ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 5.03 - JUNE 2000

Compiled and written by Rick DeMott
Technology news by Paul Younghusband


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Awards | Business | Call for Entries | Commercials | Events | Films | In Passing
Internet & Interactive | Licensing | People | Technology | Television | Video

Awards

  • Pinky & The Brain Take Over The Daytime Emmys
  • Daytime Emmy Tech Awards Announced
  • Webbies Name Best Sites Of The Year
  • Interactive Awards Announce Winners
  • ASIFA-East Awards Excellence
  • Viola & King's Shirts Top Nordic Fest
  • The Age of the Interactive Awards
  • BAFTA Says Beautiful Eyes Is Best

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Awards

Business

  • Cinar Sued By HighReach
  • Harvey Hatches Better Results For 1st Quarter
  • Time Warner & Disney Draw Truce
  • Marvel Sends 15 Heroes To Artisan
  • Mounting Fines For Time Warner & AOL
  • Marvel Sees First Quarter Decline
  • Nelvana Offers 3.75M Shares
  • Report Calls For Canadian Television Fund Revamp
  • Quebec Animation Adds Oscar Winner
  • Founders' Renovate Home With Cinar Funds?
  • Filmmakers Call Foul To Canadian TV Fund
  • Project: Messiah's New Reincarnation
  • Cinar Employees Barred From Trading
  • Harvey Goes PM
  • Ollin Studio Opens Office In Canada
  • Humongous Donation To Make-A-Wish Foundation

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Business

Call for Entries

  • Flash! Anima Mundi Wants Web Toons
  • Ajijic Asks For Animation Submissions

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Call%for%Entries

Commercials

  • Sedelmaier Helps Griffey Try New Sportz
  • Quiet Man Raps On Barrons Ad
  • SimEx's Sixth Froot Loop Spot

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Commercials

Events

  • Frederic Back Retrospective
  • Zagreb 2000
  • Outer Limits
  • The First Bristol Animated Encounters
  • CalArts Showcase 2000
  • Singapore Animation Fiesta 2000
  • AnimeOnline Festival
  • Annecy International Film Festival
  • Swatch & AtomFilms Launch Flash Talent Search
  • Bill Plympton's Guilty Pleasures At WAC
  • World Animation Celebration
  • L!censing 2000
  • Nashville Independent Film Festival
  • Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering Symposium
  • Toronto Short Film Festival
  • Plympton On Broadway

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Events

Films

  • Dino Soars To The Top Of US Box Office
  • Gladiator Slays The International Box Office
  • Gladiator Reigns Over The US BO Battlefield
  • Gladiator Rules While Mars Lands At Top Of Global BO
  • Web Toon Undercover Brother Turned Into Feature
  • Gladiator Works As Dream Maker At US BO
  • Stuart Little & Pokemon Fade From International BO
  • Pokemon & Stuart Struggle For International BO
  • It's Raining Stars For Cats & Dogs
  • U-571 Sinks The New Recruits At US BO
  • El Dorado Falls To Five
  • U-571 Undeniable Box Office Victor
  • Spike & Mike Invade Cannes
  • NFB's Upcoming Animation

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Films

In Passing

  • Warner Bros. Director Arthur Davis Passes

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=In%Passing

Internet and Interactive

  • VanHook Ventures On Cyberspace
  • DEN Is Done
  • Web Thugs Hit The Tellie
  • Dr. Katz Producer Tom Snyder Joins Shockwave
  • Actor Hamilton Joins Stan Lee Media As President
  • Honkworm Unveils New Toons At Cannes
  • Wildbrain Creates Content For Cartoon Network On-line
  • Digital Entertainment Network Version 2.0
  • King Of The Hill Puts Foot Into Net
  • Two Nova Scotia Guys Net Spielberg Deal
  • Bunny Grenade Explodes Onto Web
  • Ben Stein Wins With Shockwave

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Internet%and%Interactive

Licensing

  • Disney Lands A More Golden Book Deal With Random House
  • Mattel Lands Nick Toys Deal
  • Hasbro Builds With Bob
  • Power Puffed Soundtrack

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Licensing

People

  • Stuart Little’s Dykstra Swings With Spider-Man
  • Former TriStar Chairman Joins Film Roman Board
  • Call, Macaluso Promoted At Digital Domain
  • Grasso Named Will Vinton Exec VP
  • Stan Lee Media Lands Top Animation Talent
  • Aries New VP At Nick Studios
  • Roth & Bird Fly To Pixar
  • DEN's Programming VP Vamooses
  • Tsujihara Takes Over Entertaindom

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=People

Technology

  • Alias|Wavefront Bring Maya To The Mac
  • AFX Release SceneGenie 1.2

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Technology

Television

  • Pokemon Pumps Up European Deals
  • South Park Is iN DEMAND
  • Cartoon Network To Air Lost Cartoons
  • The PJs Movin' On Up To The WB
  • Cartoon Network Navigates 10 New Pilots
  • Phil Roman Rides With Soap On The Range
  • Nick After Hours
  • Parker & Stone's 3 Year Deal
  • Marx Brothers Toon Stopped By Heirs

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Television

Video

  • Best Of Zagreb Video
  • Anchors Aweigh Sails Onto DVD

http://www2.awn.com/mag/news.php3?item=Video


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