History Trivia / TitanAE

** In hindsight, it also set the stone for 20th Century Fox's demise. Following the failure of the film, Bill Mechanic resigned and Tom Rothman (who previously ran [[Creator/SearchlightPictures Fox Searchlight Pictures]]) became the new CEO for the main studio. During his tenure, Rothman made a number of highly questionable and largely disliked decisions (such as screwing the theatrical runs of films like ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'' and ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'', [[ExecutiveMeddling taking many films away from their directors]], and the unpopular InNameOnly version of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''). Even after resigning in 2012 to join Creator/SonyPictures, the damage had been done, as in spite of successes under Jim Gianopulos like ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' ([[Film/Deadpool2 and its sequel]]), ''Film/{{Logan}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'', ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' (along with its [[Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes sequel]]) and ''Film/TheMartian'', 20th Century Fox was unable to recover from the damage Rothman had done to the company (not helping was the rise of streaming services heavily eating away at the company's main sources of revenue), eventually leading to its 2019 sale to Creator/{{Disney}}, who proceeded to gut much of the autonomy it had left.

** In hindsight, it also set the stone for 20th Century Fox's demise. Following the failure of the film, Bill Mechanic resigned and Tom Rothman (who previously ran [[Creator/SearchlightPictures Fox Searchlight Pictures]]) became the new CEO for the main studio. During his tenure, Rothman made a number of highly questionable and largely disliked decisions (such as screwing the theatrical runs of films like ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'' and ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'', [[ExecutiveMeddling taking many films away from their directors]], and the unpopular InNameOnly version of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''). Even after resigning in 2012 to join Creator/SonyPictures, the damage had been done, as in spite of successes under Jim Gianopulos like ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' ([[Film/Deadpool2 and its sequel]]), ''Film/{{Logan}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'', ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' (along with its [[Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes sequel]]) and ''Film/TheMartian'', 20th Century Fox was unable to recover from the damage Rothman had done to the company (not helping was the rise of streaming services heavily eating away at the company's main sources of revenue), eventually leading to its 2020 sale to Creator/{{Disney}}, who proceeded to gut much of the autonomy it had left.

** In hindsight, it also set the stone for 20th Century Fox's demise. Following the failure of the film, Bill Mechanic resigned and Tom Rothman (who previously ran [[Creator/SearchlightPictures Fox Searchlight Pictures]]) became the new CEO for the main studio. During his tenure, Rothman made a number of highly questionable and largely disliked decisions (such as screwing the theatrical runs of films like ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'' and ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'', [[ExecutiveMeddling taking many films away from their directors]], and the unpopular InNameOnly version of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''). Even after resigning in 2012 to join Creator/SonyPictures, the damage had been done, as in spite of successes under Jim Gianopulos like ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' ([[Film/Deadpool2 and its sequel]]), ''Film/{{Logan}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'', ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' (along with its [[Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes sequel]]) and ''Film/TheMartian'', 20th Century Fox was unable to recover from the damage Rothman had done to the company (not helping was the rise of streaming services heavily eating away at the company's main sources of revenue), eventually leading to its sale to Creator/{{Disney}}, who proceeded to gut much of the autonomy it had left.

** In hindsight, it also set the stone for 20th Century Fox's demise. Following the failure of the film, Bill Mechanic resigned and Tom Rothman (who previously ran [[Creator/SearchlightPictures Fox Searchlight Pictures]]) became the new CEO for the main studio. During his tenure, Rothman made a number of highly questionable and largely disliked decisions (such as such as screwing the theatrical runs of films like ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'' and ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'', [[ExecutiveMeddling taking many films away from their directors]], and the unpopular InNameOnly version of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''). Even after resigning in 2012 to join Creator/SonyPictures, the damage had been done, as in spite of successes under Jim Gianopulos like ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' ([[Film/Deadpool2 and its sequel]]), ''Film/{{Logan}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'', ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' (along with its [[Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes sequel]]) and ''Film/TheMartian'', 20th Century Fox was unable to recover from the damage Rothman had done to the company (not helping was the rise of streaming services heavily eating away at the company's main sources of revenue), eventually leading to its sale to Creator/{{Disney}}, who proceeded to gut much of the autonomy it had left.

** In hindsight, it also set the stone for 20th Century Fox's demise. Following the failure of the film, Bill Mechanic resigned and Tom Rothman (who previously ran [[Creator/SearchlightPictures Fox Searchlight Pictures]]) became the new CEO for the main studio. During his tenure, Rothman made a number of highly questionable and largely disliked decisions (such as such as screwing the theatrical runs of films like ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'' and ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'', [[ExecutiveMeddling taking many films away from their directors]], and the unpopular InNameOnly version of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''). Even after resigning in 2012 to join Creator/SonyPictures, the damage had been done, as in spite of successes under Jim Gianopulos like ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' ([[Film/Deadpool2 and its sequel]]), ''Film/{{Logan}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'', ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' (along with its [[Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes sequel]]) and ''Film/TheMartian'', 20th Century Fox was unable to recover from the damage Rothman had done to the company, eventually leading to its sale to Creator/{{Disney}}, who proceeded to gut much of the autonomy it had left.

* CreatorKiller: Not only did the film's failure shut down Fox's brand-new animation studio 10 days after its release, but it also proved to be the final straw for Creator/DonBluth, who retired from film-making after years of disappointment from Hollywood to focus on stage productions in his Scottsdale, Arizona-based home.

* TheWikiRule: Has a wiki [[http://titanafterearth.wikia.com/wiki/Titan_After_Earth_Wiki here.]]

* AllStarCast: Creator/MattDamon as Cale, Creator/DrewBarrymore as Akima, Creator/BillPullman as Captain Joseph Korso, Creator/JohnLeguizamo as Gune, Creator/JaneaneGarofalo as Stith and Creator/NathanLane as Preed, along with a couple others in smaller roles like Creator/RonPerlman as Cale's father, and rapper Creator/ToneLoc as Tek.
* BoxOfficeBomb: A massive one--it cost an estimated $75–$90 million to produce, and only got a little halfway back to its budget in box office. According to Chris Meledandri, the supervisor of the film, it lost Fox $100 million.

* FakeNationality: Akima is a woman with an Asian background voiced by Drew Barrymore, who’s Caucasian.

* OldShame: Creator/DrewBarrymore put this movie up there with ''Film/BatmanForever'' as films she never should have been in.

* DescendedCreator: As the assistant sound designer for Creator/SkywalkerSound, Christopher Scarabosio provides the voices for the Drej and the Drej Queen. To date, this is Scarabosio's only voice-acting role.

** Creator/HankAzaria originally was cast as the "Ship's Navigator" early on, but the role was cut.

* DescendedCreator: Assistant sound designer Christopher Scarabosio provides the voices for the Drej and the Drej Queen. To date, this is Scarabosio's only voice-acting role.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JohnLeguizamo fans will recognize him in this movie as Gune before his [[WesternAnimation/IceAge Sid]] days.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JohnLeguizamo fans will recognize him in this movie as Gune before his [[Franchise/IceAge Sid]] days.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JohnLeguizamo fans will recognize him in this movie as Gune before his [[IceAgeFranchise Sid]] days.

* TheForeignSubtitle: As the initials for ''A.E.'' were difficult to properly translate, in some places the movie was just named ''Titan'' with the following subtitles:
** ''After the Destruction of Earth'' (Portugal/Croatia) [a little wordy, but probably closer to the English title than the other two]
** ''After Our Time'' (Hungary)
** ''The New Earth'' (Poland)

* PlayingAgainstType: Nathan Lane as a villain as opposed to a comic relief character? He pulls it off better than you'd think.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This was Creator/DonBluth's only film with a soundtrack filled with contemporary rock music, which, until then, he's opposed out of fear that it'd [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece date the movie]]. He wasn't wrong, as the soundtrack definitively pins the movie in the year 2000, although the orchestral score (around an hour of it) by Graeme Revell was released in 2014.

* AllStarCast: Creator/MattDamon as Cale, Creator/DrewBarrymore as Akima, Creator/BillPullman as Captain Joseph Korso, Creator/JohnLeguizamo as Gune, Creator/JaneaneGarofalo as Stith and Creator/NathanLane as Preed, along with a couple others in smaller roles like Creator/RonPerlman as Cale's father, and rapper Tone Loc as Tek.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: While the film itself has subverted this with recent DVD releases and vanilla digital releases, you'd be hard-pressed to find digital or physical releases of the soundtrack or multitude of tie-in novels that were released to promote the movie. ''Titan A.E.'' also has the distinction of being the last animated movie to ever come out on ''UsefulNotes/LaserDisc''.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: While the film itself has subverted this with recent DVD releases and vanilla digital releases, you'd be hard-pressed to find digital or physical releases of the soundtrack or multitude of tie-in novels that were released to promote the movie. ''Titan A.E.'' also has the distinction of being the last animated movie to ever come out on [[UsefulNotes/LaserDisc]].

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: While the film itself has subverted this with recent DVD releases and vanilla digital releases, you'd be hard-pressed to find digital or physical releases of the soundtrack or multitude of tie-in novels that were released to promote the movie.

* GenreKiller: ''Titan A.E.'' is widely considered to be the film that ended UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, as the next traditionally animated films that followed were all box office failures, except for ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' and ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''. As a result, computer-animated technology, which found wide acceptance thanks to the release of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', became the norm for both film and television by the end of the decade.
** It was also one of a series of flops in the early 2000s (others being Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' and ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' and Columbia Pictures's ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'') that temporarily put the idea of animated action/adventure movies aimed at teenage boys on ice. It wasn't until the success of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' in 2018 that such movies became successful again.

* GenreKiller: ''Titan A.E.'' is widely considered to be the film that ended UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, [[WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire as]] [[WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron the]] [[WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet next]] [[WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas traditionally]] [[WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange animated]] films that followed were all box office failures, [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch with only]] [[WesternAnimation/BrotherBear two exceptions]]. As a result, computer-animated technology, which found wide acceptance thanks to the release of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', became the norm for both film and television by the end of the decade.