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Yeah, I should have said that. But I can't really see it being false. I've heard this is a trustworthy source. But then again shit happens...kinda like that new BGC that was supposed to be made(yeah that was off topic).
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Thanks to Jim Harvey at ToonZone for the following:

More DVDs featuring both DC Comics and Marvel Comics characters will hit later this year, WB has confirmed for Toon Zone. Aside from the previously reported box sets, many more single disc episodic releases are on the way.

A representative for WB confirmed that more Batman Beyond DVDs will be released later in the year. The next single disc release is expected to hit shelves around the same time as the Batman: The Animated Series multi-disc set. According to preliminary information, which is subject to change, the DVDs will keep the "six episodes per disc" format. There is currently no information on extras, or episode presentation. WB states they still plan to release every episode of Batman Beyond to DVD.

Teen Titans will also see their first DVD release later this year, as well. The DVD is currently set to feature the first four episodes, at least, of the series. The disc will feature the same format as WB's past single disc releases.

After the release of "Stacrossed: The Movie," expect the Justice League DVDs to pick up where they left off. Current plans are for the series to resume production order, although that is also subject to change. Another Justice League DVD, after "Starcrossed: The Movie," is set to be released in the fall. Future volumes of Justice League will consist for four to six episodes. A Direct To Video feature release is also in the works, though it is currently unscheduled.

WB also exclusively informed Toon Zone that Static Shock will make it's premiere on DVD in the fall, as well. It is currently scheduled to be released in single volume format, as well. Nothing else is known at the time about this release.

And for the X-Men: Evolution fans worried about the future of their favorite show, you can calm down! WB confirms that by the end of 2004, the first and second seasons of X-Men: Evolution will be available on DVD. WB recently announced a third DVD volume of X-Men: Evolution for a June release this year. Current plans are to continue to release every single episode of X-Men: Evolution on to DVD. According to sources, expect four X-Men: Evolution DVDs a year until the series is complete.

WB also noted that they plan to increase the number of episodes features on single volume DVD releases. Episodes counts will now range from four to six episodes per release, decided on a case by case basis. The single disc releases will also remain as snapper case releases.
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Aye Caramba! The real-life alter-egos of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and the rest of The Simpsons gang want more D'oh.

Six of the show's voice actors have failed to turn up for two table reads in the last couple of weeks in a strong-arm bid for better pay, delaying production on the hit the show's 16th season, reports Variety.

The suddenly silent include Dan Castellaneta (Homer, Krusty, Grandpa Simpson, Mayor Quimby), Nancy Cartwright (Bart, Nelson, Ralph Wiggum), Julie Kavner (Marge, Selma, Patty), Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Hank Azaria (Moe, Apu, Chief Wiggum), and Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, et al).

The work stoppage comes after reps for The Simpsons cast sought to renegotiate the terms of their current deal with Fox TV executives but met with little success.

Talks to renew the thesps' contracts reportedly broke down when Fox rebuffed their request for a pay hike to $360,000 an episode each, or $8 million for the full 22-episode season. That's a major raise from the $125,000 an episode the cast raked in for seasons 13, 14, and 15.

That three-year deal expired at the end of last season and America's favorite dysfunctional family has been working without a contract ever since. Meanwhile, their agents and Fox have been battling over just how much is enough to keep them on The Simpsons, now the longest running show on television and the crown jewel of Fox's prime-time lineup.

The current impasse is similar to a contract battle that occurred in 1998 when Castellaneta and company were making just a meager $30,000 an episode. They went on a similar strike then because they felt they deserved their fair share of the revenue pie.

Mmmm... Pie...

The Simpsons is a global industry, earning more than $1 billion for Fox in syndication revenue with reruns showing all over the world and millions more through the licensing of merchandise.

A spokesman for Fox and James L. Brooks' Gracie Films, which produces The Simpsons, refused to comment on the contract dispute, as did the actors' reps.

While the group doesn't come close to Ray Romano's reported $1.7-$2 million per episode for his Emmy-winning series Everybody Loves Raymond, the CBS star does put in a heck of a lot more time on the clock.

That's because the Simpsons Six have the lightest work schedule this side of Springfield, showing up at the office about two half-days a week. And considering it takes a mere six to seven hours to voice an episode, an insider close to the negotiations told Variety that "they already have the deal of a lifetime."

It's expected both sides will eventually reach an agreement and the dispute will not affect the animated movie that Brooks and Simpsons creator Matt Groening are currently developing with a team of writers.

As Mr. Burns might say: "Exxxxxcellent."
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It's for real! Anime Network is a full-fledged cable network. No longer only available as Video On Demand, Anime Network has inked a deal with the 9th largest cable provider in the country, INSIGHT Communications. In celebration of this momentous occasion, Anime Network has engineered one kick a** sweepstakes with mind boggling prizes. As a Grand prize winner you not only get to 'turn on' the network on June 30th, you also get to be the FIRST HUMAN BEING on the network. Yes, it's very hard to top the grand prize but we have sweetened the pot a little more by throwing in a Phillips 30" Widescreen HD-Ready Flat Tube TV with Active Control as well as the complete collection of limited edition Anime Network Official Launch GEAR. As hard as it is to believe, the First prize winner will walk away contented with their prize package, which includes Phillips 30" Widescreen HD-Ready Flat Tube TV with Active Control and the complete collection of limited edition Anime Network Official Launch GEAR. Two Second prizes will be awarded that include VIP pack of Anime Network Official Launch merchandise and apparel. And last but certainly not least, 25 lucky Third prize winners will receive a limited edition Anime Network Official Launch T-Shirt. This sweepstakes is running for a limited time, so hurry up and enter TODAY!

For more information on INSIGHT Communications please visit http://www.insight-com.com


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Former Walt Disney Co. President Michael Ovitz testified in a court deposition that the man who inherited his job, Bob Iger, once wanted to quit in frustration because he bristled under Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner's "micromanaging."

Ovitz said he later calmed Iger down with a token of the company's appreciation: a stainless steel Breguet Aeronavale watch worth $7,000. Ovitz, who said he got Eisner's approval for the purchase, also noted that he got a break on the timepiece, paying "maybe $3,500."

The testimony last November in Beverly Hills is included in court records made public in a shareholder lawsuit filed in Delaware, in which Ovitz defended his ill-fated 14-month tenure from 1995 to 1996. Ovitz told of internal backbiting and frustrations that he said prevented him from accomplishing his goals at Disney before he was fired.

He compared the experience to "a thousand daggers" and said, "Every time I went to do something, someone pulled the rug out from under me."

Throughout the deposition, Ovitz repeatedly mentioned having to use the negotiating skills he developed as Hollywood's top agent. With Disney, he said, he had to soothe egos and mediate a variety of differences people had with Eisner and the company.

Among the others whom Ovitz says he had to keep happy were current film chief Dick Cook, the team at Disney's Imagineering operation, comedian Robin Williams, and Tim Allen, then star of the hit Disney TV series Home Improvement.

Allen, Ovitz said, "was about to walk off the set" before Ovitz held a dinner party for him at his home and gave Allen a print from artist Roy Lichtenstein.

Iger declined to comment. However, Disney spokeswoman Zenia Mucha said of Ovitz's testimony: "This is completely ridiculous. These events did not occur."

In a separate deposition, Eisner blamed Ovitz for Iger's difficulties and called Ovitz "a one-man show" who had lost Iger's respect.

Ovitz testified that Eisner did not feel Iger was the right executive to continue running ABC after Disney bought the network in 1995. Eisner, Ovitz said, "was very concerned about Mr. Iger's ability creatively."

Iger also was unhappy, according to Ovitz. He recounted having dinner with Iger and his wife, broadcaster Willow Bay, in New York: "For three hours Mr. Iger sat and told me how difficult it was for him to work with Mr. Eisner because Mr. Eisner was micromanaging him and he wasn't used to that.

"It became very clear that he was thinking about leaving the company," Ovitz said.

Company sources disputed Ovitz's version of events. They said that Iger had not fallen out of favor, as evidenced by his promotion as Disney president and his signing of a five-year contract.

Rumors of tensions between Eisner and Iger have circulated for years, especially in recent months as the ABC network continues to falter.

Disney has said there are no rifts between the two executives, who believe they make a strong team.

Eisner has been under fire from shareholders, who believe he has let Disney's earnings and stock price slip in recent years.

The lawsuit is seeking money for shareholders, alleging that Ovitz's hiring and severance cost the company tens of millions.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=2&u=/latimests/20040515/ts_latimes/ovitzblastseisnerdisney
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Not really news, but the Toledo Blade newspaper had a nice profile of producer Fred Ladd on the occasion of his receiving honors from Ohio State University over the weekend:

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OSU honors cartoon pioneer

By JOE MAHR
BLADE STAFF WRITER

Sitting in his home in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, producer Fred Laderman laughed when he thought about whether he'll get a call from the Hollywood giant Disney.

"I'm sure they hate my guts," he offered. "I'm sure they'd say, 'You'll never work in this town again.'"

The Toledo native isn't worried. Getting work hasn't been a problem for the 1945 Scott High School graduate - a spry 77-year-old who turned a love of entertaining into a five-decade career in which he helped pioneer a genre of animation.

Honored yesterday as a distinguished graduate of Ohio State University, Mr. Laderman is considered an industry trailblazer - the first to transform Japanese animation into an American commodity.

"He's a legend," said Harvey Deneroff, an animation historian who is writing a biography on Mr. Laderman.

Known in industry circles by the last name Ladd, Mr. Laderman also made industry waves when he publicly challenged Disney after the firm released a movie, The Lion King, that had striking plot similarities to an earlier Japanese series that went uncredited.

He's raised children on Long Island and spent the last two decades on the western edge of Los Angeles. But he says: "I'm still the kid from Toledo."

It was in his old North Toledo neighborhood where Mr.

Laderman began developing a love of entertaining that would end up creating a new niche in Japanese animation.

The grandson of a Russian immigrant, Mr. Laderman's father was a road laborer in the Depression. His mom was a homemaker. But he had different dreams.

His cousin had a friend who made it big as a character actress in radio, opening the eyes of a boy nicknamed Freddie to the possibilities of making a living by entertaining. He did impressions as early as the fourth grade but by high school was known for writing short stories and the annual Scott variety shows.

One former classmate, Loree Firestone Hinds, joked that he suffered from "terminal talent."

After graduating from Ohio State in 1949 with a degree in radio and speech, Mr. Laderman spent a year at an FM station in New York and then landed a job at an advertising agency that dabbled in films - a medium that he learned on the job.

Eventually, he repackaged an assortment of old nature clips into a documentary that was sold to a European firm. But this was during the post-war years, when some European countries couldn't export cash, and so the firm traded the rights to European cartoons. The job of re-editing and dubbing them in English fell to Mr. Laderman.

Within a decade he had become an expert in the niche of dubbing foreign clips. The father of two was called into the Rockefeller Center offices of NBC to help them dub a new foreign cartoon, this one from a place then scoffed at by the U.S. animation industry: Japan.

It was a TV show about a little boy called Tetsuam Atom, translated to mean Iron Fisted Atom Boy, that was a hit in Japan. Mr. Laderman redubbed it into Astro Boy - tweaking the plots to fit American tastes - and it became an early syndication hit across the country.

"Astro Boy was huge as far as anime [Japanese animation] goes," said Sean Akins, a creative director at Cartoon Network.

With TV hungry for new cartoons, the success of Astro Boy would spawn a new genre of Japanese animation repackaged for American audiences. Forty years later, the genre would become common in America, producing such hits as Pokemon and Dragonball Z, and lead Cartoon Network to devote its own block of programming, Toonami, to such shows.

And Astro Boy would spawn a surging career for Mr. Laderman. The series Gigantor would follow, and in 1965 the same Japanese firm that produced what became Astro Boy produced a cartoon series about a young lion prince's adventures.

Mr. Laderman re-edited and dubbed the series into Kimba, the White Lion, about a young lion prince who is driven from home after his father is killed. In his absence, a brutal lion with a scar over one eye takes over the throne and the young prince returns to defeat that lion.

The series ran more than 10 years, and it would lead to one of Mr. Laderman's most frustrating moments in the industry.

He went to the screening of a new Disney movie in 1994 called The Lion King, whose prince was named Simba, who was driven from home after his father is killed, and who had to reclaim the throne from his brutal uncle with a scar over one eye.

After noticing those similarities and others, Mr. Laderman left the theater shaking his head at plot twists Disney insisted were purely coincidental.

"It was almost disbelief, like 'What were they thinking?'" Mr. Laderman said.

Because the original Japanese animator, Osama Tezuka, thought highly of Walt Disney, Mr. Tezuka's company declined to complain. But some anime fans did complain, and Mr. Laderman became a well-quoted figure in a debate that still simmers today.

Granted, Mr. Laderman said, he isn't dwelling on the issue.

After spending the 1970s dubbing and producing films in New York City, he moved in 1980 to Los Angeles and has worked on such shows as Sailor Moon and is now producing an updated series of Gigantor.

While he isn't a household name, he remains a major figure in the genre of dubbing Japanese animation - a sought-out speaker for forums, or simply fans hungry for information.

Mr. Deneroff learned that after writing a 1996 profile of Mr. Laderman in Animation World Magazine.

"I've never gotten so much fan mail," he said. "People kept - for years - e-mailing me saying, 'How can I get in touch with Fred Ladd?'"

Mr. Laderman is humble and laughs at the idea of retiring.

"I'm having too much fun," he said. "The day you find out I'm retired, look for my obit."

Article published May 22, 2004
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4KIDS ENTERTAINMENT UNVEILS ALL-NEW FOX BOX FOR FALL ‘04

FOX BOX Debuts A New Look, A New Host And A New Programming
Lineup For Boys And Girls – Highlighted By The U.S. Premiere of Japanese Series ONE PIECE

New York, N.Y. (June 8, 2004 ) – This fall, FOX BOX is bigger than ever when the Saturday morning kids broadcast network from 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: KDE) unveils a new look, an exciting host and its most awesome lineup ever – including the U.S. launch of one of the hottest children’s animated series in Japan, ONE PIECE, from Toei Animation Co., Ltd.

While FOX BOX will shortly announce the identity of its hip new host, the network’s fall programming is ready to rock: A billion-dollar franchise in Japan, ONE PIECE ranks as one of Japan’s most successful properties in the past few years. Beginning this fall, FOX BOX is the exclusive home for this exciting series. The FOX BOX fall ’04 excitement continues with the television premiere of Nintendo®’s F-ZERO GP LEGEND, based on the high-speed, highperformance video game. FOX BOX also is proud to air two back-to-back, all-action animated series that feature girls as the lead heroes … direct from Italy – the fashion, fun and magic of the WINX CLUB and the Japanese animated hit TOKYO MEW MEW. The WINX CLUB is set to launch June 19, 2004.

Returning FOX BOX favorites include TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, SHAMAN KING, KIRBY: RIGHT BACK AT YA! and SONIC X, featuring all-new adventures starring the high-energy characters kids love. Plus, appearing throughout the four-hour block are THE INCREDIBLE CRASH DUMMIES, back from their successful run in the early 1990s to star in a new series of fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek animated interstitials.



I can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth of grieving otaku already...and somewhere, deep in my heart...I'm laughing my ass off. Laughing
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I really don't care what they do with anime series now. Ever since I discovered Fansubbers and Bittorrent... well, lets just say its been almost a year now since i've watched any anime on american TV.
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Damn. Well at least if 4kids is doing One Piece and Tokyo Mew Mew it gives me free liberty to watch the fansubs since just about anything they produce is not worth my money.

Outside of that I dont think most Otaku care. It would be nice to see One Piece get a decent dub and treatment, instead of being packaged and processed for american audiences and most likely lose much of it's original appeal. Though in essece if we have the fansubs then who cares. Saturday mornings aren't for teens, they're for kids, so if it doesn't fit my standards then I have no reason to complain since the programming wasn't created for my demographic and is availible in another medium.

What does anger me though, is 4kids stance on the animation they produce. For instance this is article regarding the recent aquisition of Tokyo Mew Mew.

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4Kids Entertainment has licensed Tokyo Mew Mew and will be airing the show during the Fox Box programming block on Fox. North American children will, however, not be introduced to Tokyo Mew Mew, but rather Hollywood Mew Mew. Regarding the process of localization, 4Kids CEO Al Kahn stated, "By the time we localize the programs kids don’t even know they’re from Japan any more." The statement was exclusively in reference to children's programming, Kahn stated that he felt that labels such as "Anime" are for adults and mean nothing to children.


Basically they're throwing away any sort of heart or importance the original Japanese creators imbued into their series and just take the animation they bought to use however they see fit. Anime is not just animation done by Japanese and should not be type-casted as such.
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Outside of that I dont think most Otaku care.


Do you go to many other discussion boards? I've never read so much whining for one day...

You may be right that otaku don't care, but the "otaku" fanboys are going apeshit.

And I'm sitting here watching it all... Twisted Evil
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I agree with zechs, even if 4kids has licensed it i'm still gonna get the fansubs. And yes, saturdays are for kids, not teens or adults. When I was a kid, i'd be up by 6 am and watching cartoons till 11am. Hell, now days, i'm lucky if i'm even up by 2pm!
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Or they probably have nothing else to do except rant on the American anime dub company Laughing. I mean geez guys, at least give them a chance. I know that 4Kids is not all it's cracked up to be (in terms of how they do their animes or "americanize" it), but just watch One Piece and judge for yourself whether it's good or bad.
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Meh. So 4Kids did license it. Didn't see that one coming a mile away. We'll see how the end product turns out. So I guess we can look forward to seeing the adventures of "Mikey D. Loffy" the captain, "Butch Zorro" the swordsman, "Lisa" the navigator, "Wassup" the gunner, "Romeo" the cook, "Rudy" the shapeshifting reindeer doctor, and "Nikki" the girl with the phantom hands later this year. All else fails, there's still a glimmer of hope that there may be a semi-faithful sub track on the FUNi-released "uncut" DVDs of the 4Kids shows. Here's to hoping...
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Well they are leaving Luffy and Shank's names as well as Gold Rodger so I assume most of the names will be left alone but surely some minor characters will get their names changed and no doubt for puns or popculture references... honestly I'd be suprised if they DON'T change Zoro to Zorro... I just hope they don't give him a Spanish accent...

BTW, Tokyo Mew Mew is Hollywood no more. 4kids pissed off too many people with this one so they dropped the needless over-westernization.

Poor One Piece... we've gotta buy those Shaman King and YGO uncut discs because if those don't sell then 4kids will never bother with releasing more even for One Piece which will have a greater demand for a faithful release than anything else they have ever acquired.
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