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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Wednesday
- September 5, 2001
- Shrek Remains in UK's Top
10
- Final Weekend
Box Office Numbers
- Summer's Big Winners and
Losers
- News Link of the Day
- Mort Walker Has Hope for Cartoon Museum
 Shrek
Remains in UK's Top 10
(by digitalmediafx.com) 10 weeks after opening in the UK, Shrek
continues to play strong in the UK box office, never falling lower
than #6 on the charts. To date, Shrek has dominated the
UK box office with a £27m take. Shrek's total overseas
take now stands at $162.9 million, bringing its grand total (domestic
and overseas) to an amazing $425.8 million. In addition, there
are several countries which Shrek still has yet to open,
including Japan.
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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
|
| Planet
of the Apes |
#
11 |
$02.9
Million |
-18% |
$173.0
Million |
| Jurassic
Park 3 |
#
12 |
$01.7
Million |
-27% |
$175.8
Million |
|
Pearl
Harbor
|
# 20
|
$867,300
|
1043%
gain |
$196.6
Million
|
|
Shrek
|
# 21
|
$786,284
|
35%
gain |
$262.9
Million
|
|
Atlantis:
The Lost Empire
|
# 23
|
$664,215
|
846%
gain |
$82.4
Million
|
|
Dr.
Doolittle 2
|
#
25 |
$486,385
|
20%
gain |
$111.5
Million
|
| Spy
Kids: Special Edition |
#
29 |
$359,569 |
122%
gain |
$112.2
Million |
| Osmosis
Jones |
#
30 |
$280,905 |
-63% |
$13.0
Million |
| Cats
& Dogs |
#
36 |
$227,212 |
-6% |
$92.0
Million |
|
Tomb
Raider
|
# 37
|
$220,930
|
-22% |
$130.7
Million
|
| A.I. |
#
39 |
$170,331 |
525%
gain |
$78.3
Million |
|
The
Mummy Returns
|
# 45
|
$87,780
|
15%
gain |
$201.7
Million
|
| CyberWorld
3D |
#
52 |
$64,341 |
24%
gain |
$10.0
Million |
The gain/loss
represents the movie's performance when compared to last weekend.
The reason
there were so many gains last weekend was because it was a four-day
holiday weekend (Labor Day). In addition, many older films (like
Pearl Harbor) expanded the number of theaters they were
in for the holiday weekend.
Note:
Final Fantasy has dropped out of the list with a total
of $32.1 million at the box office, making it one of the biggest
box office disasters of the summer.
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Summer's
Big Winners and Losers
(by digitalmediafx.com) USAToday has published a list of this
summer's big winners and losers in relation to movies. The newspaper
names Shrek as summers huge winner, bringing in a massive
$263 million at the box office and says, 'The computer-animated
comedy from DreamWorks' PDI division was such a force that one
competitor called it 'a Shrekking ball.'"
Final Fantasy:
The Spirits Within was named the biggest loser of the summer
as USAToday said the performance was so bad that, "it might
have sounded the death knell for photo-real works of computer
animation."
Other big
losers, according to the paper, were A.I. and Atlantis:
The Lost Empire. Somehow they missed listing Osmosis Jones,
which bombed at the box office and will gross less than $16 million
before hitting video/DVD.
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News Link
of the Day - Mort Walker Has Hope for Cartoon Museum
According to The Advocate:
"If the
characters featured in the International Museum of Cartoon Art
could come alive, they would speak of the more than 40 years they
have shared with the man who has tried to keep them together.
But there's nothing comical about the museum's fate..."
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here for the full story.
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