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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Sunday
- June 3, 2001
- Shrek Easily Passes $125
Million Mark
- Atlantis: The
Lost Empire World Premiere Today
- U.S. Theater Chains Procrastinate
Over Digital Theaters
- News Link of the Day
- Marketing No-No: Sony Invents Movie Quotes
Shrek Easily
Passes $125 Million Mark
(by digitalmediafx.com) On Friday, Shrek easily blew
by the $125 million mark as it continues to perform very strong
at the Box Office. With two weeks left before it faces competition
from Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Paramount Pictures
Tomb Raider, Shrek looks to be easily headed towards the
$200 million mark. Some analysts are predicting that it will give
The Lion King a run for its money as the highest grossing
animated movie of all time (not calculating for inflation).
On Friday,
the number of theaters Shrek was playing in expanded from
3,623 to 3,661. It made $6.7 million on Friday to bring its total
to $126.9 million in just 15 days.
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> Track
Shrek Box Office Results here.
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Atlantis:
The Lost Empire World Premiere Today
(by digitalmediafx.com) As mentioned in Friday's dFX
Animation and FX News newsletter, Walt Disney Pictures
is holding the world premiere of Atlantis: The Lost Empire
today at the historic El Capitan Theater in Hollywood.
Those in attendance
at the premiere, from the animated movie, will include Michael
J. Fox, Cree Summer, Phil Morris, Jacqueline Obradors, Don Novello,
Corey Burton, Claudia Christian, David Ogden Stiers, Florence
Stanley, Producer Don Hahn, Directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale,
Songwriter Diane Warren, and Composer James Newton Howard.
You can visit
the special "Atlantis is Waiting" dFX Movie Site by clicking
here.
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U.S. Theater
Chains Procrastinate Over Digital Theaters
(by digitalmediafx.com) Theater chains and movie studios are
moving slowly with the creation of digital movie theaters even
though years of testing have been highly successful and audience
reaction to the vibrant and sharp image has been outstanding.
While the
U.S. continues to procrastinate in advancing the technology, Japan
is already set to open its second all-digital cinema complex on
July 13, 2001 in Niigata. Japanese studios broadcast films via
satellite, which are received at the theater complex and digitally
projected to the appropriate movie screen.
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News Link
of the Day - Marketing No-No: Sony Invents Movie Quotes
According to Newsweek:
"David
Manning of The Ridgefield Press is one of Columbia Pictures’
most reliable reviewers, praising Heath Ledger of A Knight’s
Tale as 'this year’s hottest new star!' and saluting
The Animal as 'another winner!' The studio plastered Manning’s
raves over at least four different movie advertisements, including
Hollow Man and Vertical Limit. But Manning’s
own life story should be called 'Charade,' because he doesn’t
exist. …"
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