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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03/14/04 – 03/20/04:

Hi again from the Animated News Weekly. Please copy and paste any split links into your browser for more info on a given subject. Rumbles in ToonTown this week from…



----FEATURE FILMS----

ONE FOR SORROW, TWO FOR JOY – Disney’s new book signing is to become a computer generated animated feature film, courtesy of a British supermarket manager’s ideas:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001105.html

Johnny Depp seems keen to reprise his role as Jack Sparrow in the upcoming PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN sequels, although he’s only been signed for just one:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3900

SCOOBY-DOO . . . 3? A potential third live-action combo could happen:
http://www.chud.com/news/mar04/mar14scoo.php3"

DISASTER will be a new stop-motion animation feature from Dream Entertainment:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3913

SHAK TALE gets a new look (but familiarly styled!) poster:
http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3939

More SHARK TALE: Seems it possibly really IS Goodfellas underwater:
http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1549~2025391,00.html

SPIELBERG and CRUISE, two of the biggest talents in Hollywood, will combine to produce the live-action/CG hybrid WAR OF THE WORLDS, previously brought to the screen in a classic 1953 version from stop-motion legend George Pal:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001114.html

HOME ON THE RANGE has a new character poster:
http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master%5Fmovie%5Fid=23834&movie%5Fnss=20049765
…With a couple more already on eBay:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001137.html
…And a number of updates at the Home On The Range Soundtrack site:
http://disney.go.com/disneyrecords/Soundtracks/homeontherange/index.html
…And the official website, with a new game online:
http://disney.go.com/disneyrecords/Soundtracks/homeontherange/index.html

SOUTH OF THE BORDER: a new live-action/CGI hybrid doggie-on-the-road-movie from the Mouse House:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001134.html



----DVD RELEASES----

Want to see MICKEY, DONALD AND GOOFY: THE THREE MUSKETEERS jump from this DVD heading and up into our Theatrical Feature Films listings? Well join director Donovan Cook, who believes an email protest can get Disney to change their minds about marketing Mickey’s comeback movie direct to video:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001111.html

Aaaaaarrrrgggggghhhhh!! The Humanity!! Possibly the worst ever thing to come out from the Disney Studio, and marking the true nadir of the legacy on the whole, are the images to be found in this article on Mickey’s jump to 3D CGI animation. Check out the lifeless “Mickey-bots” here:
http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=319b255d&atype=articles&id=2033

This year’s (or should that be last year’s?) wave of WALT DISNEY TREASURES looks to be an amazing bunch of packages. Many rarely seen animated shorts – legendary to long time Disney fans – will finally be seen. Check out the listings and keep reminding yourselves: “Only two months to got, only two months to go!”:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001122.html

BROTHER BEAR gets the Coming Soon review treatment:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/dvdreviewsnews.php?id=3893
…and is also looked at by the Home Theater Forum:
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/showthread.php?s=&postid=2098840

Disney’s flop TV-to-big-screen transfer TEACHER’S PET gets a quick release to home video. Here’s the press release for the fairly decent sounding DVD:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3171



----INTERVIEWS----

STOP STARING: FACIAL MODELING AND ANIMATION DONE RIGHT, a book which details these painstaking processes, is reviewed:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001118.html



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi have joined forces and combined their animation website content together to create an interestingly new CARTOON BREW:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/

Can’t get enough MUPPETS? Check out Palisades Toys’ new line:
http://palisadestoys.com/new/whatsnew/thebit/Muppets/Mon3_1_04.php

ANI-MATO is a site that looks at how cartoons are made, with advice on equipment and Do-It-yourself suggestions:
http://www.sci.fi/~animato/index.html



----TELEVISION / THEMED / STAGE----

MUPPETS OF OZ: Disney finally does something with Kermit and Co:
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117901774&categoryID=13&cs=1

More MUPPETS OF OZ: Jim Hill picks up on the news, as well as what else in store for the frog, the bear, the chickens and the whatever, including news of that long-rumored new show:
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/articles/03192004.2.htm

Catsuka has the teaser for the new WB animated adventure take on THE BATMAN:
http://www.catsuka.com/interf/new_index.html



----BUSINESS----

As Disney winds down its animation divisions, news comes in that it is now eyeing India to ramp up new productions:
http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=10492

Animation is moving from North America to Europe:
http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=10493

…And into South America! I SWEAR I SAW IT is a new series of ten minute 35mm shorts based on Brazilian folklore. CURUPIRA, one of the films, has a trailer online:
http://www.multirio.rj.gov.br/juroquevi/ocurupira/



----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.


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