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Sunday
- May 13, 2001
- Cartoon Network Invades
Israel
- The Mummy Returns
and Spy Kids Reach Blockbuster Status
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Score Being Released May 22, 2001
- News Link of the Day
- How SpongeBob Became the Coolest Marine Animal on Television
Cartoon
Network Invades Israel
(by digitalmediafx.com) By the end of this month, the Cartoon
Network will be available on all cable and satellite platforms
throughout Israel. The reach will be 1.3 million cable and satellite
homes in the country.
The Cartoon
Network is available 24 hours a day with Hebrew subtitles. In
April, the Cartoon Network received blanket coverage when it introduced
Tom and Jerry animator Karl Torge to the country's press. In addition,
there has been a rapidly expanding demand for licensed product
in the market.
Worldwide,
the Cartoon Network airs animated cartoons 24 hour a day, seven
days a week on eight feeds in nine languages on digital and analogue
satellite, cable and DTT in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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The Mummy
Returns and Spy Kids Reach Blockbuster Status
(by digitalmediafx.com) Both The Mummy Returns and Spy
Kids surpassed the $100 Million blockbuster level this weekend
with The Mummy Returns reaching the milestone in only 9
days. Last weekend The Mummy Returns broke many Box Office
records, including the largest Friday gross ever of any movie.
It continued strong throughout the week, consistently pulling
in $3 - $5 million a day during the weekdays. Spy Kids
also captured the Box Office with strong showings and low weekly
declines (until The Mummy Returns was released).
The Mummy
Returns could easily gross over $200 million at the Box Office
this year.
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Atlantis:
The Lost Empire Score Being Released May 22, 2001
(by digitalmediafx.com) The full background score for Disney's
animated Atlantis: The Lost Empire is being released to
CD on May 22, 2001.
The score
for Atlantis: The Lost Empire is composed by
James Newton Howard who was recently recognized with an Animatasia
Award (recognizing excellence in the animation industry) for "Best
Animated Soundtrack" for his Dinosaur compositions.
This is the
third straight year that Howard has scored a Disney movie. The
last two movies he scored - Dinosaur and The Sixth Sense
- were both blockbusters at the Box Office.
Visit
the brand new dFX Music Store here.
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News Link
of the Day - How SpongeBob Became the Coolest Marine Animal
on Television
According to The Salt Lake City Tribune:
"Jerry
Lewis, the perpetual child, is a fan. So is street-weary troubadour
Tom Waits.
And Rob Lowe, 'N Sync's Lance Bass and Bruce Willis. They all
love 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'
For a cartoon
aimed at children ages 2 to 11, Nickelodeon's buck-toothed, googly-eyed,
silly, earnest and good-hearted cartoon yellow sea sponge, a whiz
with the spatula and a master jellyfisher, attracts quite a large
adult audience…"
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