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Sunday
- May 6, 2001
- The Mummy Returns Breaks
Box Office Record!
- MPAA Officially
Announces New Rating for Osmosis Jones
- Trumpet of the Swan Opens
on Friday
- News Link of the Day
- The Oscar Goes to: Pearl Harbor
The Mummy
Returns Breaks Box Office Record!
(by digitalmediafx.com) The Mummy Returns broke the Box
Office record for the largest Friday opening ever by bringing
in $24.1 million on Friday alone. In addition, it became the second
largest single day gross ever topped only by Star Wars: The
Phantom Menace's Wednesday opening of $28.5 million. The
Mummy Returns opening is nearly $10 million higher than the
opening of the first in the series, The Mummy (which opened
in May 1999 with $15 million).
It is estimated
that by the end of the weekend, The Mummy Returns could
bring in a towering $65 million.
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MPAA Officially
Announces New Rating for Osmosis Jones
(by digitalmediafx.com) In the last Digital
Media FX newsletter, it was announced that Osmosis
Jones had been edited from a PG-13 rating to a PG-rating.
The Motion Picture Association of America has now confirmed this
news. The PG rating is "for bodily humor."
Before being edited for a more preferable rating, Osmosis Jones
had received a PG-13 rating for "crude language and humor."
In related
news, Osmosis Jones got a break when Dimension Films recently
moved the release date of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
from August 10 (when Osmosis Jones opens) to August 24,
2001. This opens up more theaters for Osmosis Jones to
potentially play in and brings less competition that week.
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Trumpet
of the Swan Opens on Friday
(by digitalmediafx.com) As announced by Digital Media FX on March
22, Columbia Tristar is releasing an animated version
of Trumpet of the Swan into select theaters on Friday, May 11,
2001. The select theaters will be in Los Angeles and New York.
The movie
was suppose to be a direct to video release in 2000 and even received
a G rating by the Motion Picture Association of America last summer.
According
to sources associated with the project, the release was delayed
when it was learned that the Motion Picture Association of America
was adding a "Best Animated Film" category to its award
lineup. The film was readapted for the wide screen to play in
theaters long enough to qualify for a possible nomination.
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News Link
of the Day - The Oscar Goes to: Pearl Harbor
According to The Salt Lake City Tribune:
"Next
March, expect to hear these words: 'And the Oscar for Best Picture
goes to... Pearl Harbor. Believe it, bank on it, bet on
it in Vegas -- it's going to happen.
Pearl Harbor,
a three-hour epic of World War II with a love triangle about two
flyboys (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) and the nurse (Kate Beckinsale)
they both love, has everything Oscar voters love: the historical
tragedy and special effects of Titanic, the doomed romance
of Shakespeare in Love and the patriotic fervor of Saving
Private Ryan. How can it miss?..."
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