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 07/11/04 – 07/17/04: Hello and we’re back with another Animated News Weekly. Please copy and paste any split links into your browser for more info on a given subject. Headlines this week… ----FEATURE FILMS---- SHREK 2 finally falls out of the US box office top 10, with I, ROBOT jumping in straight at number one with $47m. SPIDER-MAN 2 drops from the top spot, but zooms past the $300m mark in just over two and a half weeks: http://www.boxofficereport.com/wbon/daily.shtml SHREK 2’s Hebrew translation caused minor problems on its release in Israel last week, but the problem subsided when the offending line, which used a popular local singer’s name as a metaphor for castration, was finally…cut: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/450471.html BLUE SKY’S SLATE – after the upcoming ROBOTS and the ICE AGE sequel, it looks as if Blue Sky’s slate is staking up. The company just optioned THE DELICIOUS ADVENTURES OF CHILI WANTON WILLIE, a book about a soup bowl: http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=5526 RAPUNZEL UNBRAIDED – Reese Witherspoon and Kristin Chenoweth are in negotiations to feature in Glen Keane’s as yet still unofficially greenlit fairy-tale spoof, with Jeanine Tesori (the upcoming Mulan and Lilo sequels) on board to pen the songs: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001904.html CHRONICLES OF NARNIA – Disney say that their campaign to market The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe may be the biggest seen yet: http://filmforce.ign.com/narnia/articles/530/530506p1.html More NARNIA – Shrek’s HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS will provide the score, while also returning to his DreamWorks “home” for Madagascar: http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=122 Sky Captain And THE WORLD OF TOMORROW – fantastic new trailer and exciting Undersea Battle clip now online at the official site: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/skycaptainandtheworldoftomorrow/ SHARK TALE – the recently revealed new full trailer is a direct download at the end of this link: http://progressive.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/movies/2004/sharktale_016410/sharktale_trlr02_dl.mov BIG BUG MAN – the producers of Marlon Brando’s last screen credit seem to be playing on the great man’s name for all its worth. With confirmation of Brendan Fraser’s vocal commitment, the independent, traditionally animated film now has an official website which suitably plays off the interest generated by Brando’s recent death: http://www.bigbugman.com/ HAPPY FEET – George Miller’s penguin-starring feature has hit a snag. It seems that the motion capture that the studio are applying to the photo-realistic birds has only made so very clear the fact that photo-realistic animated penguins can’t act! This, a brief word on PIRATES 2 and another good Spidey review, here: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17974 ----DVD RELEASES---- BROTHER BEAR 2 – In an article singing the praises of Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas’ McKenzie Brothers-esque moose commentary for the original film’s DVD, it is revealed that work has begun on a second adventure for Kenai and co: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/06/movies/06BROT.html MICKEY’S TWICE UPON A CHRISTMAS – following the link last week to a brief clip from this rather feared CGI video release comes the official press blurb, cover art and screen shot: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001895.html KAENA: THE PROPHECY – the French animated feature has secured DVD distribution in the States, which will include a documentary and English dub. Details and more on the film here: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001896.html MICKEY’S MUSKETEERS – oddball humor that was cut from the video feature: http://www.jimhillmedia.com/legacy/index.htm?../articles/07132004.1.htm~contentFrame CINDERELLA – the Disney Database has up what seem like early cover art treatments for the October 2005 release, with most, as usual on home video, not actually focusing on the face of Cinders herself: http://www.disneydatabase.com/news_more.php?id=15 BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES – the DVD set continues to get good words: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/dvdreviewsnews.php?id=5512 http://dvd.ign.com/articles/529/529794p1.html MULAN seems to be missing from the disc art of her own SE: http://www.disneydatabase.com/news_more.php?id=18 MULAN bonus feature screen grabs – deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes footage captures: http://www.disneydatabase.com/dvd_screens.php?movieid=36&dvdid=30 GHOST IN THE SHELL: Stand Alone Complex Volume One – reviewed: http://dvd.ign.com/articles/529/529770p1.html KAZE: GHOST WARRIOR – an independently produced CGI short film makes its DVD debut: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001925.html MARVEL-OUS! The first title to emerge from Lion’s Gate and Marvel Enterprises’ joint deal to create new direct-to-video movies will be THE AVENGERS, based on The Ultimates comic series: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/home_video/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000579310 THE LION KING II: SIMBA’S PRIDE – a new website has gone up for this DTV re-issue: http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/simbaspride/ SPIDER-MAN 2 – it’s still in the theaters for Pete’s sake (geddit?), and already we have a November 15 street date and specs for the 2-disc DVD: http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=4358 ----INTERVIEWS---- CHAT ONLINE with Witch Hunter Robin’s JOHNNY YONG BOSCH, tonight, Sunday 18, at 6pm PT / 9pm ET: http://www.animationhq.net/v2/features/events.htm ----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY---- EXCLUSIVE NEWS ON DREAMWORKS AT THIS YEAR’S SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON – be among the first to see footage from Madagascar, Father Of The Pride, Wallace And Gromit’s Movie and Ghost In The Shell 2 from 22-25 July. PLUS the availability of representatives on hand ACCEPTING SHOWREEL SUBMISSIONS: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001918.html Animated nominations for the 56TH ANNUAL PRIMETIME EMMYS: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001909.html Finding Nemo and Lion King 1½ represented animation at his year’s HOME ENTERTAINMENT DVD TECHNICAL AWARDS: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/altavista/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040714005950&newsLang=en SUPERMAN – the often delayed and troubled new feature film project to feature the Man Of Steel has another new twist to add to its tale. Now it looks like Bryan Singer and his X-MEN 2 team could be on board: http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=17972 ----TELEVISION / THEMED / STAGE---- “It’s NOT, y’know…for kids” – DreamWorks’ FATHER OF THE PRIDE gets a broadcast slot of 9pm by NBC to reflect its adult-oriented humor: http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C89317%7C1%7C,00.html ONE WEEK LEFT! Entrants for this year’s CINEME Animation Festival have until August 1st to get their shorts in: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001911.html SCOOBY’S ALL-STAR LAFF-A-LYMPICS – Boomerang will air the entire 1977-1980 series in tribute to this year’s Summer Games. The 72-hour marathon begins August 13: http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=116497 ----BUSINESS---- Academy Award-nominated director Mark Osborne is partnering with Pixar’s Karen Dufilho-Rosen to make short film THE BETTER HALF with a recently awarded Guggenheim Fellowship helping to pick up the tab: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00001901.html PORTLAND STUDIOS – an up and coming commercial studio has launched a Flash website to promote its portfolio and talented group of young artists: http://www.portlandstudios.com/ THE MOUSE HOUSE IS BACK IN COURT AGAIN this week following reports from Marvel Enterprises that says Disney has not accounted properly for Marvel’s comic book properties running on the ABC Family channel, and that Disney have repeatedly promoted their own shows over those featuring Spider-Man, Hulk and X-Men: http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=11477 ----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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