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- July 31, 2001
- Final Fantasy May End Box Office
Run with $35 Million
- Final Weekend Box Office
Numbers
- New dFX Newsletter Tomorrow
- News Link of the Day -
George Follows Shrek Into The CGI Jungle
Final Fantasy May
End Box Office Run with $35 Million
(by
digitalmediafx.com) The PG-13 rated Final Fantasy: The Spirits
Within has become the biggest box office flop of the summer, with
a low opening weekend
and massive week to week drops. Last weekend, Final Fantasy: The Spirits
Within had the largest drop of the top 15 movies of the box office,
losing 64% of its audience from the weekend before. The movie is on course
to end its box office run with only $35 million. The news doesn't bode
well for Square Pictures, which spent well over $100 million to create
the film. Critics panned the movie for its plot while Final Fantasy fans
complained that the movie didn't resemble the video game series.
The performance could have repercussions throughout the CGI industry where there have been at least four "PG-13" type fully-CGI movies in production. Audiences reaction to Final Fantasy could put a quick stop to such efforts or make it harder for the companies producing the movies to find a distributor.
Square Pictures had
been working on a secret
project that was to be completed by February 2002. It is unknown
at this time if the failure of Final Fantasy has caused that production
to be revised or canceled.
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 | # 1 | $68.5 Million | New | $68.5 Million |
| Jurassic Park 3 | # 2 | $22.5 Million | -56% | $124.8 Million |
|
Dr. Doolittle 2 |
# 6 |
$04.6 Million |
+05% |
$101.2 Million |
| Cats & Dogs | # 7 | $04.6 Million | -32% | $81.6 Million |
|
Shrek |
# 10 |
$01.8 Million |
-21% |
$255.5 Million |
| Final Fantasy | # 12 | $01.3 Million | -64% | $30.3 Million |
|
Tomb Raider |
# 13 |
$01.0 Million |
-46% |
$128.4 Million |
| A.I. | # 14 | $943,536 | -56% | $76.7 Million |
|
Atlantis: The Lost Empire |
# 15 |
$863,892 |
-30% |
$79.4 Million |
|
Pearl Harbor |
# 16 |
$826,872 |
-23% |
$193.6 Million |
|
The Mummy Returns |
# 29 |
$126,280 |
-43% |
$200.9 Million |
The gain/loss represents
the movie's performance when compared to last weekend.
New dFX Newsletter
Tomorrow
(by digitalmediafx.com) A new edition of the dFX Animation and Visual
Effects newsletter will be delivered via email to those who are subscribed.
Each free issue of the newsletter contains news stories and features not
found in regular Digital Media FX updates. For example, the last
issue (July 15) contained a look at Jurassic Park 3, news on
Rugrats "All Grown Up" 10th anniversary episode, Planet of the
Apes problems, a new Playhouse Disney series, and a recap of the top five
animation/fx news stories for June. Many issues also contain sneak previews
of columns and features that newsletter readers get to view before the
general public.
News Link of the
Day - George Follows Shrek Into The CGI Jungle
According to The Hollywood Reporter:
"Call it Shrek envy. After the runaway success of DreamWorks' animated feature film, Universal Pictures and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment have decided to go the same route with their long-in-development project Curious George, based on the children's book series of the same name.
The project, originally
planned as a live-action feature, has morphed into a fully CGI project
and is currently out to writers, who will adapt it to the newly chosen
format..."
Click here for the full story.
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