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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Friday
- May 18, 2001
- Shrek Opens on 3,587 Screens!
- Digital Media
FX Launches E3 Video Game Industry Reports
- Square and Disney Interactive
Team Up for RPG
- News Link of the Day
- Mouse Meat
 Shrek
Opens on 3,587 Screens!
(by digitalmediafx.com) Shrek officially opened today on
3,587 screens, a record for any past animated film and the second
most screens for any movie ever (being topped only by Mission
Impossible 2). Box office analysts are predicting a weekend
opening for Shrek between $30 - $40 million. However, DreamWorks
is being cautious with its predictions, saying they expect Shrek
to make between $25 - $30 million.
Digital Media
FX will be maintaining daily box office results for Shrek.
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Digital
Media FX Launches E3 Video Game Industry Reports
(by digitalmediafx.com) Digital Media FX has launched a special
section dedicated to posting releases and reports from the E3
video game tradeshow currently underway in Los Angeles, California.
To access this new section, click
here.
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Square
and Disney Interactive Team Up for RPG
(by digitalmediafx.com) The creators of the Final Fantasy
series, Square, are teaming up with Disney Interactive to create
a brand new role playing game titled "Kingdom Hearts"
for the Playstation 2 platform. In the RPG, past Disney characters
will team up with brand new Disney characters to embark on a dark,
magical adventure that takes them to familiar and newly created
Disney worlds, interacting with characters indigenous to those
realms.
"Kingdom
Hearts" has been in production for two years with a team
of over 100 artists working on it. The game will first be released
in Japan this year followed by the U.S. next fall (2002). For
more in-depth details on this game, click
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News Link
of the Day - Mouse Meat
According to the San Jose MetroActive:
"In a
presentation on an upcoming Disney cartoon, one of the head animators
was describing the process of creating the male lead. First, he
said, he'd started with silent comedian Harold Lloyd as a model
for his drawings. Then he'd add details of Jimmy Stewart, Gary
Cooper and Fred MacMurray. 'In other words,' whispered a friend,
'he took someone original and watered him down until it fit the
Disney house style.'…"
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