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- 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
|
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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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here for the full story.
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