Smallfoot | 14 SEPTEMBER 2018 | Warner Animation | About a Yeti who believes humans are real. Written by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra. Sergio Pablos (“Despicable Me”) directing. Channing Tatum, Zendaya, and Gina Rodriguez

[Morieris]

Channing's delivery is the most engaging thing about this so far. 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Started out funny, then went bland.

[YM!]

It’s the typical animated teaser. $100M can happen, the whole musical angle and Star power like Zendaya and Common but WAG’s luck with September releases isn’t good. I can still see a small chance TTG overtakes this domestically for WAG’s biggest film in 2018.

[That One Girl]

1 hour ago, YourMother said:

$100M can happen,

 

If I took a shot every time you don’t say this for any animated film, there’d be a lot of goddamn liquor left.

[Eric Duncan]

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[Eric Duncan]

 

[Morieris]

A TV spot before a full trailer?

[YM!]

1 hour ago, Morieris said:

A TV spot before a full trailer?

It’s a KCA ad. WB has been doing this with their animated movies since Storks. They did it last year with Ninjago. This year it was TTG and Smallfoot.

[Stormagden]

Apparently LeBron James stars in this. He has 36 million Instagram followers. If he uses it to promote the movie, it could do better than expected.

[MovieMan89]

There's nothing else in September and only Goosebumps in October for kids. Will probably be a PR situation at the box office. 

[WrathOfHan]

6 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

There's nothing else in September and only Goosebumps in October for kids. Will probably be a PR situation at the box office. 

Tell that to Ninjago.

[Jonwo]

6 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Tell that to Ninjago.

And Storks!

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

And Storks!

Basically, don't be a September WB animated film  

[YM!]

9 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Tell that to Ninjago.

To be fair, mixed reviews, a muddled marketing campaign and the show was still strong on Netflix.

 

But still WAG and September don’t go together, look at Ninjago, Storks or Owls. Thinking there’s a shot at PR numbers are possible, if Lebron and Zendaya come into clutch, and has decent reviews, but I’m not banking on it. A run around Storks is more likely due to Clock the week prior and Goosebumps 2 2 weeks later but I doubt it’ll make the current date.

Edited March 25, 2018 by YourMother the Edgelord

[YM!]

3 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

And Storks!

And Owls Of Gahoole!

[SLAM!]

14 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Tell that to Ninjago.

 

I personally believe that Ninjago (not as a part of the Lego brand of films but as an animated film) was something that filmgoers don't really go crazy to support. The film had an aura through the marketing that, on the storytelling scale, made it seem like the film was closer to something like Sherlock Gnomes than to something like a Pixar film. But I think Smallfoot will have a better impact because it looks like it will tell a story that potential audience members will be willing to care about. It gives me the kind of 'important story' vibe that How To Train Your Dragon gave me.

Edited March 25, 2018 by slambros

[Jonwo]

Storks IMO should have done a lot better but Ninjago deserved its numbers, it just wasn't good in comparison to previous WAG films. Smallfoot does look very promising and it does seem more in the mold of Storks. 

 

 

 

[YM!]

I’m betting TTG outdoes Smallfoot even though the latter will likely be better.

2 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

Storks IMO should have done a lot better but Ninjago deserved its numbers, it just wasn't good in comparison to previous WAG films. Smallfoot does look very promising and it does seem more in the mold of Storks. 

 

 

 

Ninjago sucked. And I was the biggest stanner.

[Morieris]

 

Maybe we'll see more at CinemaCon today.

[Eric Duncan]

"Myth-understanding"

 

"Get Yeti"

 

Kill me.