Didn't the second HTTYD film make more than Home?
The Road to El Dorado was kind of thin, and despite Sinbad being a worse movie, I enjoyed it a lot more. Personally, it had much more potential than El Dorado, but also blew it more.
It's kind of sad seeing where Dream Works is right now, and I hope they get out of this funk.
I have A LOT to say about a LOT of things, and NO little minded opinions will hold MY opinion back.
I want to think the creative teams want to do something along the lines of what they did pre-Shrek, but it's those sourpusses higher up that's like "hell no, we're sticking with the kiddy stuff."
Either that or people are so stupid!
Also, I was under the impression that HTTYD 2 did fine, but not as well as the first.
Actually, I just thought of something: you guys know how that under the Amblin Partners umbrella, the lighthearted movies will be released under Amblin Entertainment and the more mature stuff will be released under Dream Works Pictures?
And how DreamWorks Animation and Illumination Entertainment are basically part of Universal now?
What if they got Illumination to deal with lighthearted animated movies and DreamWorks Animation can focus on mature animated movies more in line with El Dorado, Prince of Egypt and I guess Rise of the Guardians and HTTYD?
edited 18th Dec '16 4:36:58 PM by TargetmasterJoe
From my understanding, they bought Dream Works under that idea of them being the Pixar to Illumination's Disney (and I have no idea how I finished that last part).
Either way, Dream Works has to finish their contract with Fox, which will take until 2018, I believe.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Home made almost $400 million in the box office, and no writeoffs were made, so it was not a financial flop. Trolls will be lucky if it makes the amount of money that Home did. Unless I am missing some information.
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I believe that's the idea, and it's a smart idea for Universal if they want to be a direct rival to Disney. Both Illumination Entertainment and Dream Works Animation's offering in the future look relatively interesting enough. Illumination is working on a lot of Dr. Suess books at the moment, so there is some merit to it.
I was actually expecting that there would be a Dream Works Illumination soon, but it seems like the companies want to keep separate from each other.
Mireille Soria is out as DreamWorks Animation's co-president.
Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing...
Bump.
First look at Captain Underpants.
The look and feel of the first image really does remind me of how Blue Sky handled The Peanuts Movie.
(I chuckled at the "Kneel Here" plaque on the desk.)
edited 24th Dec '16 7:01:51 PM by TargetmasterJoe
Yep. It feels as though Dream Works are being faithful to the source material.
I'm actually looking forward to this. I grew up with the books and, looking back, there's a lot of jokes I didn't get as a kid (accidentally calling the placebo effect "the placenta effect", mocking the educational system and comparing it to prison, assorted pop culture references, etc) that are right up Dream Works's alley.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?That actually looks pretty legit. I was kinda nervous that they would try to translate the Captain Underpants art-style into their own in-house style, which probably wouldn't look right.
As someone who secretly likes the Underpants books, I can say that this looks promising so far. Looking forward to the trailer.
edited 24th Dec '16 7:29:10 PM by kablammin45
"Hey, least I didn't lose all my artistic talent when I crash landed in the arena here."I notice that with some movie adaptations of children's books, they just take the basic concept and use nothing else. Dreamworks Animation has been known to do this quite a few times with films like How to Train Your Dragon, Home, and the upcoming Boss Baby if the trailers are any indication
Captain Underpants is a different story and I think I know why. Unlike most books adapted by Dreamworks Animation, this one is well known by the general public and has a huge fanbase. If they did an "In Name Only" adaptation, there would be a huge backlash. In other words, it has to resemble the source material in some way, shape or form.
edited 24th Dec '16 11:16:07 PM by DS9guy
I think as long as they managed to capture the books' art-style, then the fact that it's in CGI is irrelevant.
But anyway, let's not open that can of worms or that's all we're going to be talking about for the next several pages.
Hey, wait a minute, what about that whole bit about Mireille Soria being out as DreamWorks Animation's co-president?
We never discussed whether that was a good thing or not...
I honestly do not think many people know what to think of it. Wouldn't be shocked if it had to do with Illumination's influence.
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We can blame Hollywood all we like, and they do hold some blame, but the audience does as well. They just did not want to see the movies, but a decade later, are complaining about why traditional animation is not mainstream in theaters.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet your new CEO of DreamWorks Animation: Warner Bros.' Chris deFaria
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This could be good news, but there is some messiness to it. Warner Animation Group could be in shambles due to this (since there is only 1 out of 3 people overseeing the studio now), though I don't know if this will help Dream Works.
I have A LOT to say about a LOT of things, and NO little minded opinions will hold MY opinion back.

But then I don't get why Laika is still not making the revenue it deserves either.