[0] Buena Vista Television Releases Disney/Pixar's Animated Hit 'A Bug's Life' to Pay-Per-View; Beginning Oct. 1, 2000.Entertainment Editors BURBANK, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Aug. 10, 2000 Buena Vista Television and Pixar Animation Studios (Nasdaq: PIXR) today announced the release of "A Bug's Life" for exhibition on Pay-Per-View beginning Oct. 1, 2000. This marks the first time one of the great Disney and Pixar animated feature films can be seen on Pay-Per-View. "This is a great blockbuster film which will be a wonderful addition for family home entertainment as we enter into the holidays," said Janice Marinelli, President of Buena Vista Television. "Also, this is certainly a natural extension of our Pay-Per-View business, coming on the heels of the success we experienced with 'The Sixth Sense,' which was record breaking in Pay-Per-View." "A Bug's Life" was created and produced by Pixar at its studios in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , and features an ensemble cast An ensemble cast is a cast in which the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance in a dramatic production. This kind of casting became more popular in television series because it allows for flexibility for writers to focus on different including Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey spac·ey adj. Slang Variant of spacy. Adj. 1. spacey - stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug spaced-out, spacy unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles" , Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and the musical genius of Randy Newman. "A Bug's Life" is the story of an inventive and well-meaning ant named Flik who tries to help his beleaguered be·lea·guer tr.v. be·lea·guered, be·lea·guer·ing, be·lea·guers 1. To harass; beset: We are beleaguered by problems. 2. To surround with troops; besiege. colony from the plundering of Hopper and his grasshopper grasshopper, name applied to almost 9,000 different species of singing, jumping insects in two families of the order Orthoptera. Grasshoppers are long, slender, winged insects with powerful hind legs and strong mandibles, or mouthparts, adapted for chewing. cronies. "A Bug's Life" was a box office hit bringing in more than $163 million. It can be seen on DirecTV, InDemand, EchoStar, and TVN TVN Televisión Nacional de Chile (Chilean official TV network) TVN Televisora Nacional (Panamanian TV Network) TVN Total Volatile Nitrogen TVN Telewizja Nowa (Polish TV network) distribution services after Oct. 1, 2000. About Pixar Pixar Animation Studios (Nasdaq: PIXR) combines creative and technical artistry to create original characters and stories in the medium of computer animation. Pixar created and produced the first computer-animated feature film, the Academy Award winning Toy Story, released in 1995. Pixar has since released two more animated features: A Bug's Life, the highest grossing animated film released in 1998; and Toy Story 2, the highest grossing animated film released in 1999. The studio is currently in production on its fourth animated feature, Monsters, Inc., scheduled for release in November 2001. |
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