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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Tuesday
- September 18, 2001
- Spirited Away Nears Titanic
Record
- ABC Pays $15 Million
for Jurassic Park 3 Broadcast Rights
- Final Weekend Box Office
Numbers
- News Link of the Day
- Quiet debut for Nintendo's GameCube
Spirited
Away Nears Titanic Record
(by digitalmediafx.com) The hit anime, Spirited Away -
which
Disney has balked at releasing in the U.S. - is headed
towards the Titanic box office record in Japan. Showing
little signs of declining, Spirited Away has brought in
a massive $191 million on its way to Titanic's $219 million.
The movie, by famed anime master Hayao Miyazaki is called Sen
to Chihiro no Kamikakushi in Japan. The anime follows a 10
year old girl on her journey to the Land of Spirits where she
interacts with monsters and entities.
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ABC Pays
$15 Million for Jurassic Park 3 Broadcast Rights
(by digitalmediafx.com) ABC is divvying up $15 million for
the rights to air Jurassic Park 3. Under the deal, ABC
will have permission to show the movie up to four times in a 21
month period that begins in February 2004. ABC has scored major
licensing victories from this summer's blockbusters, including
the rights to air Pearl Harbor and A.I.
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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 |
#
16 |
$938,214 |
-33% |
$176.2
Million |
| Jurassic
Park 3 |
#
19 |
$742,995 |
-23% |
$178.0
Million |
|
Shrek
|
# 21
|
$400,726
|
-08% |
$264.0
Million
|
|
Dr.
Doolittle 2
|
#
30 |
$231,671
|
-29% |
$112.2
Million
|
| Osmosis
Jones |
#
33 |
$152,394 |
37%
gain |
$13.3
Million |
|
Pearl
Harbor
|
# 37
|
$129,408
|
-29% |
$197.1
Million
|
| Spy
Kids: Special Edition |
#
38 |
$126,477 |
-21% |
$112.5
Million |
|
Atlantis:
The Lost Empire
|
# 43
|
$101,832
|
-34% |
$82.8
Million
|
| Cats
& Dogs |
#
45 |
$94,682 |
-2% |
$92.2
Million |
|
Tomb
Raider
|
# 47
|
$86,022
|
-44% |
$131.0
Million
|
|
The
Mummy Returns
|
# 54
|
$58,015
|
-15% |
$201.8
Million
|
| A.I. |
#
55 |
$54,250 |
-43% |
$78.5
Million |
The gain/loss
represents the movie's performance when compared to last weekend.
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News Link
of the Day - Quiet debut for Nintendo's GameCube
According to CNN:
"Greeted
by small armies of game fanatics, Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s GameCube
game console tiptoed onto shelves in Japan on Friday minus the
hype surrounding the arrival of its big-muscled rivals.
Legions of
males ranging in age from 15 to 40, many armed with Nintendo's
hand-held GameBoy machines, waited outside Tokyo stores since
before dawn to be the first to take home one of 500,000 GameCubes
initially shipped for the launch..."
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