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Thursday
- November 8, 2001
- Monsters, Inc. Makes $70
Million in 5 Days
- Harry Potter Fans
Steal Merchandise
- Top Selling Animation and
FX DVDs
- News Link of the Day
- Cinar Trades Spark Fears
Monsters,
Inc. Makes $70 Million in 5 Days
(by digitalmediafx.com) In its first five days of release,
Pixar's Monsters, Inc. (distributed and marketed by Disney)
has made a huge $70 million. By the end of the day on Friday it
will have surpassed the total made by Atlantis: The Lost Empire
over the entire summer!
There's word
that Pixar and Disney are prepping outtakes that will soon be
attached to Monsters, Inc. in order to get people to return
during the holidays and during the competition with Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Visit the
dFX Monsters, Inc. Movie site by clicking
here.
Follow the Shrek versus Monsters, Inc. Box Office
Results by clicking
here.
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Harry Potter
Fans Steal Merchandise
(by digitalmediafx.com) Fans of what is expected to be the
biggest movie opening in cinema history - for Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer's Stone - stole Harry Potter merchandise from a movie
screening at a Scottish movie theater.
According
to the London Daily Record, "They stripped thousands of pounds
worth of memorabilia from the walls of the Ster Century in Leith.
Giant 8ft cardboard cut-out figures, posters and banners all vanished
within seconds of the credits rolling."
The FX-filled
mythical adventure movie opens in the U.S. on November 16 in over
3,500 theaters and on more than 7,000 movie screens.
The Record
says there were over 1000 posters, hoardings, and cutout figures
that were all stolen within 15 minutes of the show's end. The
items had been loaned to the theater, for the screening, by Warner
Bros.
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Top Selling
Animation and FX DVDs
(by digitalmediafx.com) Here is a list of the current top
selling animation and FX DVDs at Amazon.com. Animation and FX
DVDs are still prominate, but not as dominate in the top 20 as
the last three weeks. Dropping out of the top 20 (from last week)
were Pixar's
15th Anniversary Gift Pack, Dumbo,
and The
Mummy Returns.
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News Link
of the Day - Cinar Trades Spark Fears
According to The National Post:
"Unusual
trading in Cinar Corp. has sparked fears that a rumoured deal
with U.K.-based Gullane Entertainment PLC could be in jeopardy.
The company's shares, which were delisted from the Toronto Stock
Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market last year following a series
of high-profile scandals, dipped to $2.30 on the pink sheets market
yesterday as more than 200,000 shares changed hands..."
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