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

04/18/04 – 04/24/04:

Hello again and we’re back with this week’s Animated News. Please copy and paste any split links into your browser for more info on a given subject.



----FEATURE FILMS----

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2004: Shrek 2 and Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence to play in competition:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001349.html

SHREK 2 – loads of new info, Katzenberg chat and more, at Newsweek:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4765823/

HOME ON THE RANGE fell 33% last weekend to a number five spot in the box office charts. It’s now taken an estimated $42.2m total in the US so far.

DELGO – after much anticipation from fans on who the mystery voice actor could be for this new CGI feature, it’s revealed that Freddie Prinze Jr (Scooby Doo) is the vocalist:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=680&ncid=680&e=6&u=/usatoday/20040419/en_usatoday/whoisdelgofreddieprinzejr

New GARFIELD poster banner:
http://latinoreview.com/films_2004/fox/garfield/banner-1.html

CHICKEN LITTLE Release Date: July 1 2005:
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/c/chickenlittle.php

CARS Release Date: November 4 2005 (against Universal’s CURIOUS GEORGE):
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808405700&intl=us

CLIFFORD’S REALLY BIG MOVIE opens this weekend on selected screens:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001347.html

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE: new images:
http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=2185#post2185



----DVD RELEASES----

THE HAUNTED MANSION – Coming Soon reviews the new disc:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/dvdreviewsnews.php?id=4315

Ahead of two dreaded (and unwanted) sequels headed to video soon, MULAN will get the new 2-disc DVD treatment in October:
http://www.dvdfile.com/software/dvd-video/archive/2004/04_19.html

TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE: the US DVD is reviewed (but hold out for that Canadian one)!:
http://dvd.ign.com/articles/507/507752p1.html

LIBERTY’S KIDS: headed for disc:
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=108937

CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK: check out the DTV prequel:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040421h.php

Simba’s still off-model, but there’s better revised artwork for LION KING II: SIMBA’S PRIDE (and since when did the “II” become a “2”?):
http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=3805&n=1&burl=

SPIDER-MAN: THE ’67 CLASSIC COLLECTION – cover art:
http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=3805&n=1&burl=

BATMAN and CHALLENGE OF THE SUPERFRIENDS – cover art, menus, specs and more:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001348.html



----INTERVIEWS----

RAY HARRYHAUSEN will be talking movies and signing his book at the Ex’pression College for Digital Arts (Emeryville, CA) this Tuesday, 27 April, at 3pm in the afternoon:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001322.html



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

Apple and Disney playing nice? That’s the power of music for ya! The two companies announced that Disney’s animated catalog of soundtracks would be available at Apple’s iTunes store through September 30:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001340.html

Another treasured 2D character takes the CGI route: The Pink Panther has been confirmed for a 3D cameo in Steve Martin’s new Clouseau film next summer:
http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=10747

END OF THE SIMPSONS? Fox seem to be looking at what to do about the current actors’ strike:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001344.html

PAUL FREES: the legendary voice artist’s career is celebrated at The Orange Country Register (free sub req):
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=91427§ion=LIFE

HARRY HOLT, Disney animator and Imagineer, dies aged 93:
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/8498375.htm



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

Cartoon Network’s May movie line-up:
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=108969

MTV Movie Awards nominations (including Pirates Of The Caribbean and Finding Nemo):
http://www.mtv.com/onair/movieawards/ma04/



----BUSINESS----

Putting their own spin on the situation, the Disney Company announced that Roy Disney’s claims that a large majority of employees voted against Michael Eisner at the recent shareholders meeting was “blatant distortion”, given that they say there was only a 25% turnout:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001329.html

Hewlett-Packard are strengthening their Hollywood ties and looking to expand on their current deals with DreamWorks (computer rendering) and Warner Bros (film restoration):
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63112,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4



----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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