As Dreamers Do Part Deux

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Entertainment News for Mid-Late July 2004

Walt Disney, Jr. signs the last beam as part of the topping out ceremony for the rebuild of Riverfront Square, which is expected to reopen with a larger footprint than the original in 2006.
- The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Jon Favreau, Geraldine Laybourne, Margaret Loesch, Vanessa Coffey, Kathleen Kennedy, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Thomas Tull, Amy Pascal and Geoff Johns each will be interviewed in hopes of succeeding Roy E. Disney as vice president of Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- The Wall Street Journal

Brian Henson officially introduces Bob Iger as the new chief executive officer of The Jim Henson Company. While Brian will stay aboard as chief creative officer, he has appointed John Lasseter to run Henson Animation (HA!), a new umbrella unit that will oversee both Hanna-Barbera and Pixar.
- Variety

New Henson chief Bob Iger in talks with CrossGen on a possible acquisition. Should talks fall apart, look for Henson to talk to Image Design Works (IDW), Dark Horse, DC or Archie on possibly licensing select Muppet, Hanna-Barbera, Pixar and Nickelodeon properties.
- Wizard

Uh...What's up, Papa Bear?
Warner Bros. agrees to a multimedia license with the Berenstain family who own the Berenstain Bears characters. This deal includes the rights to use the iconic Bears for theme parks, comics, animation, live action, video games and DVD/VHS releases. However, the contract stipulates that no crossovers be made with the Bears and other WB or Carolco properties.
- The Hollywood Reporter

 

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Entertainment News for Mid to Late July 2004
Part 2

@stratonapba @WB18 @TheMatthew25

The Sports Page
Each of the major sports leagues are in the market for a new commissioner in the next five to ten years.

NHL
Incumbent: Dennis Murphy (Since the WHA/NHL merger in the late 1970's).
Possible successors: Wayne Gretzky, Colin Campbell, Scotty Bowman, Brian Burke

NBA
Incumbent: Jerry West (Took office during the 2004 NBA playoffs after the sudden passing of David Stern)
Possible successor: Adam Silver (new deputy commissioner after Russ Granik retired last season)

NFL
Incumbent: Paul Tagliabue
Possible successors: Neil Austrian, Bill Polian, Carl Peterson, Tom Donahoe, Roger Goodell, Oliver Luck (Frankfurt Galaxy exec), David Baker (former CEO of the LA Avengers of the WLAF), Amy Trask (currently an exec for the Las Vegas Raiders)

MLB
Incumbent: Lew Wasserman
Possible successors: Larry Lucchino, Rob Manfred, Brian Cashman, Billy Beane

 

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This Just In! (Late July 2004)

Where at Comic Con is Carmen Sandiego?
At San Diego Comic Con, director Rachel Stone-Abbott and screenwriter Linda Woolverton were on hand as Walt Disney Pictures and Legendary Multimedia treated attendees to an early teaser for Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, even though the film doesn't come out for another 11 months.
- Variety

The Sports Page
After writing a $65 million USD check to the World League for the expansion fee, the ownership group responsible for bringing the WLAF to Utah have announced a name-the-team contest for the franchise slated to kickoff at Rice-Eccles Stadium in 2006. Among the names being considered: SLC Punks, Salt Lake (or Utah) Seagulls, Utah (or Salt Lake) Coyotes, Utah (or Salt Lake) Pioneers, Utah (or Salt Lake) Elks, Utah (or Salt Lake) Bison, Salt Lake (or Utah) Gems, Salt Lake (or Utah) Blizzard and the Salt Lake (or Utah) Avalanche.
- The Salt Lake Tribune

 

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Entertainment News for Early August 2004

Disney hires Margaret Loesch as its new vice president.
- Variety

Vanessa Coffey will take over at Nickelodeon after Margaret Loesch becomes Disney's new VP.
- The Hollywood Reporter

Lionsgate enters negotiations with Microsoft Leisure on a possible theme park partnership. If Microsoft doesn't bite, look for Paramount, Warner Parks or Six Kings to pick up Lionsgate on the rebound.
- The Vancouver Sun

Turner Broadcasting reaches an agreement with Hallmark Cards to acquire the theme park rights to Rainbow Brite, a franchise that had been dormant since the early Nineties.
- The Kansas City Star

American Greetings enters negotiations with Microsoft, CBS Discovery, Lionsgate and Peacock to potentially reboot the Care Bears for a new generation.
- The Cleveland Plain-Dealer

In politics
GOP Convention (Dallas, TX): Incumbent President Harvey Weinstein accepts nomination as part of his re-election bid.
Democratic Convention (Boston, MA): John Kerry (D-MA) chooses Bill Bradley (D-NJ) as his VP candidate.
Reform Convention (Kansas City, MO): One time Minnesota governor and former wrestler Jesse Ventura accepts the Reform nomination.

The Sports Page
The Rocky Mountain Extreme, Utah's entry into the WLAF, introduce their helmet and logo at a press conference at Delta Center.
- The Salt Lake Tribune

 

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August 2004 Movies

Collateral
Released by Universal Pictures and DreamWorks SKG

I, Robot
Released by Warner Bros. under the Carolco label.

Hero
Released by Golden Harvest and New Line Cinema as a dual-brand release.

Man on Fire
Released by 20th Century-Fox

Resident Evil
Released by RKO Radio Pictures​

 

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Here is the 2004-05 Saturday Morning Schedule

ABC (Nick on ABC)
Preview show hosted by Drake Bell and Josh Peck
8:00 The Backyardigans (Hanna-Barbera)
8:30 Rugrats (Klasky-Csupo)
9:00 Drake and Josh (Touchstone Television) [Live action]
9:30 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Hanna-Barbera)
10:00 Ed, Edd n Eddy (AKA Cartoon)
10:30 Megas XLR (Hanna-Barbera)
11:00 The Brothers Garcia [Live action]
11:30 Grim and Evil (Hanna-Barbera)
12:00 Codename: Kids Next Door (Hanna-Barbera)
12:30 Samurai Jack (Hanna-Barbera)

CBS (All programming distributed by Columbia-TriStar Television)
8:00 Pokemon: Advanced Challenge (Nelvana)
8:30 Teen Titans (Screen Gems)
9:30 F-Zero: GP Legend (Nelvana)
10:00 Tutenstein (Porchlight; Discovery)
10:30 Justice League Unlimited (Screen Gems)
11:00 The Batman (Screen Gems)
11:30 Time Warp Trio (Nelvana)
12:00 Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi (Nelvana)
12:30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (Nelvana)

NBC (Nothin' But Cool)
8:00 Lazytown (RKO) [Live action]
8:30 Peppa Pig (RKO)
9:00 Braceface (MWS; RKO)
9:30 Atomic Betty (RKO)
10:00 6teen (RKO)
10:30 One Piece (Lionsgate)
11:00 Cyberchase (RKO)
11:30 Godzilla: The Series (MWS; RKO) [Reruns]
12:00 Kong: The Series (MWS; RKO) [Reruns]

SBC
8:00 What's with Andy? (CineGroupe; New Line Cinema)
8:30 Power Rangers: Dino Thunder (New Line Cinema) [Live Action]
9:00 WITCH (New Line Cinema)
9:30 Winx Club (DiC; New Line Cinema)
10:00 Jackie Chan Adventures (DiC; Golden Harvest/New Line Cinema)
10:30 Sailor Moon (New Line Cinema) [Reruns]
11:00 Zeroman (New Line Cinema)
11:30 The Tofus (CineGroupe; New Line Cinema)
12:00 Liberty's Kids (New Line Cinema)
12:30 Samurai Pizza Cats (New Line Cinema) [Reruns]

Fox
(Most Fox programming produced by Grantray-Lawrence or Walt Disney Television Animation)
8:00 Lilo and Stitch: The Series
8:30 Kim Possible
9:00 Fillmore!
9:30 Brandy and Mr. Whiskers
10:00 Naruto (English Dub produced by 20th Television)
10:30 Dave the Barbarian
11:00 Star Wars: Clone Wars
11:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2002 Series)
12:00 Casper and Molly McGee
12:30 The Proud Family

UPN
8:00 Arthur (Paramount)
8:30 My Dad the Rock Star (Paramount)
9:00 Sabrina's Secret Life (Universal)
9:30 Cardcaptors (English dub produced by Universal)
10:00 Sonic X (Paramount)
10:30 Alex Kidd: The Series (Paramount)
11:00 Creepschool (Universal)
11:30 The Mummy (Universal)
12:00 The Scorpion King (Universal)
12:30 The Zeta Project (Paramount)

MyNetworkTV (KidsWB!)
8:00 Baby Looney Tunes (Warner Bros.)
8:30 Tiny Toon Adventures (Warner Bros.) [Reruns]
9:00 Mucha Lucha (Warner Bros.)
9:30 Da Boom Crew (Warner Bros.)
10:00 Duck Dodgers (Warner Bros.)
10:30 Xiaolin Showdown (Warner Bros.)
11:00 Ozzy and Drix (Warner Bros.) [Reruns]
11:30 Static Shock (Carolco) [Reruns]
12:00 Shezow (Hollywood Pictures Television) [Reruns]

New shows in BOLD

Let me know which lineup you look forward to this year.

 

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Statement from NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue

September 13, 2004

Yesterday, the match up that was supposed to take place between the Las Vegas Raiders and San Diego Chargers was postponed because of unsafe playing conditions at Jack in the Box Stadium (opened in 2002 on the parking lot of the OTL Jack Murphy/Qualcomm Stadium) in San Diego. Raiders personnel complained of foreign substances, believed to be fecal matter, left behind by a Chihuahua belonging to newly named Chargers CEO Paris Hilton.

An SBC cameraman filmed Al Davis expressing his disapproval of the field conditions to Ms. Hilton. But because Ms. Hilton arrogantly dismissed Mr. Davis' concerns about player safety citing the rivalry between the two clubs, he angrily pulled his team off the field before the national anthem.

Therefore, effective immediately, Ms. Hilton is no longer in charge of the Chargers.

 

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Beavis and Butt-Head: The Return of Cornholio (Teaser #2)

After the UA and MTV Films logos appear for one second each, we see Beavis and Butt-Head about to watch the music video of J-Kwon's Tipsy.

Stepdad (Lavell Crawford): "Teen drinking is very bad."

J-Kwon: "Yo, I got a fake ID, though!"

Butt-Head (Mike Judge): "We gotta get us one of those! Huh-huh!"

Beavis (Mike Judge): "Yeah! And then we'll score! Huh-huh!"

Announcer (Don LaFontaine): Beavis and Butt-Head: The Return of Cornholio, coming this Christmas from United Artists and MTV Films."​

 

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Entertainment News for September 2004

NBC's Atomic Betty rockets to the top of Saturday Morning ratings.
- TV Guide

UPN's SatAm ratings inconsistent as kids tune in to Arthur while tuning out My Dad the Rockstar.
- Variety

Citing the lowest ratings of the major networks, TimeWarner and Bally discuss pulling the plug on MyTV.
- The Hollywood Reporter

The season premiere of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles opens with Bebop and Rocksteady chortling in the style of Beavis and Butthead's main titles, theme song and all.
- Access Hollywood

SBC's Tofus and UPN's My Dad the Rockstar are the biggest SatAm ratings losers.
- Entertainment Tonight

The Sports Page
The Raiders/Chargers matchup that was postponed back on September 13 due to unsafe playing conditions has been rescheduled for November 14, which was supposed to be the bye week for both teams. In the meantime, the grounds crew at Jack in the Box Stadium worked around the clock to completely replace the grass ahead of the Chargers' October 3 home game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
- The San Diego Union-Tribune

For the first three weeks of the regular season, the San Diego Chargers have operated without an owner since Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and representatives from the other 31 clubs stripped Paris Hilton of her custody of the team. That might change in October when the owners vote in a special meeting on bids to buy the Chargers; one from former Microsoft exec Steve Ballmer, the other from Casey Wasserman, grandson of Lew. Until a new owner is approved, salaries for the Chargers' personnel will continue to be paid directly by the league. [1]
- SportsCenter

[1] This situation is similar to the NBA stripping George Shinn of the Hornets/Pelicans franchise before selling the team to the Benson family IOTL.

 

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Logo History
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Up to this point, the evolution of MGM's familiar Lion logo is the same as OTL, even under Turner's ownership since 1982.

ITTL, in 1987, rather than just use a byline underneath the main logo, Turner opted to use the "Globe" logo normally reserved IOTL for TBS/TNT/TCM prints of older films.

Now, for the studio's 80th anniversary, a new logo is being developed which should be similar to the OTL 2021 logo.​

 

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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Released on September 17, 2004 by Warner Bros. under the Carolco label.

Cast and Crew
Same as OTL

Notes
- The pacing is slightly faster than OTL.
- Sky Captain is played by Ray Liotta instead of Jude Law because the studio thought Jude was too young for the role.​

 

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Now or Never
Studio album by the Backstreet Boys

Release Date
September 28, 2004

Label
Legendary Records
K-BAHN, LLC

Under license to
20th Century-Fox Records

Distributed by
Buena Vista Music Distribution

Produced by
Max Martin
Krist Novoselic

Track Listing
"Help Me"
"My Confession"
"I Stand for You"
"Do I Have to Cry for You"
"Girls in the USA" (featuring Mr. Vegas)
"I Got You"
"Is It Saturday Yet?"
"Blow Your Mind"
"Miss America"
"I Just Wanna Take You Home"
"Heart Without a Home (I'll Be Yours)"
"Who Needs the World"
"Heart Shaped Box" (featuring Gus St. Pierre) [Nirvana cover]
"Nothing Else Matters" (featuring Gus St. Pierre) [Metallica cover]

Covers explained
AJ McLean: "Gus said that within a week after Colette was killed, he called into a radio station to dedicate 'Nothing Else Matters' in her memory."
Nick Carter: "I've always liked Nirvana's songs. I thought I'd seize the opportunity once we started working on the album with Krist."​

 

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Disney's One Saturday Morning
(Original format 1997-2003)

For those wondering if Disney's One Saturday Morning existed in some form on Fox, you're in luck. The format was pretty much the same as OTL. But over time, the skits and interstitials wore out their welcome and were dropped by the conclusion of the 2002-03 season.

It was around early 2003 that current Fox chairman David Hill decided to streamline Fox's on air look, patterned after the network's sports graphics from this era.

An OTL example:

Starting with the 2003-04 season, Fox's Saturday Morning block opens with the logos of each show displayed on the floating oval discs as seen above, accompanied by a voiceover.

Sample for 2004-05:
[Voiceover by Jim Cummings]: "Welcome to Disney's One Saturday Morning on Fox, home to Kim Possible, Casper and Molly McGee, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....and....Naruto!"

The titles featured in the introductory bumpers rotate week to week, meaning you don't see the same variant two weeks in a row.

Variant A: above
Variant B: Dave the Barbarian, The Proud Family, Lilo and Stitch and Brandy and Mr. Whiskers
Variant C: Fillmore!, Kim Possible, TMNT and Star Wars: Clone Wars​

 

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@WB18
IOTL, the B-26 Marauder was a bomber plane that was built in factories in the Baltimore area during WWII.

Entertainment News for October 2004
Studio Ghibli may look for a better deal from Turner, RKO or Paramount if they can't reach an extension with Touchstone.
- Variety

Satisfied with the box office numbers, Carolco greenlights a Sky Captain sequel.
- The Hollywood Reporter

With Disney's multimedia rights to the Dick Tracy franchise set to expire next year, look for Henson, RKO, Turner or another studio to try to make a bid unless an extension with Tribune Media is reached. The Dick Tracy film, released under the Fox label in 1990 with Warren Beatty playing the lead role, was overshadowed by the Turtle and Simpson mania of that same year.
- Access Hollywood

Warner Bros. hires Blanche St. Pierre to supervise the animation of a new Berenstain Bears series set for a Fall 2005 debut on Warner Freeform. As of 2004, Blanche has been at Paramount for the last two years working on the Arthur series.
- Entertainment Weekly

After almost five decades, Bagdasarian Productions enters negotiations Henson, CBS Discovery, Lionsgate, Peacock, Turner, Paramount, MCA and Bally, seeking a new home for the Chipmunks franchise. The decision to put the Chipmunks for sale was not an easy one, but has been necessitated by the declining health of Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., who inherited the characters from his late father in the Seventies.
- Inside Edition

The Sports Page
After reaching an agreement with the players' union on a hard salary cap, the NHL will begin the 2004-05 regular season on the second week of November. All regular season games that were affected by the lockout will be rescheduled, delaying the start of the playoffs by two weeks.
- The Hockey News

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue announces that the league owners voted to approve Casey Wasserman's bid to purchase the San Diego Chargers.
- ESPN

 

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Yasuke
Released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 12, 2004

Executive Producer
Daniel Abbott

Directed by
Ron Clements and Jon Musker

Screenplay by
Daniel Abbott
Ted Elliott
Terry Rossio

Music by
Hans Zimmer

Cast:
Taye Diggs as Kevin "Yasuke" Jackson
Francoise Yip as Princess Yokoshi
Cree Summer as Kelly Jackson
Kyla Pratt as Tina Jackson
Tyler James Williams as Oscar Jackson
Laurence Fishburne as Henry Jackson
Kotono Mitsuishi as Haruka Fujiwara
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Akira Miyamoto
Houko Kuwashima as Setsuna Takahashi
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Hiroshi Yamamoto
Akira Ishida as Shinichi
Ayako Kawasumi as Tamaki
Satsuki Yukino as Chiko
Jack Black as Steven Bush
Yui Horie as Miyuki Tanaka
Megumi Hayashibara as Sayo
Keiji Fujiwara as Shigeru Abe
He is a secondary Antagonist of this film and right-hand man of Akuma.
Sonny Chiba as Ichiro Kawasaki
He is a Sushi chef who warned Kevin Jackson about Akuma.
Unsho Ishizuka as Oda Nobunaga
Kumiko Watanabe as Shiina
Mamiko Noto as Yukina and Sora
David Spade as Emperor Kuzco
Norio Wakamoto as Akuma (the main villain)
Michael J. Fox as Milo James Thatch
(He appears in the post credits sequence along with Kida Nedakh when they announced that Atlantis II is released on 2006.)

Plot:
The films started with Young Princess Yokoshi as she was horrified when her kingdom was in danger and her mother Sayo was killed by Evil warlord named Akuma. Meanwhile in the present day Kevin "Yasuke" Jackson was planning a Vacation for his family to Paris as he was excited to go the Eiffel Tower, however Kevin and his family were accidentally travel to Feudal Japan when Princess Yokoshi as she summon them when demonic warlord named Akuma was planning to rule Japan with his Demon army as Kevin and his family were Chosen one to stop Akuma with they new friends and allies.​

 

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Awesome!
- The New York Times

Four stars!
- The Los Angeles Times

Chef's kiss!
- The Columbus Dispatch

Criterion Collection-worthy!
- The San Francisco Chronicle

Disney's best animated film since The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
- The Arizona Republic

 

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TMNT on the Anthology Series

On the night of February 3, 1991, the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie made its network television debut as a special edition of The Magical World of Disney on Fox. This airing was specifically scheduled to build excitement for the next installment, The Secret of the Ooze.

The movie was preceded by the intro below. However, in the first few seconds as the compass rose rotates up and down, we see an image of each Turtle. Then in the final seconds of the intro, we see the film's official logo, stacked word by word in ITC Machine font in front of the soundstage door after it closes on Roger Rabbit.

After that intro, a pre-recorded skit features Walt Disney, Jr. greeting the viewers from the New York section of Disney/Fox Studios Theme Park, donning a bandanna and accompanied by theme park walkaround versions of the Turtles.

After that, a quick sponsor billboard.

Voiceover by Mark Elliott: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, part of The Magical World of Disney, is brought to you by Domino's Pizza: Nobody Delivers Better, By the Reebok Pump: Pump up and air out, and by Coca-Cola Classic: Can't beat the real thing!"

Finally, the movie:

 

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The Louisville Courier Journal has leaked that Louisville’s WLAF expansion team, slated for a 2006 debut, will take the field as the Kentucky Stingers, drawing its name from Louisville native Muhammad Ali’s famous “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” quote.
- ESPN

 

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The Incredibles
Released on November 17, 2004 by Touchstone Pictures

Produced in association with
Pixar Animation Studios

Cast and Crew
Same as OTL​

 

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The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Released by United Artists on November 19, 2004

Cast and Crew
Same as OTL

Notes
The people at Turner felt pretty good about their work on the Spongebob movie. However, the day after the film's release, the nation's attention was focused on The Malice at the Palace.​