``Chuck Jones' Timber Wolf'' Debuts Strong on WarnerBros.com; Traffic to Site Continues Strong.Entertainment Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com GLENDALE, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2001 Chuck Jones' first original animated characters created for Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . in more than 40 years made their World Wide Web debut last week in Warner Bros. Online's "Chuck Jones' Timber Wolf," and the Flash-animated cartoon has become one of the fastest-growing sites at www.warnerbros.com. Since its initial launch on Oct. 24, nearly three-quarters of a million fans have checked out the antics of "Timber Wolf" and more continue to log on each day. "Chuck Jones' Timber Wolf," available for viewing only at Warner Bros. Online (www.warnerbros.com), features the shenanigans shenanigans Noun, pl Informal 1. mischief or nonsense 2. trickery or deception [origin unknown] of series' title character, Thomas T. (that's short for Timber) Wolf, who has it all -- looks, brains and a savoir-faire not usually associated with forest-dwelling animals. In each three-to-five minute episode, Thomas and his cohorts slip, skip and stumble through adventures and eventual predicaments, including Earl the Squirrel's insistence on collecting a $100 bounty bounty, payment made by a government bounty, amount paid by a government for the achievement of certain economic or other goals. It often takes the form of a premium paid for the increased production or export of certain goods. for Thomas' tail, a herd of sheep that becomes a little too amorous am·o·rous adj. 1. Strongly attracted or disposed to love, especially sexual love. 2. Indicative of love or sexual desire: an amorous glance. 3. toward Thomas and Thomas' misadventures in babysitting. And, among all of this bucolic bliss, there's just one catch, involving the utterance of "Timber" and a slew of falling trees... Entertainment fans and Chuck Jones' aficionados flocked to the "Timber Wolf" site at www.warnerbros.com, more than doubling the site's traffic over the opening weekend. Visitors to the "Chuck Jones' Timber Wolf" site are able to view a new Flash Animated cartoon animated cartoon: see Nontheatrical Film under motion pictures. each week for 13 weeks, and explore fun and interactive elements, including sneak-peeks at Thomas' future shenanigans. In-depth looks at the "Timber Wolf" cast of characters and creators with exclusive downloadable pictures are available, and previous "Timber Wolf" episodes will be archived for up to two weeks on the site. "Timber Wolf" was created by Jones, then developed by Executive Producer, Co-Writer and Supervising Director Stephen Fossati, producers Philip Vaughn and Jeff DeGrandis and director Steven Dovas in the spirit of Warner Bros.' classic Looney Tunes shorts, with the same Jones attention to character, humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was and believability be·liev·a·ble adj. Capable of eliciting belief or trust. See Synonyms at plausible. be·liev  a·bil . Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.110101/bb9 |
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