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 02/15/04 – 02/22/04: 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. By the way, look for next week’s edition to arrive a day late so that we can include the hot news and winners of the 76th Academy Awards (the Oscars to you and me)! ----FEATURE FILMS---- Battle of the feature animation giants: Disney this week announced THE WILD, seen as their take on DreamWorks’ MADAGASCAR: http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3543 DreamWorks responded by registering web domains and trademarking various as yet unannounced projects REX HAVOC AND THE ATOMIC 8 (their answer to The Incredibles or Ray Gunn?), as well as GIANT GINGY and MIKE OF ARABIA: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000922.html Sneak Peeks at Disney’s upcoming slate, courtesy of an Ain’t It Cool News snoop: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17051 Joe Dante’s LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION opened on limited screens this week in the UK, without much chance of turning around its US box office misfortunes: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000890.html Universal is entering the 2D animation business with CURIOUS GEORGE – originally thought to be a 3D film, but actually being worked on by a team of 75 traditional animators: http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3469 Sony greenlit its first full-length (CGI) feature, OPEN SEASON, and not the rumored film version of their Oscar-winning short, The ChubbChubbs: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000915.html No real animation at last week’s BAFTA awards, but THE RETURN OF THE KING did well: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000894.html LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE did win an award, however, at the French Lumiéres Awards: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000913.html Looking to this Sunday’s OSCARS, The LA Times reports on Roy Disney’s hope for a DESTINO win: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000918.html LORENZO, a new hybrid 2D-3D short from Disney Animation, will premiere at the Florida Film Festival on March 6, directed by Mike Gabriel and written by the legendary Joe Grant: http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=10306 LORENZO will play to wider audiences in front of Touchstone Pictures’ new Coen Brothers remake of The Ladykillers: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000934.html A new, full trailer for SHREK 2 is now up at the official site: http://www.shrek2.com/ More feature-length European animation: Warners are releasing Germany’s first CG feature, BACK TO GAYA. A trailer and more to be found on the official site: http://www.warnerbros.de/movies/backtogaya Disney/Pixar’s CARS will be scored by Randy Newman, who has provided music for all four of John Lasseter’s previous films: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000927.html CLIFFORD’S REALLY BIG MOVIE isn’t proving to be the swan song that John Ritter fans believed it could be: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000930.html First look at new character renders from Chris Wedge’s ROBOTS, courtesy of the US ToyFair: http://www.action-figure.com/Article11063.html ----DVD RELEASES---- THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE has been announced for region 1 DVD release on May 4th. The disc will include a documentary and animation featurette, as well as the selected scene commentary as found on the French-issued disc: http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/521 The LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN DVD COLLECTION makes its way as an HMV exclusive in the UK as the Back In Action film hits UK cinemas: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000890.html More on the next PINK PANTHER movie, and a reason NOT to buy the upcoming DVD BOX SET: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000891.html SHREK 2 and HOME ON THE RANGE are rumored to be in the pipeline for end of year holiday DVD releases, even before their theatrical debuts: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000898.html An “insider” at Ain’t It Cool News has seen and feels compelled to play up MICKEY: DONALD AND GOOFY: THE THREE MUSKETEERS almost as much as the Mouse’s second coming. Here’s hoping it’s as good as it sounds: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17019 FRAGGLE ROCK comes to region 2 DVD: http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=3330&n=1&burl= ALADDIN writers Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio confirm that they’ve been involved with the Platinum Edition DVD release coming in October, and also let us know that they did it for love, not money: http://www.wordplayer.com/forums/movies/index.cgi?read=62799 Columbia’s much-postponed LIL PIMP will finally come direct to DVD, after all: http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=103266 A host of animated DVD and related news: http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=103266 As INVADER ZIM’s release gets nearer, we have a look at the cover art, new advertising and the new line of toy figures: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000931.html ----INTERVIEWS---- MICHAEL EISNER took calls from the public and spoke openly to LARRY KING this week on CNN. A transcript of the entire show (with other guests) can be found here: http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/20/lkl.00.html The Mickeyfan site has the full Eisner excerpt, a little more refined and easy to read: http://mickeyfan.netfirms.com/EisnerKing.html ----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY---- The Walt Disney Concert Hall has proven to be a real bright spot in downtown LA. A little TOO bright, as it turns out: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000929.html JOHNNY DEPP was the surprise name to take home the award for Best Actor at the Screen Actors Guild awards on Sunday night, as voted by his fellow thespians, for PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. Best Ensemble Cast, the closest the SAG gets to an overall Best Picture prize, went to THE RETURN OF THE KING, pushing it’s chances at next week’s Oscars even further: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000936.html ----TELEVISION / THEMED / STAGE---- Disney’s JETIX-branded action blocks seem to be doing the trick for Toon Disney and ABC Family: http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=103046 ----BUSINESS---- Disney has rejected outright the bid by Comcast to acquire the Mouse House: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000897.html Comcast replied that it wasn’t interested in Disney at the current price: http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/17/news/companies/comcast_disney/index.htm In light of the Comcast threat, Disney has taken steps to prevent similar actions from other possible suitors: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000916.html Comcast’s bid is also commented on by Roy Disney and Stan Gold, who use the opportunity to attack Michael Eisner’s running of the company again: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000928.html Turning around their current misfortunes, Disney chief Michael Eisner announced this week that a long in the making deal between Mickey Mouse and Kermit The Frog had finally come to fruition, with the news that Disney now owns THE MUPPETS and BEAR IN THE BIG BLUE HOUSE franchises: http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3527 JIM HILL thinks about what it means for the Muppets to end up at Disney: http://www.jimhillmedia.com/articles/02182004.2.htm PIXAR and… MGM? Animation World Network has more: http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=10291 Everybody wants Pixar: This wild story sees Sony proposing a flat buyout: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BCF9A6931%2DF88F%2D48B5%2D958A%2D604CDC9E6366%7D ----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. 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