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- June 10, 2001
- Swordfish Barely Tops Shrek
for #1 Spot
- Newsweek Talks
About Shrek and New Animation Oscar
- Radio Disney Allows Shrek
Soundtrack Ads
- News Link of the Day
- In Defense of Video Games
Swordfish
Barely Tops Shrek for #1 Spot
(by digitalmediafx.com) Weekend estimates are in and Swordfish
finished in first place with an estimated $18.4 million. Shrek,
continuing to play solid, finished with $17.1 million, easily
beating Pearl Harbor, which came in third with $14.9 million.
Many analysts predicted early in the year that Pearl Harbor
would easily be the highest grossing movie of the year. Shrek
is now proving itself to be the film to beat this year as it etches
close to the $200 million mark, which could be attainable by the
end of the next weekend.
Shrek
will face its first serious competition next weekend when Disney's
Atlantis: The Lost Empire hits theaters along with Paramount's
Tomb Raider.
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 Newsweek
Talks About Shrek and New Animation Oscar
(by digitalmediafx.com) The June 18 issue of Newsweek magazine,
in an article titled "The Shrek Effect," talks about
animation wars and the new animation Oscar. Here is a synopsis
of the story:
"For
as long as anyone can remember, the word animation has been synonymous
with the name Walt Disney. But thanks to a big green ogre named
"Shrek," the landscape has suddenly shifted, with the
DreamWorks movie emerging as the summer movie to beat, animated
or otherwise. And now, the dueling studios have a new prize to
fight over: the Oscar, as 2001 marks the first year the Academy
Awards will include a category for Best Animated feature, writes
Senior Editor David Ansen."
The article
appears on page 50 of the June 18, 2001 edition of Newsweek which
has a cover picture of Tiger Woods with the headline "Tiger
Rules" (see image).
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Radio Disney
Allows Shrek Soundtrack Ads
(by digitalmediafx.com) Disney's refusal to allow DreamWorks
to place ads for Shrek on Radio Disney garnished a lot
of additional publicity for the movie. In a newsletter sent to
Radio Disney affiliates in April, it was stated that "'Due
to recent initiatives with the Walt Disney Company, we are being
asked not to align ourselves promotionally with this new release
[Shrek]."
Even though
commercials for the movie were banned, Radio Disney is now allowing
commercials to air for the Shrek Soundtrack, which also
includes a plug for the movie. In the commercial the narrator
announces the soundtrack for Shrek, "the hit movie
from DreamWorks".
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News Link
of the Day - In Defense of Video Games
According to The New York Times:
"The
roar inside the Los Angeles Convention Center during last month's
Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) would have made even a gladiator
shudder. Trigger-happy commandos. Screeching zombies. Robots with
howitzers. Starfighters. Formula One race cars. Sprites, pixies,
Spiderman and Mickey Mouse. And overpowering all the rest, on
the floor's biggest display, Madden N.F.L., the No. 1 selling
title for the new Sony PlayStation 2, with tackles, groans and
bodies hitting the turf at volumes loud enough, it seemed, to
shake the very concrete of the convention center. I felt like
a Lilliputian trapped in the TV section at Crazy Eddie's with
every set turned all the way up…"
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