What a difference a year makes. No churlish phone calls from the Disney CEO about the company's movies being no help with Diz Co.'s earnings.
... Iger highlighted the film studio's summer performance, noting that it released three of the top five films worldwide in "Toy Story 3," Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" and Marvel Entertainment's "Iron Man 2." ...
You will note that one movie was a cartoon, one was a semi-cartoon made by a former cartoonist, and one was based on a comic strip.
Small wonder that live action filmmakers have disdain for animation and its creators. All that the cartoon crowd does is make lots of money. No point in actually respecting it.
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'Cause they're YELLAH!!
CHICKENS!!!!
They wish they had one tenth of the creativity that animation folks have!
Liva action......HUH.
so exactly why did we change our name then?
Is it Mr. Lassiter,
Or was it Dick Cook? I'm guessing Cook greenlighted Iron Man and Alice.
I miss Dick Cook.
So will Disney.
I'll be glad when Mr. Lasseter starts earning his keep at Disney Animation. Tired of seeing princess films and living on the past. He needs to be more bold with that division just like he is with Pixar.
Tired of princess films? You mean Princess and the Frog, the first princess film to come out Disney is HOW many years?
And Rupunzel, I mean Tangled and those Fairy series and bringing back Pooh.
So.
Tired.
So.
Boring.
How about doing something original for a change. Disney used to be the one to look up to for innovation, now it seems to be rushing to get back in the middle, not lead the pack.
Disney innovative? 60 years of the same basic story line and a dance scene that was used over and over. There have been nearly no new ideas in Hollywood for the past 2 decades, remakes and rehash of old movies and TV shows.
Filmmakers have disdain for us because even we know we're a joke. Where's my pirate hat?
"the Frog, the first princess film to come out Disney is HOW many years?"
Who cares how long its been, we are all still bored to death of this formula, and judging by the BO receipts so is the entire planet...
I think Tangled looks pretty good...
No one is agains fairy tales. They're against BAD ones.
...Like Avatar. ;)
(I'd spent nine years defending "Treasure Planet"'s reputation against horrendous theatrical-release strategies and superstitious panic-hysteria, and looks like I'll be defending Frog for another nine more.
And that's coming from someone who thought Hercules had "destroyed the studio" thirteen years ago, and that the Formula needed to be burned in effigy...How long ago was THAT??)
People keep talking about this "formula." WHAT "formula?"
And Treasure Planet was a horrendous mess that will never live down it's insipid (and well deserved) reputation.
If anyone's counting : The Princess & the Frog total theatrical gross (worldwide) = $267 million.
Total DVD/BluRay sales in the U.S. - $66 million. (to date ... it's still on the sales charts)
Better than "Meet the Robinsons" ($169 worldwide theatrical, $78 mil. DVD) , not as good as "Bolt" ($313 theatrical , $82 mil. DVD)
But of course PATF didn't have a $150 million budget like Robinsons and Bolt, so it actually did a lot better than Robinsons and only a little less than Bolt relative to the production cost balanced against the theatrical box-office and DVD totals. (also, Princess & the Frog merchandise sold big numbers, which Robinsons and Bolt did not. Hopefully Tangled will break the middling-success streak of the new regime so far)
"And Treasure Planet was a horrendous mess that will never live down it's insipid (and well deserved) reputation."
Call us insipid (no, seriously, it's okay!), but we quite enjoyed Treasure Planet.
You really didn't have to ask us to call you insipid...been doing after every time you post.
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