Ben wrote:Although I do remember Big Top Pee Wee...

Do you remember Randall "Grease" Kleiser directed it?

Nah, Ben Edlund would probably sue, from that Tick episode. ;) http://youtu.be/EX6vHexT6No?t=3m40s Seriously, aside from it being a cheery blowoff to a fan question, think the director's rather tragically misinterpreting why Marvel made Guardians in the first place-- Just like a lot of other unfortu...

I'm still needing more of a "hook", personally. It looks all kinds of cute, but I'm not yet feeling the "emotion" of this "major emotion picture". That said, this is Pete Docter after all, so it's bound to be something tough to sum up in a two minute trailer...! I'm guessing the memory plot constit...

(Hey Eric, didn't you demonize her way back when as some sort of feminist megalomaniac when Pixar threw her off of Brave?) Hey--It came as a shock to me too, which fan "betrayal" probably explains the overreaction. We thought the Only Talented Director at DWA was the Only Sane One, and that would s...

Hey, that show's actually quite fun. Eh, the attempt to be a hyperactive 12-yo. series has made it "Peter Parker's Day Off", which has unfortunately infected and corrupted the rest of Man of Action's scripts for Disney XD. (We had to lose Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes for Avengers: Assemble?? ...

And those are just the US numbers. There are flops and there are bombs. Since Antz and Shrek DWA hasn't had an out and out bomb. Even so, I can remember Massacre of Summer '13 analysts looking at Turbo's budget-vs.-grosses loss in the same sentence as RIPD and Lone Ranger saying "What happened?? " ...

Sorry Vi, but I will venture out and say that I think Home will be DWA's first real bomb. Just some numbers to take into context: - Mr. Peabody & Sherman $111M - Rise of the Guardians $103M - Turbo: 83M - Penguins of Madagascar: 82.8M - Spirit: $73M - Road to El Dorado $50M - Sinbad: $26M It's got ...

I think the only time anyone ever really thought about the DWA label was when the first Shrek came out, because of the anti-Disney stance. (Actually quite a few people I talked to at the time were like: "oh yeah, it's because of that guy Disney fired"). That's the only time. And even with all the m...

Maybe Disney didn't consider Robinsons damaged goods... before Lassetter came. Maybe it was on of Disney's hoped-for hits... before Lassetter came. Maybe Anderson, Musker, Clements, Sanders, and Keane were considered one of the "special" artists at the studio that you don't interfere with... before...

I still don't think "the public" don't know the difference between ANY of the studios' output. To most everyone, it's the "new Disney" out when a new film hits. Pixar is the only one who even seems to have made something of a minor dent in the consciousness of who makes these things. There's the ol...

Yes: Dreamworks (with a little help from Blue Sky and Sony) have become the reason the public CAN'T STAND non-Pixar/WDFA CGI films, and would, conceivably, welcome hand-drawn back with open arms, just to break up the corny monotony. This, ironically, from the guy who claimed "2-D is dead!", and spen...

Since Eric seems to have been IN the story sessions at Disney while Robinsons was being made, perhaps he could explain how the film was more than half way through animation when JL came in to make any changes? Oh, I wouldn't dream of selfishly taking credit for what Jim Hill worked so hard on, at t...

Dacey wrote:Interesting. And the rumor is that the movie would involve Tony Stark "recruiting him" into The Avengers, which would be a great way to give us something we haven't seen before in that regard.

Except for the Disney X-D series, of course. (And hopefully not as gratuitously goofy.)

Instead, Dreamworks, and their many specific imitators, have helped do their part in the cause of hand-drawn animation, by putting the public firmly in the belief that if they never see another CGI film for the rest of their lives, it'll be ten billion years too soon.

I feel the main thing that Lasseter has bought to WDAS is the introduction to adding a twist to the plot where one character suddenly turns into the bad guy. This started over at Pixar with Toy Story 2 and I've noticed it has slowly crept into many of WDAS recent pics. Sometimes it works, sometimes...