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- September 3, 2001
- Ice Age to Have Toy Line
- Release Charts: Animated,
Anime, and FX DVDs
- Holiday Weekend Box Office Estimates
- News Link of the Day -
Venice Festival Gets Serious with Animation Cinema
Ice Age to Have
Toy Line
(by digitalmediafx.com) After initial strong reaction to its Ice Age
trailer, Fox is moving into high gear to secure licensing and promotion
deals for the animated feature that hits theaters on March 15, 2002.
One of Fox's first
licensing deals is JAKKS Pacific's Flying Colors division, which will
create a full line of toys and merchandise for the digitally animated
feature.
Included in the Flying
Colors line will be plush toys, action figures, playsets, activity kits,
and lunch boxes.
"We're thrilled
to have leading entertainment toy licensee JAKKS Pacific on board for
Ice Age," said Peter Byrne, Executive Vice President of Fox
Licensing & Merchandising. "We have every confidence that this
film and its merchandise will be a huge family hit."
The story in Ice
Age revolves around three characters: an acerbic woolly mammoth named
Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano), an unsocialized giant sloth named Sid
(voiced by John Leguizamo), and a scheming saber-toothed tiger named Diego
(voiced by Denis Leary). Together, this group of dysfunctional characters
takes an unexpected passenger on the biggest commute of all time! Along
the way, they become unlikely allies on a perilous quest to return the
passenger to its family.
The animation is being
done by Blue Sky Studios and Twentieth Century Fox. Fox has a multi-million
dollar marketing campaign in the works for the movie.
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Release Charts:
Animated, Anime, and FX DVDs
(by digitalmediafx.com)
Here are new animated, FX, and anime DVDs hitting store shelves tomorrow:
The
Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit (stop motion animation)
Dragon
Ball Z - Frieza - Desperation (anime)
Dragon
Ball Z - Lord Slug Feature (1996 - anime)
Farscape
#6: Till the Blood Runs Clear/Rhapsody in Blue (1999 - FX)
Max
Fleisher Color Cartoons (animated)
Mobile
Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team - Vol. 2
(anime)
Amazon.com is now accepting pre-orders for the Shrek 2-Disc DVD.
Click
here.
Amazon.com is also accepting pre-orders for The Phantom Menace
DVD. Click
here.
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Holiday Weekend
Box Office Estimates
(by digitalmediafx.com) Here are estimates for the top 10 movies at the
box office over the 4-day Labor Day weekend:
1. Jeepers Creepers
- $15.8 million
2. Rush Hour 2 - $11.8 million
3. American Pie 2 - $11.7 million
4. The Others - $10 million
5. Rat Race - $9.2 million
6. The Princess Diaries - $7.6 million
7. O - $6.9 million
8. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - $6.4 million
9. Summer Catch - $5 million
10. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - $4.1 million
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News Link of the
Day - Venice Festival Gets Serious with Animation Cinema
According to iWon:
"The idea that
animated cinema is just for children is being overhauled at the world's
oldest film festival, where cartoons are being taken seriously. For the
first time in the long history of the Venice Film Festival, an animation
film, "Waking Life" by American director Richard Linklater,
entered the prestigious Golden Lion competition.
Festival director
Alberto Barbera told Reuters it would not be last, as this annual cinema
showcase increasingly toys with innovative film-making techniques..."
Click
here for the full story.
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