Exactly, I don't know where this idea that this was done by some cheap offshore outside group came from. This was done by WDAS, just in Canada. It would be no different if WDAS had their Orlando team do it, as you mentioned.
You get no quarrel from me, Canada is beautiful and has great animators working for WDAS.
I'm sorry, but after last month's results of the election, I doubt it.
I wouldn't say "if not at all". Sure it's more common for the original to be better. But I can think of plenty of sequels that are better than the first. The issue is when a sequel is far less than the original in quality. There are PLENTY of sequels that might not be as good as the original, but are very much quality films worthy of being a sequel.
Maybe I did, but you did say
So if they only come out for sequels, that means they don't to come out for original ips. So it seems easy to misunderstand.
For once, TP200 has a good point. While Marvel, LucasFilm, and 20th Century Fox will continue including LGBTQ characters in live acton movies and shows, but only for PG13 and R movies, and TV14 and TVMA TV shows and movies. And WDAS and Pixar has to get out of that which they are. Besides, not only DIsney needs to impress us Americans, they need to impress people from around the world to make profit. Which is why Lightyear and Strange World flopped at the box office. No, I'm not going to mention Wish. Wish is fine to me, despite of it's flaws. Anyway, my point is that Disney needs to respect the costumers whether we agree with them or not. Sorry, that's how business is whether we like it or not.The problem there is that this isn't my call.
The call was made by the global marketplace of Billions of consumers of Disney's family entertainment products that has already spoken on that issue in 2022-2023. And Bob heard them and is now making his teams at WDAS and Pixar listen to their customers.
Marvel and Lucas and Searchlight and 20th Century will all keep making R Rated movies with sexual themes of various sorts, no problem. I haven't heard a single person upset about that. I'm certainly not. Aside from the government censors in Muslim and Communist countries that don't allow those Burbank movies to be shown anyway, who would care???
But the issue with Walt Disney Studios and Walt Disney Animation and Pixar is settled, and Bob Iger has gone on record saying so. And once they get past Snow White this March, it should be onward and upward and back to fairly consistent profitability. It really boils down to a branding issue for specific studios aimed at the family audience globally.
As for "staying back in my day", that's mostly the gay bar scene of the Disco Era and the 80's. And you wouldn't believe the things I've seen! Some of it would need an NC-17 rating, it wouldn't even get an R. The box office would be questionable though.
This however is very subjective when talking about quality, lets use the example of Moana 2 since its recent. You may not feel its a quality film and thus isn't a worthy sequel and living up to the quality of the original. I however may disagree feeling its a quality film on its own but just falls shorts in terms of its status to the original.
That doesn't mean I was saying that the public doesn't want originals, just that they aren't taking the much risk of seeing them in theaters when they come out. Elemental, as you mentioned, is an example of an original where the public was hesitant at first, but then came out after some time.
What I gathered from your post is that you are ok with sequels only if there is a "story" to tell, and be a good story, otherwise don't make a sequel. And that was what I was commenting on, just saying the public doesn't seem to care that much about the story overall, just that they are getting to see their favorite characters again. So in that regard, cash grab or not, Disney is giving the public what they want, even if you think the quality of the story is lacking and not worthy of the original.
Disney has respect for all of its customers.
I looked it up, and the offices are in a space "previously occupied by Motion Picture Company (MPC), a major global visual effects, CGI, and animation studio that produced popular films including Watchmen, Life of Pi, The Lion King, Dumbo, Blade Runner 2049, Sully, Maleficent, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
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I looked it up, and the offices occupy a space that was "previously occupied by Motion Picture Company (MPC), a major global visual effects, CGI, and animation studio that produced popular films including Watchmen, Life of Pi, The Lion King, Dumbo, Blade Runner 2049, Sully, Maleficent, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
Disney to open new office in Yaletown in downtown Vancouver | Urbanized
Walt Disney Animation Studios is establishing its Vancouver presence at 1132 Hamilton Street in Yaletown in downtown.
Good luck! That would be awesome for you!
It closed almost two years ago.
