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Wednesday
- November 14, 2001
- DreamWorks Finally Releasing
Score for Shrek
- Harry Potter Gets
Some Negative Reviews
- New dFX Newsletter Tomorrow
- News Link of the Day
- The Beasts Come Alive
DreamWorks
Finally Releasing Score for Shrek
(by digitalmediafx.com) DreamWorks is finally releasing the
background score for its hit movie Shrek after disappointing
fans of the animated movie with a songs-only CD in which not all
the songs were in the same format as used in the film. As Digital
Media FX reported several months ago, DreamWorks had been working
on the score CD for release during the summer, but altered the
plans and pushed the release date to December 4, 2001. The score
CD is called, "More Music From Shrek." The CD can be
preordered from Amazon.com by clicking
here.
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Harry Potter
Gets Some Negative Reviews
(by digitalmediafx.com) While critical acclaim for the new
Harry Potter movie continues in the UK, some US critics
are now coming through with negative reviews of Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone, being released on Friday. Here are
a few quotes:
David Ansen
of Newsweek - "...There are good reasons why filmmakers
think it necessary to reshape the books that inspire them. Columbus’s
Harry Potter has many delights, but the magical alchemy
that the book seemed to achieve so effortlessly eludes it. The
movie gets most of the book’s events in, but loses much of
the lightness and charm of Rowling’s vision. It’s overstuffed...it
is often shot in a drab and muddy manner, a surprise from a cinematographer
as gifted as John Seale."
Anthony
Lane of The New Yorker - "..Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone can hardly fail to lure the crowd, as the books have
drawn their millions of readers; but, unlike the fiction, it leaves
no aftertaste—no sense of anything truly momentous being
at stake. The tests that Harry undergoes are fun to observe, but
they remain just that, whereas Rowling devised them as the trials,
however comically disguised, of a young soul, confronted with
the call to grow up..."
J. Hoberman
of The Village Voice - "...Solid but uninspired, Harry
lacks brio. It's respectable and a bit dull. I can't say it made
me yearn for my own sense of childhood wonder, but speaking as
an adult, it did stir up some suppressed memories. I never thought
I'd feel nostalgic for the coercive go-go vulgarity of Raiders
of the Lost Ark or The Empire Strikes Back."
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New dFX
Newsletter Tomorrow
(by digitalmediafx.com) A new edition of the dFX
Animation and Visual Effects Newsletter will be emailed
tomorrow to those subscribed.
This edition mentions an interesting fact about how Monsters,
Inc. was originally supposed to be and provides a new exclusive
sneak peek to newsletter readers.
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News Link
of the Day - The Beasts Come Alive
According to the BBC:
"...This
week, TV viewers in the UK will be able to see such bizarre creatures
as these, and many others, resurrected in the first episode of
the BBC's Walking With Beasts series, thanks to advanced computer-animation
technology.
The programmes,
which were two years in the making and cost £7m, pick up
the story where the hit series Walking With Dinosaurs left off..."
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