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 05/16/04 – 05/22/04: Hello, and we’re back with this week’s Animated News Weekly. Please copy and paste any split links into your browser for more info on a given subject. Tearing up ToonTown in the past few days were these stories... ----FEATURE FILMS---- ANNECY SELECTIONS – this year’s French animation film festival’s choices. Among the bigger named films are Filmax’s Pinocchio 3000, Bill Plympton’s Hair High and, following last year’s unveiling of Destino, the new Disney short Lorenzo. Stills and links to the full list here: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001546.html Apart from playing at Annecy, Disney’s short LORENZO will be attached to prints of Touchstone Pictures’ Raising Helen. Download a short QuickTime teaser for Lorenzo here: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001552.html CANNES’D SHARK – The Cannes Film Festival junket for SHARK TALE was launched with a splash. Check out interviews, images and risqué language here: http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=4313 SHARK TALE – new poster: http://www.uip.nl/Pictures/sharktaleposterhuge.jpg INCREDIBLES: a new and very funny 30-second TV spot is available for download: http://www.3dtotal.com/ Spanish based Filmax’s EL CID: THE LEGEND, one of the breed of high quality animated features to come out of Europe, is to get a US theatrical release: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001545.html INTERNATIONAL INCREDIBLES – check out this French fan site for exclusive huge versions of the teaser and latest trailers: http://www.theincredibles.free.fr/ SHREK 2 – out now – gets the Disney fans’ treatment at The Laughing Place: http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID280220.asp SHREK 2 – The film’s 4000 or so strong theatrical opening has provided a hit for DreamWorks – the film is expected to have reached almost $100 million in just five days, beating the two-week old Troy and Van Helsing’s three-week takes: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001534.html Following Shrek’s success and the upcoming Disney re-takes on Chicken Little and Rapunzel Unbraided, it seems more skewered fairy tales are on the way. First up is Universal’s BIG BAD WOLF, a retelling of the Red Riding Hood story: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000512617 AFTER THE POLAR EXPRESS – another animated feature to come from Robert Zemeckis’ Image Movers and using their “performance capture” technique as sported by Tom Hanks in the upcoming holiday film POLAR EXPRESS, is on the way. MEASLE AND WRATHMONK is hoped to be the first of a three film series: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/516/516650p1.html?fromint=1 SPONGEBOB SQAUERPANTS – new trailer up at the revamped website: http://www.nick.com/all_nick/movies/spongebob/ ----DVD RELEASES---- HOME ON THE RANGE – Disney’s final 2D feature comes to disc September 14: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00029LO0Y/qid=1085052061/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-4687562-8010520?v=glance&s=dvd THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE – the rumored Canadian 2-disc set is out, but doesn’t stack up as well as hoped. Check out our comparison and bear in mind that for multi-language viewers, the original French edition seems to be the one to go for: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001531.html THE CHONOLOGICAL DONALD, perhaps the least anticipated of the recently released Walt Disney Treasures tins, gets the thumbs up from DVD Toons: http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/302 And the Laughing Place also looks at Donald’s content: http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID280210.asp TOMORROWLAND: Disney In Space And Beyond: http://www.laughingplace.com/News-PID280200-280200.asp ON THE FRONT LINES – not another review, but a VERY interesting article on the production of the lavish new set: http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2102 MICKEY’S MUSKETEERS – new stills, menus and more: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001539.html THE EMPEROR’S NEWER GROOVE – July 2005 is the date set for this DTV quickie: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001542.html The 10 Second Club reviews a new reference DVD for animators, THE ANIMATION MOTION SHOW Vol 2: http://10secondclub.net/reviews.php?id=10005 The sixth and hopefully final POKEMON film, Jirachi Wish Maker, is going direct to video: http://www.pokemon.com/wishmaker/wishmaker.htm ----INTERVIEWS---- Audio soundbites from the SHREK 2 junket: Julie Andrews, Antonio Banderas and Jeffrey Katzenberg talk green ogres here: http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/press/junkets/shrek2/ Antonio Banderas certainly has been getting about, talking to MSN and FilmForce about Puss IN Boots: http://entertainment.msn.com/celebs/article.aspx?news=158616 http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/516/516945p1.html Katzenberg looks to the future, and Shreks 3 and 4... http://www.moviehole.net/news/3671.html Julie Andrews on SHREK 2: http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/andrews.php One of the more interesting and less gushing chats for Shrek 2 is with the film’s two directors, who reveal they will not be returning for Shrek 3: http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=4351 Getting away from the green ogre: RAY HARRYHAUSEN is interviewed in a very informative and entertaining read: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17618 ----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY---- The CINEMA International Animation Film Festival has put out a Call For Entries: http://www.cineme.org./ SAVE SONG OF THE SOUTH – SaveDisney are running a poll to see Walt’s amazing animation/live-action feature re-released: http://www.savedisney.com/ FINDING NEMO – AGAIN! New details and screen grabs from the Game Boy Advance game: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001554.html 2003 LICENSING SHOW – new merchandise shows follow-ups for Stuart Little, Jumanji and The Mask, plus news on American Dad: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001544.html SUPERMAN IS BACK! He again joins Jerry Seinfeld for another funny American Express web short, HINDSIGHT: http://www.jerry.digisle.tv/ SMURFS to smurf back to the smurf screen – Some talk at the Smurfs’ fansite, plus a newly released image, shows Peyo’s little blue men (and Smurfette of course) are headed back to screens in new CGI incarnations: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001551.html ----TELEVISION / THEMED / STAGE---- SHREK 2 on TV: check out a new M&M commercial, Shrek-themed wallpapers and screensaver: http://us.mms.com/us/news/promotions/shrek/index.jsp More AMERICAN DAD: The Futon Critic has news on the return of FAMILY GUY and MacFarlane’s next project: http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ RAVEN TALES – an all Canadian/aboriginal animated CG short has been shortlisted to receive a $10,000 grant. The film is hoped to be the first in a 13-episode series: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001550.html The winner of MTV’s “Best Animation On Campus” contest was Gary Finkler, with ROCK/PAPER/SCISSORS. Check out the adult-themed short here: http://www.mtvu.com/contests/mtvu_animation/ ----BUSINESS---- PIXAR and DREAMWORKS both have big plans in their futures. The Toy Story giant wants to expand by more than half, while the Shrek creators may be thinking of floating their animation department on the public market: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001505.html More on the DreamWorks sale: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/business/media/17dream.html Meanwhile, Pixar have their own immediate problems in Emeryville: http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2004/05/17/daily31.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. ---------------------------------------------------------- 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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