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- July 20, 2001
- Jurassic Park 3 Has Monster Opening
- Fox May Share Ice Age
Distribution with DreamWorks
- Warner Bros. Opens Official Osmosis
Jones Website
- News Link of the Day -
Filmmaker Living Animated Life
Jurassic Park 3
Has Monster Opening
(by
digitalmediafx.com) Jurassic Park 3 had the second largest Wednesday
opening ever this week, bringing in an astounding $19 million in one day.
The only movie to ever have a big Wednesday opening was Star Wars:
Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace.
Jurassic Park 3 is expected to continue with huge numbers over the weekend as movie fans disappointed in this summer's offerings look for relief on the same dinosaur island featured in The Lost World.
Also on Wednesday,
Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within saw a massive dip from last Wednesday
when it opened with $5 million. On Wednesday of this week, the movie could
only muster $793,772, a mammoth drop off that will send the movie to an
early finish.
Fox May Share Ice
Age Distribution with DreamWorks
(by digitalmediafx.com) The magazine Inside is reporting that 20th
Century Fox is in negotiations with DreamWorks to share distribution rights
for next
year's animated Ice Age movie. Under the terms of the agreement,
DreamWorks would share the costs of the film and would be given either
domestic or overseas rights to the film. Studios make such deals to lesson
the up front impact of the movie. One of the most high profile films to
enter a similar agreement was Fox's Titanic. Fox convinced Paramount
Pictures to contribute a set amount of money to the film in return for
domestic distribution rights. Titanic went on to become the highest
grossing domestic movie of all time with Paramount's logo in front of
the Fox film.
Ice Age is
being created by Blue Sky Studio and is due in theaters on March 15, 2002.
Warner Bros. Opens
Official Osmosis Jones Website
(by digitalmediafx.com) Warner Bros. has opened up the official Osmosis
Jones Website and has put out a national press release announcing the
Website's existence. In the press release, Warner Bros. says about the
Website, "Translated from real to Flash animation, the site re-creates
some of the elaborate vistas from the film, as seen from inside the human
body, and provides both a game mode and tour mode for visitors to creatively
sample the "Osmosis Jones" experience." To visit the site,
click here.
News Link of the
Day - Filmmaker Having Fun Living an Animated Life
According to the Journal Sentinel in an interview with David Clausen:
"Q: I read an interview with another stop-motion animator, David Allen, who said there is a certain paranoia that hangs over the whole process of stop-motion animation. Could you describe the making of stop-motion film?
A: For every second
of film there are 24 frames, that's 24 still pictures. We take a character
and we have to move him 24 times for every second of film. We start with
a puppet, it's about 12 inches tall, and first we'll plan out what we
want to happen, what the character's feeling. We go through and practice
a shot a few times, and then I work with the animator, and when they feel
confident, they do an actual shot on film..."
Click here for the full story.
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