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- August 12, 2001
- Weekend Estimates: Osmosis Jones
$5.6 Million
- Osmosis Jones TV Series
- Fox Keeps Ice Age to Itself
- News Link of the Day -
Pixar Ups 2001 Outlook
Weekend Estimates:
Osmosis Jones $5.6 Million
(by digitalmediafx.com) Osmosis Jones failed to attract moviegoers,
bringing in an estimated $5.6 million in its opening weekend for a 7th
place finish. The poor performance is an indicator that Osmosis Jones
will finish its box office run at around $20 million. Even Warner Bros.
disappointing 1998 animated Quest for Camelot movie brought in
more money in its opening weekend ($6 million).
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Osmosis Jones TV
Series Could be on Thin Ice
(by digitalmediafx.com) Prior to the disastrous opening of Osmosis
Jones, Warner Bros. Animation had been extensively planning an animated
TV series to compliment the movie. Those plans could be scratched, however,
after U.S. audiences showed no interest in the Warner Bros. film (see
today's top news story). The scenario mimics Disney, which had been working
on a Team Atlantis TV series that it swiftly canceled after not getting
the desired box office results from the animated movie.
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Fox Keeps Ice Age
to Itself
(by digitalmediafx.com) Recent discussion between DreamWorks and FOX
to share distribution in Fox's animated Ice Age movie have broken down,
resulting in FOX being the sole distributor for the animated movie. Ice
Age is a digitally-animated feature film from Blue Sky Studios, a computer
graphics imagery/feature film animation studio and a division of Twentieth
Century Fox Animation Studios.
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News Link of the
Day - Pixar Ups 2001 Outlook
According to the Washington
Post:
"Pixar Animation
Studios Inc. , maker of the successful computer animated film Toy Story,
reported higher second-quarter net income as lower costs offset a decline
in revenue and raised its full-year forecast, anticipating a strong response
to its upcoming film, Monsters, Inc..."
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