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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Friday
- May 11, 2001
- Monsters, Inc. Testing Better
than Toy Story in Screenings!
- VH1 to Air Cast
Party: Shrek on Monday
- New PEANUTS Cartoon Underway
- News Link of the Day
- Alien Attack
Monsters,
Inc. Testing Better than Toy Story in Screenings!
(by digitalmediafx.com) Early test screenings of Pixar's Monsters,
Inc. are scoring higher marks than past Pixar films, including
Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and Toy Story 2.
"Our
studio's next feature film, Monsters, Inc., is turning
out to be fantastic," says Pixar CEO Steve Jobs. "It's
scoring higher than any of our prior films in test screenings,
and will be released domestically in theaters on November 2nd,
2001.''
Pixar is confident
enough in Monsters, Inc. and current earnings, that it
has announced it is raising its stock projections for 2001 from
the previous range of $0.30 to $0.50 per share, to a new range
of $0.40 to $0.55 per share.
Yesterday, Pixar released better than estimated results for First
Quarter 2001, resulting in its stock jumping more than $2 more
a share in after hours trading.
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VH1
to Air Cast Party: Shrek on Monday
(by digitalmediafx.com) In
this installment of Cast Party, VH1 prepares itself for a half-hour
of comedy and music with the voices of Shrek. The 30 minute
show will air on Monday, May 14, at 7PM. Cameron Diaz, Mike Meyers,
John Lithgow and Eddie Murphy talk about their unique approach
to creating animated characters and dive deep into a conversation
on the music used in the film. Features discussions of Smashmouth,
the Baha Men, the music these stars are listening and an exclusive
look at the film's fight scene featuring Joan Jett's "Bad
Reputation."
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New PEANUTS
Cartoon Underway
(by digitalmediafx.com) While Charles Schulz PEANUTS comic strip
is retired forever, the animated specials will live on. United
Media, one of the largest character licensing companies in the
world, has announced that ABC has picked up an all new PEANUTS
Valentine's Day special for broadcast in February 2002.
Produced and
animated by the same team as past PEANUTS specials, Lee Mendelson
and Bill Melendez, the story is taken directly from Charles M.
Schulz's famed strip.
The PEANUTS
Valentine's Day special is the first newly created television
programming from the PEANUTS team in over eight years. Since 1965,
Schulz, Mendelson, and Melendez created a library of over 63 primetime
and direct-to-video specials and series. The Valentine's Day special
marks the first new programming created since Schulz's death in
2000. Taken directly from the vast amount of archived strips that
Schulz themed to the popular February holiday, Lee Mendelson will
executive produce and Bill Melendez will produce and direct.
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News Link
of the Day - Alien Attack
According to The Washington Post:
"Jhonen
Vasquez says he was created in a laboratory. Who are we to argue?
He resembles a science project that didn't turn out quite right:
shocking hair, black clothing, sneakers that look like space-age
climbing boots.
But Vasquez
isn't a chemically-created mutant. He's a cartoonist, and at age
26 the youngest cartoonist hired by Nickelodeon to create an animated
series…"
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