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 03/21/04 – 03/27/04: Hello again to the Animated News Weekly. Please copy and paste any split links into your browser for more info on a given subject. Don’t forget to “Bust a moo, April 2”, when Disney’s latest – and final – 2D animated feature is released to theaters. Support traditional animation by seeing Home On The Range from Friday, and let’s give it a huge opening weekend! ----FEATURE FILMS---- HOME ON THE RANGE: Roseanne Barr will be hosting clips and segments during Disney’s Wonderful World Of Disney’ showing of Emperor’s New Groove on Saturday, April 3 on ABC: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001144.html Tons of new HOME ON THE RANGE clips, including behind the scenes material, up at Yahoo: http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=trailer&id=1808406138&intl=us GNOMEO AND JULIET is still happening, according to a line in this interview with Don Hahn: http://www.moviehole.net/news/3414.html SHARK TALE: It seems those pressure groups are getting to DreamWorks. Peter Falk’s character has already undergone a name change – will there be more to follow?: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001154.html TOY STORY 3 to hit the big screen? After rumors of cutbacks and squabbles over voice artist contributions, the third, Pixar-less feature looked to be going the way of the DTV “cheapquel”. However, Disney Studio chief Dick Cook says he still sees the adventure reaching theaters first. Interestingly, he said that “no decision had been made” on the film, and that “we are nowhere on it right now”, perhaps indicating that the announcement of the film was a shock tactic by Disney to show Pixar who held all the cards: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ZSPKQZJPTRV1ECRBAEZSFFA?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=4675243 3D Disney animation without Pixar? See how it looks with the new CHICKEN LITTLE teaser (available on the Brother Bear DVD): http://www.disneyvideo.fr.st/ Directly download the teaser (4.5mb) here: http://www.disneyvideo.fr.st/menu/chicken.avi Traditional, quality animation is still very much alive in Europe: more proof of the fact comes with GIACORNO’S SECRET, a new feature from Spain: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001155.html More Euro-animation: Belgium’s DeFamilleJanssen (Jester Till) are working on a new feature, MIDGAR, about aliens landing in Ireland during a Viking invasion and being mistaken for gods: http://www.dfj.be/ GARFIELD gets some much needed promotion over at Nick.com: http://www.nick.com/ads/garfield/garfieldmovie/ FANTASIA 2006, also known as THE MUSIC PROJECT, looks to be dead at Disney. Following Roy Disney’s (who was spearheading the film) departure, last year’s surprise Destino (long-rumored as a Fantasia piece) unveiling, and the fact that short film One By One is to appear on the Lion King II DVD release, things do not look good for Fantasia’s continuation. Now, the much touted LORENZO, a new short from Disney, is being released (with The LadyKillers in theaters), which was also once destined for this third musical anthology. The Animated World Magazine has more on this short, and the innovative way in which it was created: http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2042 The SPONGEBOB SQAUREPANTS movie is attracting quite a few surprising names to its cast: http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4037 Theatrically, Disney’s BROTHER BEAR has now taken over $200 million in theaters. It hit the number one spot in Germany last week, while it’s been number one three weeks in a row in the Netherlands: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001172.html THE INCREDIBLES looks to be, well, incredible: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/501/501364p1.html?fromint=1 SHREK 2: the official site gets a boost with new fun and games: http://www.shrek2.com/ SIAN KA’AN: a new animated feature in production, has Alfred Molina among its cast: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-film.html?2004-03/23/11.30.film ----DVD RELEASES---- BROTHER BEAR is released to DVD this Tuesday, March 30. DVD Toons provides a complete run down on the feature and the bonus features, giving the disc good marks overall: http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/285 THE FLINTSTONES: SEASON ONE gets a big “Yabba-Dabba-Doo” in its review: http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/284 Inkwell Images’ KO-KO’S SONG CAR-TUNES, a collection of ultra-rare restored prints of early sound cartoons from the Fleischer Studio, also gets a big thumbs up: http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/286 MIYAZAKI classics: specs for the next wave of 2-disc DVDs from Disney here: http://www.animatedbliss.com/news.asp?TID=676 WB SUPERHEROES: fans needn’t worry about the treatment Batman, Superman and others will get on DVD. Warners is listening to fans’ requests and is planning on packed season sets: http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=106207 Ultimate Disney DVD has a look at the BROTHER BEAR disc, new MARY POPPINS cover art, and more: http://www.ultimatedisney.com/# DreamWorks’ GoFish Pictures’ site for GHOST IN THE SHELL 2 has been updated: http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/fullstory.php?id=459 ----INTERVIEWS---- JOHN CLEESE on Shrek 2: http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/fullstory.php?id=448 JENNIFER TILLY for Home On The Range: http://latinoreview.com/films_2004/disney/homeontherange/jennifer-interview.html CRAIG BARTLETT, creator of Hey Arnold, Cartoon Network’s Party Wagon movie, and the new Johnny Bravo series: http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=106376 ----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY---- Keeping the torch burning: PROJECT FIREFLY ANIMATION STUDIOS opened its doors this week, following Legacy Animation and Funnypages Productions into 2D animation production in the Florida area since Disney closed its Orlando studio. The team is developing new ideas for television and theatrical: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001147.html CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW really IS cuddly! He’s now available in a custom made plushie toy doll. Absolutely great: http://www.gro-wings.com/plushies/custom/jacksparrowplush.html Marge Simpson voted Best Mother by Brits! She’s appearing on “lad’s magazine” Maxim next month – will she reveal all?: http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=21804 Now it’s the turn of THE PINK PANTHER to get a CGI makeover. Producers of the new Steve Martin Clouseau comedy THE MASK OF THE PINK PANTHER (referred to as “Birth” in this story), are looking to include Blake Edward’s original feline in their film – created in 3D: http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=22143 Celebrating Hollywood’s advertising industry and all those folks who create the cool posters and trailers that get audiences excited about upcoming releases, the 33rd Annual Key Art Awards will be held April 30 in the Kodak Theater, home of the Oscars ceremony. Categories range from Best Poster and Trailer to Best Line, honoring all those great tags on theatrical one-sheets: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/keyarts/index.jsp GUMBY is to make a comeback by doing a Bugs Bunny and appearing in a basketball-themed live-action/animation commercial: http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=22392 ----TELEVISION / THEMED / STAGE---- FATHER OF THE PRIDE, DreamWorks’ animated comedy for NBC, looks to be drawing in some big name talent. Announced this week was EDDIE MURPHY, who will reprise his Donkey character role for an episode of the show: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20040321/va_mi/murphy_lining_up_forpride03_212004_2 Mainframe Entertainment has joined forces with extreme skateboadist Tony Hawk to produce a new 3D series based on an idea from Hawk: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001157.html THE MARK: a new feature film to star Will Smith may also be heading to SpikeTV as an animated series: http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=a72cb80a57e95ebe015a3017850ce4f3&threadid=293 CLAY ANIMATOR is a new, extensive site designed to aid and inform on stop-motion and clay animation techniques. Uniquely, it’s available in six different languages: http://www.clayanimator.com/ Matt Groening will provide introductions for FUTURAMA and Seth McFarlane will host behind the scenes information for FAMILY GUY, during the week on May 23-27 on Cartoon Network: http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=106323 FAMILY GUY is back! New episodes have been confirmed for delivery in 2005: http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=10579 A very fun sounding episode of TIPPING THE RAFT is set to run this Thursday, April 1st: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001191.html ----BUSINESS---- phuzz entertainment and Foothill announced a strategic alliance this week, to help each other achieve their goals of global content distribution: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001148.html Roy Disney is calling for the employees vote at the recent Disney shareholders meeting to be counted as a sign that Eisner must go, according to the Drudge Report: http://drudgereport.com/flash.htm ----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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