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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Tuesday
- June 26, 2001
- Bromeliad Trilogy to be One
Animated Movie?
- Historic Disney
Memorabilia Shipped to Walt Disney World
- Final Weekend Box Office
Numbers
- News Link of the Day
- Right in the Fuehrer's Face
Bromeliad
Trilogy to be One Animated Movie?
 (by
digitalmediafx.com) In May, Digital Media FX announced
plans by PDI/DreamWorks to bring Terry Pratchett's
Bromeliad Trilogy to life in animated form under the direction
of Andrew
Adamson. Now, according to BBC News, Pratchett's Books
- Truckers, Diggers and Wings - will be turned into one movie
versus three.
Earlier
reports from DreamWorks created an impression that different
movies were going to be made from Pratchett's Bromeliad Trilogy,
which DreamWorks acquired the rights to this year. Jeffrey Katzenberg
was even quoted, in early May, as saying, "There are few
authors whose work lends itself to animation as well as Terry
Pratchett's. His Bromeliad trilogy is a wonderful blend of fantasy,
adventure and humor and I am honored to be able to bring his books
to the screen, beginning with Truckers."
Creating three
movies doesn't appear to be the case, according to the BBC News,
which made the following two comments based on interviews with
both Jeffrey Katzenberg and Andrew Adamson:
"Andrew
Adamson will be in charge of turning British author Pratchett's
books Truckers, Diggers and Wings into one film."
"...But
Adamson thinks that, unlike with Shrek, it will be a challenge
to condense Pratchett's three books into one movie."
Digital Media
FX has made an official follow-up inquiry to DreamWorks about
whether there will be one movie or three based on the Bromeliad
trilogy.
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Historic
Disney Memorabilia Shipped to Walt Disney World
(by digitalmediafx.com) Many historic Disney items - like
props from the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs movie
- left California yesterday en route to Disney World in Florida,
where it will be displayed as part of Disney World's "100
Years of Magic Celebration." A sampling of over 400 items
making the journey include:
-- Walt Disney's
office desk, chair and cabinet
-- 1954 Special Effects Oscar from "20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea"
-- "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" animated feature-film
props circa 1939-40
-- "Pinocchio" film props circa 1941
-- Sleeping Beauty castle model
-- Mickey Mouse Club guitar
-- Peter Pan's Flight attraction model
-- Tree of Life model from Disney's Animal Kingdom
"Talk
about 'precious cargo,'" said Walt Disney World Co. President
Al Weiss. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime shipment that carries
significant historical meaning to our company and our guests from
around the world."
The shipment
was sent via FedEx. The Airbus A300 that carried the cargo was
designated "Spirit of Imagination."
All items
will be on display at Disney-MGM Studios inside a new attraction
called "Walt Disney: One Man's Dream," a multi-sensory
entertainment experience based on this man who was willing to
bet everything on his own dreams. The venue will open Oct. 1,
when the Walt Disney World Resort kicks off the 100 Years of Magic
Celebration, which runs through Dec. 31, 2002.
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Final Weekend
Box Office Numbers
(by digitalmediafx.com) Final weekend box office numbers are
in and here are the results for the top animated and visual effects
movies:
|
Movie
|
Rank
|
Weekend
Total
|
Gain/Loss |
Overall
Total
|
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Dr.
Doolittle 2
|
# 2
|
$25.0
Million
|
New |
$25.0
Million
|
|
Tomb
Raider
|
# 3
|
$19.8
Million
|
-59% |
$83.8
Million
|
|
Atlantis:
The Lost Empire
|
# 4
|
$12.5
Million
|
-38% |
$43.7
Million
|
|
Shrek
|
# 5
|
$10.4
Million
|
-21% |
$215.2
Million
|
|
Pearl
Harbor
|
# 7
|
$06.8
Million
|
-31% |
$171.8
Million
|
|
The
Mummy Returns
|
# 11
|
$01.5
Million
|
-55% |
$196.2
Million
|
The gain/loss
represents the movie's performance when compared to last weekend.
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News Link
of the Day - Right in the Fuehrer's Face
According
to the New York Post:
"How
does the Cartoon Network deal with ethnic stereotypes in the old
cartoons?
Sometimes the network withdraws them altogether, as it did earlier
this month when it pulled 12 shorts from its annual "June
Bugs" marathon of Bugs Bunny cartoons.
And at other
times, it surrounds them with a lot of historical context, which
the network hopes will help some viewers understand how the outrageous
caricatures of Blacks and other minorities came to be in the 1930s
and '40s…"
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