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

08/22/04 – 08/28/04:

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. And we’re off once more…



----FEATURE FILMS----

TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE – following last week’s report that Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s new film featured “graphic scenes of puppet sex”, Variety says the boys are obliged to hand in an R-rated print to Paramount. . . a “Director’s Unrated Cut” to hit DVD later perhaps?:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002189.html

TEAM AMERICA – new exclusive MTV content:
http://www.mtv.com/movies/maz/1489942/movie.jhtml

SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW – listen to the ENTIRE CD SCORE online:
http://mp.aol.com/audio.main.adp?mxid=1153566

THE BARNYARD – Nick Jr’s first CGI movie has picked up a cast:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002203.html

FLUSHED AWAY – a new feature from Aardman will see Lord Of The Rings stars Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis back together again:
http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=32041

BIG NASTY – Sony have hired Barbershop scribe Don D Scott to write a new comedy for their animation arm:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002196.html

VALIANT – British composer George Fenton, also scoring this fall’s photorealistic African lion adventure Pride, will provide music for Disney/Vanguard’s first joint production:
http://www.musicfromthemovies.com/article.asp?ID=375

YOGI BEAR – not coming off as if they are scraping the bottom of the barrel at all is news that Warners are developing a live-action movie:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=6145

GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE – reviewed:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18221

GHOST IN THE SHELL 2 – Canadian premiere as part of the Toronto Film Festival:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002231.html

BRENDAN AND THE SECRET OF KELLS – artwork from a rumored new Spanish animated feature:
http://miarroba.com/foros/ver.php?temaid=2401085&foroid=97427

STAR WARS VII, VIII and IX – the “third trilogy” rumors have surfaced again, with talk of a computer-generated series completing Lucas’ originally intended trilogy of trilogies:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002224.html

THE INCREDIBLES – two new TV spots released online:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002226.html



----DVD RELEASES----

BAMBI – Platinum Edition will hit one week earlier than expected, on March 1 2005:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002223.html

ALADDIN – photos from the recording session for newly integrated song Proud Of Your Boy:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/aladbf.html#clay

ALADDIN and LION KING II have new CD soundtrack tie-ins to compliment their DVD issues:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002219.html

NO MULAN 3 – at a recent Buena Vista promotional evening, Mulan voice talent Ming Na said that she had not heard about the rumored third adventure:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002187.html

GARGOYLES – complete Season One press release:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4978

SPIDER-MAN 2 – artwork for the first of a gazillion releases:
http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=4684

CARTOON STAR WARS – a press release for the upcoming DROIDS and E-E-E-E-EEEEE-EWOKS (sorry, couldn’t resist!) disc releases:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/656

DRAGONS: FIRE AND ICE – a trailer is up for Bardel Entertainment’s first direct-to-video feature:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002222.html

LADY DEATH – the DVD is released October 5:
http://www.ladydeathtmp.com/

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL – last year’s 2-disc edition is to be joined by a third “Lost Disc” in an attempt to snag those who have not bought the film yet. Featuring 69 minutes of new bonus features, here’s the very basic packaging:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/coverart.html#november



----INTERVIEWS----

SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW – director KERRY CONRAN and cast talk about the movie and upcoming projects:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=6133

WORLD OF TOMORROW – more from director Conran and producer Jon Avnet:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18216

WORLD OF TOMORROW – more from Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow:
http://www.latinoreview.com/interviews/paltrow-lawonprojects.html

THE INCREDIBLES – story supervisor Mark Andrews talks about the tone and style of the next Disney/Pixar feature:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/movies/orl-mag-sp-comicmovies_082204,0,4863759.story?coll=orl-calmoviestop

FATHER OF THE PRIDE – DreamWorks have been pushing the boat out this week, with a number of high-profile interviews. Hear audio from the show’s PRODUCERS:
http://dreamworksfansite.com/press/junkets/fatherofthepride/

FATHER OF THE PRIDE – voice cast members reveal their experiences:
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/541/541390p1.html



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

Animation World Network looks at five new animated shorts:
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2205



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

MUPPETS WIZARD OF OZ – Not Hilary Duff as earlier reported, but ASHANTI taking the role of a real-life Dorothy:
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1052

MUPPETS WIZARD OF OZ – more casting, including Queen Latifah, and…Quentin Tarantino??:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040826e.php

THE BATMAN – the entire opening of the show and much, much more at the official site:
http://kidswb.warnerbros.com/web/stuff/stuff_display.jsp?id=BTM

WITCHBLADE – the American comic becomes a Japanese animated series:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/5520.html

FATHER OF THE PRIDE – review and a glowing recommendation:
http://latinoreview.com/tv/fatherofthepride.html



----BUSINESS----

THIS LAND – Ludlow Music is dropping its charges against JibJab Media, who used the now found to be public domain song This Land Is Your Land in a recent web short:
http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=11794



----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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