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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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05/01/05 – 05/07/05:

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. This week’s headliners…



----FEATURE FILMS----

VALIANT – the US trailer goes online for this fun feature:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/valiant.html

VALIANT – clips from the movie:
http://www.mymovies.net/player/play.asp?TRID=2255%7C1570&filmid=2255&sec=trailers&comingsoon=true

NARNIA – first pics, plus news that the film have be a PG rating:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7692504/site/newsweek/

COONSKIN 2? Ralph Bakshi, taking Fox’s “thanks but no thanks” for a follow up to Wizards on the chin, is now chasing up a sequel to his 1975 film:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20105

MADAGASCAR – new images:
http://latinoreview.com/films_2005/dreamworks/madagascar/madagascar.html

SHREK 3 – Justin Timberlake joins the cast, plus plot points:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-05-01-timberlake-shrek3_x.htm

UPCOMING DREAMWORKS – more on Shrek 3, plus Bee Movie, Over The Hedge and Flushed Away, which will be Aardman’s first foray into CGI feature animation:
http://press.arrivenet.com/bus/article.php/630018.html

BEE MOVIE – more tidbits from Seinfeld himself, plus the first image:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20111

MORE NARNIA – a “new kind” of Disney film? What, more “new” that Pirates Of The Caribbean? Read more:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-05-02-narnia_x.htm

MORE NARNIA II – details on the world-wide debut of the trailer:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=9438

MORE NARNIA III – the actual trailer, ONLINE:
http://movies.channel.aol.com/franchise/exclusives/chronicles_of_narnia_movie

MADAGASCAR – another international poster:
http://www.impawards.com/2005/madagascar_ver10.html

MORE SHREK 3 – plot from Katzenberg himself:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=9477

IGOR – Exodus’ CGI feature just landed Christian Slater as its lead voice:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003428.html

SUPERMAN RETURNS – and flies:
http://www.bluetights.net/news.php?id=49

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY – the answer to Life, Everything, the Universe and Box Office seems to be 42, as the UK’s take of £4.2million and the US’s take of $21m (half of 42) testifies! The film is still doing very well, having just about recouped its production costs from these two countries:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003419.html



----DVD RELEASES----

TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE – the bad, bad boys of animation have a field day with their puppets! Full review of May 17’s packed disc:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/398

LOTS OF DISNEY SEQUELS – that sound you hear is the bottom of the barrel being scraped. On the way are unnecessary additions Fox And The Hound II, Cinderella III, Little Mermaid III, AristoCats II and Brother Bear II, as well as some previously announced:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003415.html

Better than all that lot is this announcement for another Mickey Mouse feature, MICKEY IN SPACE:
http://www.disneydatabase.com/forums/showthread.php?t=342

TOY STORY: 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION – full specs, with a heap of déjà vu for those with the previous LaserDisc or Ultimate Toybox DVD:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003413.html

TOY STORY 2 – the fun sequel will also be getting the 2-disc treatment – look for a boxed set of the two by Christmas:
http://www.disneydatabase.com/forums/showthread.php?t=348

POOH’S GRAND ADVENTURE – the first and “lost” Winnie The Pooh DTV feature finally makes a region 1 debut:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003422.html

PIPPI LONGSTOCKING – the 1997 feature comes to disc in August:
http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=3319

MADAGASCAR – the eventual DVD will contain an added short, created for the disc and starring the four penguin characters:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003426.html

MORE STUDIO GHIBLI – another wave on the way:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003432.html

LILO AND STITCH 2 – press release:
http://www.disneydatabase.com/forums/showthread.php?t=351



----INTERVIEWS----

ANDREAS DEJA talks being raised in Germany, his love for Disney’s films and the dream he lived out by ending up at the Studio:
http://www.animationpodcast.com/archives/2005/05/01/the-animation-podcast-andreas-deja-part-one

CHRIS WEDGE – before Robots disappears completely, the director speaks again:
http://www.animwatch.com/Feature11-Robots.php

NICK PARK talks Wallace and Gromit and curses of Were-rabbits:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20159



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

ALADDIN REUNION – another short write up, plus photos:
http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/2005/04/aladdin-reunion-wrap-up.html
http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/2005/04/dozen-animators-aladdin.html



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

BIKER MICE FROM MARS is back:
http://www.worldscreen.com/newscurrent.php?filename=biker504.htm

The UK Elections all happened last week, and this fun Flash short, THE UNCREDIBLES, had good fun with it:
http://www.theuncredibles.co.uk/



----BUSINESS----

B SUSAN KIRCH has been promoted to VP, Creative Affairs at Disney’s Toon Studios where she will develop yet more sequels:
http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=13824



----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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