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Or if they put it after as a bonus thing. "Like, stay and see the new Frozen thing!"
Additionally, Coco, with its 105-minute runtime, is already very long for an animated family movie (which usually clock around 90 minutes); attaching a 25-minute short before it means that audiences need to stay in the theatre for 130 minutes (over two hours), which is longer than most kids' attention span.
Additionally, I recall that some people complained about the Unfortunate Implications that Disney was worried that their movie with predominantly Mexican cast (and very rooted in Mexican culture) would not attract enough non-Latino viewers in the USA, so they attached a short starring their most popular characters before it.
Our first trailer for the 2D animated sequel film in the Night at the Museum series - Night At The Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again :
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again” features the voices of Joshua Bassett, Jamie Demetriou, Alice Isaaz, Gillian Jacobs, Joseph Kamal, Thomas Lennon, Zachary Levi, Akmal Saleh, Kieran Sequoia, Jack Whitehall, Bowen Yang, and Steve Zahn.
The film is directed by Matt Danner, the writers are Ray De Laurentis & Will Schifrin, the producer is Shawn Levy, and the executive producers are Emily Morris, Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe, and Michael Barnathan, with music by John Paesano.
The Original Movie is about the mischief that takes place every night at the American Museum of Natural History when the sun goes down. Nick Daley’s summer gig as night watchman at the museum is a challenging job for a high school student, but he is following in his father’s footsteps and is determined not to let him down.
Luckily, he is familiar with the museum’s ancient tablet that brings everything to life when the sun goes down and is happy to see his old friends, including Jedediah, Octavius, and Sacagawea, when he arrives. But when the maniacal ruler Kahmunrah escapes with plans to unlock the Egyptian underworld and free its Army of the Dead, it is up to Nick to stop the demented overlord and save the museum once and for all.
Mr. Clueless
That sounds incredibly unlikely and it's hard for me to imagine how anyone would think that.
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Yeah, the simple argument seems to be the right one.
Disney Channel had a schedule shuffle, Olaf got pushed off, they needed some way to release it (because it was pre-Disney+) and so they just stuck it in front of their next high profile animated movie. If Moana and Coco had been switched in the release schedule, it probably would have been put on Moana and Coco would likely have done slightly better and Moana would have done slightly worse.
Not Three Laws compliant. There's no Schedule Slip involved here. Olaf's Frozen Adventure was already scheduled to release (and aired) on ABC, a "free" over-the-air television network owned by Disney, on November 27, 2017. This press release
confirmed it was considered as early as October. No mention of Coco getting the surprise TV special at the time.
That's how I heard about it, so I was baffled learning Disney was going to shove a 22 minute special in front of a movie. Disney teased Prep & Landing, another made-for-broadcast holiday special with only a few minutes prior.
Edited by XMenMutant22 on Nov 29th 2022 at 1:38:21 PM
The Merry Monarch of Darkness
Wow, Night at the Museum revival; the nostalgia-wave deep cuts just keep coming!
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
Disasturbator
also its fully animated when previously it was live action,which is something.
New theme music also a box
The sleepiest good boi
Huh, looks like the entire cast is different here; I mean yeah, obviously Teddy was going to have to be recast but it seems to be that nobody from the other films returned, apparently Zachary Levi voices Larry here? Why wouldn't they bring back Ben Stiller, especially since it doesn't seem like Larry has too much of a role in this one so it probably wouldn't be a huge time commitment?
The rest of it looks okay though. That last Joan of Arc bit had me rolling.
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Not a cat
Maybe Ben Stiller didn't want to do it out of respect to Robin Williams?
If I had a nickel for every film where Emma Stone falls off a balcony... I'd only have two nickels, but weird that there's two of them.
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
I also cracked up at that.
Do you think Stiller would consider it disrespectful? Were he and Williams implied to be close?
Some delightfully off the cuff Muppets for you all.
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It's almost certainly just because Stiller isn't under contract anymore and they're doing this movie on the (more or less) cheap. It's way cheaper to recast everyone instead of pulling in a ton of huge actors to do voice acting for a...pretty clearly middle to low budget movie.
Edited by Zendervai on Nov 29th 2022 at 3:24:01 PM
Not Three Laws compliant.
Not a cat
Didn't think Miss Piggy would admit to wearing a wig.
The sleepiest good boi
Muppets make any interview so much better
Little weird then they're replacing Ben Stiller with Zachary Levi if it's a cost reason given Levi's a celeb too like Stiller.
heartless
I can't believe they went and made a joke about Joan of arc and fire 
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But Levi is also a lot cheaper and Stiller seems to be less and less interested in acting.
This is going to be so much fun.
To this day I am still awestruck that the museum director didn't know about the museum going alive despite the hints implying he did.
Death is a companion. We should cherish Death as we cherish Life.
Disasturbator
He's in serious denial that's what he is
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Not a cat
As much as I thought the 3rd film was an improvement of the 2nd, I disliked the reveal that the director didn't know about the museum coming to life at night (and if I remember correctly, Ricky Gervais didn't either).
It was one of those long held fan theories that the 3rd film just went and squashed flat.
If I had a nickel for every film where Emma Stone falls off a balcony... I'd only have two nickels, but weird that there's two of them.
Just in time for the company's 100th birthday, it's an all-new hand-drawn short film from Walt Disney Animation Studios featuring the critter from before the Age of Mickey: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit!
(Can you believe it's been almost 95 years since Oswald had any new cartoons?)
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Dec 1st 2022 at 9:53:08 AM
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85. He was still appearing in Universal shorts up until the late 30s.
Still, at least they're using him for something.
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
I feel if Disney had promoted it as a featurette, instead of a short (a la Mickey's Christmas Carol or The Prince And The Pauper) it might have gone over less bad.
If I had a nickel for every film where Emma Stone falls off a balcony... I'd only have two nickels, but weird that there's two of them.