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 Animated News Weekly 06/06/04 – 06/12/04: Hello, and welcome to another Animated News Weekly. Please copy and paste any split links into your browser for more info on a given subject. This week’s news… ----FEATURE FILMS---- BOX OFFICE – Slipping to number five is SHREK 2 with a healthy $7 million plus, while GARFIELD, despite scathing reviews, opened with a not too disrespectful $8m. Sticking to first place was HARRY POTTER: even with a 64% drop it still managed to pull in over $11m: http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2004-06-11&p=.htm SHARK TALE – it seems dubbing journalistic characters to a popular voice from various countries of release is proving to be a trend at DreamWorks. Following Shrek 2’s reporter character voice changes for the UK market, it seems their fishy tale is getting a localised makeover too: http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Movies&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270338&obj_id=41778 With EL CID: THE LEGEND lined up for US theatrical release, Filmax Animation is showing strong at this year’s Annecy Festival, with El Cid and Pinocchio 3000 in attendance: http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=11165 The FILMAX ANIMATION release schedule: http://www.filmaxanimation.com/films/index.htm?SESION=795da35df8e8faa71aa68395677a6113 ROBOTS – Fox/Blue Sky’s film for next year is beginning to ramp up the hype. A trailer should debut later this year, probably with The Incredibles: http://www.3dyanimacion.com/nota_tapa.cfm?link=prerobotseng GARFIELD – a not so nice review: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17733 GARFIELD – the movie opens to bad press: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001686.html JETSONS – Catwoman and once-upon-a-time Tim Burton collaborator Denise Di Novi is producing a live-action feature take: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/521/521592p1.html SPIDER-MAN 2 – Ain’t It Cool News really, really likes it: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17745 THE ZABAJABA JUNGLE – The rights to William (the Shrek book) Steig’s book have been purchased by John H Williams (the Shrek movie) as a potential new project for his Vanguard Animation unit: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20040607/va_fi_ne/_jungle__beat_for_vanguard_1 Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies are heading back into Jimmy Neutron territory for their upcoming project with Neutron’s Steve Oedekerk. The new CGI movie is titled THE BARNYARD: http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=5057 AEON FLUX – the Charlize Theron live-action take on MTV’s animated “future noir” thriller has added Frances McDormand to the cast: http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117906134&categoryID=13&cs=1 SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS – new exclusive trailer: http://movies.channel.aol.com/franchise/exclusives/spongebob.adp HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE – new poster: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/newspro/latest_news.shtml#newsitem1086640326,67212, Behind the scenes of a well-orchestrated press conference – could questions at SHARK TALE’s Cannes junket have been rigged? It’s all part of the show, folks: http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Features/Details.asp?Pg=1&ContentID=8864 TIM BURTON’S THE CORPSE BRIDE – the director is back in Nightmare Before Christmas-land: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001673.html ----DVD RELEASES---- SHREK 2 – still in theaters! – looks to be pulling the same stunt the first film did when it comes to DVD. Instead of a standard Tuesday issue, DreamWorks are looking to make a dent in The Incredibles opening day by releasing their animated hit on disc November 5. The ploy worked last time when the original Shrek was put in stores when Monsters Inc opened in theaters, taking away an estimated 25% of potential earnings for the Pixar film: http://www.thedigitalbits.com/rumormill.html#0608 HOME ON THE RANGE – disc art, menus, and more: http://www.disneydatabase.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40 TEACHER’S PET – Disney’s theatrical bomb gets a second chance on disc and proves to be worth the wait: http://www.ultimatedisney.com/teacherspet.html MICKEY’S THREE MUSKETEERS – international cover art, promo images, and gift set: http://www.disneydatabase.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=57 http://www.disneydatabase.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54 http://www.ultimatedisney.com/coverart.html#august POPEYE’S VOYAGE – the 3D TV special is also coming to DVD: http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/594 SPIKE AND MIKE’S CUTTING EDGE CLASSICS – is the new disc worth picking up? See what DVD Toons thinks: http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/309 SPIDER-MAN: THE VENOM SAGA – DVD Toons has cover art, Toon Zone has specs: http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/593 http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=113269 Reversing the trend – here are toys coming to life as CGI movies! Can we wait for Tonka Tough Truck Adventures, Duel Masters, Weebles, Candy Land and Mattel’s My Trend? You bet!: http://www.toonzone.net/ ----INTERVIEWS---- GARFIELD – Jennifer Love Hewitt talks personal life and future projects, but little about the film itself, in this promo piece: http://www.moviehole.net/news/3750.html JIM DAVIS, creator of Garfield, speaks about the new movie: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/522/522227p1.html ----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY---- THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM looks back at Walt’s futuristic offerings for the 1964 World’s Fair and TomorrowLand: http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/waltdisney/home.html TINTIN – the live-action Spielberg series looks to be going ahead: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17740 ANIMATED HUMANS – because it can be done doesn’t mean it can be done well: http://slate.msn.com/id/2102086 ODDWORLD – a new book looks at the game’s first ten years: http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=3364#post3364 BUCKBEAK – a look at what went in to creating Harry Potter’s half-horse, half-eagle pet: http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2004-06-10-potter-buckbeak_x.htm BUCKBEAK VIDEO – a featurette clip version of the above story: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5182794/ LOTS IN THE BREW – check out the Cartoon Brew for Annecy reports, rare Merrie Melodies artwork, and new saddening shots for upcoming Baby Boop and Baby Popeye projects: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ THE SWEATBOX, the documentary shot by Sting’s wife Trudie Styler while he was contributing to Kingdom In The Sun, which then became The Emperor’s New Groove, is still in release limbo: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,122124,00.html#1 ----TELEVISION / THEMED / STAGE---- A TON OF IMAGES and UPDATES from this year’s THE LICENSING SHOW, including first looks at the Tex Avery-styled Sony CG feature OPEN SEASON, DreamWorks’ MADAGASCAR, Tim Burton’s CORPSE BRIDE and CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, and NARNIA’S LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001695.html MORE CLONE WARS – a shorter series of longer episodes will continue the animated series and lead directly into Star Wars Episode III: http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/about/news/news20040608.html THE INCREDIBLES – new images courtesy of a 16-month calendar: http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=462 More awards for Johnny Depp and The Return Of The King – the MTV Movie Awards have been won: http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040606f.php Join GARFIELD at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade: http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/promos/200406_garfield/index.html Polyphonic Spree have fashioned a fun Flash animation site based around the group: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001693.html KRYPTO THE SUPERDOG – Superman’s canine pet gets his own series for younger kids. First-look images here: http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=113309 Michel Gagné’s ZED series continues its comic book run, and Spike Tale, the latest in his series of Insanely Twisted Rabbits, is unleashed: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001692.html ----BUSINESS---- HENRY SELICK hasn’t really lived up to his early promise with Slow Bob In The Lower Dimensions, The Nightmare Before Christmas and James And The Giant Peach. MonkeyBone featured some pretty interesting ideas and was overall fun, but was structurally a mess and he’s been pretty quiet since. Now comes news of a step up in fortunes: Selick has been hired as supervising director of Vinton Studios, which will in some way see him team up with Nightmare’s Tim Burton again: the director’s new feature THE CORPSE BRIDE is in production at the studio. Selick’s forgoing his beloved stop-motion technique for his first official project however, and getting straight to work on the CG short MOONGIRL: http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117906130&categoryID=13&cs=1 TOM STAGGS, senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of Disney, will talk directly to investors this Tuesday, June 15. A webcast and replay will be available: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001670.html Disney’s SHARON MORRIL has been upped from vice president to full time president of the DisneyToon Studios, the last area of 2D animation production at the Mouse House. The unit makes the DTV and theatrical sequels, though there are rumors of their own “first run” projects in the pipeline (free sub req): http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-fi-rup10.8jun10,1,2887305.story?coll=la-headlines-business-enter “Pixar needs Disney because it owns Pixar's past. Disney needs Pixar because it owns Disney's future” – so says The Motley Fool on the two companies’ struggling relationship: http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2004/commentary040604RAM.htm?logvisit=y&source=estmarhln001999&npu=y ----HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONALD DUCK!---- Finally this week, it’s Donald’s turn to stand in the spotlight, as he celebrates 70 years in the business this week: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001671.html BBC News has more on the Duck’s birthday: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3789569.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3790213.stm ----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. 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