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Thursday
- November 22, 2001
- Beauty and the Beast IMAX
Information
- Shrek Video Game
Sales Strong for Game Boy Color
- New Monsters, Inc. Trailer
Released
- News Link of the Day
- Animation Wizards Back Staff Talent
Beauty
and the Beast IMAX Information
(by digitalmediafx.com) Advanced tickets are now on sale for
the January 1, 2002 IMAX version of Disney's Beauty and the
Beast. The movie has been remastered frame by frame for IMAX
and includes a remastered soundtrack and six minutes of new footage.
The run time is 90 minutes versus the original 84 minutes.
IMAX theaters
in the Los Angeles area that will be showing Beauty and the
Beast include:
Irvine Spectrum
Center
The Ontario Palace
The Valencia Town Center
Monrovia Cinema 12
Universal City Sidewalk
Movie Experience 17 (Murrieta)
The Bridge Cinema De Lux
Most theaters
will have 7-8 showings a day and ticket price range from $10 per
person to $12 per person.
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Shrek Video
Game Sales Strong for Game Boy Color
(by digitalmediafx.com)
Shrek Fair Tale Freakdown was the number one selling game for
Game Boy Color last week according to statistics from the NPD
Group. The number 2 top selling game is Monsters, Inc.
Video games
based on this year's animated movies and FX films have been strong
sellers on all systems, particularly games based on Shrek, Monsters,
Inc. and Harry Potter.
Some new games
based on animated TV shows are just starting to hit the gaming
market. Jackie Chan Adventures: Legend of the Dark Hand hits Game
Boy Advance next week. It's based on the Jackie Chan Adventures
animated TV series.
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New Monsters,
Inc. Trailer Released
(by digitalmediafx.com) The new Monsters, Inc. "Charades"
trailer playing before many prints of Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone has been released. Click
here to view it.
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News Link
of the Day - Animation Wizards Back Staff Talent
According to the BBC:
"Major
movie studios are not well known for casting members of staff
in their upcoming films...
But at Pixar animation studios, the company behind the successful
computer-animated features Toy Story, Toy Story II and
A Bug's Life, things are done a little differently..."
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here for the full story.
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