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Thursday
- September 20, 2001
- Sundance Channel Tackles Music Video
Animation
- Microsoft Backs Off From
Original Xbox Estimates
- Spider-Man Lawsuit Filed
- News Link of the Day -
Lara Croft Firm Turns the Corner
Sundance Channel
Tackles Music Video Animation
(by digitalmediafx.com) Cable's The Sundance Channel is tackling the subject
of animation in music videos for a special that premieres October 19 at
11pm. "Sonic Cinema: Animators" delves into the ever-expanding
universe of animated music video with each presentation representing a
different style of animation, from Japanese anime and computer animation
to pen-and-ink and puppetry. Highlights include the entertaining "Clint
Eastwood" and "19-2000" by Jamie Hewlitt for his animated
band Gorillaz.
Toei Animation Studios
(creators of the anime character Sailor Moon as well as the film and television
series "Captain Harlock") weigh in with the space-age sagas
"One More Time" and "Aeordynamic" for electronica
wizards Daft Punk, while Tomas Apodaca creates a memorable journey for
the soulful green hero of Quasimoto's alternative hip-hop anthem "Come
On Feet."
Here is the lineup:
"SONIC CINEMA:
ANIMATORS"
Premieres October 19th at 11:00 p.m. EST/PST
| Artist |
Title
of Song |
Director |
| Gorillaz |
"Clint
Eastwood" |
Jamie
Hewlett |
| Gorillaz |
"19-2000" |
Jamie
Hewlett |
| King
Biscuit Time |
"I
Walk the Earth" |
Tim
Hope |
| Short
Film |
"The
Wolfman" |
Tim
Hope |
| Daft
Punk |
"One
More Time" |
Toei
Animation |
| Daft
Punk |
"Aerodynamic |
Toei
Animation |
| Short
Film |
"Hotspot" |
Mark
Brierly |
| Short
Film |
"Can't
Drag Race with Jesus" |
Bill
Plypton |
| Clinic |
"Second
Line" |
Unit
9 |
| Quasimoto |
"Come
on Feet" |
Tomas
Apodaca |
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Microsoft Backs
Off From Original Xbox Estimates
(by digitalmediafx.com) Microsoft says that the Xbox is on schedule
for a November 8 release, but is now refusing to provide the number of
units that will be available on launch day citing that they have to wait
until the height of production to determine such numbers. Prior, Microsoft
had announced that 600,000 - 800,000 units would ship, helping it avoid
the problems Sony faced when Playstation 2 shipped with lower than expected
units available. Now Microsoft faces the same problem as it seeks to stay
ahead of Nintendo's GameCube launch on November 18, 2001. GameCube has
already launched in Japan.
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Spider-Man Lawsuit
Filed
(by digitalmediafx.com) Columbia Pictures and Ingersoll-Rand are being
sued by the widow of a man killed
on the set of Spiderman on March 6, 2001. The suit is considered a "wrongful
death" lawsuit after a forklift, transformed into a crane, fell onto
the man, Tim Holcombe, who was welding on a 1930 New York building set
for the movie. The amount of the lawsuit has not been disclosed. Ingersoll-Rand
is the equipment manufacturer.
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News Link of the
Day - Lara Croft Firm Turns the Corner
According to the BBC:
"Eidos, the British
computer games firm that dreamt up Lara Croft, has reported better-than-expected
results, but warned that sales might be hit by the after-effects of the
US attacks..."
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here for the full story.
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