How come their animated movies have never been as popular as Disney's?
Iron Giant was such a fluke
Probably because they started like 60 years lateImagine if they started in the 40s where things would be
>>150129759What's weird is that it didn't even have to be, WB just did a fucking shit job promoting it so it didn't make its money back until television broadcasts made it popular to rent DVDs of it years later. I heard that the recent rescreening actually made more money than its original theatrical release.
This could've been better
>>150129483The vast majority of people are retards with shitty taste in everything.Appealing to the lowest common denominator and making something of quality are mutually exclusive
People prefer soft/family-friendly
>90 million domesticallyThe only WB animation movie from the 90s that did well on theaters
>>150129483They spent so much time solely producing shorts that making an animated movie probably felt risky. Their animated movies are either Looney Tunes compilations, mediocre movies, or good ones that flopped because they weren't promoted properly.
It's a shame how it was overshadowed by other movies on November 2003
>>150129998One of the movies that overshadowed it was also a WB movie (The Matrix Revolutions)
>>150129881what about the sequel?
>>15013009270 million
>>150129483because they make shit movies
Most of their canon is nothing special and their good to great movies (Iron Giant) have some of the worst marketing in the planet.
>>150129813>He's one cell of a guythat dosn't make any sense
>>150132993>He's one cell (basic structural and functional unit of all forms of life)>of a guy (pictured in the background)>Play on "he's one HELL of a guy"Maybe you're some sort of microbiologist and this is just layman's terms? Or perhaps some sort of germanoid who cannot into wordplay?
They also lack of Studio 'style',outside Looney tunes or DC titles they mostly unrecognisable as WB product.
>>150129797WB Animation had Looney Tunes in the 40s and 50s - Yes, they should have considered doing full length feature animation but you have to remember that no other studio - besides Walt's was doing this. And for decades, no other studio seriously considered it, until Pixar.
They don't make enough of them. They need to start putting out 2-3 movies EVERY year like Disney and Universal do. And not stop even if several of them bomb in a row. That's the only way they can increase their market share
WB has no faith in any IP they own that isn't capeslop. They wanted to turn The Iron Giant into an inane toy commercial and when Brad Bird refused, they just refused to market the film on release.
