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- May 27, 2001
- Shrek May Top $100 Million
on Monday!
- Pearl Harbor Writer
Blames Director for Negative Reviews
- Pictures From Shrek Xbox
Game
- News Link of the Day
- Beauty and the Beast on IMAX
 Shrek
May Top $100 Million on Monday!
(by digitalmediafx.com) Shrek had a huge Saturday take,
bringing in $16.91 million, just under the same amount it brought
in last Saturday ($17.5 million). The continued strong performance
of PDI/DreamWorks animated hit virtually guarantees that by the
end of the day on Monday, Shrek will have topped $100 million,
making it one of the fastest animated blockbusters in animation
history. By June 10, Shrek is expected to break into the
Top 10 Animated Movies
of All Time list. Number 10 on the list is Pocahontas
with $141.6 million.
Meanwhile,
Pearl Harbor made $20.4 million at the Box Office, lower
than expected for the film marketed as an "epic" adventure.
By the end of Monday, Pearl Harbor is expected to reach
$80 million, well under analyst predictions, but still an excellent
showing considering the film's run time (over three hours).
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Pearl Harbor
Writer Blames Director for Negative Reviews
(by digitalmediafx.com) Under terms of the new writers contract
with studios, writers will be given more power and respect when
it comes to turning their scripts into movies. Until last months
agreement, writers had been considered the lowest denominator
on the totem poll, often having their scripts mutilated without
any say in the matter.
Screenwriter
Randall Wallace, who wrote Pearl Harbor, is speaking out
about the mass negative reviews the film has received, particularly
relating to "superficial relationships" panned by critics.
Wallace told the NY Daily News the following:
"The
script I wrote wasn't fully the script that Michael shot,"
says Wallace. "If you look at Armageddon or The
Rock [two of Bay's action flicks] and if you think there is
any superficiality [in Pearl Harbor], where do you think
it came from?"
Wallace adds
that the director was not on the same page as the originally written
script and to change that, he brought in new writers to alter
the script.
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Pictures
from Shrek Xbox Game
(by digitalmediafx.com) Digital Media FX has obtained the following
three images from the upcoming Shrek Xbox video game being released
on November 8, 2001:
For
more details on the Shrek Xbox game, click
here.
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News Link
of the Day - Beauty and the Beast on IMAX
According to Widescreen Review:
"Quite
some time has passed since audiences have seen the romance of
Belle and the Beast, done Disney-style. The original animated
version of Beauty And The Beast was released to box office
and critical acclaim in the winter of 1991. The film garnered
the first nomination for Best Picture for an animated feature
and spawned a successful Broadway show. But since then, the film
has only been seen briefly on LaserDisc and VHS video, but not
in theatres. Recently, Disney decided to dust off the computer
files of Beauty for the large format…"
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