As Dreamers Do Part Deux

[OldNavy1988]

Did FOX or SBC airs So You Think You Can Dance ITTL?

So You Think You Can Dance airs on SBC. Fox still has American Idol.

 

[OldNavy1988]

New on DVD and VHS (July 2005)

Movies
Starlight Express (Sony/MCA Home Entertainment; DreamWorks SKG)
Hostage (Lionsgate)
The Snow Queen 2005 Remake (Walt Disney Home Entertainment)
The Sword in the Stone 2005 Remake (Walt Disney Home Entertainment)
Beavis and Butt-Head: The Return of Cornholio (Turner Home Entertainment)
Casper (Walt Disney Home Entertainment; Tenth Anniversary Platinum Edition)

TV
The Simpsons Season 5 and Season 6 (20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment)
TMNT 2002 Season 1 (Walt Disney Home Entertainment)
The Loud House Season 2 (Turner Home Entertainment)
What's with Andy? Season 1 (New Line Home Entertainment under the Family Home Entertainment label)

Sports
San Antonio Spurs 2004-05 NBA Champion Highlights (Touchstone Home Entertainment; NBA Entertainment)
Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl XXIX Champions (20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment; NFL Films)
Boston Red Sox 2004 World Series Champions: The Curse Reversed! (MLB Productions)

Boutique Label stuff
The Compleat Tex Avery (Criterion Collection)

 

[OldNavy1988]

Above: OTL Laserdisc release by MGM/UA

The Compleat Tex Avery
Released on July 5, 2005 by the Criterion Collection in association with Turner Home Entertainment, 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment and Sony/MCA Home Entertainment

Termite Tex
This volume curates the pre-1942 shorts Avery directed under Leon Schlesinger at Warner Bros., including early Bugs Bunny prototypes.

Madcap-Goldwyn-Mayhem
Most of the MGM cartoons featured are the same as OTL.
Red Hot Riding Hood and Swing Shift Cinderella have the MGM logos restored after having been plastered by Fox from 1946-77.
Every Droopy short helmed by Avery after 1946 IOTL were directed either by Michael Lah, Dave Fleischer or Preston Blair.
All of Avery's George and Junior shorts are included in this volume too. Those characters were later revived by Pat Ventura for a Cartoon Network series in 1996.

20th Century-Tex
After World War II, 20th Century-Fox raided MGM's cartoon staff, fleecing Leo the Lion of not only Tex Avery, but also Walt Clinton and Grant Simmons.
Contains Avery's entries in the Screwy Squirrel series.
Apart from Screwy, we also see Tex's entries in the Baby Huey, Little Audrey, Casper, Herman and Katnip series.
Little Rural Riding Hood was the only short in Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood saga to be made at Fox.
The bulldog you see in Magical Maestro, sometimes named Butch or Spike IOTL, was given the name Poochini when Harvey decided to make a comic book about him a decade after that short was released.
Contains most of Avery's one-shot shorts, including Symphony in Slang, One Cab's Family and Flea Circus.
One exception is Rock a Bye Bear, which Mike Lah directed at MGM ITTL. The same running up the hill to scream formula was later used in other MGM shorts, Deputy Droopy and Royal Cat Nap.
Avery's last cartoon at Fox was Cellbound, which features Poochini as a prisoner who hides inside a TV set.

Tex on Ice
Curates Avery's shorts from 1954-61 at Famous Studios, including his redesign of Paul Smith's Chilly Willy.

The Wacky World of Tex Avery
The anthology series that ran on SBC in the final years of Avery's life.

Bonus Features
20th Century-Tex, a mid-1990's Cartoon Network documentary chronicling the years Avery worked for Fox.
Audio commentaries by Jerry Beck, Charles Solomon, Michael Barrier, Leonard Maltin, Daniel Goldmark, Bill Melendez, Eric Goldberg, Brad Bird, Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Tom Ruegger, Daniel Abbott, Richard Williams, Joe Macdonald and Stephanie Macdonald.
Documentaries and Featurettes about different points in Avery's career.
Intro and bumpers for Cartoon Network's anthology series The Tex Avery Show.
How-to-draw featurettes hosted by Eric Goldberg.​

 

[OldNavy1988]

Batman: Year One
Released by Columbia Pictures on July 8, 2005

Directed by
Darren Aronofksy

Screenplay by
Darren Aronofsky
Frank Miller

Based upon characters created by
Bill Finger
Bob Kane

Executive Producers
Michael Uslan
Amy Pascal

Music by
Brad Fiedel

Main Cast
Joaquin Phoenix as Bruce Wayne/Batman
Josh Brolin as Lt. Jim Gordon
Zoe Saldana as Selina Kyle
Laurence Fishburne as Little Al
Liev Schreiber as Harvey Dent
Mark Boone Junior as Arnold Flass
Holly Robinson-Peete as Holly Robinson
Henry Rollins as Howard Branden
Bryan Cranston as Pete Grogan
Molly Ringwald as Ann Gordon
Harrison Ford as Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb
Adam West as Thomas Wayne
Rosemary Harris as Martha Wayne​

 

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Shezow
Released by Hollywood Pictures on July 15, 2005

Produced in association with
Dark Horse Entertainment
Syncopy Films, Inc.

Directed by
Christopher Nolan

Screenplay by
Lana Wachowski
Andy Wachowski

Based upon characters created by
Obie Scott Wade
Mike Richardson

Executive Producers
Christopher Nolan
Mike Richardson
The Wachowskis

Music by
Don Davis

Main Cast
Hayden Christensen as Eli Hammond/Shezow
Lacey Chabert as Kelly Hammond
Theodore Borders as Max Kepler
Ben Foster as ColdFinger
Tom Hanks as Baxter Hammond
Rita Wilson as Trisha Hammond
Jacquie Brennan as the voice of Sheila
Laura Dern as Agnes Monroe
Helena Bonham Carter as Tara
Mickey Rourke as Tattoozala

Storyline
College dropout Eli Hammond returns to Megadale to attend the funeral for his aunt, Agnes Monroe. While rummaging through Aunt Agnes's belongings, Eli comes across the ring that would forever change his destiny. Suddenly, a snow storm hammers Megadale in the middle of summer and it's up to Shezow to turn up the heat on ColdFinger. When Eli/Shezow is at his lowest point in the story, Aunt Agnes returns as a ghost to explain the falling out between her and former sidekick-turned-enemy Tara. While Eli must learn the responsibilities that come with being a hero, he must also walk a thin tightrope to keep his alter ego a secret from his father, police officer Baxter Hammond.

Notes
- The decision to make Eli/Shezow older than in the TV series was necessitated by Hollywood Pictures attorneys feeling nervous about trying to get the next teen heartthrob to play the main character.
- When he is in his police uniform, Baxter Hammond wears shorter sleeves than on the TV show.​

 

[TheFaultsofAlts]

Above: OTL Laserdisc release by MGM/UA

The Compleat Tex Avery
Released on July 5, 2005 in association with Turner Home Entertainment, 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment and Sony/MCA Home Entertainment

Termite Tex
This volume curates the pre-1942 shorts Avery directed under Leon Schlesinger at Warner Bros., including early Bugs Bunny prototypes.

Madcap-Goldwyn-Mayhem
Most of the MGM cartoons featured are the same as OTL.
Red Hot Riding Hood and Swing Shift Cinderella have the MGM logos restored after having been plastered by Fox from 1946-77.
Every Droopy short helmed by Avery after 1946 IOTL were directed either by Michael Lah, Dave Fleischer or Preston Blair.
All of Avery's George and Junior shorts are included in this volume too. Those characters were later revived by Pat Ventura for a Cartoon Network series in 1996.

20th Century-Tex
After World War II, 20th Century-Fox raided MGM's cartoon staff, fleecing Leo the Lion of not only Tex Avery, but also Walt Clinton and Grant Simmons.
Contains Avery's entries in the Screwy Squirrel series.
Apart from Screwy, we also see Tex's entries in the Baby Huey, Little Audrey, Casper, Herman and Katnip series.
Little Rural Riding Hood was the only short in Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood saga to be made at Fox.
The bulldog you see in Magical Maestro, sometimes named Butch or Spike IOTL, was given the name Poochini when Harvey decided to make a comic book about him a decade after that short was released.
Contains most of Avery's one-shot shorts, including Symphony in Slang, One Cab's Family and Flea Circus.
One exception is Rock a Bye Bear, which Mike Lah directed at MGM ITTL. The same running up the hill to scream formula was later used in other MGM shorts, Deputy Droopy and Royal Cat Nap.
Avery's last cartoon at Fox was Cellbound, which features Poochini as a prisoner who hides inside a TV set.

Tex on Ice
Curates Avery's shorts from 1954-61 at Famous Studios, including his redesign of Paul Smith's Chilly Willy.

The Wacky World of Tex Avery
The anthology series that ran on SBC in the final years of Avery's life.

Bonus Features
20th Century-Tex, a mid-1990's Cartoon Network documentary chronicling the years Avery worked for Fox.
Audio commentaries by Jerry Beck, Charles Solomon, Michael Barrier, Leonard Maltin, Daniel Goldmark, Bill Melendez, Eric Goldberg, Brad Bird, Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Tom Ruegger, Daniel Abbott, Richard Williams, Joe Macdonald and Stephanie Macdonald.
Documentaries and Featurettes about different points in Avery's career.
Intro and bumpers for Cartoon Network's anthology series The Tex Avery Show.
How-to-draw featurettes hosted by Eric Goldberg.​

Let me emphasize just how much I would LOVE to get this release.

On a more specific note, the new name for Butch/Spike being Poochini does differ from the Tom and Jerry characters of the same name, which is perfect.

 

[OldNavy1988]

Let me emphasize just how much I would LOVE to get this release.

On a more specific note, the new name for Butch/Spike being Poochini does differ from the Tom and Jerry characters of the same name, which is perfect.

I forgot to mention it was the Criterion Collection who handled the release.

 

[TheFaultsofAlts]

I forgot to mention it was the Criterion Collection who handled the release.

Don't worry. With how complex this release was, it could only be from Criterion.

 

[OldNavy1988]

Above: Mickey Rourke as Marv

Frank Miller's Sin City
Released by Dimension Films on July 15, 2005

Produced in association with
Troublemaker Studios

Based upon characters created by
Frank Miller

Cast and Crew
Same as OTL​

 

[DucNguyen0131]

Great job with Sin City! There are two more big films of the month's 2005, Thundercats and Sky High! But I want to see Dimension's other 2005 release, Dark Water, being the fact that Dimension TTL is a label of the studio who released the film OTL, Touchstone Pictures.

 

[DucNguyen0131]

But that is not all! But Carolco is prepping Tim Story to do an adaptation of the Ultraverse Prime character, to be released in fall 2005, and the actor who portrayed Prime is actor Mark Wahlberg. But Shezow will get an sequel by 2008 thanks to its astonishing box office success.

 

[OldNavy1988]

But that is not all! But Carolco is prepping Tim Story to do an adaptation of the Ultraverse Prime character, to be released in fall 2005, and the actor who portrayed Prime is actor Mark Wahlberg. But Shezow will get an sequel by 2008 thanks to its astonishing box office success.

Who should be the villain?

 

[Marco Incognito]

Who should be the villain?

Of Prime? Well in the comics he was given powers by a mad scientist with a minion named Dr.Gross so that could be his first villain. So we’d need someone who could play a mad scientist and have fun in the role.

 

[DucNguyen0131]

Of Prime? Well in the comics he was given powers by a mad scientist with a minion named Dr.Gross so that could be his first villain. So we’d need someone who could play a mad scientist and have fun in the role.

I think Chris Evans would play Dr. Gross, and I think Ioan Gruffudd would play Rex Mundi, the main villain of the Ultraverse. But John Ottman's OTL score from Fantastic Four was heard TTL in Prime, being that was Tim Story-directed.

 

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Prime
Released by Warner Bros. under the Carolco label on July 22, 2005

Directed by
Tim Story

Screenplay by
Michael France
Mark Frost

Based upon characters created by
Gerard Jones
Len Strazewski
Norm Breyfogle

Music by
John Ottman

Main Cast
Mark Wahlberg as Kevin Green/Prime
Chris Evans as Dr. Gross
Julian McMahon as Rex Mundi
Joan Cusack as Kelly Cantrell
Sam Elliott as Colonel Samuels
Jon Voight as Russell Green​

 

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Dark Water
Released by Dimension Films on July 22, 2005

Cast and Crew
Same as OTL​

 

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July 29, 2005 Movies

Sky High
Released by Touchstone Pictures

Cast and Crew
Same as OTL

Thundercats
Released by Paramount Pictures

Based on the animated series produced by
Rankin-Bass

Produced in association with
Cheyenne Enterprises

Directed by
Jonathan Frakes

Screenplay by
Ted Elliott
Terry Rossio

Music by
Danny Elfman

Executive Producers
Bruce Willis
Arnold Rifkin
Jonathan Frakes

Main Cast
Bruce Willis as Lion-O
Michael Clarke Duncan as Panthro
John Cena as Tygra
Rachael Leigh Cook as Cheetara
Robert Pattinson as Wilykat
Alexa Vega as Wilykit
Liam Neeson as Lynx-O
Dougray Scott as Jackalman
Mark Hamill as Monkian
Ron Perlman as Grune
Sandra Oh as Pumyra
Alan Rickman as Jaga
Tim Curry as Mumm-Ra
Doug Jones as Slithe
Tony Todd as Vultureman
Ryan Reynolds as the voice of Snarf​

 

[DucNguyen0131]

We'll this was amazing for July 2005 movies! But we will get to the movies of August 2005, which were TriStar's Stealth, Warner Bros.' The Dukes of Hazzard, Touchstone Pictures' (OTL Columbia Pictures made the movie) Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Paramount's Four Brothers, Hollywood Pictures' Valiant, Gramercy Pictures' (label of Universal, the studio who OTL released the film) The Skeleton Key, 20th Century-Fox's Supercross, Universal's The 40-Year Old Virgin, Lionsgate's (OTL DreamWorks made the film) Red Eye, Dimension Films' The Brothers Grimm, Destination Films' (TTL's equivalent to Screen Gems, the studio who made the film OTL) The Cave and Lionsgate's Undiscovered. Universal is working on a remake of Airport (the TTL equivalent of Flightplan) on September 23, 2005 and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on November 18, 2005, through Peacock Releasing. But Hurricane Katana may probably not happen due to Weinstein's demands TTL.

 

[OldNavy1988]

Anything else you guys want me to address before we proceed to August 2005?

 

[OldNavy1988]

Early August 2005 Movies

Stealth
Released by TriStar Pictures

Dukes of Hazzard
Released by Warner Bros.

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Released by Dimension Films. The previous installment, Male Gigolo, was released under the flagship Touchstone label.

Four Brothers
Released by Paramount Pictures

The 40-Year Old Virgin
Released by Universal Pictures through Peacock Releasing.

Supercross
Released by 20th Century-Fox​