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- September 5, 2001
- Shrek Remains in UK's Top 10
- Final Weekend Box Office
Numbers
- Summer's Big Winners and Losers
- News Link of the Day -
Mort Walker Has Hope for Cartoon Museum
Shrek
Remains in UK's Top 10
(by digitalmediafx.com) 10 weeks after opening in the UK, Shrek
continues to play strong in the UK box office, never falling lower than
#6 on the charts. To date, Shrek has dominated the UK box office
with a £27m take. Shrek's total overseas take now stands
at $162.9 million, bringing its grand total (domestic and overseas) to
an amazing $425.8 million. In addition, there are several countries which
Shrek still has yet to open, including Japan.
Final Weekend Box
Office Numbers
(by digitalmediafx.com) Final weekend box office numbers are in and
here are the results for the top animated and visual effects movies:
|
Movie |
Rank |
Weekend Total |
Gain/Loss |
Overall Total |
| Planet of the Apes | # 11 | $02.9 Million | -18% | $173.0 Million |
| Jurassic Park 3 | # 12 | $01.7 Million | -27% | $175.8 Million |
|
Pearl Harbor |
# 20 |
$867,300 |
1043% gain |
$196.6 Million |
|
Shrek |
# 21 |
$786,284 |
35% gain |
$262.9 Million |
|
Atlantis: The Lost Empire |
# 23 |
$664,215 |
846% gain |
$82.4 Million |
|
Dr. Doolittle 2 |
# 25 |
$486,385 |
20% gain |
$111.5 Million |
| Spy Kids: Special Edition | # 29 | $359,569 | 122% gain | $112.2 Million |
| Osmosis Jones | # 30 | $280,905 | -63% | $13.0 Million |
| Cats & Dogs | # 36 | $227,212 | -6% | $92.0 Million |
|
Tomb Raider |
# 37 |
$220,930 |
-22% |
$130.7 Million |
| A.I. | # 39 | $170,331 | 525% gain | $78.3 Million |
|
The Mummy Returns |
# 45 |
$87,780 |
15% gain |
$201.7 Million |
| CyberWorld 3D | # 52 | $64,341 | 24% gain | $10.0 Million |
The gain/loss represents the movie's performance when compared to last weekend.
The reason there were so many gains last weekend was because it was a four-day holiday weekend (Labor Day). In addition, many older films (like Pearl Harbor) expanded the number of theaters they were in for the holiday weekend.
Note: Final Fantasy has dropped out of the list with a total of $32.1 million at the box office, making it one of the biggest box office disasters of the summer.
Summer's Big Winners
and Losers
(by digitalmediafx.com) USAToday has published a list of this summer's
big winners and losers in relation to movies. The newspaper names Shrek
as summers huge winner, bringing in a massive $263 million at the box
office and says, 'The computer-animated comedy from DreamWorks' PDI division
was such a force that one competitor called it 'a Shrekking ball.'"
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was named the biggest loser of the summer as USAToday said the performance was so bad that, "it might have sounded the death knell for photo-real works of computer animation."
Other big losers,
according to the paper, were A.I. and Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Somehow they missed listing Osmosis Jones, which bombed at the
box office and will gross less than $16 million before hitting video/DVD.
News Link of the
Day - Mort Walker Has Hope for Cartoon Museum
According to The Advocate:
"If the characters
featured in the International Museum of Cartoon Art could come alive,
they would speak of the more than 40 years they have shared with the man
who has tried to keep them together. But there's nothing comical about
the museum's fate..."
Click here for the full story.
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