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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02/27/05 – 03/05/05:

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. Rumblings in ToonTown this week from. . .



----FEATURE FILMS----

ACADEMY AWARDS – not a big year for animation in general, the highlights of the Chris (Osmosis Jones!) Rock show were Brad Bird’s Best Animated Feature win for The Incredibles, as well as his character Edna Mode appearing with former James Bond Pierce Brosnan to present the Best Costume Design gong (“naturally, dahhrling!”). The Incredibles also won for Best Sound Editing, while Ryan took Best Animated Short, and Spider-Man 2 was recognised for its Visual Effects – over I, Robot!!?? Check out the winners and snippets from their speeches here:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003142.html

HERBIE: FULLY LOADED – trailer for the fun-looking Love Bug update is now up:
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808404374&intl=us



----DVD RELEASES----

BAMBI: PLATINUM EDITION – DVD Toons gives its customary in-depth review:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/384

MULAN II – better late than never, DVD Toons weighs in:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/382

THE BATMAN – WB’s “kid-take” on the Dark Knight comes to disc:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/747

THE INCREDBILES – the menu screens:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/749

MORE INCREDIBLES – several deleted scene grabs:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003156.html

MORE INCREDIBLES – the first DVD review:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/dvdreviewsnews.php?id=8522

TINKERBELL MOVIE / CINDERELLA 3 – Corey Burton, the long time Disney character voice stand-by reveals details on various projects he’s working on, including another Peter Pan movie (this time a prequel) as well as another unwanted Cinderella:
http://www.moviehole.net/news/5146.html

TARZAN II – more Disney sequel “goodness”, the website just went live:
http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/tarzan2/index.html



----INTERVIEWS----

BRAD BIRD, promoting the INCREDIBLES DVD, talks a sequel (but doesn’t mention the Disney/Pixar split, so how would that work?) and chances of 2D features at Pixar:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8536

CHRIS WEDGE – ten questions with the Ice Age director, out promoting ROBOTS:
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/563/563908p1.html



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

GENNDY TARTAKOVSKY – tribute at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theater later this month (scroll down, down, down):
http://www.americancinematheque.com/archive1999/2005/specialeventMARCH.htm#Program%20#1



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

100 GREATEST CARTOONS – possibly the strangest list to ever be compiled on the subject, the British public have voted in the UK’s Channel Four quest to find the 100 Greatest Cartoons. Start the debate here:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003141.html

DISNEYLAND FOR GROWN-UPS – how to enjoy the park without kids:
http://www.o-meon.com/pages/geeks_guide/gg_03-01-05.html

STAR WARS: CLONE WARS 3 – descriptions and more on the new series:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003151.html

KRYPTO: THE SUPERDOG – check out the totally inept lyrics and amateur garage-band sound of the theme tune:
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/krypto/preview/index.html



----BUSINESS----

BAMBI – the 63 year old movie knocked out the competition, with almost one million sales on the first day of release:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050302/law076_1.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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