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Thursday
- November 8, 2001
- Monsters, Inc. Makes $70 Million
in 5 Days
- Harry Potter Fans Steal
Merchandise
- Top Selling Animation and FX DVDs
- News Link of the Day -
Cinar Trades Spark Fears
Monsters, Inc.
Makes $70 Million in 5 Days
(by digitalmediafx.com) In its first five days of release, Pixar's
Monsters, Inc. (distributed and marketed by Disney) has made a
huge $70 million. By the end of the day on Friday it will have surpassed
the total made by Atlantis: The Lost Empire over the entire summer!
There's word that
Pixar and Disney are prepping outtakes that will soon be attached to Monsters,
Inc. in order to get people to return during the holidays and during
the competition with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Visit the dFX Monsters,
Inc. Movie site by clicking
here.
Follow the Shrek versus Monsters, Inc. Box Office Results
by clicking
here.
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Harry Potter Fans
Steal Merchandise
(by digitalmediafx.com) Fans of what is expected to be the biggest
movie opening in cinema history - for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone - stole Harry Potter merchandise from a movie screening at a Scottish
movie theater.
According to the London
Daily Record, "They stripped thousands of pounds worth of memorabilia
from the walls of the Ster Century in Leith. Giant 8ft cardboard cut-out
figures, posters and banners all vanished within seconds of the credits
rolling."
The FX-filled mythical
adventure movie opens in the U.S. on November 16 in over 3,500 theaters
and on more than 7,000 movie screens.
The Record says there
were over 1000 posters, hoardings, and cutout figures that were all stolen
within 15 minutes of the show's end. The items had been loaned to the
theater, for the screening, by Warner Bros.
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Top Selling Animation
and FX DVDs
(by digitalmediafx.com) Here is a list of the current top selling
animation and FX DVDs at Amazon.com. Animation and FX DVDs are still prominate,
but not as dominate in the top 20 as the last three weeks. Dropping out
of the top 20 (from last week) were Pixar's
15th Anniversary Gift Pack, Dumbo,
and The
Mummy Returns.
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News Link of the
Day - Cinar Trades Spark Fears
According to The National Post:
"Unusual trading
in Cinar Corp. has sparked fears that a rumoured deal with U.K.-based
Gullane Entertainment PLC could be in jeopardy. The company's shares,
which were delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock
Market last year following a series of high-profile scandals, dipped to
$2.30 on the pink sheets market yesterday as more than 200,000 shares
changed hands..."
Click
here for the full story.
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