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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Tuesday
- June 19, 2001
- Final Fantasy Licensing Details
- Shrek Fairy Tale
Freakdown Sells Big
- Final Weekend Box Office
Numbers
- News Link of the Day
- Is Pearl Harbor a Bomb?
 Final
Fantasy Licensing Details
(by digitalmediafx.com) The licensing campaign for Final
Fantasy: The Spritis Within, which hits theaters on July 13,
is underway as Square Pictures has outlined its various agreements
as follows:
Changes
T-shirts for adults and children.
Disguise
Halloween costumes for children and adults.
Seiko
Watches.
Fossil
Watches.
Great Eastern
Posters and wall scrolls.
Entertainment
Calendars
Calendars.
Pocket Books
Novelization.
Brady Games
The "Making Of" Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within book.
Bandai
Action figures and play sets.
Palisades
Marketing
Action figures, statues, resin mini-busts, and lunch boxes.
Comic Images
Trading cards.
Sport Fun
Skateboards.
"We're
delighted to be working with manufacturers to create quality merchandise
that we know will appeal to our fans," said Jun Aida President
of Square Pictures. "We're looking to build our licensing
program with licensees that can produce fun and innovative items
to further promote the Square brand in additional categories."
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Shrek Fairy
Tale Freakdown Sells Big
(by digitalmediafx.com) Shrek Fairy Tale FreakDown for Game Boy
Color, which takes players on a irreverent comical fighting adventure
as Shrek characters, broke into the Top 20 list for video
game sales the first week of June. Overall, Shrek Fariy Tale FrekDown
was the 17th best selling game. For Game Boy Color, it was the
fifth best selling game.
In the game,
players fight as characters from the movie, vying for the title
of "Ultimate Champion." Players can compete as Shrek
or as one of several well-known fairy tale characters, including
Pinocchio, the Gingerbread Man, and the Big Bad Wolf.
Shrek Fairy
Tale FreakDown for Game Boy Color is the first game to be released
under TDK Mediactive's 5-year, worldwide licensing agreement with
DreamWorks SKG. The next Shrek game will be released for the Xbox
video game system from Microsoft in Fall 2001.
Click
here to visit the dFX 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:
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Movie
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Rank
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Weekend
Total
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Overall
Total
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Tomb
Raider
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# 1
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$47.7
Million
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$47.7
Million
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Atlantis:
The Lost Empire
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# 2
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$20.3
Million
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$20.8
Million
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Shrek
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# 3
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$13.2
Million
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$197.5
Million
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Pearl
Harbor
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#
5
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$09.9
Million
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$160.4
Million
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The
Mummy Returns
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#
10
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$02.7
Million
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$193.5
Million
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News Link
of the Day - Is Pearl Harbor a Bomb?
According
to the Edmonton Journal:
"Pearl
Harbor followed the Titanic formula to a T: Set a fictional, melodramatic
love story against a universally known historical tragedy. Depict
said tragedy after an hour and a half of said love story. Green-light
$100 million plus budget. Make it run three hours long. Rake in
the dough.
Well, except
for that last part…"
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