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

08/29/04 – 09/04/04:

Hello, and welcome to the Animated News Weekly. Please copy and paste any split links into your browser for more info on a given subject. Light and breezy, but no less interesting this week, the big stories were. . .



----FEATURE FILMS----

BOUNDIN’ – Pixar’s recent short is confirmed for a pre-Incredibles screening. AICN has a review:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18251

ANNIE AWARDS – the website has been updated to reflect a look ahead to the January 2005 awards, honouring this year’s crop of movies. Entry forms and more, at the official site:
http://www.annieawards.com/

SHARK TALE – another new trailer hits the web:
http://www.sharktale.com/

SHARK TALE – a fantastic HD version of the new trailer in DIVX codec:
http://www.divx.com/movies/trailer_sharktale.php

SHARK TALE – listen to a high-quality stream of Christina Aguilera’s new recording of the classic funky track CAR WASH:
http://boss.streamos.com/real/geffen/shark_tale/audio/car_wash/00.ram

SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW – Co-star Angelina Jolie says that if the film’s a hit, everyone is ready to do a prequel:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=6201

MORE WORLD OF TOMORROW – Exclusive clips:
http://movies.channel.aol.com/franchise/exclusives/skycaptain.adp

GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE – 30 new images up:
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/543/543747p1.html

SHREK 2 – to be awarded by the Hollywood Film Festival:
http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/fullstory.php?id=715

SPONGEBOB – the Squarepants Movie website gets a makeover:
http://www.nick.com/all_nick/movies/spongebob/index2.jhtml

CURIOUS GEORGE – Universal’s traditional feature has been bumped two months, from November 2004 to February 2006:
http://www.universalpictures.com/comingSoon/inProduction.php?movieId=curiousGeorge&rand=66902

STEAMBOY – closing the Venice Film Festival is this new feature from the creator of AKIRA and the writer of Metropolis. Follow the links within this story for clips, trailers, Sony’s official page photo previews, plus much more:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002272.html


----DVD RELEASES----

DISNEY TREASURES – full liner notes and content listings for this year’s three releases:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4779

HOME ON THE RANGE – Disney’s recent animated mooovie comes home with one surprise extra feature. . .a full-length writer/director commentary track! Full review here:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/homeontherange.html

HOME ON THE RANGE – a selection of images from the included DVD short, A DAIRY TALE: THREE LITTLE PIGS:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002259.html

BAMBI – press release:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5057

MULAN II – cover art:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/coverart.html#feb

PAUL AND HIS BANANAS – a new look for the lead character:
http://www.bishopanimation.com/ba.php

THE PASSION OF THE JEW – the special South Park episode gets its own DVD to coincide with Mel’s live-action epic, and is reviewed:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/330

HIGHLANDER – now an animated feature sequel is in the works:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002248.html

BATMAN and SUPERMAN boxed sets moved back a few weeks to early 2005:
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=120700

SIMPSONS GONE WILD – review:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/dvdreviewsnews.php?id=6254

INVADER ZIM: PROGRESSIVE STUPIDITY Vol 2 – review:
http://dvd.ign.com/articles/543/543736p1.html

CLERKS: ANIMATED – director Kevin Smith confirms the animated prequel is still on the cards, as well as a new, “10 year later” live-action sequel [WARNING FOR MATURE LANGUAGE]:
http://viewaskew.com/theboard/viewtopic.php?t=14125

KIM POSSIBLE: THE VILLAIN FILES – a new disc compilation is set for December:
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=2175

ONE BY ONE – the exceptional animated short on the new LION KING II DVD is profiled:
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2216



----INTERVIEWS----

BILL KIM talks about transferring Shark Tale from screen to video game console:
http://dreamworksfansite.com/features/interviews/bill_kim.php



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

WALT DISNEY TREASURES – screenings of several shorts from this year’s releases will play this Tuesday, September 5, at the ArcLight Cinema in Hollywood as part of the LA Shorts festival:
http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=11862



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

FATHER OF THE PRIDE – “It’s a hit!”, sort of. Despite a critical mauling, the DreamWorks TV was the most watched program in its debut on Tuesday. A dedicated page to the show is now online:
http://animation.dreamworksfansite.com/fatherofthepride/

FATHER OF THE PRIDE – the reviews are in:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002243.html

ANDREW LIPPA is the new replacement composer on the BETTY BOOP STAGE MUSICAL:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/88146.html

KINGDOM HEARTS II – info on the upcoming game:
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/543/543070p1.html?fromint=1

GREEN SCREEN – Drew Carey’s improv-animation show has an air date set for October:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002249.html

THE BATMAN – more details and a Bats vs. bane clip:
http://www.superherohype.com/batman/index.php?id=1944

FOX-BOX’s fall lineup, including new shows One Piece and F-Zero:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002263.html

THE LION KING 1½ - well it didn’t take long! The “mid-quel” will debut on the Disney Channel next Sunday, September 12, at 5pm/4c:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002270.html



----BUSINESS----

WICKED RGB – a new online booking destination for hiring CG artists, has opened its virtual doors:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002233.html

DISNEY DIRECT TO VIDEO – DVD Exclusive has an in-depth look at Disney’s low cost/high profit DTV winning streak:
http://edtweb04dev154.edthosting.com/graphics/0804Disney10thAnni-2.pdf



----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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