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

04/03/05 – 04/09/05:

Hello, and welcome back to the Animated News Weekly. Please copy and paste any split links into your browser for more info on a given subject. This week’s movers and shakers. . .



----FEATURE FILMS----

VALIANT – The Hollywood Reporter comes down (undeservedly) hard on Vanguard’s debut feature, set to disappear in the US this August due to a lacklustre campaign by Disney, who will release the film under its Touchstone banner:
http://www.thehollywoodreporter.com/thr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000865912

CHICKEN LITTLE – Disney’s other bird shows up as a unique item show up on eBay:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003282.html

CHICKEN LITTLE – poster art for the film has begun to sprout around the web:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003283.html

GARFIELD 2 and THE JETSONS – the moggy is to get another theatrical outing in 2006, while Steve Martin is being courted to star as George in the live-action Jetsons movie in 2007:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003288.html

MADAGASCAR – new poster:
http://www.impawards.com/2005/madagascar_ver9.html

MADAGASCAR – a couple of work-in-progress screening reviews:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=19843

GOLDEN BLAZE – the first theatrically released Flash animated film gets weekly screenings at the Regal Cinemas chain this month:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003293.html



----DVD RELEASES----

SHARK TALE – after a lack of online reviews, and better late than never, DVD Toons takes their in-depth look at the recent disc:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/390

TARZAN II – looks to be coming in at around the 72-minute mark (meaning just over an hour for the actual feature, minus the credit scroll):
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003266.html

PUP NAMED SCOOBY DOO – specs and cover art:
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3229

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN – the legend returns this fall:
http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=13564



----INTERVIEWS----

A busy HENRY SELICK talks Moongirl, The Wall And The Wing, and Fantastic Mr Fox:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003268.html

JOSS WHEDON, on directing Wonder Woman:
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1498869/03222005/story.jhtml



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

The WARD KIMBALL home movie exhibition hasn’t turned out to be quite as exciting as it might have, being revealed to be his footage detailing the opening of the Los Angeles Union Station:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003275.html

SAVE OUR LOONEY TUNES – an eleven year old buy has started up a petition to stop the Warners lunacy in destroying the reputations of their classic characters by introducing the “new breed” of Loonatics, a crime-fighting version set in 2772. Currently, Thomas Adams has around 34,000 signatures:
http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=42500

DREAM ON SILLY DREAMER – screening at Newport Beach among a number of animation events:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003287.html



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

PEANUTS PARODY – catch this sure-to-be-pulled-soon student film from Cal Arts’ Jim Reardon, made in the late 1980s before he joined The Simpsons as a director:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003267.html

KIDS CHOICE AWARDS – the winners of the 18th annual awards:
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1498869/03222005/story.jhtml

THE GEEK’S GUIDE TO DISNEYLAND – the best way to experience the 50th Anniversary celebrations at the park:
http://www.o-meon.com/pages/geeks_guide/gg_04-05-05.html

MUPPETS WIZARD OF OZ – the film has big promotional awareness at Macy’s with an in-store display and merchandise. Lots of pics here:
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1375

POPEMAN – April Fools has come and gone, so this is very real:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_7-4-2005_pg9_1



----BUSINESS----

EISNER’S PLANS, IGER’S REVISIONS – looks like some sense could be trickling down at the Disney company following new CEO Bob Iger’s taking over of top duties. As well as dismantling Michael Eisner’s Strategic Planning division last week (the main alleged cause of much of the “micro-managing” Eisner was famous for), there are rumors that other, Eisner-led initiatives might get the plug pulled on them, including the Pixar-less Sequel Lab:
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1379



----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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