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8/29-31 Weekend BoxOffice         


Author: Juan F. Lara
Date: Sep 5, 2008 15:20

Information taken from Brandon Gray's
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

12 5 Star Wars: The Clone Wars $2,711,145 -52.1%% 2,444 -1,008 $1,109 $29,619,167
18 16 Fly Me to the Moon $1,509,198 +6.1%% 630 +90 $2,395 $6,242,261
21 17 Wall-E $1,175,863 +21.8%% 1,155 +370 $1,018 $217,973,943
24 20 Kung Fu Panda $633,024 +9.3%% 460 +23 $1,376 $213,591,364
29 24 Space Chimps $342,627 -15.2%% 401 -66 $854 $28,862,148
90 89 Horton Hears a Who $3,662 -2.9%% 12 -2 $305 $154,528,032

The Force turned against "Clone Wars" quickly. Its boxoffice plummetted
last week, and again though not as much this week. It's already getting
hustled out of theaters, which makes sence what with the TV series premiering
in less than a month. I guess the "Clone Wars" movie served its purpose of
being a big TV commercial.

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In the meantime, "Fly Me to the Moon" maintains its modest numbers,
gradually increasing its theaters.

I checked the 3D movie out last weekend. Now the 3D effect of the
backgrounds actually looked appealing. More believable than the backgrounds
in "Beowulf" for sure. 3D still doesn't work well...
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Re: 8/29-31 Weekend BoxOffice         


Author: Anim8rFSK
Date: Sep 5, 2008 17:39

In article hubcap.clemson.edu>,
ljuan@ces.clemson.edu (Juan F. Lara) wrote:
> The human characters looked pretty good. Their facial features had a
> roundness and softness that made them more appealing than I expected. But
> there was no hope for the fly characters. They all had very unimaginative
> heads, just two big eyes stuck on spheres, stuck on humanlike bodies. I'd
> need
> to see "A Bug's Life" again, or even "Ant Bully" and "AntZ", to get some
> insight as to how to design insect characters appealingly. I couldn't stand
> to
> look at the flies in this movie.

Ack! We just had to design an ant for a TV spot, and we loaded up AntZ
as an example of everything to do wrong.

--
Multiple root canals; hopped up on multiple pain drugs.

It's an explanation, not an excuse!
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Re: 8/29-31 Weekend BoxOffice         


Author: Juan F. Lara
Date: Sep 5, 2008 18:37

In article news.west.cox.net>,
Anim8rFSK cox.net> wrote:
>Ack! We just had to design an ant for a TV spot, and we loaded up AntZ
>as an example of everything to do wrong.

Hmm, I liked the designs for heads of "AntZ", though in hindsight I guess
the bodies are too anthropomorphized.

- Juan F. Lara
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Re: 8/29-31 Weekend BoxOffice         


Author: Anim8rFSK
Date: Sep 5, 2008 22:41

In article hubcap.clemson.edu>,
ljuan@ces.clemson.edu (Juan F. Lara) wrote:
> In article news.west.cox.net>,
> Anim8rFSK cox.net> wrote:
>>Ack! We just had to design an ant for a TV spot, and we loaded up AntZ
>>as an example of everything to do wrong.
>
> Hmm, I liked the designs for heads of "AntZ", though in hindsight I guess
> the bodies are too anthropomorphized.
>
> - Juan F. Lara

I'll accept that as a responsible opposing viewpoint. :)

But seriously, we really did put it up as an example of what to do
wrong. First, they don't LOOK like ants. They look like little
centaurs. The 4 legs and 2 arms is the lazy way out. If you take off
the antenna you'd have no way to know those are even bugs faces. And
they're just plain ugly. And noses? Why do ants have noses???
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