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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Tuesday
- August 21, 2001
- Cartoon Museum to Exit Florida
- Shrek to Settle
for Second Place
- Final Weekend Box Office
Numbers
- News Link of the Day
- Microsoft Denies Xbox Delay
 Cartoon
Museum to Exit Florida
(by digitalmediafx.com) Continued debts and large mortgage payments
are forcing The International Museum of Cartoon Art to leave Florida
and seek a cheaper location in another state. The International
Museum of Cartoon Art has been in the news for several months
as it tried to auction off some of its best exhibits in order
to raise money to keep the museum in Florida.
This will
be the third time since 1974 that the museum has picked up and
moved to a different state. In Florida, the museum consistently
failed to draw predicted numbers and quickly fell millions of
dollars into debt. Less than a third of estimated visitors toured
the museum. The controversial auctions failed to produce the needed
revenue to cover the debts. Many pieces didn't sell or sold well
below the estimated value.
The fancy
building that currently houses The International Museum of Cartoon
Art will be sold to help cover over $2 million in debts that the
auctions didn't cover.
Mort Walker,
who founded the museum, said in a statement, "It breaks my
heart to sell this beautiful building. However, in the real world,
cold financial facts take precedence over a cartoonist's cherished
dream.''
There are
over 200,000 exhibits at The International Museum of Cartoon Art.
For more information,
see these past Digital Media FX stories on the museum's auctions:
Cartoon
Museum to Auction Mickey Mouse Drawings
Mickey
Mouse Drawings Don't Save Cartoon Museum!
Mickey
Mouse Storyboard Up For Auction Again
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Shrek to
Settle for Second Place
(by digitalmediafx.com) At one time, DreamWorks was considering
a Fall rerelease of Shrek into theaters with new footage
that likely would have catapulted the film past The Lion King
as the highest
grossing animated movie ever (not adjusting for inflation).
Instead, DreamWorks
has decided to launch a blatant attack against Pixar by releasing
a special Shrek 2-disc DVD, with new footage, on the exact same
day that Pixar's Monsters, Inc. hits theaters - November 2, 2001.
That's a Friday, a day that studios never release DVDs or videos
(video and DVD releases are always launched on Tuesdays).
The move creates
a danger for DreamWorks as some people's perceptions of the studio
could change to that of a "bully" as it applies strong-arm
tactics that use to be a virtual "trademark" of Disney.
A September editorial by Digital Media FX will examine this issue
more closely.
Click
here to visit the Digital Media FX Shrek Movie Site.
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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 |
#
7 |
$07.1
Million |
-46% |
$161.2
Million |
| Jurassic
Park 3 |
#
9 |
$04.4
Million |
-41% |
$168.3
Million |
| Osmosis
Jones |
#
11 |
$02.5
Million |
-52% |
$10.2
Million |
|
Dr.
Doolittle 2
|
#
15 |
$766,903
|
-27% |
$109.9
Million
|
| Spy
Kids: Special Edition |
#
16 |
$764,702 |
-52% |
$110.8
Million |
| Cats
& Dogs |
#
17 |
$692,861 |
-41% |
$90.9
Million |
|
Shrek
|
# 20
|
$538,767
|
-21% |
$260.4
Million
|
|
Pearl
Harbor
|
# 33
|
$132,569
|
-44% |
$195.3
Million
|
|
Atlantis:
The Lost Empire
|
# 34
|
$122,106
|
-27% |
$81.2
Million
|
| Final
Fantasy |
#
36 |
$106,491 |
-30% |
$32.0
Million |
|
Tomb
Raider
|
# 38
|
$81,667
|
-50% |
$130.0
Million
|
|
The
Mummy Returns
|
# 39
|
$81,385
|
-7% |
$201.4
Million
|
| CyberWorld
3D |
#
43 |
$61,822 |
-24% |
$9.7
Million |
| A.I. |
#
44 |
$58,210 |
-45% |
$78.0
Million |
The gain/loss
represents the movie's performance when compared to last weekend.
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News Link
of the Day - Microsoft Denies Xbox Delay
According
to CNN:
"Microsoft
Corp.'s Xbox game console may face a production delay, but will
still probably arrive in stores in November, according to a report
released by analysts at Thomas Weisel Partners.
The analysts,
citing unnamed sources, said a flaw in Intel Corp.'s design of
the motherboard, or main computer component of the Xbox, may set
production of the much-hyped new game player back by three to
four weeks..."
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here for the full story.
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