I've been pitching Elio to my 6-year-old son, and this week he vocalized exactly what you said. He can watch any Disney movie he wants at any time in our living room, and pause it to go to the bathroom. This... bummed me out.
But I agree that the animation style of the recent Pixar movies just isn't that engaging. I think it only works when there is some other "hook". Combining it with the magical realism landscape and musical numbers in Encanto, or the giant red pandas in Red, or the novelty and voice performances of the Inside Out movies.
I can't imagine that Zootopia 2 doesn't make Frozen money this fall though.
So, I have an adult daughter with autism who loves going to a movie every week, which means when there is not a variety out, we will see the same movie 10 times. Some of these movies are great, some not so much, the repeated viewing mean I actually know. Animation is expensive due to all of work that goes into it. It is beautiful though. Out of those listed Inside out, Encanto, Elemental, and Raya were great movies to repeat watch. I hope they don't stop making them the movie theaters would lose our business.
I think the big studios need to get away from putting so much capital into individual animated films, the amount each of these films cost is mind blowing. My favorite movie of 2024 was the indie animated film Flow and it cost $3.5 million and grossed $50 million worldwide. for what Elio cost to make, they could fund 30+ indie animators who would jump at the capital and exposure, and make interesting original films that people would actually like to go see.
Timed right and moreover not lost in the competition feel original animation could do ok - it’s just hard to make a hit. Like if inside Out or Up came out this summer really feel they would do ok. Encanto would have been a hit (the songs were so good and that’s 80% of that) and possibly even Raya. Wish/Soul and the rest you mention - they were not going to have great legs given their more narrow focus (although Soul was excellent). *what Sinners did as an original R rated move non-summer is astounding. The right art still deserves a movie theater.
When I taped that, I thought I was going to be reading off a teleprompter, so I didn't spend a ton of time memorizing what I had written. But then I had to do it off-book, as they say, and I wound up kind of flubbing some of it/losing the accent occasionally. But the sentient teddy bears, I think I nailed that.
It reminded me of the book from a few years back called "Strategy Strikes Back." Just a bunch of NatSec nerds using Star Wars to explain how what strategy is
I've been pitching Elio to my 6-year-old son, and this week he vocalized exactly what you said. He can watch any Disney movie he wants at any time in our living room, and pause it to go to the bathroom. This... bummed me out.
But I agree that the animation style of the recent Pixar movies just isn't that engaging. I think it only works when there is some other "hook". Combining it with the magical realism landscape and musical numbers in Encanto, or the giant red pandas in Red, or the novelty and voice performances of the Inside Out movies.
I can't imagine that Zootopia 2 doesn't make Frozen money this fall though.
I really enjoyed your interview with Daniel Drezner. I’m not a zombie fan, but this discussion got me thinking I’ve been missing out.
So, I have an adult daughter with autism who loves going to a movie every week, which means when there is not a variety out, we will see the same movie 10 times. Some of these movies are great, some not so much, the repeated viewing mean I actually know. Animation is expensive due to all of work that goes into it. It is beautiful though. Out of those listed Inside out, Encanto, Elemental, and Raya were great movies to repeat watch. I hope they don't stop making them the movie theaters would lose our business.
I think the big studios need to get away from putting so much capital into individual animated films, the amount each of these films cost is mind blowing. My favorite movie of 2024 was the indie animated film Flow and it cost $3.5 million and grossed $50 million worldwide. for what Elio cost to make, they could fund 30+ indie animators who would jump at the capital and exposure, and make interesting original films that people would actually like to go see.
Timed right and moreover not lost in the competition feel original animation could do ok - it’s just hard to make a hit. Like if inside Out or Up came out this summer really feel they would do ok. Encanto would have been a hit (the songs were so good and that’s 80% of that) and possibly even Raya. Wish/Soul and the rest you mention - they were not going to have great legs given their more narrow focus (although Soul was excellent). *what Sinners did as an original R rated move non-summer is astounding. The right art still deserves a movie theater.
OMG, I did not realize how much I needed to hear Sonny Bunch talking about sentient teddy bears lmao
When I taped that, I thought I was going to be reading off a teleprompter, so I didn't spend a ton of time memorizing what I had written. But then I had to do it off-book, as they say, and I wound up kind of flubbing some of it/losing the accent occasionally. But the sentient teddy bears, I think I nailed that.
It reminded me of the book from a few years back called "Strategy Strikes Back." Just a bunch of NatSec nerds using Star Wars to explain how what strategy is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDATXtewPrg
Time to bring back the Fleischers out of the inkwell.