GPigs pulverize "Potter"

Rodents rule and wizards drool at the US box office, reports Yahoo news, as “An elite squad of guinea pigs has worked its own brand of magic at the box office, taking the No. 1 spot from boy wizard Harry Potter.”

The 3-D “G-Force” [Yahoo continues] was the top movie at the box office this weekend, opening with $32.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Walt Disney release from producer Jerry Bruckheimer, with its mixture of live action and computer-generated animation, is a “Mission: Impossible”-style adventure. It features voiceover work from Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Tracy Morgan and Penelope Cruz as resourceful rodents.

Yeatman was a co-founder of top effects house Dream Quest Images in 1980. He has been described by fan-mecca website Ain’t It Cool News as “the very essence of visual effects coolness.” AICN guru Harry Knowles credits Dream Quest with “many of my favorite moviegoing moments … The red, red canyons of Mars in ‘Total Recall;’ the too-real-to-be-believed submarines in ‘The Abyss;’ the Black Lectroids’ spaceship in ‘Buckaroo Banzai’— the way it moved!”

Yeatman has told interviewers that his then five-year-old son came up with the initial concept for “G-Force.” He has also pointed out that in real life, governments are actively exploring the use of small animals and even insects for espionage purposes:

“They take the pupae of mainly cockroaches and moths, and they apply nanoelectronics to them. They become actual flying devices, flying platforms that can be literally radio controlled. They carry nano surveillance equipment and are used to spy, listen, and things like that. These things that seem completely out of fantasy start to actually have some validity to them. It makes it very interesting and fertile ground for one's imagination.”

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