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kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#1: Oct 4th 2011 at 7:02:53 AM

http://blog.mipworld.com/2011/10/liveblog-sam-register-warner-bros/

Well, if you fans of animation were hoping to pitch an idea to Warner Bros., DO NOT. Sam Register, VP of Creative Development at Warner Bros., acknowledged that they will not look for any new ideas. This follows along with this generation's impulse to adapt properties that have been done before, such as most of the shows on The Hub, and Nickelodeon's action-oriented shows. For once, an animation exec pretty much bluntly stated to a public audience that they're not looking for any original content!

He makes the excuse "we're busy". Yeah, that's one of the reasons I hate vocal news instead of stuff written down, Mr. Register!

edited 4th Oct '11 7:03:42 AM by kyun

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#2: Oct 4th 2011 at 10:05:43 AM

Register has always been quite a weird guy.

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#3: Oct 4th 2011 at 10:41:12 AM

Well, there goes our hopes of getting Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs back... ;_;

RTaco Since: Jul, 2009
#4: Oct 4th 2011 at 10:43:46 AM

^ Not really. Those are existing properties, so if anything it improves their chances.

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#6: Oct 4th 2011 at 12:44:42 PM

Yep. Though, nobody knows if Register or anyone else there even remembers them!

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#8: Oct 4th 2011 at 3:44:02 PM

[up] He'd most likely just call you a basement dweller.

AnonymousUser Since: Jan, 2001
#9: Oct 4th 2011 at 3:57:13 PM

Tiny Toon Adventures was not exactly an original property to begin with.

At least he's acknowledging that keeping Looney Tunes relevant is important.

LostAnarchist Violence Is Necessary! from Neo Arcadia Itself Since: Sep, 2011
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#10: Oct 4th 2011 at 4:22:23 PM

Is it just me, or has WB just screwed themselves badly by this decision?!

More remakes can only lead to more and more failures...

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Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#11: Oct 4th 2011 at 5:44:57 PM

Cartoon Brew posted about this. Jerry Beck said Register is not to blame, because he didn't make the decision. No company is willing to risk losing millions these days.

Not all remakes lead to failures. The Pony show basically made The Hub's audience! It's what an oversaturated market of these will do.

edited 4th Oct '11 5:45:41 PM by Shota

Theoriginalblader Sloving cases one by one from Downtown Since: Feb, 2011
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#12: Oct 4th 2011 at 6:06:06 PM

I'm gonna call it. The horrible ways of animation are back at Warner bros. In other words. They dont want creative stuff over already made based products.

Edit: Damn, I didnt realize I posted Disney instead of Warner Bros. Fixed that!

edited 6th Oct '11 6:21:32 PM by Theoriginalblader

RTaco Since: Jul, 2009
#13: Oct 4th 2011 at 6:38:19 PM

Disney? But this is Warner Bros....

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#14: Oct 4th 2011 at 7:29:16 PM

[up][up][up] Remaking a pre-existing property is no guarantee of success either.

I'm curious to see how long this can hold up before everything they do becomes a horrible string of non stop regurgitations.

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#16: Oct 4th 2011 at 10:02:16 PM

[up][up] Due to a severe lack of creative (Especially new generation) animation talent and no job opportunites for them in the US, it won't be soon before long!

Is this how Western animation is going to die?! REALLY?!!

edited 4th Oct '11 10:04:14 PM by LostAnarchist

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Gray64 Since: Dec, 1969
#17: Oct 4th 2011 at 10:28:49 PM

This is not to say that original ideas could not be pitched to, say, Cartoon Network. Take Adventure Time and The Regular Show, for example; those weren't produced through WB. All Register's saying is that WB is too busy mining their vast property library to develop some up and comer's new series idea themselves. If you want to do your own heavy lifting and produce a pilot yourself, then I imagine you have a decent chance of CN looking at it.

Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#18: Oct 5th 2011 at 5:34:10 AM

There IS A LOT of creative talent in the United States. But they're all seeping into areas besides television, most independent projects, because execs won't let any of them produce anything!

LostAnarchist Violence Is Necessary! from Neo Arcadia Itself Since: Sep, 2011
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#19: Oct 5th 2011 at 8:02:11 AM

[up] Exactly. The smarter ones would be better off giving their business to European or Japanese media UNTIL America wakes up and realizes theyve been and are continuing to ruin themsleves with cush BS thinking. And not just in this one industy as a whole...

I don't suggest Canada unless they want to be stuck doing things im Flash, which majorites ssadly scoff at unless it's done right (which 95% of the time, it isn't).

edited 5th Oct '11 8:05:37 AM by LostAnarchist

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#20: Oct 5th 2011 at 10:12:20 AM

Honestly, I don't blame them. It's the current fad right now.

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#21: Oct 5th 2011 at 11:18:23 AM

[up] It won't stop being the current fad until they stop pushing it.

nabaduco Since: Oct, 2010
#22: Oct 5th 2011 at 12:33:44 PM

You need new companies to stop fads.

LostAnarchist Violence Is Necessary! from Neo Arcadia Itself Since: Sep, 2011
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#23: Oct 5th 2011 at 12:35:19 PM

[up] Is anyone going to set up a new company here in the US to challenge that? Just wondering...

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#24: Oct 5th 2011 at 12:50:11 PM

As long as these shows are good in their own right, I don't mind this.

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LostAnarchist Violence Is Necessary! from Neo Arcadia Itself Since: Sep, 2011
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#25: Oct 5th 2011 at 12:56:24 PM

[up] I know that. but when the time comes for this fad to die, they better and better not look back!

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