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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Monday
- July 23, 2001
- Osmosis Producer Wanted Big
Action Feel
- Michael Jackson
Gets Animated
- Release Charts: Animated,
Anime, and FX DVDs
- News Link of the Day
- Shrek Swirl Lawsuit Puts Family in Dis-Flavor
Osmosis
Jones Producer Wanted Big Action Feel
(by digitalmediafx.com) The producer of Osmosis Jones,
Zak Penn, is speaking out about the new live action mixed with
animation movie from Warner Bros.
According
to Penn, "We were sure from the beginning that we wanted
this movie to feel like a big action movie. Something in which
the animated portion looked like a cop show or a detective movie,
with a heightened sense of design. In addition to that, it has
evolved to have a real retro, noirish look that’s very original.
We didn’t just want to make a comedy. We wanted to make something
where the wild action and special effects could stand up to what
you’d see in a live action film."
The animation
director for Osmosis Jones, Tom Sito, also comments on
his role in the movie.
"I was
shown the script and immediately struck by how imaginative and
different it was. Someone once said ‘Animation should take
up where live action leaves off.’ With the latest in digital
technologies, the latest developments in computers, live action
can go pretty far now. In Osmosis Jones I knew we’d
be taking people even beyond the borders of reality-based imagination,
to places they’ve never been before."
Osmosis
Jones opens domestically on August 10. It is opening up against
American Pie 2, Spy Kids: Special Edition, The Others,
and Rat Race. In addition it will see continued strong
competition from Rush Hour 2 and The Princess Diaries
which open on August 3. Osmosis Jones was originally rated
PG-13 for crude language and bodily humor. However, the language
was edited to bring the rating down to a PG. The movie fits into
the genre of "gross out comedy."
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Michael
Jackson Gets Animated
(by digitalmediafx.com) Michael Jackson is set to star in,
and produce, a new animated film titled, The Way of the Unicorn,
The Endangered One. According to The Washington Post, the film
will cost $75 million to create. His role in the movie is as an
orphan named Sailor. The movie is about Sailor, a girl, and a
group of endangered species that work together to try and save
Earth. It is expected to be released in theaters in 2003. The
animation production team behind the film has not been named.
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Release
Charts: Animated, Anime, and FX DVDs
(by digitalmediafx.com) Here is a list of new animated, anime,
and FX DVDs being released tomorrow. As you can see, tomorrow's
list is heavy on anime:
Akira
(anime)
Akira:
Limited Special Edition (anime)
Arc
the Lad - Wanted - Vol. 3 (anime)
Farscape
#5: DNA Mad Scientist/They've Got a Secret (1999 -
FX)
Ranma
1/2 - Random Rhapsody - Watermelon Beach - Vol. 3 (anime)
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News Link
of the Day - Shrek Swirl Lawsuit Puts Family in Dis-Flavor
According
to The Record:
"Since
they became national news, the Janze family has been maligned
for everything from filing a supposedly frivolous lawsuit to how
they named their daughter.
Yes, they
are suing Baskin-Robbins over an ice cream sprinkled with Pop
Rocks (Shrek Swirl). Yes, they allege that a scoop of the stuff
put their 5-year-old in the hospital. And yes, her name is Fifi..."
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