TP2000
Well-Known Member
Isn’t it a bit intellectually dishonest to lump Burbank and Emeryville together—I’m using your terminology here—while omitting the other divisions of the Walt Disney Company from your gloomy assessment? Why don’t the recent Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy films count?
I was lumping "Family Animation" into one group. That's Pixar and WDAS.
Marvel is something entirely different, with an entirely different demographic (13 to 30 year old men and a few of their very patient dates).
Avatar is, well, that's James Cameron. And he's so out there he is his own demographic, but it's basically an action/drama mega-movie for anyone 15 to 65. I even know a few folks over 65 who went to see Avatar 2, but they knew to turn their hearing aids down during the previews.
But family animation, that's something Disney built it's entire brand on. Walt got the ball rolling, but they had more financial success with it long after Walt in the 1980's, 90's and 00's. They were so successful, for a time they had two independent animation studios 400 miles apart making slightly different yet wildly successful box office movies for the same family demographic. Pixar and WDAS.
Judging on the past few years though, they've now got two independent studios 400 miles apart making nearly indistinguishable movies that continue to flop at the box office.
Elemental needs to not flop.
I'm rooting for it, if only because of Miss Catherine O'Hara, who I've been a huge fan of since Jimmy Carter was in the White House and my TV had a UHF dial that got Canadian stations because I was so close to the border.
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