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

06/27/04 – 07/03/04:

Hello, 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. And off we go…



----FEATURE FILMS----

TIM BURTON’S THE CORPSE BRIDE – the Nightmare creator announces Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Albert Finney and Christopher Lee among the cast:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001808.html

CURIOUS GEORGE – Universal’s film is getting about in the form of a flyer that also announces a continuing TV show coming for 2006:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001813.html

SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW – that “Sky Captain” in the title is going to put off a lot of casual audiences for this great sounding summer flick. More great reviews coming in:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17888

CHICKEN LITTLE – with Mission: Impossible 3 and Fantastic Four launching in the same July 4 week, Disney’s first solo CGI venture will take a pummelling. Mysteriously, the previously set July 1 release date looks like it’s getting a re-think:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=5393

SHREK 2 and SPIDER-MAN 2 look to be battling it out this summer. Shrek just passed the original webbed-wonder’s film to make it number 5 on the all time list, while the green ogre moves up the international list past Toy Story 2. Spider-Man 2, on the other hand, just had the biggest opening day ever and looks set to have a record-breaking five-day gross upwards of $150m by the end of the July 4 holiday:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001847.html

NARNIA AHOY! The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe starts shooting:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/entertainmentstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3575188&thesection=entertainment&thesubsection=film&thesecondsubsection=general

NARNIA II – Prince Caspian is rumored to already be on the way:
http://filmforce.ign.com/narnia/articles/526/526533p1.html?fromint=1

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE – trailers and clips:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001797.html

BRATZ – the fashion dolls are coming to animated life for Fox:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000556822

KAENA: THE PROPHECY – new pics:
http://www.mysan.de/article9190.html

RENART THE FOX – a new European animated feature uses CGI to achieve an illustration book approach. Check out the French site, with English translations and an English teaser trailer:
http://www.oniriapictures.com/renardweb.html



----DVD RELEASES----

BRAD BIRD’S THE IRON GIANT! Finally announced from Warner Home Video:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/611

IRON GIANT – a review of a foreign edition, with plenty on what we can expect in region one:
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=3726

THROUGH THE MOEBIUS STRIP – new trailer online:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001812.html

INSPECTOR GADGET – the Gadget Files opened and reviewed:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/313

SPIDER-MAN VS. DOC OCK – Disney’s cartoon cash-in reviewed:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/313

MORE SPIDEY – the original 67 COLLECTION reviewed:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/316

HARRY POTTER – Prisoner Of Azkaban is headed to DVD for November 23:
http://videoeta.com/movie.html?via=form&id=53520

Disney’s MIYAZAKI DVDs – postponed until 2005:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/mytwocentsa90.html

WIZARDS – Bakshi’s film is reviewed on DVD:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/317



----INTERVIEWS----

SuperheroHype talks to PAUL SOLES, the original voice of the 1967 SPIDER-MAN series:
http://superherohype.com/articles/index.php?id=1615

RALPH BAKSHI – the Wizards director speaks again:
http://www.fpsmagazine.com/feature/040703bakshi.shtml



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

ASIFA-Hollywood’s first 2D EXPO was a big success. We have some tidbits from the event – no 2D animation from Pixar, BOUNDIN’ is likely to be included on the front of The Incredibles this fall, Bauhaus Software’s new program is an animation doozy, and NickToons will announce an animated shorts contest:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001795.html

ASIFA’S 2D EXPO – In-depth reports from Cartoon Brew and Pixar’s Ronnie del Carmen:
http://www.ronniedelcarmen.com/blog1/2004/06/saturday-with-animators.html
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2004_06.html

SIGGRAPH – this year’s program has been announced, as well as a trailer preview of what’s in store. The Los Angeles computer animation and visual effects festival is celebrating its 31st year:
http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/conference/caf/index.php#

SNOOPY animator Bill Melendez gets his own Flash animated site up and running:
http://www.billmelendez.tv/



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

DISNEY IN CONCERT: A MAGICAL NIGHT OF MUSIC AND FILM is to debut in the UK’s Leeds this August:
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=114727

LEGO STRIKES BACK! Hysterical fun with Spider-Man 2 in three and a half minutes:
http://www.spiteyourface.com/

Details on JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED premiere episode date change and the series:
http://www.animationinsider.net/modules.php?module=article&id=156



----BUSINESS----

Disney loves Pixar – although plans seem to be going ahead to make sequels to Pixar’s films, the Mouse House is still hopeful of a renewal pact. C’mon guys…shake hands and make up:
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/main/index.htm

We’re doing great, let’s give ourselves a raise! The Disney board members award themselves a 300% salary inflation:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040702/media_disney_board_1.html

THE LION AWAKES – the descendants of an African musician, who say they are owed copyright royalties on The Lion Sleeps Tonight, which the Mouse House sampled in their feature The Lion King, are suing Disney. It also pops up in various Disney spin-offs, and even though many other people have used the song, it seems to be their lion taking the rap:
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1087373455725&p=1012571727162



----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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