El Squibbonator

Especially since this is another sci-fi Pixar movie, so the comparisons to Lightyear are going to be a lot more obvious. I personally liked Lightyear, but I can understand why someone in the target audience might not like it. If they're working on avoiding that mistake with Elio, then hopefully this movie can at least pull an Elemental and leg it out to profitability.

I'm still not optimistic about it, though, especially if it does involve dinosaurs. For whatever reason, people seem to stay away from live-action dinosaur movies that don't have the Jurassic Park brand attached. We saw that last year with 65, and that movie had the advantage both of not coming out the same year as a Jurassic Park movie and of being very different from them in terms of genre.

So it's November now. Considering this movie is opening in June, and carrying an $85 million price tag, I'm both surprised and concerned that we haven't seen any trailers for it yet.

The question is, does this mean he's planning to sell off the company or make more acquisitions?

I disagree. Ever since the original Jurassic Park came out, there's been a distinct lack of successful dinosaur-related movies outside that franchise. The only exceptions are either kids' animated movies (like Disney's Dinosaur and the Ice Age sequels) or remakes of works that predate Jurassic Park (like Journey to the Center of the Earth and Peter Jackson's King Kong). When Kong: Skull Island was being made, the writers and director made a conscious decision to exclude the dinosaurs that are present on the island in most versions of the King Kong story. The reason? They didn't want to be accused of ripping off Jurassic World, which had come out two years previously. Instead, the MonsterVerse version of Skull Island is populated by two-legged reptilian creatures called "Skull Crawlers". In fact, 65 is the only post-Jurassic Park theatrical live-action dinosaur movie that isn't a remake or adaptation of an older work. We're supposedly getting two other dinosaur-themed movies next year. One, Flowervale Street, is supposedly coming out in May, but very little has been said about it. The other, Primitive War, is being produced by a low-budget studio in Australia.

So are we actually sure this is going to be a dinosaur movie? Or did that turn out to just be an unfounded rumor?

The Magic Coin, one of Fossil Record Studios's upcoming children's animated films to be released under its The Workshop brand, has had a change of directors. Originally scheduled for a Y10 release with Dan Walker (Molly and Emmet) directing, the movie has now been moved to Y11. The reasons for Walker's departure from the movie are unclear, but we do know the name of his replacement. Don Bluth, the veteran Disney animator responsible for such classic animated films as The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, and Anastasia, has been tapped by Fossil Record to direct The Magic Coin. At 87, Bluth is one of the oldest professional animators still active in the field, and while he has not had a theatrical film released in over two decades, he has said he is quite eager to be "back in the saddle," as he puts it. "The Magic Coin is a family film through and through, with all the heart and soul of the movies Bluth made his name with in the 1980s," says Fossil Record CEO Mark Pierce. "It's being released under our kids' label, but I don't see it as purely a kids' movie. It's got shades of The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, and even The Lord of the Rings. . . it's really something else."

I'm not entirely sure I understand how the scoring works.

Do they have to be in any particular order?

Now that we have an official synopsis, it's pretty obvious that the leak we got back in June is a hoax. That leak mentioned the protagonists traveling to Suriname to rescue a missing family, only to find out they've been lured into a trap by a criminal organization. It doesn't mention anything about the search for a miracle cure, or the "biggest of land, sea, and sky". But what are these three biggest species? Here are my guesses. Biggest in the sea: Mosasaurus, obviously. There were bigger sea reptiles in real life, but the Mosasaurus has consistently been depicted as the largest sea creature in the Jurassic Park franchise, and the leaks suggest it's going to play a big role in this movie. Biggest in the sky: Probably Quetzalcoatlus, unless they decide to use its close relative Hatzegopteryx, which might have been even bigger. Biggest on land: Hard to say. Argentinosaurus would be the logical choice, but I'm guessing that they might use Dreadnoughtus instead thanks to its association with the Jurassic World brand. Alternatively, this could be where the Spinosaurus comes in, if by "biggest dinosaur" they really just mean "biggest carnivore".

Eh, not really. If there's one thing I've learned from following the world of animation, it's that the success of anime hasn't really changed how major Hollywood studios view animation. That's not to say they don't see the potential in it-- heck, we're seeing that right now, since Warner Bros. is co-producing and distributing this movie-- but it hasn't encouraged American movie studios to make comparable movies of their own. Ideally, if this movie is successful, other animation studios like Disney and DreamWorks will look at it and say "maybe animated movies don't have to just be for kids anymore!" But I doubt that'll happen. Because this is a Japanese co-production, it's probably instead going to be dismissed as "just another anime movie", and hence irrelevant to Hollywood animation. If Warner Bros. had made this movie entirely in-house, instead of as a Japanese co-production, it might have more of an impact on the American animation scene.

No matter what Disney says, Inside Out 2 isn't the highest-grossing animated movie of all time yet. But it's close. It "just" needs $65 million more to reach the top spot. The question is, can it do that?

Sorry to double-post, but the rating has been revealed. It's PG. I'm not gonna lie-- I'm kind of disappointed. I was really looking forward to the possibility of a PG-13 animated movie.

It's looking more and more likely that Warner Bros. Games is on the short-list of assets to be sold off in order to avoid a complete breakup of the company. Microsoft-- who already bought Activision Blizzard in 2022-- has reportedly expressed interest in the subsidiary.

The problem with simply jettisoning the cable bundle is that so much of the IP associated with the cable networks is too tightly integrated into WB as a whole. Suppose they did sell off the cable networks; the shows on those networks would still be owned by WB, which would make licensing them out awkward to say the least. What would Adult Swim do without Rick and Morty, or HBO without Game of Thrones?