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Saturday
- November 17, 2001
- Harry Potter - $29 Million
Opening Friday!
- Bruce Lee 3D
- LightWave Applied 6.5 &
7 Sells Out in First Week
- News Link of the Day
- Waking Life a Beautiful Yawner
Harry
Potter - $29 Million Opening Friday!
(by digitalmediafx.com) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone opened huge yesterday, bringing in $29.4 million in
its first day of release. This sets the movie on a track to gross
over $80 million by the time the weekend is over, breaking every
opening box office record ever. The movie sent Monsters, Inc.
tumbling to only $5.6 million, taking a massive drop of more than
50% from last Friday.
Audiences
also gave Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone near perfect
A+ ratings like Monsters,
Inc. received when it first came out (ratings by Cinema
Score which polls audiences). Both Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone and Monsters, Inc. are now the highest rated
movies, by audiences, of the year.
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Bruce Lee
3D
(by digitalmediafx.com) If a South Korean filmmaker has his
way, Bruce Lee will return to life as a photorealistic CGI character.
Filmmaker Chul Shin is almost done developing software that will
bring Bruce Lee back to life in a photorealistic form designed
to make audiences watching a live action movie believe that it
is really Bruce Lee starring in the film. Shin claims that his
process is better than the characters in Final Fantasy, which
he claims lacked "vitality".
The first
movie being developed with the Bruce Lee CGI character is called
Dragon Warriors and is scheduled to be released in 2004.
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LightWave
Applied 6.5 & 7 Sells Out in First Week
 (by
digitalmediafx.com) The newest book for LightWave users - LightWave
Applied 6.5 & 7 - sold out its entire print run
in just one week. Advanstar Communications, which published the
book, has issued an immediate new print run so that bookstores
don't run out of copies. The book was written by Digital Media
FX publisher Joe Tracy, Hollywood effects guru Dave Jerrard, Hollywood
effects artist Jennifer Hachigian, and Epic Software Group, the
award-winning multimedia company that produced the 3D Tutorial
CD-ROM that ships with all versions of NewTek's Inspire 3D program.
LightWave
Applied 6.5 & 7 uses detailed "hands-on"
tutorials to teach users important concepts in mastering LightWave
3D. In addition to the 11 chapters there is additional bonus material
(and tutorials) on the packed CD-ROM and on the book's reader
only Website. Authors also respond to reader inquiries on the
bonus Website and by direct email, giving readers additional support
rarely found within the publishing industry.
Click
here to visit the LightWave Applied 6.5 & 7 Website.
Click
here to order the book from Amazon.com.
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News Link
of the Day - Waking Life a Beautiful Yawner
According to the Bradenton Herald:
"No major
studio has ever released a film like Richard Linklater's "Waking
Life," but then there's never been another film quite like
this adventurous yet problematic undertaking..."
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