Friday, July 06, 2012
The Two Top Ten Animated Features
The dominant animation studios ... still dominate.
DreamWorks Animation often gets thought of as Pixar's less-creative, less successful sibling, even though DWA has released more product and has made more money.
I've long thought that Jeffrey K.'s plan (despite denials) was to sell the studio to a hungry entertainment conglomerate, but continue running it. Unfortunately, the U.S. and world economy went into the crapper, so that plan had to be scotched.
But Plan B hasn't worked out too badly: Turn out a long string of hit films, and make money that way.
... The biggest movie of the month was Madagascar 3, which earned 176ドル.5 million during its first 23 days in theaters. On the first day of July, it eclipsed its predecessor's 180ドル.01 million total, and it's on pace to easily pass the first Madagascar's 193ドル.6 million total as well. With strong foreign numbers rolling in as well, this franchise is clearly still very healthy ...
Through nine days in theaters, Disney/Pixar's Brave grossed 121ドル.4 million. That's right in between Up (124ドル million) and WALL-E (117ドル.3 million), which shows just how consistent the Pixar brand is. The movie will cruise well past 200ドル million before the end of its run, making it the 10th Pixar movie to reach that milestone. ...
DreamWorks Animation often gets thought of as Pixar's less-creative, less successful sibling, even though DWA has released more product and has made more money.
I've long thought that Jeffrey K.'s plan (despite denials) was to sell the studio to a hungry entertainment conglomerate, but continue running it. Unfortunately, the U.S. and world economy went into the crapper, so that plan had to be scotched.
But Plan B hasn't worked out too badly: Turn out a long string of hit films, and make money that way.
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