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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07/03/05 – 07/16/05:

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. Headlines from the last couple of weeks. . .



----FEATURE FILMS----

SNOW AND THE SEVEN – Walt’s classic is about to be remade as a Kung Fu actioner, as part of the Studio’s plans to expand in China:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003689.html

CHICKEN LITTLE – new images plus more on the digital 3D release:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003690.html

CORPSE BRIDE – new, full trailer:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/timburtonscorpsebride.html

VALIANT – Disney’s release of Vanguard’s fun animated adventure has a site up:
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/valiant/

CHRONICLES OF NARNIA – is LIAM NEESON (after previous choices Sean Connery and Brian Cox fell through) the voice of Aslan? Dialogue has apparently been recorded and animation begun:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20695

ICE AGE 2 – after some time away, the teaser trailer is back online:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/ice_age_2/

SCANNER DARKLY / PIRATES 2 and 3 / CORPSE BRIDE / KING KONG / SUPERMAN RETURNS – lots and lots of news, panel and trailer descriptions from San Diego’s COMIC-CON:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003722.html



----DVD RELEASES----

PLAGUE DOGS – UNCUT! Rev up those multi-region players and pre-order this exclusive Australian R4 edition of Martin Rosen’s classic. Full specs and cover art here:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003695.html

STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN – the 1980s sci-fi adventure gets the thumbs up:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/409

AESOP’S FABLES – a new Thunderbean disc looks back on the Van Beuren series:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/411

LILO AND STITCH 2 – Stitch Has A Glitch at the new teaser site:
http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/liloandstitch2/

CGI TINKERBELL – DisneyToon are ramping up more DTV sequels, including a computer-generated Tinkerbell Movie:
http://www.dvdexclusive.com/article.asp?articleID=2263&categoryID=

ACTIVITY DISCS – The push for more and more interactive promo tie-ins:
http://www.dvdexclusive.com/article.asp?articleID=2260&categoryID=

LOONEY TUNES: GOLDEN COLLECTION VOLUME 3 – another packed edition, with more of an emphasis on “adult collectors” and some surprises to come “from the vaults”, plus a second MOVIE COLLECTION (though still a no show for The Bugs Bunny Movie):
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3674

TOM AND JERRY: SPOTLIGHT COLLECTION VOL 2 – after the “uncut” debacle of Volume One, Warners won’t blame you too much for skipping this one:
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3678



----INTERVIEWS----

DENNIS MUREN talks about his amazing SFX career and latest collaboration on War Of The Worlds:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/waroftheworldsnews.php?id=10193

DIGITAL RESTORATION AND HI-DEF DVD – John Lowry of Lowry Images, who clean up the Disney films such as Bambi and Cinderella’s latest digital restorations, talks about the process and how it translates to the new DVD formats:
http://www.dvdexclusive.com/article.asp?articleID=2256



----CHARACTERS AND HISTORY----

BIRD – check out student Robin Joseph’s grad piece:
http://www.patchoforange.blogspot.com/

DIGITAL CINEMA – the history of the emerging technology is explored in a new book that throws light on a historic David Bowie concert:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003694.html

NEMO FOUND – Pixar president Ed Catmull has had his private pool decked out with the cast of Finding Nemo:
http://www.vogland.com/custom.htm

THE MUPPETS – Disney apparently still has big plans for the funny, furry, crazy creatures:
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1551

NORM PRESCOTT – the Filmation Studios co-founder died last week in Los Angeles, aged 78:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003704.html



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

DISNEY MAGAZINE SUMMER SPECIAL – Roy And Patti Disney reminisce about DisneyLand’s opening week:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003699.html

BUZZ LIGHTYEAR – the online multi-player DisneyLand interactive game is now online:
http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/parks/attractions/detail?name=BuzzLightyearAttractionPage&buzzMiniSite=true

NARUTO – the cult Japanese show is coming to Cartoon Network:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003701.html

DISNEYLAND’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY – history and commentary on the park’s birthday:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003716.html

EMMY AWARDS – the nominations:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003718.html

COMIC-CON – loads of images for upcoming projects from this year’s San Diego event:
http://www.comingsoon.net/cgi-bin/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Comic_Con_2005&img=0



----BUSINESS----

SAVE DISNEY is saved…or at least Roy Disney has been. A new joint-agreement with the Walt Disney Company sees the dissident shareholder return to the lot, as Director Emeritus and consultant, while the SaveDisney campaign will permanently close down August 7.

Joint Disney and Disney statement:
http://www.savedisney.com/news/press_release070805.1.asp

Personal message from Roy to the SaveDisney supporters:
http://www.savedisney.com/red_message.asp

DREAMWORKS DVD NEWS goes from bad to worse, as sales continue to dip, the SEC begins an informal inquiry and the company is faced with six lawsuits:
http://www.videobusiness.com/article.asp?articleID=10959&catType=NEWS

MORE DREAMWORKS DVD – further report on the story above:
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1526389,00.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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