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Friday
- October 19, 2001
- New Line
Strikes Distribution Deal with Warner Bros.
- Five Little Monkeys
Continues Festival Run
- Nightmare Before Christmas
Opens at El Capitan
- News Link of the Day
- Sci-Fi or Sci-Future?
New Line
Strikes Distribution Deal with Warner Bros.
(by digitalmediafx.com) Warner Bros. will immediately assume
the distribution of New Line Cinema's feature films in all German-speaking
territories, Eastern Europe and Russia.
This output
agreement for all New Line titles released in the United States
through 2003, calls for Warner Bros. Pictures to handle the theatrical
distribution and marketing responsibilities and activities for
current and future New Line films in Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Eastern Europe and Russia, as well as for Warner Home Video and
Warner Bros. International Television Distribution to handle the
respective home video and television rights of these films in
the covered territories. The first title covered under the agreement
is the highly anticipated December release of Lord of the Rings,
The Fellowship of the Ring. Other titles include the remaining
two installments of Lord of the Rings, Rush Hour 2, Austin
Powers in Goldmember, Blade 2, John Q, Life as a House and
I am Sam.
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Five Little
Monkeys Continues Festival Run
(by digitalmediafx.com) Fried Egg Animation's animated short,
"Five Little Monkeys", a film by Linda Kudzmas, has
been accepted for showing at the Burbank International Children’s
Film Festival, October 26 to November 3, 2001. The film has already
been accepted and shown at several other film festivals.
"Five
Little Monkeys" illustrates the classic counting rhyme of
monkeys who, one by one, fall off the bed they are jumping on
and bump their head. Mama phones the Doctor after each mishap,
interrupting him during his daily activities. Although the Doctor
is stern in his advice, the remaining monkeys continue to jump
on the bed and experience the same fate as their siblings.
The Burbank
International Children's Film Festival (BCIFF) provides independent
filmmakers, animators, writers, and young artists an unprecedented
opportunity to showcase their talent and network with industry
leaders. The mission of this event is to address the need for
socially responsible children's entertainment, and to provide
encouragement for new talent.
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Nightmare
Before Christmas Opens at El Capitan
(by digitalmediafx.com) Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before
Christmas is back on the big screen for a two week run at
the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. As part of the pre-movie
entertainment, guests are being treated to the classic shorts
"Frankenweenie" and "Vincent" and being given
a look at many of the props used in and to create the movie. Tonight
at 6:30pm there will be a Film Makers Panel Discussion that will
walk the audience through the creation of Tim Burton's The
Nightmare Before Christmas.
The run will
conclude after October 31 and the theater will be prepped for
Monsters, Inc. which begins playing at the El Capitan on
November 2, 2001. For more information, call 1-800-DISNEY6.
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News Link
of the Day - Sci-Fi or Sci-Future?
According to Silicon:
"We asked
two of the world's top tech thinkers to cast judgement on concepts
seen in some well-known films.
From memory
implants in Johnny Mnemonic to the paranoid ship's computer in
2001, from uploading a virus to aliens in Independence Day to
universal translators in Star Trek, we asked for advice from Peter
Cochrane, entrepreneur and former CTO at BT, and Ray Kurzweil,
inventor and futurologist..."
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