May 3rd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Since seeing ‘Horton Hears a Who!,’ Blue Sky Studios has proven me they are allowed to compare themselves to Pixar. But little did I know the company, owned by Fox, was never meant to take this road and was struggling to make any money in the nineties.
At that moment, Fox was investing in 2-D animations and Blue Sky Studios was meant to do CGI for other movies. Not even the ‘hero’ of the team, Eugene Troubetzkoy, was thinking about a film like ‘Ice Age.’ “The goal of the artistic people was always to make movies. Personally, I couldn’t have cared less,” he said. But then ‘Toy Story’ came around and made animation bankable. “Most of us were working for negative salaries. Every time things were looking down, we always wondered, where’s our Steve Jobs?“
And even with their Oscar winning short ‘Bunny,’ by Chris Wedge, Fox was getting ready to sell Blue Sky Studios because of the crashing special effects market. But that’s when their savior ‘Ice Age’ came around. “It was our one opportunity to do what we always wanted to do and prove to Fox that they shouldn’t sell us,” Chris Wedge says.
Four successful features later, Blue Sky Studios is hard at work at what might be their biggest hit yet, ‘Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.’
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May 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 am
No, Amy is not doing that James Bond theme as rumored earlier after all. It is true, she and her producer Mark Ronson were working on it, but Ronson now states it would take ’some miracle of science’ to complete the song. I’d say Amy Winehouse knows all about those ‘miracles of science,’ but that might just be me.
When the news broke last week, Ronson was already cautious by saying an Amy Winehouse Bond theme was just speculation. And now he adds the rehab singer is ‘not ready to record any music.’ Is she ever?
The score for ‘Quantum of Solace’ will be composed by David Arnold, who also did the score for ‘Casino Royale’ and the three Bonds before that. The first official glimpse of ‘Quantum of Solace’ will be given by a trailer at the release of Sony’s ‘Hancock,’ July 2.
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 am
Ok, so there are a lot of box office numbers floating around for the movie with all the buzz this opening weekend, a little film called ‘Iron Man.’ We already brought you the forecast, predictions, early numbers and overseas estimates, but here is really all we have for the iron man thus far.
Budget estimate: $186 million
Marketing estimate: $50 million
US theaters this weekend: 4,105
US predictions for the weekend: ranging from $70 to $125 million
US Thursday box office estimate: $5.2 million
US Friday box office estimate: $35 million (incl. $1.7m Thursday night)
US Saturday box office estimate: $38 million
Overseas estimate for the weekend (57 territories): $97 million
Worldwide estimate for the weekend: $201 million
Highest gross outside US: Mexico with $4 million (2 days)
Recent Fandango ticket sales for ‘Iron Man’: 81%
Metacritic.com score: 7.8 (35 reviews)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94% fresh
IMDB score: 8.3 (3,102 votes)
Broken legs during shooting: 1 (Gwyneth Paltrow)
Loser this weekend: ‘Made of Honor’ (kinda, only $15.5m)
Almost confirmed release date for ‘Iron Man 2′: summer 2010
If I missed anything, let me know.
