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ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 4.5 - AUGUST 1999

Films

South Park. © Comedy Central.

AWN Animated Box Office Report. June 25-June 27: Tarzan, the Disney animated feature that is based on Tarzan Of The Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, finished second in the weekend US boxoffice race, taking in $24,055,796 for a total of $77,575,147; Lucasfilm's Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, finished fifth, grossing $14,111,919 to bring its total to $351,669,681, becoming only the third film to top $350 million in its initial domestic release and passing this milestone in forty days, eighteen days faster than previous record holder Titanic; Universal's The Mummy, with digital effects by ILM, finished seventh and grossed $2,172,945 for a total of $146,033,465; and Warner Bros.' The Matrix finished tenth, grossing $1,011,566 for a total of $165,688,406. . . July 2-July 4: Despite poor reviews, Warner Bros.' newly released James Bond/Western genre mix, Wild Wild West, with visual effects by ILM, took in an estimated $36.8 million for a total of $50.1 million to finish first in the Independence Day holiday weekend US boxoffice race. Disney's Tarzan finished third, taking in $19.2 million for a total of $110.8 million; the risqué South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, directed by Trey Parker, finished fourth with a weekend gross of $14.8 million for a total of $23.1 million; and Lucasfilm's digital effects heavy Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace finished sixth with a weekend gross of $11.7 million and a total of $371.6 million. . . July 9-July 11: Disney's Tarzan, based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs character, finished fourth, grossing $10,811,295 million at the US weekend boxoffice to bring its total to $125,005,420. This puts it on the list of 100 top-grossing films of all-time in North America. It has already surpassed Disney's previous animated feature, Mulan, which grossed $120.5 million. Warner Bros.' Wild Wild West, with digital effects by ILM, finished second, grossing $16,834,042 for a total of $76,569,324; Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace finished seventh, grossing $7,491,397 for a total of $385,184,373; and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, directed by Trey Parker, finished eighth, grossing $7,062,131 for a total of $35,503,056; Universal's The Mummy, with digital effects by ILM, finished thirteenth, grossing &867,505 for a total of $149,609,505; Warner's The Matrix finished sixteenth, grossing $510,407 for a total of $167,505,401; Sony's The Thirteenth Floor, with digital effects by Centropolis Effects, finished forty-fourth, grossing $37,894 for a total of $11,267,231; and Buena Vista's Doug's 1st Movie finished forty-sixth, grossing $34,566 for a total of $19,312,581. . . July 16-July 18: A tough week-end for animated fare. This week's highest grossing animation related flick was Warner's The Wild Wild West, with digital effects by ILM, which finished fifth, grossing an estimated $10 million for a total of $94 million; Disney's Tarzan finished seventh, grossing an estimated $7.4 million for a total of $143 million; Lucasfilm's Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace finished eighth, grossing an estimated $5.3 million for a total of $394.9 million; Buena Vista's well-reviewed Muppets From Space finished tenth, grossing $5.1 million for a total of $7 million; and Trey Parker's South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut finished twelfth, grossing an estimated $4.3 million for a total of $43.4 million.

Tarzan. © Burroughs and Disney.

Tarzan 2 Is On The Boards. Given the fact that Tarzan Of The Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs' first Tarzan novel, has already spawned innumerable sequels in both print and movie form, it should be no surprise that Disney already has plans for a sequel to its very successful Tarzan. Decisions regarding whether the sequel will be theatrical or direct-to-video, as well as who will direct it, have yet to be announced.

A Celebrity Deathmatch Feature Is In The Works. MTV Films and Paramount Pictures has signed creator Eric Fogel to write, direct, and produce a Celebrity Deathmatch feature. The feature will be based on the TV series which premiered on MTV in 1998, and features clay animated caricatures of celebrities who fight each other in wrestling matches. Bouts have pitted Marilyn Manson against Charles Manson, Hillary Clinton against Monica Lewinsky, and Richard Simmons against David Letterman. Before Celebrity Deathmatch, Fogel directed a short film, The Mutilator, and another MTV series, The Head.


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