://www.the-last-unicorn.net/ A DVD on the 1982 Rankin-Bass animated version is on the way: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00019330Y?v=glance Finally, the full SCOOBY-DOO 2 trailer is unleashed at Apple’s Trailer site: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/scooby_doo_2/trailer.html ----DVD RELEASES---- Ultimate Disney has a positive spin on THE LION KING 1½, as well as disc screenshots and grabs from MICKEY’S THREE MUSKETEERS: http://www.ultimatedisney.com/ More LION KING: we have a report on Buena Vista’s recent press release: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000803.html A quick once over of the film itself: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000812.html And the publicity liner notes: http://www.ultimatedisney.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2428 Following in the tradition of Beauty And The Beast and The Lion King, the upcoming October issue of ALADDIN to Platinum Edition DVD will see the inclusion of a new song. “Proud Of Your Boy” was originally written for the spot currently enjoyed by Aladdin’s solo “One Jump Ahead Reprise”, with Aladdin vowing to “make good” for his late mother. Other features for the 2-disc effort include two audio commentaries (recorded, presumably, before the Studio kicked directors John Musker and Ron Clements off the lot?), games and the theatrical trailers. The addition of a song seems to be a pre-requisite in the Platinum line (the Disney DVD department must be kicking themselves that they didn’t go ahead and complete the “Soup Song” for Snow White!): http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000824.html After a long wait, and much fan protesting, Buena Vista have announced a first season boxed set for SPIDER-MAN, THE 1967 CLASSIC COLLECTION. Previously only select episodes were available on the 1994-series DVDs put out around the time the big-screen movie hit theaters. The new CGI series, released last week, is set to ramp up the hype for this year’s film, but it’s the original show that fans have been asking for. With this news, and a recent announcement for the Gargoyles animated series on disc, it seems Disney is beginning to move into the TV on DVD content area, so does this mean we might hopefully see the likes of the WUZZLES, DUCK TALES and GUMMI BEARS on DVD soon? Here’s more on that SPIDEY set: http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=1082 ----INTERVIEWS---- Brad Raymond, director of LION KING 1½, talks DTV sequels: http://actionadventure.about.com/cs/weeklystories/a/aa020204.htm Don Hahn, producer of the original THE LION KING, hints that GNOMEO AND JULIET is still on: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-02/03/11.00.film Steve Jobs went on the rampage this week, perhaps responding to the news that Disney would make Toy Story 3 without Pixar, calling the Mouse’s DTV product “embarrassing”: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000819.html CLERKS director Kevin Smith says that the long awaited feature version, SELL OUT, may simply hit DVD after all. Better news is that it may be the start of a yearly Clerks movie franchise: http://www.newsaskew.com/ ----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY---- JOHN HENCH, who had only recently come from the shadows of the Nine Old Men to be recognised as an important Disney contributor in his own right (the book “Designing Disney” and the recently completed-from-1946 short “Destino”), died this past Thursday, aged 95: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000822.html ----TELEVISION / THEMED / STAGE---- Action anime HEAT GUY J will be airing on MTV-2. The series comes from the director and staff that created the Escaflowne movie: http://www.animationinsider.net/article.php?forum_id=7&topic_id=7970 Adam West returns to BATMAN! No, not as the caped-crusader himself, but as Commissioner Gordon. Nice casting: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000806.html More on that show from Toon Zone: http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=101788 The British public has the chance to get “animated”, with a wide variety of events scheduled to run across the country starting this weekend: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000833.html ----BUSINESS---- More on the Disney/Pixar split: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/02/DDGTN4M0441.DTL As expected, DreamWorks are looking to either sell off their animation studio, or float it on the public stock exchange: http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2004/02/03/rtr1238996.html In the next step in his campaign to “Save Disney”, Roy Disney made a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, which outlined what he feels are the mistakes Michael Eisner has made at the Disney Co over the last ten years: http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?siteid=mktw&guid=%7B6C7718A8%2DEBE1%2D48B5%2DAAFE%2D326237A63079%7D& Roy Disney is also setting up an “alternative” Disney investor meeting, ready to go ahead in Philadelphia one day before the official annual stockholders meeting is due to be held there: http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=19161 ----WRAP UP---- That’s all for this week, folks! 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. Animated-News.com is not responsible for any consequences arising from the participating and use of these sites, and cannot be held liable for any content that may prove to be untrue, or stories that may later have elements within them changed by the creators of the reported projects. Original content ©2004 Animated-News.com.
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