Speaking as someone who worked on Princess and the Frog and was at meetings where the studio’s slate and budget were presented:
2D costs way less than CG. Treasure Planet was expensive because of all the fancy CG/2D compositing, not because it was 2D (also because of market forces and salaries and politics at the time which canNOT be assumed of all animated films; it was a Weird Time in animation). We made Frog at a tremendous discount by CG standards, and Pooh for even less. 2D is the budget option; studios are just afraid to plump for it because they think audiences won’t turn up. Better to spend $100m on a movie you think will sell some tickets, than $50m on one that you expect won’t. Also, thanks to 2D being “dead” for nigh on 20 years now, it’s really hard to fill a crew.
Killing films with bad marketing and release dates is totally a thing. It’s called ‘burying’ a film. WB did it with Cats Don’t Dance for internal political reasons. Disney moved Winnie The Pooh (2011) to come out the same weekend as the last Harry Potter; no one is that stupid by accident. FTR Marketing and Distribution are completely separate parts of the company – it’s like hiring an ad firm to market your product only the ad firm is owned by the same people as own you, and their office is across the street. In this case the ad firm was … really bad at their job? Repeatedly? (They killed Bolt this way, too, so it wasn’t just 2D.)
Why would a movie company kill off its own movies? WOULDN’T WE ALL LIKE TO KNOW.
…..has anyone seen “The Producers”? It’s basically THIS. At least the IDEA is basically this.
This has happened to me before when I was in college at a frat party. This girl comes squeezing herself in between me and my friend and throws her arms around me. “Amanda, I am so glad you decided to come!” I was so confused and just figured she was drunk and mistaked me for someone else, until I saw the panic on her face. She leaned close and whispered that a guy was following her, was certain that he had put something in her drink and if I would please play along. I looked behind her and sure enough, some creep was watching her like a hawk. We invited her to hang out with us the rest of the night and even waited until her ride showed up just to make sure she was safe. Always look out for each other!
If you ever feel scared like this just come up to me like we have been friends since kindergarten, call me any name u can come up with ill play along.
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Stay together, stay safe
Perfect advice. I’m reblogging this as a guy, because first of all, if you”re a guy : DON’T DO THAT. Don’t be that creep.
And if you’re a guy and you notice some creep is following or stalking a girl, and that she’s obviously uncomfortable or panicked, go ahead and say hi, long time no see, pretend to be her cousin, and tell her discretly you noticed there was a shady guy. Ask her if something’s wrong, if she feels unsafe, if she wants your help (very important - she may not trust you enough, no one could blame her, don’t take it personally). (and don’t you dare take advantage of the help you offered for a flirt opportunity, that would make you no better than the creep)
We can all stop “witnessing and do nothing”, and set an example.
Reblog every time because there are new stories every time.
