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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10/10/04 – 10/16/04:

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. This week’s stories were…



----FEATURE FILMS----

ROBOTS – a “making of” featurette debuts online:
http://www.iesb.net/movies2/movie100804d.htm

ROBOTS – new INTERNATIONAL TRAILER:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/robots/international/

INCREDIBLES – character sheet with profiles:
http://latinoreview.com/films_2004/disney/theincredibles/charactersheet.html

INCREDIBLES – more and more glowing reviews from sneak peekers:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18611
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18619
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002529.html

INCREDIBLES MERCHANDISING – more products added to the roster, plus Q&A with director Brad Bird:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002537.html

THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT – it looks like Disney’s Miramax has picked up American rights for this new big screen version:
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117912080&categoryID=13&cs=1

ANT BULLY – voice cast and details:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002533.html

FAT ALBERT – a little on the new live-action movie’s animation:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002521.html

TEAM AMERICA vs. SHARK TALE – the CGI comedy manages to stay at number one for three weeks in a row, with the puppet action fest coming in weaker than expected, at third place:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002542.html

YANKEE IRVING, the computer animated film that CHRISTOPHER REEVE was in line to direct, will still go ahead:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002514.html



----DVD RELEASES----

THE SIMPSONS: SEASON FIVE – it’s on its way for this Christmas:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002504.html

MULAN – the new 2-disc edition gets the onceover:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/mulan.html

SPIDER-MAN: VENOM – details on this DVD release:
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=124096

HARRYHAUSEN CLASSICS – turning up in odd places are Ray’s fairy-tale films:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002540.html



----INTERVIEWS----

TEAM AMERICA – Matt Stone and Trey Parker talk up World Police in a couple of video interviews:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=6755
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/556/556762p1.html



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

CHRISTOPHER REEVE – the actor best known for his role as comic book hero Superman passed away last week, aged 52:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-10-11-reeve-obit_x.htm

DAWS BUTLER – a new biography is about to be issued:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002518.html



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

MORE STAR WARS – as well as further Clone Wars, the saga will not end with the prequels. News is coming in from around the web that further TV ventures are on the cards, as well as possibly an animated movie:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002525.html

Religious animation got a shot in the arm with the toon version of The Passion. More on the way:
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2259

And speaking of such, Richard Rich’s animated biography of MUHAMMAD will finally be released after being held back post September 11th:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002534.html

CHICKEN LITTLE will join the characters in this year’s Macy’s Parade:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041015/laf039_1.html



----BUSINESS----

Keep up to date with all of Pixar’s developments with this blog site:
http://pixaranimation.blogspot.com/

Another blog, this time for animation in general, and not afraid to speak its own opinions:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002538.html

Interactive movies – the next POKEMON movie will have added incentives:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002528.html



----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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