DreamWorks really got lucky with Shrek
>With its perfectly timed comic beats, its hip irreverence, its surprising love story and its shiny computer-generated imagery, a combo that seems to have tickled adults' funny bones as much as children's and charmed women as much as guys, "Shrek" has some Disney executives privately worried. This week Disney unveils its animated summer rival, "Atlantis: The Lost Empire," an ambitious, PG-rated action adventure that faces stiff competition in the marketplace. "I look at Shrek and say, 'Yes, it's formidable'," admits Thomas Schumacher, the head of Disney's feature animation division. "But I also have to face 'Tomb Raider' on the same day, 'Dr. Dolittle 2' one week later and 'Cats & Dogs' after that. I'm going to get pummeled on all sides"
>>150916408And the only lesson Katzenberg learned from it was that 3D is just plain better than 2D and audiences will always fill seats for a 3D movie no matter what.
>Antz: 90 million>The Prince of Egypt: 101 million>The Road to El Dorado: 50 million>Shrek: 268 million>Spirit: 73 million>Sinbad: 26 millionDomestic box office results. I won't include Chicken Run, because that's an Aardman movie.
>DreamWorks has done even worse in traditional animation than Disney. "Sinbad" is on track to sell less than $25 million in tickets domestically, meaning that the four traditional films DreamWorks has made -- "The Prince of Egypt," "The Road to El Dorado," "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" and "Sinbad" -- will together have grossed less than the $268 million in tickets sold by DreamWorks' computer-animated "Shrek.">DreamWorks distribution chief Jim Tharp said the studio had been "preparing ourselves for disappointment over "Sinbad", but this is obviously lower than we thought." In today's world, Mr. Tharp said, "it has become difficult to make traditional animation compelling to a broad audience.">Both Mr. Katzenberg, who wasn't available to comment, and Disney officials have insisted that it is the quality of the film, not the type of animation, that audiences respond to. But with DreamWorks likely to lose $50 million or more on "Sinbad," the studio is saying enough when it comes to 2D animation: It has no other traditionally animated films in the pipeline, which is filled through 2006 with computer-animated titles like "Shrek 2," "Shark Tale", "Madagascar" and "Over the Hedge." Disney still has a few future 2D releases, including "Brother Bear" in November and "Home on the Range" next year.
imagine the stank
>>150916408... Road to El Dorado was lambasted?
Sinbad has a bad storyline
>KFP1 and HTTYD1 won a total of 10 Annie awards each. WALL-E and Toy Story 3 didn't win anyThat was a thing that happened
>>150916408Kys sharkfag
Sinbad wasn't even able to get the Annie nomination for Best Animated Feature (unlike Prince of Egypt, El Dorado and Spirit)
>>150917743>>150917982>>150918261Backshots til she poop.
>>150917679I NEED her!!
>>150918261Simbad was a really bad picture filled with the worst ticks from the Disney's 90s movies.
>>150918101you first /vt/ourist
>>150920854ough
