|
Digital
Media FX News Archives
Sunday
- August 5, 2001
- Planet of the Apes - $28.5
Million in Second Weekend
- A Look at the
BloodQuest Script
- The Simpson's - How Do I
Draw a Shooting Gun?
- News Link of the Day
- 'E' For Excessive Violence?
Planet
of the Apes - $28.5 Million in Second Weekend
(by digitalmediafx.com) Weekend estimates are in and
Rush Hour 2 easily took the box office victory with $66.8
million. Planet of the Apes, in its second weekend, fell
more than 50% to make $28.5 million. That brings its box office
total to $125 million. Jurassic Park III fell to fourth
with $12.1 million, bringing its total to $145 million.
Next week
Osmosis Jones opens up against two R-rated movies and the
re-release of Spy Kids: Special Edition. It will also compete
with Disney's G-rated Princess Diaries which opened this
week with a very strong $23.2 million.
> Return
to the top of page
A Look
at the BloodQuest Script
(by digitalmediafx.com) Exile Films is giving Internet users
a look at the opening pages of Jimmy Diggs' original draft script
for BloodQuest. Here's how the script starts:
EXT. SPACE
: THE GALACTIC LENS
A vast sparkling starfield. The galactic core swells in the
distance and its great spiral arms trail off into the void.
We are witness to the immensity of the universe. Its
splendor... and its menace. A LEGEND APPEARS: ANNO DOMINI.
A number begins to FADE IN above the legend as several of
the original letters begin to dissolve. THE NEW LEGEND
READS: 40,000 A.D...
Click
here to read the entire opening segment.
> Return
to the top of page
The Simpsons
- How do I Draw a Shooting Gun?
(by digitalmediafx.com) The Associated Press has published
a detailed article taking a look at The Simpsons animation and
complications faced by having the show drawn outside of the U.S.
According
to the article, "It was the middle of the night and The Simpsons'
animation director Mark Kirkland was on the telephone to South
Korea explaining how to draw Marge Simpson shooting a gun.
The Korean
artists on the other end of the line - the ones responsible in
this global endeavor for bringing the American TV show to animated
life - were in the dark about firearms."
Click
here to read the entire article.
> Return
to the top of page
News Link
of the Day - 'E' For Excessive Violence?
According
to Reuters:
"Roughly
three out of five video games rated suitable for children as young
as 6 reward players for injuring or killing characters, researchers
who surveyed some of the games said Tuesday.
'Physicians
and parents should understand that popular E-rated video games
may be a source of exposure to violence that rewards them for
violent actions,' said the report published in this week's issue
of the Journal of the American Medical Association..."
Click
here for the full story.
> Return
to the Top of the Page
> Click
Here for a Printable Version of this Page
> Return
to August News Archives
> Return to Today's
News
> Return to
the Digital Media FX Front Page
|
