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Monday
- August 20, 2001
- Sci-Fi Continues to Become
a Reality
- The Simpsons Coming
to DVD!
- Release Charts: Animated,
Anime, and FX DVDs
- News Link of the Day
- Mystery Girl Versus Creepy Vampires
Sci-Fi
Continues to Become a Reality
(by digitalmediafx.com) The saying that "yesterday's sci-fi
is tomorrow's reality" continues to be true as information
was released about U.S. and Britain projects to create Star Trek
like shields to protect their vehicles. The special effect shields
that play prominent roles in most space-based futuristic movies
are being developed to protect new
"super tankers".
According
to The Guardian Unlimited (a U.K. publication), when a missile
hits a tank, the new technology, "would sever optical cables
in the mat below the tank's outer plastic cover. This would trigger
sensors to activate electrical capacitors inside the tank which
would send a mighty electrical current surging through the metal
coils at the base of the smart armour...Essentially, electromagnets
would be used to dissipate the energy of an anti-tank missile
or shell, like the force shields that protect the fictional Starship
Enterprise."
The "force
field" technology isn't the only major advancement taking
place. Scientists are also encouraged by early results in creating
teleportation systems.
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The
Simpsons Coming to DVD!
(by digitalmediafx.com) Fox is releasing the entire first
season of The Simpsons onto DVD on September 25, 2001. The first
complete season consists of the following 13 episodes:
"Some
Enchanted Evening"
"Bart the Genius"
"Homers Odyssey"
"Theres No Disgrace Like Home"
"Bart the General"
"Moaning Lisa"
"The Telltale Head"
"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
"Call of the Simpsons"
"Homers Night Out"
"Life in the Fast Lane"
"Krusty Gets Busted"
"The Crepes of Wrath"
In addition
there are several bonus features, including:
Episode
Commentaries
Some Enchanted: Original Script
Unaired Episode with Optional Commentary
Animatic: Bart the General w/Commentary, Albert Brooks
Outtakes
America's First Family BBC Special
Bart T-shirt Controversy ABC News
Tracy Ulman: Good Night Simpsons
Foreign Language Clips (7)
Early Sketches (Still Gallery-100)
12 stills and magazine covers
Bart the Genius: Original Script
Bart the General: Original Script
Moaning Lisa: Original Script
Click
here for information on preordering The Simpsons DVD.
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Release
Charts: Animated, Anime, and FX DVDs
(by digitalmediafx.com) After a slow week last week things
are picking up with a selection of new FX, animated, and anime
DVDs as listed below:
Gremlins
(1984 - FX)
Pokemon
The First Movie (1999 - animated/anime)
Pokemon
The Movie 2000 (2000 - animated/anime)
Pokemon
3: The Movie 2001 (2001 - animated/anime)
Pokemon
Movie Collection (animated/anime)
Ranma
1/2 - Random Rhapsody - Demon From Jusenkyo Vol.4 (anime)
Scooby-Doo's
Spookiest Tales (animation)
Spawn
(animated)
Spawn
2 (1997 - animated)
Spawn
3: The Ultimate Battle (1999 - animated)
The
Ultimate Spawn Collection (animated)
Amazon.com
is now accepting pre-orders for the Shrek 2-Disc DVD. Click
here.
Amazon.com
is also accepting pre-orders for The Phantom Menace DVD.
Click
here.
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News Link
of the Day - Mystery Girl Versus Creepy Vampires
According
to the New York Times:
"You
don't have to be familiar with the convoluted pop mythology behind
the Japanese anime film 'Blood: The Last Vampire' to appreciate
some aspects of a movie that seems destined for cult status. Anyone
who desires to explore its world, which is really a genre-within-a-genre,
is advised to do a little homework..."
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here for the full story. (may require free registration)
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