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Media FX News Archives
Monday
- September 10, 2001
- Monsters, Inc. Attraction
at the El Capitan
- Release Charts:
Animated, Anime, and FX DVDs
- The Simpsons Invade Cereal
Isles
- News Link of the Day
- Adventures in Animation
Monsters,
Inc. Attraction at the El Capitan
(by digitalmediafx.com) Disney Special Events is putting together
an elaborate Monsters, Inc. attraction at the El Capitan
theater in Hollywood. People who view Monsters, Inc. at
the El Capitan between November 2 and January 1 will be able to
go next door to the huge exhibit where visitors enroll in "Monsters
101," watch a live stage show, see behind the scenes items
from the making of Monsters, Inc, and meet the characters.
Disney Special
Events has put together elaborate attractions for Disney animated
films at the historic El Capitan, like the Destination
Atlantis exhibit earlier this summer.
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Release
Charts: Animated, Anime, and FX DVDs
(by digitalmediafx.com) Here are new animated, FX, and anime
DVDs hitting store shelves tomorrow:
The
Lord of the Rings (animated)
The
Hobbit (animated)
The
Return of the King (animated)
Beavis
and Butt-head Do Christmas (1993 - animated)
Cardcaptor
Sakura - Vacation Daze - Vol. 5 (anime)
Apocalypse
Zero - Battle 1-2 (anime)
Pokemon
Giftset - The First Movie/The Movie 2000 (anime)
Powerpuff
Girls Power Pack (animated)
Scooby-Doo
DVD Pack - Spookiest Tales/Original Mysteries (animated)
Amazon.com is now accepting pre-orders for the Shrek 2-Disc
DVD. Click
here.
Amazon.com is also accepting pre-orders for The Phantom Menace
DVD. Click
here.
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The Simpsons
Invades Cereal Isles
(by digitalmediafx.com) Soon when you're perusing the cereal isle
of your local grocery store you'll notice something new - cereal
from The Simpsons. Kelloggs is set to release two versions of
The Simpsons cereal within the next month - Bart Simpson Peanut
Butter Chocolate Crunch and Homer's Cinnamon Donut Cereal.
According
to Daily Variety, Kellogg's has also reached a deal with Disney
to start putting Mickey Mouse and other famous characters on cereal
boxes as promotion tools.
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News Link
of the Day - Adventures in Animation
According to BBC News:
"Hollywood's
latest computer animated effort is so life-like, the characters
even have wrinkles. But what of the plot? BBC News Online technology
correspondent Mark Ward asks if movie makers are sacrificing story-telling
for special effects..."
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