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Sunday
- August 12, 2001
- Weekend Estimates: Osmosis
Jones $5.6 Million
- Osmosis Jones
TV Series
- Fox Keeps Ice Age to Itself
- News Link of the Day
- Pixar Ups 2001 Outlook
Weekend
Estimates: Osmosis Jones $5.6 Million
(by digitalmediafx.com) Osmosis Jones failed to attract
moviegoers, bringing in an estimated $5.6 million in its opening
weekend for a 7th place finish. The poor performance is an indicator
that Osmosis Jones will finish its box office run at around $20
million. Even Warner Bros. disappointing 1998 animated Quest
for Camelot movie brought in more money in its opening weekend
($6 million).
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Osmosis
Jones TV Series Could be on Thin Ice
(by digitalmediafx.com) Prior to the disastrous opening of Osmosis
Jones, Warner Bros. Animation had been extensively planning
an animated TV series to compliment the movie. Those plans could
be scratched, however, after U.S. audiences showed no interest
in the Warner Bros. film (see today's top news story). The scenario
mimics Disney, which had been working on a Team Atlantis TV series
that it swiftly canceled after not getting the desired box office
results from the animated movie.
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Fox Keeps
Ice Age to Itself
(by digitalmediafx.com) Recent discussion between DreamWorks
and FOX to share distribution in Fox's animated Ice Age movie
have broken down, resulting in FOX being the sole distributor
for the animated movie. Ice Age is a digitally-animated feature
film from Blue Sky Studios, a computer graphics imagery/feature
film animation studio and a division of Twentieth Century Fox
Animation Studios.
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News Link
of the Day - Pixar Ups 2001 Outlook
According
to the Washington Post:
"Pixar
Animation Studios Inc. , maker of the successful computer animated
film Toy Story, reported higher second-quarter net income
as lower costs offset a decline in revenue and raised its full-year
forecast, anticipating a strong response to its upcoming film,
Monsters, Inc..."
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