Paramount/Viacom had a quite good year.
Paramount Pictures Tops All Studios With the Biggest Box Office Gross in 2011, Earning $5.17 Billion Worldwide ...
The interesting part is that so much of Paramount's record year was propelled by animation. Small items like:
Rango ($123.5 mil); Kung Fu Panda 2 ($165.2 mil); Tintin ($51.4 mil); Puss In Boots ($145.8 mil); Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($352.4 mil) ...
And of course all the other live action extravaganzas that were larded with visual effects in 2011. Sit through almost any live action offering, and you'll find an effects house in the credit roll. More often than not you'll find three.
Where once there were matte shots and miniatures done under studio roofs, now we have legions of tech directors, animators and all the rest working to get shots completed at far-flung subcontractors. Few work for the entity that controls the copyright.
But the ante keeps going up ... and the amount of work climbs right along with it. Now if somebody would throw in health and pension benefits.
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rango is so deep in the red, it's hardly worth mentioning as anything remotely resembling a positive bottom line. Same can't be said for their DW releases.
we get it. you didnt like rango. you sound like a broken record....
el diablo
Who said anything about not liking it? I was commenting on the FACT that it's way in the red. Facts are facts because they are factual, and supported by irrefutable evidence. Unless you're a tea bagger, in which case you make up your own facts.
"rango is so deep in the red, it's hardly worth mentioning as anything remotely resembling blah blah blah"
The fact that you focused on rango, tells me you have an axe to grind, and made a comment that's hardly relevant to the main point of the post.
Im not even discussing wether its in the red or not, which you could be right, just the fact that you focused on rango. Seems like an obsession....
diablo
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