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

01/23/05 – 01/29/05:

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. This week’s rumblings in toontown…



----FEATURE FILMS----

ACADEMY AWARDS – The Incredibles leads the animation hopes, with four nods, joining Shrek 2 and surprise announcement SharkTale in the Best Animated Feature nominations:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002977.html

JOIN US IN DISCUSSING THE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS at the Animated News Forum. Sign up is free and easy:
http://animated-news.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1749

BRAD BIRD discusses his film The Incredibles’ hopes amongst this year’s Oscar contenders:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8088

THE KRAZEES – Robin Williams is certainly on the wacky comeback trail after Robots and now this, the story of psychologist whose daughter’s repressed feelings manifest themselves as wild CGI creatures:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002978.html

MIDSUMMER DREAM – the Spanish animated adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy has a trailer online:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002981.html

TOY STORY 3 – after last week’s announcement that a story had been found, it seems the studio can’t find anyone to step into Pixar’s shoes to actually direct the thing:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002987.html

POOH’S HEFFALUMP MOVIE – several clips online:
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808615321&cf=trailer

SON OF THE MASK – the animation-influenced sequel has some scenes online:
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808405076&cf=trailer

SHREK 3 – a recent newsletter mailing from John Cleese’s official site confirms the actor to be lending his voice to the King in the DreamWorks sequel:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002995.html



----DVD RELEASES----

PINOCCHIO 3000 – the Filmax feature debuts on disc in the UK:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002980.html

BAMBI AND THE GREAT PRINCE OF THE FOREST – an abundance of new images from this direct to video project:
http://www.disneydatabase.com/movie_screens.php?movieid=299

MULAN II – an exclusive look at the recent DVD launch party:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002976.html



----INTERVIEWS----

NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE – producer MARK JOHNSON on bringing the book to life, plus location shoot images:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002991.html



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

WALT’S PEOPLE – Didier Ghez’s exhaustive first volume of a fantastic new book series features archive interviews with those who knew and worked with Walt Disney, including John Hench, Milt Kahl, Bill Tytla, Ken Anderson and Rudy Ising, with contributions from Mike Barrier among others:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002994.html



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

BLUR STUDIOS have a very enjoyable teaser up for their latest short GOPHER BROKE:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002986.html

The supercalifragilisticexpialiawful MARY POPPINS stage show in London has garnered nine Olivier award nominations:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002992.html



----BUSINESS----

The current DISNEY BOARD look to be safe in their seats:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002982.html

The WINNIE-THE-POOH trial rears its head again, with the appealing of those looking for more royalties from Disney:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=599&ncid=802&e=3&u=/nm/20050127/media_nm/media_pooh_dc



----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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