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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Sunday
- March 4, 2001
- Digital Media FX Magazine
to Premiere Tomorrow
- 22 Films Reached Blockbuster
Status in 2000
- Lucas and Spielberg: Actors
Here to Stay
- News Link of the Day
- Milne Widow Misses Out on Pooh's £240m Honeypot
Digital
Media FX Magazine to Premiere Tomorrow
(by digitalmediafx.com) After 14 days of beta testing, Digital
Media FX Magazine will premiere to the public tomorrow, March
5, 2001, 10 days ahead of schedule. With a marketing plan in place,
Digital Media FX will focus on introducing animators, visual effects
artists, and animation enthusiasts to the daily updates and community
atmosphere that Digital Media FX provides. Tomorrow will also
mark the premiere of the Contests area, the only section that
didn't open during the beta testing period.
Digital Media
FX wishes to thank everyone who assisted during the beta test
period and particularly those who took the time to provide feedback.
The Digital
Media FX forums, in particular, have seen a high rate
of activities since opening four days ago.
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22 Films
(Two Animated) Reached Blockbuster Status in 2000
(by digitalmediafx.com) A total of 22 movies reached blockbuster
status in the year 2000, grossing $100 million or more at the
U.S. box office. Among the 22 films are two animated ones - Chicken
Run and Dinosaur. Several visual effect filled movies were also
in the list of 22 including Gladiator, Mission Impossible II,
X-Men, Charlie's Angels, and The Perfect Storm. With 488 films
released in 2000, these 22 blockbusters represented 38% of all
business at theaters.
The marketing
and distribution executives at the studios responsible for the
blockbuster movies have been awarded with The 2001 ACNielsen EDI
Gold Reel Award for excellence in marketing and distribution.
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Lucas and
Spielberg: Actors Here to Stay
(by digitalmediafx.com) George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
had some words to say about digital actors at the grand
opening of the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts Opens at
USC School of Cinema. Both claim that the press has
overreacted to reports that digital actors may someday replace
real actors and actresses in movies. Lucas went as far to call
the reports a "melodrama" even though he's already demonstrated
that technology can replace actors (i.e. Jar-Jar Binks in Star
Wars: The Phantom Menace).
Both directors
also pointed out that even if certain characters are computer
generated in films, they still need an actor/actress for voicing,
as animated films demonstrate.
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News Link
of the Day - Milne Widow Misses Out on Pooh's £240m
Honeypot
According to The Sunday Times, U.K.:
"The
widow of Christopher Robin Milne, who as a boy was immortalized
in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh books, will not receive a penny
from a £240m payout by Disney that will benefit the Garrick
club and Westminster school.
Under a deal
agreed this weekend, believed to be the biggest in British literary
history, Disney has bought the rights to exploit Tigger, Eeyore
and Pooh for another 25 years..."
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