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 Animated News Weekly 03/20/05 – 04/02/05: 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. Recent headliners were. . . ----FEATURE FILMS---- RATATOUILLE – Brad Garret reveals he’ll be playing a chef in Pixar’s post-Disney tale of rats living in a French restaurant: http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=6993 CURIOUS GEORGE – the voice cast is revealed in this trade ad: http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/flipbook.php?id=464&page=3 LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE won the Canadian equivalent of the Academy Awards at the 25th Annual Genie Awards, taking home the Best Picture gong: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003225.html ROBOTS 2 – for those who didn’t feel the film nourished enough story buds comes news that the sequel, due after Blue Sky’s Ice Age 2 and Horton Hears A Who, will have more plot (and less frenetic action please?): http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=2434 ICE AGE 2 – the teaser is back online: http://www.moviewallpapers.net/module.php?section=iceage2 CURIOUS GEORGE – a further teaser poster is online: http://www.blackfilm.com/20050325/features/fs_curiousgeorge.shtml TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES – a new feature is on the way: http://www.darkhorizons.com/news05/050329b.php PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN II and III – Jack Davenport is back, as well as some tidbits on production: http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/newsstory.asp?news_id=16667 FOODFIGHT! – The Duff sisters will lend their voices to this CGI comedy: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8878 PETER COTTONTAIL MOVIE – a new project seems to be in the works: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003234.html CHARLOTTE’S WEB – the “closer to the book” version has some details and set shots revealed: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8948 ----DVD RELEASES---- FATHER OF THE PRIDE – miss it on TV? Catch it on disc, with plentiful extras: http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=6193&n=1&burl= THE KING KONG ONSLAUGHT BEGINS! What with Peter Jackson’s big ape movie hitting screens this Christmas, expect to see the original 1933 version as well as the 1966 Rankin-Bass TV series, just announced by Sony: http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3167 THE MASK and the decade-late sequel SON OF THE MASK are to get special edition DVD releases: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003245.html DISNEY’S DTV EMPIRE – Animation World Network has an interesting piece up about the continuing work put out by Disney’s direct-to-video operation down under, the DisneyToon Studio: http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2439 TARZAN II – cover art for the upcoming “mid-quel”: http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=5815&n=1&burl= LILO AND STITCH 2: STITCH HAS A GLITCH – despite the rather mouthful of a title, the disc for the DTV sequel sounds to be shaping up quite nicely, with news of an additional, “origins of Stitch” short being added to the package: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003265.html ----INTERVIEWS---- JEFFREY KATZENBERG on the future of CGI movies and the fear of too much competition in the marketplace: http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20050330/111223628600.html ----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY---- DISNEYLAND TOURS – Jim Hill got more than he bargained for recently: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003222.html DISNEYLAND TOURS – The Company’s official response: http://www.o-meon.com/pages/news%26features/n%26f_03-21-05.html#anchor ROAD RUNNER BLOG – what’s it like living as the bird? Check out this fun spoof: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003224.html THE WOMEN OF DISNEY – check out all the girls who helped shape the Studio: http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1349 1950s AND 60s ANIMATED COMMERCIALS – photos from the recent LA ASIFA event: http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/2005/03/commercial-success.html CALL FOR THE SECOND NICKTOONS FILM FESTIVAL – check out the details and submit your projects: http://www.nick.com/all_nick/nicktoons/site/filmfest/index.html STAR WARS CANDY – seems the force is spreading to ALL points in the galaxy: http://www.mms.com/us/mpire/ THE DISNEY and MUPPETS stamps announced last year by the United States Postal Service have been revealed, with full sized images providing a good look: http://www.usps.com/communications/news/stamps/2004/sr04_076.htm BE A SOUTH PARK CHARACTER – a really fun Flash activity has sprung up online, where one can rearrange the features of the South Park cast to create entirely new characters – including yourselves! Warning for language, but lots of time to be wasted here: http://www.planearium2.de/flash/spstudio.html ----TELEVISION / THEMED / STAGE---- FUTURAMA – could a rumored theme park simulator ride that spoofs DisneyLand’s Star Tours spark off a return of the series?: http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1370 STAR WARS: CLONE WARS SEASON 3 – the website is now live and kicking: http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/promos/200503_starwars/index.html STAR WARS: CLONE WARS – more episodes after season 3, expanding further to half-hour shows, plus more Lucas animation: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8978 MARK THIS UNDER THE TRULY BIZARRE DEPT – a seller on eBay has apparently sold what they are describing as a “possessed Stitch plush toy”. This Stitch certainly seems to have a glitch (as well as the buyers parting with hundreds of dollars to own it!): http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003237.html ----BUSINESS---- DISNEY’S STRATEGIC PLANNING – the Michael Eisner spearheaded unit has been abandoned by new CEO Bob Iger, the biggest move he has made as the new chief so far: http://www.o-meon.com./pages/business_of_show/bos_03-29-05.html PIXAR SEQUELS – the Disney Company apparently has plans for lots more, with Nemo 2, Monsters 2 and a FOURTH Toy Story all on the cards: http://www.magicalmountain.net/WDWNewsDetail.asp?page=1&NewsID=734 PIXAR ACTION FIGURES – back at McDonalds until mid-April: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-22-2005/0003238976&EDATE= HIT ENTERTAINMENT has agreed a close to $1 billion takeover by venture capitalists Apax Partners, who will take control of the Barney The Dinosaur and Bob The Builder cash-cows: http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=13428 ---AND FINALLY: SNOW WHITE 2--- The Animated News contributors submitted various stories on our main page this past April 1st. Though some were spotted early, our Top Story “scoop” on a Snow White sequel made quite a few website chat forums! Until we get any really sad news from Disney that this is going ahead, it WAS just a joke! The stories were: FRIENDS to continue as an animated series: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003258.html Exclusive SHREK 3 storyboard art: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003259.html And that SNOW WHITE AND THE EIGHTH DWARF piece, complete with early art! Happy April Fools: http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003263.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. ---------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: The news shared in this email contains material and links to other non-associated websites. Animated-News.com is not responsible for any consequences arising from the participating and use of these sites, and cannot be held liable for any content that may prove to be untrue, or stories that may later have elements within them changed by the creators of the reported projects. Original content ©2005 Animated-News.com.
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