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November 13th, 2005
Disney Chicken Little remains #1 at the Box Office!
Disney's Chicken Little remained strong through its second week at the box office, taking in $32 million to remain well in the #1 slot behind newcomer "Zathura: A Space Adventure", which brought in $14 million. Chicken Little (which had a budget of around $60 million) has now earned $80.8 million domestically in 10 days of theatrical release, and should easily pass the $100 million mark this coming weekend.
November 6th, 2005
Disney's Chicken Little debuts at #1 at the Box Office
Disney's Chicken Little brought in $40.1 million during its opening weekend, easily beating the number 2 movie, Jarhead, by over $11 million! Here is the CNN article with the news.
October 6th, 2005
Moviefone offers exclusive first four minutes of Disney's Chicken Little
Zach Braff, Joan Cusack and Steve Zahn lend their voices to a new telling of "Chicken Little," the classic fable of a young chicken who causes widespread panic when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky. Check out the first four minutes of the film exclusively on Moviefone.com.
September 7th, 2005
Interview with Disney's Chicken Little Creators
Last month, ComingSoon.net was given an unprecedented opportunity to have one of the first interviews with director Mark Dindal and producer Randy Fullmer, the creators of Chicken Little, who were chosen to spearhead Disney's new animated effort. Both guys have been involved in various capacities with Disney's animation studios for many years with their most prominent project to date being The Emperor's New Groove, the 2000 animated film that some considered a disappointment after Disney's huge hits with Tarzan, The Lion King and Aladdin.
August 28, 2005
Disney's Chicken Little Video Game
www.gamestats.com has News, Previews, and Screenshots of the new Disney's Chicken Little Video Game, which will be released on October 18th, 2005 for the PC, Gamecube, GBA, PS2, and Xbox. More news, previews, and screenshots for the PS2 version can be found here.
July 18th, 2005
Disney, Dolby Bringing More Digital Projectors to Theaters
Digital projection, which has been slow to arrive in the nation's theaters, is getting a big boost from the Walt Disney Co. and Dolby Laboratories. The two companies have announced that they plan to install 100 digital projectors in theaters across the country in time for the debut of Disney's 3-D animated Chicken Little on Nov. 4. Analysts estimate the cost at around $10 million. The installations could give Dolby a headstart in what analysts have long predicted will be a virtually complete conversion of the nation's theaters to digital projection. In an interview with the San Francisco Business Times, Tim Partridge, general manager of Dolby's Professional Division, said, "We're hoping that it is a catalyst to a broader deployment and that it will show not only cost savings, but a quality experience."
June 28th, 2005
Disney to Convert 'Chicken Little' Into 3-D
Disney, hoping to show that it doesn't need Pixar in order to turn out a hit digitally animated movie, said Monday that it will convert its upcoming Chicken Little into 3-D and use digital projectors to show it on 100 screens when the movie opens on Nov. 4. Disney is partnered with Lucasfilm's Industrial Light and Magic, which will convert the movie into 3-D; Dolby Digital Cinema, which will install the digital projectors; and Real D., which will install the screens and the 3-D projection lenses.