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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06/20/04 – 06/26/04:

Hello, and welcome again to the Animated News Weekly. Please copy and paste any split links into your browser for more info on a given subject. Headlines this week were…



----FEATURE FILMS----

AUTOMATONS – possibly the greatest work of insane genius ever and a proposed movie that certainly defies description! Get this a distributor NOW:
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=17826

SHREK 2 BIGGER THAN CHRIST – the animated sequel has overtaken Mel’s Passion to hit the sixth place on the all time top ten list, also becoming the biggest film of the year. GARFIELD is proving to be no slouch either:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001759.html

SHREK 2 has also broken box office records on the start of its international rollout:
http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/fullstory.php?id=628

TEAM AMERICA – South Park’s Parker, Stone and Shaiman are currently on production of a new stop-motion feature, which has "Marionette superheroes fighting to end terrorism and put tired celebrities out of their misery":
http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=4568

STEAMBOY – opening next month in Japan, is reviewed:
http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=17828

KUNG FU PANDA – it’s still on the way:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040621c.php

P3K – a new (Spanish) trailer for Filmax’s PINOCCHIO 3000 is online. An English language version is expected in theaters later this year:
http://www.filmax.com/trailers/galeria_trailers/1277_ESP_333_480_288_trailer1.mov

CURIOUS GEORGE – Universal’s animated take on the famous book will be a traditionally animated 2D affair, directed by The Tigger Movie’s Jan Falkenstein. Check out this first image:
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movies.php?varRevID=464

Good word continues on Sky Captain and THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17849

More from THE WORLD OF TOMORROW: a new trailer debuts:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/skycaptainandtheworldoftomorrow.html

ZATHURA – the Jumanji sequel’s starring role has fallen to Tim Robbins:
http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=3631a5a1&atype=news&id=11305

THUNDERBIRDS – director Jonathan Frakes tries to put a positive spin on the new movie:
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/525/525479p1.html

DRAGONBALL Z – feature film coming from Fox:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=5286

SPEED RACER – It seems fan Vince Vaughn has some interesting ideas:
http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=11316

More quality animation from around the world – Mexico’s MAYA looks promising:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001790.html



----DVD RELEASES----

AICN is back with a look at the latest Japanimation releases, Invader Zim and Evangelion news:
http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=17824

Possible LILO AND STITCH: 2-disc set specs:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001766.html

Independent collectors’ edition specialists Blue Underground have Ralph Bakshi’s FIRE AND ICE on their Future Releases page:
http://www.blue-underground.com/future_releases.php

Much better than its box office bomb nature suggests, DVD Toons reasons that Disney’s TEACHER’S PET deserves a second chance on disc:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/312

FastPlay and EasyFind – Disney is to introduce parent-friendly DVDs that go directly to the movie and play their programming – including extras – in sequential order:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001791.html



----INTERVIEWS----

MIKE JUDGE – the creator of Beavis, Butt-head and Hank Hill talks projects past and present:
http://www.theonionavclub.com/feature/index.php?issue=4025



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

OLYMPICS – Bruno Bozzetto creates a hilarious online Flash cartoon featuring Mr Otto:
http://home.datacomm.ch/marco.fernando/fla/bozzetto/olympics.swf

AFI’s 100 YEARS, 100 SONGS – the American Film Institute has placed The Wizard Of Oz’s Over The Rainbow at number one, with When You Wish Upon A Star, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and Kermit The Frog’s Rainbow Connection among others in the line up:
http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/songs.aspx

BOOKS – reviews for Bill Plympton’s SLOPPY SECONDS, Gary Baseman’s DUMB LUCK and Danny Fingeroth’s SUPERMAN ON THE COUCH:
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2137

ZOMBIE PIRATES – an independent stop-motion project is looking for contributors:
http://www.zombie-pirates.com/



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

PRIDE – the BBC’s photorealistic approach to telling the tale of lions in the African savannah (and not to be confused with DreamWorks’ much more cartoony Father Of The Pride) is looked at:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001767.html

The way it should be – the ROBOTS video game will both be based upon and use actual production assets to recreate the world from Blue Sky’s next feature:
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/525/525657p1.html



----BUSINESS----

News from this year’s LICENSING SHOW:
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2135

DARK HORSE and IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT have entered into an agreement to produce new features, direct-to-video titles, animation and soundtrack releases based on the Dark Horse catalog of comic book characters:
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040623005244&newsLang=en

After a string of flops (and more to come if their slate for this summer is anything to go by), Disney is cutting back on movie spending:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=5510453



----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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