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Media FX News Archives
Monday
- May 14, 2001
- Museum to Auction Mickey
Mouse Drawings on Saturday
- Mummy Returns
Still Huge at Box Office - Swan Drowns
- Release Charts: Animated,
Anime, and FX DVDs
- News Link of the Day
- Disney Taps Violence in New Video Game
Museum
to Auction Mickey Mouse Drawings on Saturday
 (by
digitalmediafx.com) This Saturday, The International Museum of
Cartoon Art will auction off prized original Mickey Mouse drawings
in order to pay for debts. Disney's storyboard for his 1928 cartoon,
"Plane Crazy," is expected to fetch over $3 million.
Many other
early Disney animation drawings will also be sold, including some
cells from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney's first full-length
animated feature.
Sadly, several
of the drawings being auctioned were donated to the museum in
order to preserve them.
The International
Museum of Cartoon Art opened to the public in 1974 in Greenwich,
CT. It has moved twice, currently residing in Boca Raton, FL.
The top mission of the museum is "To preserve and maintain
the world's masterpieces of cartoon art."
A part of
that preservation will disappear at 10AM on May 19, at the Guernsey's
Auction House in New York City.
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Mummy
Returns Still Huge at Box Office - Swan Drowns
(by digitalmediafx.com) The Mummy Returns was once again
huge at the U.S. box office, bringing in an estimated $32 million
to bring its grand 10-day total to $116 million. Meanwhile, Spy
Kids brought in $2.5 million to surpass the $100 million blockbuster
mark.
The animated
Trumpet of the Swan had a disastrous limited opening in
Los Angeles and New York, bringing in only $100,000 in 125 theaters,
for a poor average of $800 per theater. However, because of its
limited engagement, the film now qualifies for the Academy Awards
new "Best Animated Feature" category.
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Release
Charts: Animated, Anime, and FX DVDs
(by digitalmediafx.com) As you can see from the list below, it
is a very slow week for animated, anime, and FX DVD releases:
Dungeons
& Dragons - New Line Platinum Series (2000 - FX)
Mobile
Suit Gundam Wing - Operation 7 (2000 - anime)
Soundtrack
fans should check out Princess
Mononoke: Symphonic Suite being released tomorrow.
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News Link
of the Day - Disney Taps Violence in New Video Game
According to the Associated Press:
"The
Walt Disney Co. has had enormous success marketing video games
based on its popular storybook characters and hit television show
'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'
Now, the company hopes to extend its success by adding a very
un-Disney-like element -- violence...The new game is based on
the upcoming animated film "Atlantis: The Lost Empire,"
which opens nationwide June 15…"
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