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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Friday
- September 7, 2001
- Monsters, Inc. Given "G"
Rating by MPAA
- Harry Potter to
Premiere in London
- Blood: The Last Vampire Coming
to DVD
- News Link of the Day
- The Cat That Got The Cream
Monsters,
Inc. Given "G" Rating by MPAA
(by digitalmediafx.com) Pixar's Monsters, Inc. has been
given a "G" rating by the Motion Picture Association
of America. The "G" rating goes against the norm of
animated movies this year, which have mostly been "PG"
and "PG-13". With the exception of Shrek, all
the other movies underperformed with Final Fantasy being
named by USA Today as one of the biggest losers of the summer
at the box office. Osmosis Jones was also a major loser
as it struggles to reach $15 million.
Earlier this
year, Disney (which is distributing Monsters, Inc.) moved
the release date for Monsters, Inc. up to November 2 in
order to avoid going head to head with Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone.
Pixar is encouraged
by early screenings of Monsters, Inc. which has received
higher scores than the mega-successful Toy Story 2 when
it test screened.
The only "G"
rated movie released over the summer was Disney's live action
The Princess Diaries which will cross the $100 million
mark this weekend to become one of the most successful films of
the summer, beating out other high profile movies like A.I.
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Harry
Potter to Premiere in London
(by digitalmediafx.com) The star-studded premiere of Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone will take place in London
on Sunday, November 4, 2001. It is likely that the U.K. world
premiere will feature the U.K. version of the movie, which is
titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Dialogue
has been changed in both versions of the movie to match the movie
title.
The movie,
which is just over two hours in length, has received a PG rating
by the Motion Picture Association of America. It opens in the
U.S. on November 16, 2001.
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Blood:
The Last Vampire Coming to DVD
 (by
digitalmediafx.com) On September 17, Manga Entertainment will
release the digital anime Blood: The Last Vampire to DVD.
Blood: The Last Vampire takes place in the fall of 1966.
The Vietnam War is underway and the U.S. military machine is being
supplied out of the Yokota Air Force Base - a plot of U.S. land
within Japan. Within the compound, the atmosphere is charged with
violent intensity as F4 combat planes take off hastily one after
the next.
Preorders
for Blood: The Last Empire are now being accepted. For details,
click
here.
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News Link
of the Day - The Cat That Got The Cream For Devon Animation
Company
According to the BBC:
"A brand
new children's animation series has just hit our television screens
and it has been made by a Devon company. Honeycomb productions,
based at Cullompton, created the new programme for the BBC.
'Binka' is
the tale of a cat, a very large cat. He's been brought to life
using the labour intensive technique of animation, in a small
studio in Cullompton..."
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