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It trending on Twitter as well as YouTube views seems good.

That said as pissed as I am about Aladdin, I would rather have it succeed than The Lion King

Yeah, I’m a fan of Will Smith but I know I’m going to hate his version of Genie. Robin Williams made the character so special and his constant shapeshifting provided an energy like no other. Will Smith will likely be in a human form for most of the movie.

The performance of LEGO 2 has dissuaded me somewhat as a PikaPika nut but... Detective Pikachu (Dick Pik) OW> Aladdin DOM has a very very small chance of happening.

I am just saying.

Even if they did motion capture or pure CGI in live action, it wouldn’t have worked better than in the original.

True. WW wasn’t too strong though but then again it never was expected too.

There’s also a thing to be learned by this, somethings just work better in it’s pure animated original form, and from the looks of it the Genie is one of them.

The performance of Spider-Man and Lego 2 have me a bit concerned about the animation style of Medusa and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl effecting box office. Then again in CAYOM, we’ve had a $250M grossing PG-13 animated film, and hand drawn animation is strong with both Scrooge McDuck films being #1 and #3 at the box office for animated films both DOM and WW. Pigeon used Paperman like animation and it was a monster.

Lord/Miller’s humor doesn’t translate well OS sadly.

Still it has a 4 day holiday to help next weekend.

But where? Onward and Mulan are both in early/late March and I think Trolls opens the first week of April. I can see January/February since I think either Mitchells or Peter Rabbit 2 will move as Sony has six animated films scheduled and Nimona is a question mark due to the Disney acquisition.

I saw the poster for it at my theater. Guessing we’ll get a teaser with Dragon 3.

Space Jam 2 depending on the release date can be the next Jumanji. Book it now. That’s also a smart idea for Scooby. I’m rooting for it to be big.

Besides in all the movies I’ve gotten the Shazam trailer for it kills. Shazam will likely be fine and like Dumbo benefit from the likely underperformance of the Q1 animated films. If Lego’s marketing should instill fear it’d be towards their other animated movies and maybe Detective Pikachu, but that had a great teaser.

They did the same thing for Smallfoot. I don’t get why they didn’t do it in the first place. It’s not like Sing, Coco, Frozen, Trolls or Moana suffered being marketed as musicals.

To be fair, Warner sucks at marketing family films, they always have except for a few exceptions (Lego 1 and Batman were good).

The Dragon TV show isn’t half bad and the Trollhunters franchise is great, though everything else is garbage. That’s the problem for animated sequels that Dreamworks hasn’t learned yet, the last time they had a sequel increase was with Madagascar 3. Kung Fu Panda 2/3, Penguins of Madagascar and Dragon 2 suffered from their TV series not because of quality but rather easy accessibility. Considering how expensive the movies are for families, why pay $60 for the sequel when they can watch the series at home. Croods 2, Trolls 2 and Boss Baby 2 are screwed because of this as well. Also I think the vast amount of Lego Batman and Ninjago DTV movies also hurt the franchise as well. Illumination and Pixar (and to a lesser extent WDAS, despite Ralph 2 being uneventful it increased even if barely) got it right, they waited either 3-4 years for number 2, and aggressive marketing/shorts in between, or if story problems arise wait 10-11 years and let nostalgia take its course.

Yeah, I’d just do Spider Verse 2 which has actual breakout potential first.

It’s because of the Netflix shows, they help dilute the brand, The Croods, Trolls and Boss Baby will suffer as well due it. For animated sequels do it 3-4 years or 10-11 years if you’re struggling so you can bank on nostalgia. Do a few shorts or a TV special to keep it relevant but never a TV series since it dilutes the brand. That’s why Illumination and Pixar’s sequels are mostly working.

DOM it is massive underperforming though it won’t go sub $100M (likely in the $110M-$120M range) and OS looks awful, this isn’t like Lego 1 or Batman this has an $100M budget, it needs $250M to break even. It may finish under or about the same as Smallfoot ($211m WW).

Agreed not to mention the 4 day will help give it a soft drop.

Lego 2 went from $50M to $40M to half of the first one’s OW, though I’m relived $100M DOM is alive, this still is awful.

@cayommagazine Skylanders has fallen. CEO of Endless Animation, Chris McKay has revealed the studio has cancelled the GameVerse, as well as Skylanders. McKay said the decision was hard but they weren’t passionate about the film and that they have evolved past the need for the GameVerse franchise and that the GameVerse weren’t strong animated films at all, having mixed to positive reviews, noting that hits like My Peoples, Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive and the Oscar winner Can You Imagine?, as well as the upcoming Medusa and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, the team had more fun and passion making them than the GameVerse franchise. Skylanders will be cancelled though the studio will continue to keep the rights of Spyro as they still have some interest in it but there’s no word on the other two though Endless will likely keep the rights for Crash Bandicoot. In other video game movies, Endless Animation is still in development with Super Mario Bros which will come out Holiday Y6 with Duckverse guru Mark Dindal to direct. Endless Entertainment is also coproducing Splatoon with Horizon Entertainment and it’s Animation division Tall Tales Animation for Y5. Splatoon won’t be an Endless Animation feature though or fall under the same umbrella.