The Wild Eric

I mean these animated movies love to pimp out “from the studio who brought you X”, so people are going to have at least some understanding that it’s from a studio that made movies they like. Including Wild Robot, which emphasized the How to Train Your Dragon connections in its advertising. They have stuff on Twitter where Roz is interacting with Shrek and Puss for that matter. Illumination movies love to shove Minions in the advertising, even when it’s not a Minion production. I think people do see that and go “hey, this is from the Despicable Me people. I like Despicable Me. I might watch that.” Maybe it’s not the main reason for their success, but you can’t tell me it doesn’t at least give some minor benefits. Plus if I can speak personally, when I was a kid, I knew when an animated movie was from DreamWorks. I recognized the logo. And the trailers and ads always said “from DreamWorks” or “from the people who brought you Shrek and Madagascar”. Maybe I was the only kid who paid attention to what animation studio did what, but I strongly doubt that considering how advertising and branding works.

Don’t know if I agree with that. Their non-Minion movies typically gross on par with their cash cow franchise, and they love promoting in the trailers and commercials stuff like “From the People who Brought You Despicable Me”. They even have the Minions show up in the studio logos in all the trailers and ads so people know what it’s from. I don’t think people can recognize the studio name right off the bat like they can with Pixar, but I can’t imagine Blue Sky’s Secret Life of Pets getting anywhere close to 800M

Was hoping for an F tbh. Would have been iconic

Quorum Updates Saturday Night T-15: 20.83% Awareness, 41.91% Interest Better Man T-120: 17.72% Awareness, 32.15% Interest The Monkey T-148: 26.7% Awareness, 43.1% Interest Bagman T-1: 20.99% Awareness, 38.94% Interest Final Awareness: 17% chance of 10M Horror Awareness: 27% chance of 10M Final Interest: 22% chance of 10M Horror Interest: 20% chance of 10M Megalopolis T-1: 28.09% Awareness, 37.95% Interest Final Awareness: 17% chance of 10M Medium Awareness: 25% chance of 10M Final Interest: 22% chance of 10M Medium Interest: 50% chance of 10M The Wild Robot T-1: 44.23% Awareness, 46.15% Interest Final Awareness: 77% chance of 10M, 46% chance of 20M, 25% chance of 30M Animation/Family Awareness: 83% chance of 10M, 17% chance of 20M Final Interest: 45% chance of 10M, 18% chance of 20M, 9% chance of 30M Animation/Family Interest: 82% chance of 10M, 54% chance of 20M, 18% chance of 30M Joker: Folie a Deux T-8: 70.29% Awareness, 61.13% Interest Final Awareness: 100% chance of 90M, 86% chance of 100M Tentpole Awareness: 100% chance of 100M Final Interest: 100% chance of 30M, 90% chance of 70M, 80% chance of 100M Tentpole Interest: 100% chance of 30M, 67% chance of 100M White Bird T-8: 19.2% Awareness, 36.31% Interest Final Awareness: 0% chance of 10M Low Awareness: 0% chance of 10M Final Interest: 22% chance of 10M Low Interest: 9% chance of 20M Gladiator II T-57: 41.75% Awareness, 47.94% Interest T-60 Awareness: 100% chance of 30M, 82% chance of 40M, 64% chance of 50M, 50% chance of 60M, 36% chance of 70M, 27% chance of 80M Tentpole Awareness: 100% chance of 30M, 87% chance of 40M, 62% chance of 60M, 37% chance of 70M, 25% chance of 80M T-60 Interest: 60% chance of 10M, 34% chance of 20M, 18% chance of 30M, 11% chance of 40M, 7% chance of 50M, 6% chance of 70M, 4% chance of 80M Tentpole Interest: 100% chance of 10M, 86% chance of 20M, 57% chance of 30M, 43% chance of 40M, 29% chance of 50M, 14% chance of 80M Wicked T-57: 50.07% Awareness, 50.22% Interest T-60 Awareness: 87% chance of 50M, 69% chance of 60M, 62% chance of 70M, 56% chance of 90M, 50% chance of 100M Tentpole Awareness: 100% chance of 50M, 67% chance of 60M, 33% chance of 100M T-60 Interest: 83% chance of 30M, 71% chance of 40M, 58% chance of 50M, 41% chance of 60M, 32% chance of 70M, 27% chance of 80M, 24% chance of 90M, 22% chance of 100M Tentpole Interest: 100% chance of 30M, 92% chance of 40M, 75% chance of 50M, 67% chance of 60M, 42% chance of 70M, 33% chance of 80M, 17% chance of 100M

https://thequorum.com/weekly-unaided-awareness-chart-wicked-vs-gladiator-ii-a-november-22nd-battle-is-taking-shape/

I cried like 4 or 5 times. I haven't felt so seen in a movie in a long time.

YOU FUCKING WHAT

I mean IF I understand, because it was coming out a week before Memorial Day and closer to summer weekdays. It's not like Garfield was that big a threat anyways. But yeah, Transformers should have dropped mid-August IMO

Crisis averted. Still convinced it would have done around 55M ten years ago. 45M at worst. But I'll take 35M I guess.

Moderation @Block-Busted Not sure why you're prolonging this conversation when you know that Pixar won't ever shut down, but it ends here. Do this again and you're getting a threadban.

Oh, did I say the future for non-NTC animation is rough? Never mind. It's fucking bleak. If reviews as incredible as this still aren't enough for today's braindead audiences too piss-scared to see anything but nostalgia slop, then nothing is going to do well.

What’s your fursona bb?

I mean I think it’s still a great opening considering the circumstances and will be hella profitable for both Uni and Dreamworms. I just kind of wish we were back at a time when an animated non-sequel could comfortably hit around 50M like it was nothing. It’s great something like Elemental can find its audience and earn great legs. Great for theaters too, since the more a movie plays in a theater, the more revenue the theaters get. Still, I don’t know if animated non-sequels having to survive as long as there are no other animated movies on the market is super healthy long-term.