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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04/11/04 – 04/17/04:

Hi, 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. Headlines this week…



----FEATURE FILMS----

CHICKEN LITTLE – teaser now available in hi-res QuickTime:
http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=chickenlittle

Putting rumors to rest is Jim Hill who scraps the ridiculous notion that CHICKEN LITTLE was being re-worked from the ground up:
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/articles/04142004.2.htm

HOME ON THE RANGE: the movie seems to have hit the top spot, for a few days anyway, according to Animation Magazine:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001318.html

SHARK TALE: Spanish site 3DA scored an early still:
http://www.3dyanimacion.com/nota_tapa.cfm?link=1imgsharktale

Voice casting for HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE:
http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=2031#post2031

More info on HOWL, plus a short clip:
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/506/506235p1.html?fromint=1

I, ROBOT: making a change from last week’s thriller-lite version, a new trailer pushing the sci-fi aspects and character animation has debuted at Apple:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/i_robot/

HOME ON THE RANGE: premiere pics:
http://inlandempirestrikesback.net/ipw-web/gallery/hotr

HARRY POTTER 4: VFX World is saying The Goblet Of Fire will return the series to a holiday slot, coming November 2005:
http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=3631a5a1&atype=news&id=10728

VALIANT CASTING: John Cleese and Tim Curry join the Disney-distributed CGI movie:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=filmNews&storyID=4846740

A Passion For Doo: Scooby’s overtaken Mel’s epic in the UK box office charts:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001311.html



----DVD RELEASES----

Sporting one of the worst ever pan-and-scan transfers of scratchy elements to disc, the LAST UNICORN disc gets nothing but bad words at DVD Toons. Whatever you do, no matter how much it begs, never ever buy this title in its current Artisan edition:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/289

PAUL McCARTNEY: THE MUSIC AND ANIMATION COLLECTION gets a mostly “thumbs-up” review from DVD Toons, plus a link to the disc’s trailer:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/288

100 cartoons on 12 DVDs for less than $30? What’s the catch? Nothing apparently, with this collection also available online at Amazon and other retailers:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001292.html

THE HAUNTED MANSION: a peek at some of the disc’s extras:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001303.html

The long-awaited BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES is finally coming to disc:
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=108512



----INTERVIEWS----

Disney legend JOE GRANT (about to turn 96 years old) on working with Walt, Disney today, the 2D/3D debate, and Lorenzo, his latest short film project at the Mouse House:
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2065

Jeffrey Katzenberg hopes FATHER OF THE PRIDE will be a hit (free sub req):
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/12/arts/television/12DREA.html

PAUL McCARTNEY talks about his animation collection to web chatters at MSN:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001298.html



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

RAY HARRYHAUSEN: Out promoting his new book AN ANIMATED LIFE, the stop-motion pioneer will be visiting the Gnomon School Of Visual Effects (Hollywood, CA) this Tuesday, April 20th, at 7pm:
http://www.gnomon3d.com/newsletter_040104.html
And he’ll be at the Ex'pression College for Digital Arts (Emeryville, CA) a week later, at 3pm in the afternoon of Tuesday April 27th:
http://www.expression.edu/events/rayharryhausenbook.html

DVD Toons’ The Ink And Paint Club on Popeye’s 75th:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/features/65

POPEYE IN 3D – first look at the first image from the upcoming CGI special, plus plot outline:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001289.html

SHREK 2 VIDEO GAME – specs, screenshots and trailer:
http://animation.dreamworksfansite.com/shrek2/games.php

Just for fun: check out the Animation World Network’s look at what lies in store for the Finding Nemo franchise:
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2067



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

New episodes of popular shows, plus tons of big movies – Toon Zone has Disney Channel’s May schedule:
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=107870

Toons for prisoners: British inmates are to get a “light-hearted, animated education”:
http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=23561

Whose Screen Is It Anyway? Drew Carey is fronting GREEN SCREEN, a new improv comedy show that builds on the success of his Whose Line Is It Anyway? Members from that show will guest in the pilot for the new project, which has the team performing with animated backdrops:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=597&ncid=772&e=10&u=/nm/20040412/tv_nm/television_carey_dc



----BUSINESS----

A slew of news items from the IMDB, including the end of the Comcast-Disney bid, the meeting of Michael Eisner with the managers of the six major state pension funds that withheld their votes from him at last month's annual shareholders meeting, and opposition to Nick’s upcoming special aimed at the kids of same-sex parents:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001304.html

The Not-So-Wonderful-Thing-About-Tiggers, Part II – Reports continue to flood in about Pooh’s friend’s bad behavior while touring the DisneyWorld theme park:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001308.html



----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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