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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Monday
- July 30, 2001
- DreamWorks Preps Shrek 2-Disc
DVD
- Grown Up Rugrats
Bring Huge Ratings
- Release Charts: Animated,
Anime, and FX DVDs
- News Link of the Day
- Brief History of Planet of the Apes
DreamWorks
Preps Shrek 2-Disc DVD
 (by
digitalmediafx.com) DreamWorks is quietly preparing a 2-disc
DVD set for its hit animated movie Shrek. The DVD is expected
to be shipped in November. The artwork for the cover (pictured
here) is ready to go. DreamWorks has yet to publicly release details
of exactly what will appear on the 2-disc set and whether it plans
to do a rerelease of Shrek this fall to try and top The
Lion King as the highest-grossing animated movie of all time.
Shrek is currently the second highest grossing animated
film of all time.
In other Shrek
news, MediaForce (an digital copyright enforcement firm specializing
in Internet anti-piracy solutions) announced that Shrek
is the fifth most pirated movie online. Tens of thousands of downloads
of the entire movie have taken place drawing attention to the
issue of digital piracy. Many movies are surprisingly pirated
and available online before they make it into theaters.
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Grown Up
Rugrats Bring Huge Ratings
(by digitalmediafx.com) Nickelodeon experienced its highest
ratings ever with a special 10th anniversary episode of The Rugrats
that showed the babies all grown up. The episode pulled in an
audience of 12 million viewer, breaking many cable records, including
the biggest kids TV audience. The episode, titled ""All
Growed Up," was brought to the attention of dFX
Newsletter subscribers in the July
15 issue.
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 Release
Charts: Animated, Anime, and FX DVDs
(by digitalmediafx.com) It's a very slow week for animated,
anime, and FX DVDs. The only DVD coming out this week in the three
categories is Trumpet
of the Swan. Trumpet of the Swan was originally
suppose to be on VHS and DVD last year. However, after the Academy
announced a new Oscar for Best Animated Feature, the movie was
revised for a limited showing on the big screen. It opened to
largely negative reviews (article
1 & article
2).
The Trumpet
of the Swan is directed by Richard Rich, who also directed
The Swan Princess and Warner Bros. animated The King
and I. The movie stars the voices of Jason Alexander, Mary
Steenburgen, Reese Witherspoon, Joe Mantegna, and Seth Green.
The Trumpet of the Swan is the story of Louis, a voiceless
trumpeter swan and his adventure in learning new ways to communicate.
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News Link
of the Day - Brief History of Planet of the Apes
According
to AP:
The Associated
Press has released a list of the history of Planet of the Apes
on film. To view the list:
Click
here for the full story.
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