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Is It Really That Bad?
When it comes to infamous animated films, few are treated with quite as much revulsion as Mars Needs Moms. Based off of Bloom County creator Berkley Breathed’s storybook, brought to life by ImageMovers Digital (who created The Polar Express, that...beloved?… Christmas classic), distributed by Disney, and produced by Robert Zemeckis, the film really had the deck stacked in its favor… and yet, it quite infamously fumbled.
It released to become the 12th worst opening for any film in three thousand or more theaters, netting only $6 million on debut, and then proceeded to only gross $39 million dollars worldwide—and that’s including 3D theaters. With a budget of over $150 million, this cause a net loss of over $110 million dollars, which unsurprisingly led Disney to cut their losses and shut down ImageMovers Digital… which is what I would really rather say, but the depressing fact is that Disney nuked the studio before the movie even came out, as if they knew they had a massive bomb on their hand and wanted to punish the studio ahead of time.
As divisive as the studio’s animation was, it’s never really fun seeing an animation studio get scrapped like that. With its death, we lost some interesting film concepts, such as a remake of Yellow Submarine (which would have probably been even trippier with the motion capture animation), Roger Rabbit sequel, and a kaiju throwback film by Michael “Trick ‘r Treat” Dougherty called Calling All Robots. Say what you will about the studio’s output, but it’s genuinely a damn shame these ideas never came to fruition.
Over the years, just about every animation critic worth their salt has given this movie shit, from Mr Enter to the Nostalgia Critic, and Disney has largely seen fit to sweep this under the rug and pretend it never happened. But I can’t do that, can I? Y’all voted for me to watch this for the first time over a decade after it came out, and see if it’s really that bad. Did this movie manage to prove far better than its infamous reputation, or am I gonna have to put myself in a Martian memory extractor?
THE GOOD
Milo is actually pretty believable as a kid. I know some people find this character really annoying, or bratty, or obnoxious, but… that’s just how kids are. He’s a little bit of a shit and doesn’t understand the gravity of things he says sometimes, but he has a good heart and when it gets down to it he does all he can to save his mom. Like he’s just a child in need of harsh life lessons, typical of any fantastical family film. In a movie brimming with awful characters, he’s easily the least worst. Joan Cusack as the mom is pretty good, getting some funny line deliveries, and I’m sure she’s made someone’s list of “Hottest Animated MILFs.”
I think the core ideas behind the Martian society are really fascinating. Here we have a fascist, sexist dystopia. Every quarter of a century children are hatched, and females are passed off to nanny-robots to be raised while males are tossed down the garbage chutes to become feral, hairy wild men. The nanny-bots are programmed with the memories of abducted human women, memories which are forcibly extracted in a very fatal process. The women are then made to serve as the enforcers of the fascist regime, ruled over by an aging ruler who governs with an iron fist and doesn’t accept deviance from her desires, desires stemming from a deranged belief she is bettering society with her straw feminist viewpoints. On paper, it’s all very deep, dark, and intriguing.
The operating phrase, of course, being “on paper.”
THE BAD
Let me just get this out of the way: The animation is awkward, uncanny, and unpleasant. This is not a new or interesting observation, so I just wanted to get it over with as soon as possible, though it does feed into a few other issues, particularly the design of Ki.
Ki is just absolutely aggressively female in her design. Like, she’s pink, she has those curvy hips, she’s just really in your face about being a girl Martian. And yeah, the girls are the ones we see a lot of because of how the society is structured, but she’s so glaringly feminine it’s kind of obnoxious. Like she’s clearly given this overly polished design because she’s the beautiful, heroic lead character; other Martians do not look nearly as pleasant as she does. That’s not even getting into the obnoxious decision to have her speak in outdated hippie slang, a decision that’s about as pleasant as jamming splinters under your fingernails.
She’s not even the most annoying character, though. That would be Gribble, played by Dan Fogler, the fat dude from Fantastic Beasts. You’d think that because he was the best part of those flaccid spinoffs he’d be the best part of this movie, but you’d be absolutely wrong. He’s every annoying comic relief trope smashed into one incredibly obnoxious character, and considering almost no one else in this movie is likable at all he really sticks out as being unpleasantly annoying. It doesn’t help that the single moment they try and give him depth—when he recounts to Milo the harrowing experience of watching his mother die as her memories were extracted, so close to saving her and yet so far—is immediately followed by Ki showing up and Fortnite dancing and spitting out some more of her obnoxious slang.
And that right there really highlights what’s wrong with this movie: It is tonally inconsistent to an absurd degree. With a title like “Mars Needs Moms” and the general atmosphere of the opening as well as the marketing really lead you to believe this will be a simple, silly family comedy where a kid learns to appreciate his parents a la Jimmy Neutron. But then we get into the Martian dystopia, the explicit mass murder of moms, the grim visuals, the constant peril, and it’s pretty obvious the film wants to be serious and say something as well… all while keeping the funny wisecracking fat guy mentor, the Fortnite dancing monkey Martian men, and the pink and perky alien hippie graffiti artist who loves to talk like she just stepped out of Woodstock. It’s not impossible to handle two wildly different tones in a film, but to say this movie bungles it is an understatement; it ultimately causes the film to lack any sort of identity and just dissolves into an ugly mess of interesting ideas and confused writing that is impossible to take seriously.
IS IT REALLY THAT BAD?
The short answer? Yes, this movie is really, truly awful. But a short answer is pretty unsatisfying, isn’t it?
I was honestly, genuinely hoping going into this that the critics were wrong and maybe there was something to like here… and yeah, there were a couple of things I thought were done pretty decently, but overall the movie is just an incredibly sloppy and tonally inconsistent mess that never really settles into what it wants to be. It actually had me thinking about another movie while watching it, and that movie is The Guyver. While I’m saving a full review of that for when I bring back Michael After Midnight, the film had the same sort of wild tonal whiplash that Mars Needs Moms does, a sort of dissonance in the story where it can’t decide if it wants to be dark and edgy or lighthearted and goofy. But while I don’t think either film is particularly good, I think the fact I find The Guyver to be infinitely more valuable as a film highlights the strength of live action cinema over animation. Jarring tonal inconsistency is just so much easier to swallow when you don’t have to look at some of the ugliest animation you’ve ever seen, y’know?
Mars Needs Moms is honestly quite a bit worse than that score would suggest. This is definitely one of the worst animated movies ever made, unlike what happened with The Emoji Movie, I don’t think the overwhelming revulsion towards the film is over-exaggerated by much. Like, yes, this isn’t the worst movie in human history, nor even the worst animated movie, but the fact that it’s not only bad but bad enough to ruin an entire studio makes it kind of legendary in terms of badness. At least Sony Animation was able to put out the two best Spider-Man movies ever made after The Emoji Movie flopped; ImageMover Digital got no such second chance, and not only went under but dragged the entire motion capture animation style down with it. I think it tarnishing an entire style alongside everything else (and thus probably being partially responsible for the lack of a Tintin sequel) really seals the deal on this being a piece of shit.
I’d honestly drop this film into the low 2s at best. It’s a bottom 100 contender for sure, and it’s far worse than some of the movies on there. Gigli? This movie is way worse than that. Cats? That movie is way campier and has far funnier use of uncanny valley animation. The Room and Trolls 2? Those are both way too funny to be worse than Mars Needs Moms. Fucking Batman & Robin? That’s an actual solid movie, how is it rated lower than this? Hell, I’d even say The Emoji Movie is better, because at least it doesn’t hurt to look at.
The thing is, while I think it’s objectively awful, I can’t say I can personally muster up too much hate for it. It’s so confused tonally that it’s almost fascinating to watch. If you’re a bad movie connoisseur like I am or just generally fascinated by bombs of this magnitude, it’s worth a watch. But outside of that, this movie is just too messy to really find even a cult audience. So if you don’t fall into that weird niche of people who watch bad movies for some reason, don’t bother. You’re not really missing anything valuable.
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WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN:
There was going to be a mo-cap animated kaiju film called Calling All Robots that was to be produced by Robert Zemeckis under ImageMovers Digital and written/directed by Michael Dougherty (Trick r Treat, Krampus, Godzilla: King Of The Monsters).
But they ended up choosing Mars Needs Moms over.... this.
The premise was this —
In a world where giant monsters have been in conflict with humanity since 1958, Ray, a young boy seeking to avenge his father, seeks to become part of the giant robot program that defend humanity, even though his paternal grandfather warns him not to become bloodthirsty against the beasts. Eventually, Ray and his new friend Yuriko discover that the rise in monster attacks was manipulated by General Parker, the narcissistic General in charge of the robot program, as a means of becoming a war hero and the monsters' aggression was manipulated by tracker tags invented by Parker.
Soon, Ray and Yuriko seek out to expose Parker and allow humans and monsters to peacefully co-exist.
#Calling All Robots#godzilla#kaiju#cancelled project#michael dougherty#trick r treat#krampus#pacific rim#monsterverse
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Descriptions taken from Wikipedia.
Inside Out (2015) - Revival
The film follows the inner workings inside the mind of a young girl named Riley, who adapts to her family's relocation, as five personified emotions administer her thoughts and actions.
Mars Needs Moms (2011) - Revival
Produced by ImageMovers Digital and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It tells the story of a nine-year-old boy named Milo who sets out to save his mother on Mars after she is abducted by Martians.
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13 years ago, on November 6th, which was yesterday, Robert Zemeckis directed his favorite Christmas adaptation brought from Charles Dickens, similar to any Christmas story that has been adapted multiple times. From Mr. Magoo, to Scrooge McDuck. Since the Polar Express, here’s my cast version brought from the Motion Capture Animation from ImageMovers Digital, The Christmas Carol (2009). Cast: Ace Ventura as Ebenezer Scrooge Viktor Reznov (Call of Duty) as Bob Cratchit Dr. Clarke (Call of Duty) as Jacob Marley Harry Hart (Kingsman) as Fred Speedy (Young) (Batman: Brave and the Bold) as Tiny Tim Bea Haddington (The Christmas Candle) as Emily Cratchit Ghost of Christmas Past as himself Ghost of Christmas Present as himself Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come as himself Mario as Mr. Fezziwig Beowulf as Young Ebenezer Scrooge Wealthow (Beowulf) as Belle https://www.instagram.com/p/CkqSiBju_9e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Rating Desperate Acts of Capitalism episodes but the only criteria is how much i like them. (of course its just my opinion)
@desperate-acts-of-capitalism
1. episode 13, will.i.am
this episode is hilarious and so chaotic to me. sometimes catch myself quoting it.
2. Episode 24, Samsung Galaxy note 7.
Exploding phones. even after listening to it on repeat for what might be days by now. its still hilarious.
3. Episode 23 Arnell.
The pepsi document is only a small part of this, i have no real way to explain it but.
The orange joke at the end of it made me laugh so hard, i ended up in a coughing fit.
(i think CT should be allowed a racecar bed, as a treat.)
4. episode 9, JCPenny
The Ron johnson song is stuck in my head and the stupidity of this episode makes me love it.
5. episode 15, Fyre Festival,
this is third cause while its still hilarious to me, its just beat out by the other 2.
6. episode 8, Wework (part 2)
its wework what can i say (its ranked higher than part 1, because i heard this part first-)
7. Episode 7, Wework (part 1)
The chaos. The sheer chaos of this company, despite never looking at it myself, its so chaotic. Crawlers bit killed me.
Low down however as im scared they might bring Nutrient vape into the world
8. Episode 20, Theranos.
i end up listening to this one on repeat for hours as background noise, so as entertaining as it is
while listening to it, i still do not remember a singular thing of it apart from "broken glass blood smoothie".
9. Episode 12, Dr. Dolittle.
my sides always hurt after listening to this episode. The movie was a mess, but its hilarious to listen to.
10. Episode 14, Goop.
Hilarious, however sometimes i just forget it exists and do not remember it until i see it.
11. Episode 4, Rainforest cafe/RadioShack.
Very good to listen to while playing minecraft.
the babboon bit always gets me.
12. Episode 11, Fear factor.
Hilarious, if you can get over some of the grosser stuff.
wouldnt recommend if you have a weak stomach or get upset or animals getting hurt.
13. Episode 5 Juicero/Toys R US.
The juicero bit is hilarious and thats the most i remember because listening
to the Toys R US bit makes me sad from nostalgia.
14. Episode 2 Moviepass/McDonald's
The Moviepass part is hilarious and just, so, so stupid. would reccomend a listen to this episode specifcally.
15. Episode 1 Sears/Imagemovers Digital.
Sears part is hilarious. its number 15 because it reminded me that 'Mars needs moms' exists and now i cant forget about it.
16. Episode 17, Cats.
I dont know how to describe this one, best you just listen to it.
17. Episode 29 Google Glass (part 1)
is funny, and just weird, not much else i can say
18. Episode 30 Google glass (part 2)
same as above.
19. Episode 21 Leadership Dynamics.
From what i remember its funny, i really only remember "this here is the dicksmasher, ill let you guess what it does"
but to be fair i dont have the best memory-
20. Episode 28 Failed Warby parker clones
its funny, for some reason thought it was about mlm's at first? anyway, learned some stuff about advertising so thats fun!
21. episode 22, Disney's america
i lost it at the ww section part, whole idea of it is a shitshow.
Also made me wonder what just flavoured corn syrup would taste like.
22. Episode 16 Beenz.com
i remember laughing to it, so its funny atleast- but i cannot remember it for some reason?
23. Episode 31, John McAfee
My god its hilarious but also like beenz.com, do not remember it??
24. Episode 10, the google barge
Laughed about the cube, dont remember it though. Most likely what google wants.
25. episode 3 Cheesecake factory/blockbuster video.
Adapt or die i guess? its funny- would recommend if you want to just start off.
26. episode 6 The Oogieloves\Crystal Pepsi & New coke.
the first part is funny! but i guess kinda forgetable?
27 & 28. Episode 18/19 Tulipomania.
Funny, but a lot of info (for me personally- but again these are just my opinions)
29. Episode 27 Spider-man: Turn off the dark
cursed and hilarious, but i dont like spiderman- and dont remember much of it-
30 & 31: episode 25 & 26 Nolan Bushnell
Funny! but im putting it low on the list because they might have cursed Chuck E Cheese
and i feel like that just contributed to the hell of 2020
overall podcast is 100/10 will continue to recommend to my family and friends
#desperate acts of capitalism#podcast#rating#i cant remember half of these#cause i listen to their show when im gonna#fall asleep#or havent slept in a day#love the podcast tho
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There was going to be a terrible Yellow Submarine remake (part 1)
Hello! I was reminded of this while talking with someone and I wanted to share the horror with you if you weren’t aware of it. I need you all to suffer with me.
Yellow Submarine is an insane movie, but one I find quite good for reasons that I’ll get to, but (I don’t know how common this knowledge is) ImageMovers Digital, the studio behind Polar Express was in the early stages of remaking it when they were put out of business by the colossal failure of Mars Needs Moms. There are a lot of reasons I think that’s a bad idea.
1. They were financially stressed, and a movie full of Beatles songs using their likenesses is one of the most expensive things you could do.
2. The movie had a lot of characters with complicated textures, including curly fur, which was WAY beyond their capacity
3. The film relies very heavily on the flexibility of 2D animation, utilizing rotoscope, onion-skin drawing, and lots of forced perspective, none of which would work at all in 3D. All the gorgeous experimentation, the basis of most of the film, would just be gone.
But that’s not why I wanted to talk about it!! I wanted to talk about it because we have concept art for it, and it’s horrific. :)))
To start, I do want to note that a lot of these artists are very experienced, and the poor 2D to 3D translation isn’t necessarily their fault. Case in point, the landscapes are beautiful:
The last piece in particular is so well done, and really well composed. (Tiny Ringo uses the brightest color to be the focal point despite being so small)
But then there’s the characters...
The Beatles themselves are so lanky and disproportionate. There’s no way they could move fluidly without their joints snapping. And just... Paul’s face... no.
The creatures are the worst.
I believe these are two versions of the same creature, and while it wouldn’t be a bad design for a gritty sci-fi movie, the original looked like this
It’s a threat, but there’s still color and character to it. It’s not an Alien creature.
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anyone remember robert zemeckis? that wild son of a gun loved motion capture technology right up until he produced mars needs moms (2011) which lost 111 million dollars at the box office and caused the termination of imagemovers digital (an offshoot venture of the studio he founded) laying off 450 employees and cancelling all future motion capture endeavors
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The worst movies of all time
A bad movie might not actually be bad, it just might be that not enough people saw it when it came out. I like the movie John Carter.
(Cutthroat Island) is a 1995 adventure swashbuckler film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Robert King and Marc Norman from a story by Michael Frost Beckner, James Gorman, Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon.
Net production budget (millions) $98
Worldwide gross (millions) $18.3
Estimated loss (millions) $105
Adjusted for inflation $178
(Mars Needs Moms) 2011 American 3D computer-animated science fiction film produced by ImageMovers Digital and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
Net production budget (millions) $150
Worldwide gross (millions) $39
Estimated loss (millions) $100–144
Adjusted for inflation $115–166
Battlefield Earth (also referred to as Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000) is a 2000 American science fiction film based on the 1982 novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Net production budget (millions) $73–103
Worldwide gross (millions) $29.7
Estimated loss (millions) $73.3
Adjusted for inflation $110
(John Carter) is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Andrew Stanton, written by Stanton, Mark Andrews, and Michael Chabon, and based on A Princess of Mars (1912), the first book in the Barsoom series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I actually enjoyed this movie a lot.
Net production budget (millions) $263.7
Worldwide gross (millions) $284.1
Estimated loss (millions) $113–200
Adjusted for inflation $127–225
(The Adventures of Baron Munchausen) is a 1988 adventure fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam and starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, and Uma Thurman. The film is based on the tall tales about the 18th-century German nobleman Baron Munchausen and his wartime exploits against the Ottoman Empire.
Net production budget (millions) $46.6
Worldwide gross (millions) $8.1
Estimated loss (millions) $38.5
Adjusted for inflation $84
(The Adventures of Pluto Nash) is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Eddie Murphy (in a dual role), Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier, and John Cleese.
Net production budget (millions) $100
Worldwide gross (millions) $7.1
Estimated loss (millions) $96
Adjusted for inflation $138
(The Alamo) is a 2004 American war drama film about the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. The picture was directed by John Lee Hancock, produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Mark Johnson, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures (through its Touchstone Pictures banner), The screenplay is credited to Hancock, John Sayles, Stephen Gaghan, and Leslie Bohem. Starring Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston, Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett, Jason Patric as Jim Bowie, and Patrick Wilson as William B. Travis.
Net production budget (millions) $107
Worldwide gross (millions) $25.8
Estimated loss (millions) $94
Adjusted for inflation $129
(Dudley Do-Right) is a 1999 American slapstick comedy film written and directed by Hugh Wilson, based on Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right, produced by Davis Entertainment for Universal Studios. It stars Brendan Fraser from the Mummy franchise.
Net production budget (millions) $70
Worldwide gross (millions) $10
Estimated loss (millions) $65
Adjusted for inflation $101
(The Fall of the Roman Empire) is a 1964 American epic film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston, with a screenplay by Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina and Philip Yordan. The film stars Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Mel Ferrer, and Omar Sharif.
Net production budget (millions) $18.4
Worldwide gross (millions) $4.8
Estimated loss (millions) $14.3
Adjusted for inflation $119
(Doctor Dolittle) (also known as Dr. Dolittle) is a 1967 American musical comedy film directed by Richard Fleischer. It was adapted by Leslie Bricusse from the book series by Hugh Lofting. The screenplay fuses three of the books, The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922), and Doctor Dolittle's Circus (1924). It starred Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Rex Harrison, and Richard Attenborough.
Net production budget (millions) $17
Worldwide gross (millions) $9
Estimated loss (millions) $10.8
Adjusted for inflation $84
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The company distributes all the films of Walt Disney and its subsidiaries (Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, DisneyToon Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, ABC Studios, Patagonik Film Group (Argentina), Miramax Films, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios , Lucasfilm, Disneynature, Studio Ghibli, The Muppets Studio, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Digital ImageMovers) and also independent companies related to this as Spyglass Entertainment, Mandeville Films, The Jim Henson Company.
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The Artists Win! Disney, Pixar, and Lucasfilm To Pay $100 Million in Wage-Theft Lawsuit
“They said it couldn’t be done, but it looks like the animation workers have prevailed over Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, and Lucasfilm, who have agreed to a settlement of $100 million in the ongoing class action lawsuit involving wage theft and antitrust claims. Two Pic MC (formerly Imagemovers Digital) will also be part of this settlement. (...)”
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Hey everyone!
I'm recycling the Animal Crossing Tourney side blog for Disney now, so it's had a bit of a makeover.
So here are the movies I'm thinking of doing. I'll add notes for the questionable ones. Please let me know if there are any you want me to remove or add.
Some notes to start off with:
- There are four groups: Golden to Bronze, Dark Ages to Renaissance, Post-Ren, and Revival
- They're ranked by how they're rated on IMDB
- I only have the first film of each franchise included
- Only fully animated films are included (old school and CGI.) So the part live action, part animated films were left out. (But if anyone really wants them added, I'll go back and include them. Mostly did it like this so I wouldn't have to do Song of the South 😬 since I think that's mixed)
Golden to Bronze:
(1) Fantasia
(2) Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, The Jungle Book
(3) Pinocchio, Robin Hood, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
(4) Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady & the Tramp
(5) Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty
(6) The Sword & the Stone, The Aristocats
(7) The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad*, The Rescuers
(8) Victory Through Air Power*
(9) Make Mine Music*
*I haven't actually seen any of these, but they're old Disney films
Dark Ages to Renaissance:
(1) The Lion King
(2) Toy Story
(3) Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin
(4) The Nightmare Before Christmas*
(5) The Little Mermaid, Mulan
(6) The Brave Little Toaster*, Hercules, Tarzan
(7) The Fox & the Hound, A Bug's Life
(8) The Great Mouse Detective
(9) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(10) A Goofy Movie
(11) Pocahontas
(12) Oliver & Company
(13) The Black Cauldron
*The Nightmare Before Christmas - Tim Burton was working for Disney at the time. Film was released through Touchstone Pictures (owned by Disney) due to concerns it was too scary for kids. It's also been reissued under Walt Disney Pictures.
*The Brave Little Toaster - Original Pixar members were involved. Walt Disney Studios got rights to the book in 1982.
Post-Ren:
(1) WALL-E
(2) Finding Nemo
(3) Monsters, Inc., Ratatouille
(4) The Incredibles
(5) The Emperor's New Groove
(6) Lilo & Stitch
(7) Treasure Planet, Cars
(8) Atlantis: The Lost Empire
(9) Brother Bear, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt
(10) Paris 2054: Renaissance*
(11) Dinosaur
(12) Chicken Little
(13) Home on the Range
(14) The Wild
(15) Roadside Romeo*
*Paris 2054: Renaissance - Released by MiraMax when they were under Disney. Disney provided some funding. Personally I'm iffy on this one since it doesn't feel very Disney, and it's rated R.
*Roadside Romeo - Produced by Walt Disney Pictures India, Yash Raj Films, and Disney World Cinema. Distributed by Walt Disney Motion Pictures.
Revival:
(1) Coco
(2) Up
(3) Inside Out
(4) Zootopia, Soul
(5) Big Hero 6
(6) Tangled
(7) Moana
(8) Frozen, Onward, Luca
(9) Raya & the Dragon
(10) Encanto
(11) The Princess & The Frog, Brave
(12) Ron's Gone Wrong*, Turning Red
(13) Frankenweenie
(14) A Christmas Carol*, Arjun: The Warrior Prince*
(15) The Good Dinosaur
(16) Gnomeo & Juliet*
(17) Strange Magic*
(18) Strange World
(19) Mars Needs Moms*
(20) Elemental*, Wish*, Elio*
*Ron's Gone Wrong - Released by 20th Century Studios after being acquired by Disney. The soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records.
*A Christmas Carol & Mars Needs Moms - Produced by ImageMovers Digital, a joint venture animation company by ImageMovers & The Walt Disney Company. Released by Walt Disney Pictures.
*Arjun: The Warrior Prince - Produced by Walt Disney Pictures & UTV Motion Pictures.
*Gnomeo & Juliet - Produced by Touchstone Pictures (owned by Disney), Rocket Pictures (parent company is Lucasfilm which is now part of Walt Disney Studios - look at that chain~), & Starz Animation. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
*Strange Magic - Produced by multiple Lucasfilm companies (under Disney), & Touchstone Pictures (owned by Disney.) Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
*Elemental, Wish, & Elio - To be released 6/16/23, 11/22/23, & 3/2024, respectively. Elemental & Elio are both Pixar, & Wish is Walt Disney Animation Studios.
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A Christmas Carol (2009)
Animation, Drama, Family |
A Christmas Carol is a American 3D computer-animated fantasy film written and directed by Robert Zemeckis. It is a film adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1843 story of the same name and stars Jim Carrey in a multitude of roles, including Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts who haunt Scrooge.
The film also features a supporting cast consisting of Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright and Cary Elwes. Produced through the process of motion capture, a technique Zemeckis used in his previous films The Polar Express (2004) and Beowulf (2007), it is Disney’s third feature film retelling of A Christmas Carol, following 1983’s Mickey’s Christmas Carol and 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol. It is also the first of only two films produced by ImageMovers Digital, followed by Mars Needs Moms (2011).
In 1843, on Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old businessman, does not share the merriment of Christmas. He declines his cheerful nephew Fred’s invitation to a Christmas dinner party, and rejects two gentlemen’s offer to collect money for charity. His loyal employee Bob Cratchit asks Scrooge to allow him to have a day off on Christmas Day to spend time with his family, to which Scrooge reluctantly agrees before leaving. In his house, Scrooge encounters the ghost of his deceased business partner Jacob Marley, who warns him to repent his wicked ways or he will be condemned in the afterlife like he was, carrying heavy chains forged from his own greediness. Jacob informs Scrooge that he will be haunted by three spirits, who will guide him out of his misery.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Charles Dickens (based on the classic story by), Robert Zemeckis (written for the screen by)
Stars: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Steve Valentine, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright, Cary Elwes
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Jim Carrey…Scrooge / Ghost of Christmas Past / Scrooge as a Young Boy / Scrooge as a Teenage Boy / Scrooge as a Young Man / Scrooge as a Middle Aged Man / Ghost of Christmas Present / Ghost of Christmas Yet to ComeSteve Valentine…Funerary Undertaker / TopperDaryl Sabara…Undertaker’s Apprentice / Tattered Caroler / Beggar Boy / Peter Cratchit / Well Dressed CarolerSage Ryan…Tattered CarolerAmber Gainey Meade…Tattered Caroler / Well Dressed CarolerRyan Ochoa…Tattered Caroler / Beggar Boy / Young Cratchit Boy / Ignorance Boy / Young Boy with SleighBobbi Page…Tattered Caroler / Well Dressed CarolerRon Bottitta…Tattered Caroler / Well Dressed CarolerSammi Hanratty…Beggar Boy / Young Cratchit Girl / Want GirlJulian Holloway…Fat Cook / Portly Gentleman #2 / Business Man #3Gary Oldman…Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny TimColin Firth…FredCary Elwes…Portly Gentleman #1 / Dick Wilkins / Mad Fiddler / Guest #2 / Business Man #1Robin Wright…Fan / Belle (as Robin Wright Penn)Bob Hoskins…Fezziwig / Old JoeJacquie Barnbrook…Mrs. Fezziwig / Fred’s Sister-In-Law / Well Dressed CarolerLesley Manville…Mrs. CratchitMolly C. Quinn…Belinda Cratchit (as Molly Quinn)Fay Masterson…Martha Cratchit / Guest #1 / CarolineLeslie Zemeckis…Fred’s WifePaul Blackthorne…Guest #3 / Business Man #2Michael Hyland…Guest #4Kerry Hoyt…Adult IgnoranceJulene Renee…Adult WantFionnula Flanagan…Mrs. DilberRaymond Ochoa…Caroline’s ChildCallum Blue…Caroline’s HusbandMatthew Henerson…PoultererAaron Rapke…Well Dressed CarolerSonje Fortag…Well Dressed Caroler / Fred’s HousemaidAliane Baquerot…DancerSeth Belliston…DancerTroy Edward Bowles…DancerSam J. Cahn…DancerKelly Connolly…DancerJohn R. Corella…Dancer (as John Corella)Kelly Crandall…DancerSheri Griffith…DancerBeckie King…DancerKeith Kuhl…Dancer (as Keith Kühl)Allison Leo…DancerTarah Paige…DancerJohn Todd…Dancer (as John J. Todd)Patrick Wetzel…DancerEva La Dare…Dancer (as Karen Dyer)Andreas Beckett…CaptureJacquelyn Dowsett…DancerSuzanne C. Robertson…Belle / Fan / Tiny Tim / Cratchit Children Skin Texture Reference
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Animation Workers Set To Receive $170 Million Payout From Wage-Theft Lawsuit
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/animation-workers-set-to-receive-170-million-payout-from-wage-theft-lawsuit-161482.html
I saw this news a few days ago, and I shocked me because of what people's perception of the Animation industry is not sync with the reality. Where people think that people who worked in the animation industry are mostly gained so much money, but in reality what I know is that some of them worked 70-80 hour a week, especially the recent graduates, they have to be an unpaid intern in order to get the position. Even though it is not always be the case, but for most of animator, they worked contract to contract, which means no permanent jobs, means no benefits.
The news is talking about how most animation workers who were employed at The Walt Disney Company/Pixar/Lucasfilm/Imagemovers Digital between 2004 and 2010 did not receive their part of the settlement, and only now they are agree to distribute them to the artists. These are the best DREAM companies that people are want to be a part of, and that must have been great for the animators in this case when they know that they got the job, they signed the contract, yet they had no idea what was coming from their dream company.
In his blog post, “Why You Shouldn’t Want A Job In Animation”, Finn outlined the distinction between a ‘job’ and a ‘career’ in animation:
[T]o me a job is something you depend on from an employer. It’s theirs to give and theirs to take away… A career is something I have to be responsible for based on my reputation, my ability, and my preferences. I don’t expect much beyond what I invoiced for last week, and I keep tabs on whatever’s coming up—staying in touch with long-term contacts and making new ones almost constantly. I try to keep at least one ‘Plan B’ in mind at all times. And that’s fine. A career is like a life: mine to tend, mine to succeed or fail at, mine to take credit and blame for, mine to earn. I would not have it any other way.
In the blog post, Finn recounts his childhood dream of working “cradle to grave” as an animator at Walt Disney Studios—a dream that was comprehensively shattered by the reality of “barely nine months” spent as a 20-year-old at Disney, working on The Fox and the Hound, getting caught up in backstage politics, running afoul of higher-ups, and producing work that was, by his own account, “substandard even for a newbie”.
We as the students pursuing this career and obviously will make a living out this industry, yet I have seen a scandal of animators did not get paid, they did not get credit for their works, or they don’t get enough time to socialize because of the high demands the industry has, and it has been going from the very first strike of Disney animation studio in the early 1930 because of the load of their work.
I am hoping that us as the future of this industry will be wise to pick and choose where do we want our work to be seen at. Be wise in the job searching, and do some research about the company work environment.
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