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Snow Day has rolled in large amounts of cash since opening. Courtesy of Curious Pictures. © Paramount Pictures.

AWN Animated Box Office Report. February 18-20. The kid flick Snow Day, with special effects by Curious Pictures, settled at third place for a second straight week at the U.S. box office. The Paramount-produced flick grossed US$14.8 million over the President's Day holiday weekend, bringing its cume to $31.5 million. USA Films release Pitch Black finished at #4. Yet another Aliens-esque sci-fi flick, Pitch Black grossed $14 million. THE Tigger Movie finished the weekend in fifth place, making $10.5 million, bringing its cume to $22.3 million. Even though the Disney flick slipped a spot, its box office receipts raised 12% from last weekend. Coming off its Oscar nomination for best picture, DreamWorks' American Beauty grossed another $6.4 million, bringing its total to $81.2 million. Holding on to the top ten, The Green Mile, with primary visual effects by ILM, Rhythm & Hues, POP and Matte World Digital, finished at #10 making $3.3 million and bringing its total gross to $128.7 million. Box office figures obtained from the Daily Variety. . . .

February 25-27. The big snow ball of Paramount's Snow Day picked up momentum and rolled in to #2 at the U.S. box office. In its second week in theatres, the kid-pic, with special effects by Curious Pictures, grossed US$8.34 million bringing its gross to $43.1 million. USA Films' Aliens-like Pitch Black, with primary visual effects by Double Negative Ltd. and The Chandler Group, finished at #5 grossing $7.14 million raising its total gross to $22.9 million. The Tigger Movie finished the weekend in sixth place, making $6.31 million, bouncing its cume to $30.6 million. In a second week in widened release, DreamWorks' American Beauty came in at #9 grossing $4.61 million, bringing its total to $87.5 million. The recently Oscar nominated, The Green Mile, with primary visual effects by ILM, Rhythm & Hues, POP and Matte World Digital, slipped to #13 making $1.95 million and bringing its total gross to $131.1 million. Down 38% after the Presidents’ Day holiday weekend, Fantasia/2000 finished in fourteenth place grossing $1.60 million and bringing its cume to $26.8 million. The recent Oscar nom for best picture ignited a new flame under The Sixth Sense, with visual effects by DreamQuest, raising the flick to #15. The Buena Vista film added another $1.55 million to its now $283.9 million total. Stuart Little and Galaxy Quest finished 18th and 19th respectively. The furry hero's pic, with primary visual effects by Sony Pictures Imageworks, additional animation by CFX and Rhythm & Hues, and miniatures by Thunderstone, grossed $1.08 million bringing its cume to $136.3 million, while the Star Trek-spoof, with primary visual effects by ILM and additional effects by Light Matters, grossed $740,000 bringing its cume to $69 million. Now the 18th highest grossing film in U.S. history, Toy Story 2 finished at #21, with a gross of $500,000 and a cume of $ 240.6 million. The only other special effects film in the top thirty was Magnolia, with visual effects by ILM, at #28. The film that recently won best picture at the Berlin Film Festival grossed $220,000 at U.S. theatres bringing its cume to $21.6 million. Box office figures obtained on Lyco's ShowBIZ Data Base. . . .March 3-5. With strictly live-action fare reigning the U.S. box office, Snow Day slipped to sixth place, while Pitch Black remained steady in fifth place. Paramount's kid-pic, with special effects by Curious Pictures, fell from #2, grossing US$4.8 million this past weekend and bringing its total gross to $49 million. USA Films' Pitch Black, with primary visual effects by Double Negative Ltd. and The Chandler Group, clocked in at #5 for the second straight weekend, grossing $5.07 million raising its total gross to $29.7 million. DreamWorks' American Beauty stayed steady at #9 grossing another $4.03 million, bringing its total to $93 million. Falling out of the top ten, The Tigger Movie finished at #13, making $3.62 million, raising its cume to $35.5 million. Fantasia/2000 fell again to eighteenth place grossing $1.45 million and bringing its cume to $28.9 million. Other special effects laden or animation films finishing in the top thirty were: The Sixth Sense at #19, with a gross of $1.19 million and a cume of $285.5 million; The Green Mile at #20, with a gross of $1.09 million and a cume of $132.7 million; Stuart Little at #24, with a gross of $430,000 and a cume of $136.9 million; Galaxy Quest at #25, with a gross of $400,000 and a cume of $69.6 million; and Toy Story 2 at #26, with a gross of $260,000 and a cume of $241 million. . . .