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Saturday
- September 15, 2001
- Movies Being Postponed After
Disaster
- Final Fantasy
Takes on Japan
- Friday's Box Office Results
- News Link of the Day
- Nintendo Bets on Miyamoto
Movies
Being Postponed After Disaster
(by digitalmediafx.com) Hollywood is finding itself in a magnitude
of dilemma after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
on Tuesday. The dilemma is whether or not to proceed with the
release and production of movies that show terrorists attacking
the United States. Several movies, including Collateral Damage
which Warner Bros. has postponed without announcing a new release
date. It was originally scheduled to be released on October 5.
The movie is about a terrorist attack in Los Angeles aimed at
a specific ambassador, but also wiping out innocent victims whose
families seek revenge.
Spider-Man
posters and a movie trailer which both feature the World Trade
Center have been pulled from theaters and from the Internet. In
addition, the ending to Men In Black 2 is being completely
redone to change the backdrop of the finale which featured the
World Trade Center buildings. Studios for the movie The Last
Castle have pulled all advertising which features U.S. prisoners
flying a U.S. flag upside down.
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Final Fantasy
Takes on Japan
(by digitalmediafx.com) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
has finally made it to Japan, the country where the roots of the
Final Fantasy game series are founded. Square Pictures, which
created the CGI movie, is hoping for a strong response from Japanese
to a movie that became one of the biggest box office disappointments
of the year in the United States. The distributor of the film
in Japan is Gaga, which believes that this weekend's results will
be excellent.
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Friday's
Box Office Results
(by digitalmediafx.com) There were no major animated or visual
effects films in the top 10 on Friday although The Musketeer,
which came in third, does have a few visual effect scenes.
Here are Friday's
Top 5 Movies
1. Hardball
- $2.5 Million
2. The Glass House - $1.9 Million
3. The Musketeer - $1.6 Million
4. The Others - $1.4 Million
5. Two Can Play That Game - $1.3 Million
Overall, the
Box Office was down due to the terrorist events this week.
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News Link
of the Day - Nintendo Bets on Miyamoto, Guru of Video Games
According to Bloomberg News:
"Ever
imagined you're an astronaut, crash-landed on an unknown planet,
able to plant your own army of space elves to fight aliens and
repair your ship? Perhaps not since you were a kid.
Shigeru Miyamoto,
the 48-year-old manager of Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s development division,
does that every day for a living. His multicolored Pikmins, who
sprout from seeds and wear petals as hats, are among the new characters
available with the GameCube game console, which went on sale yesterday
in Japan..."
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