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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by EricJ » January 27th, 2015, 12:32 am

Dacey wrote:To clarify, I'm not implying that Boss Baby is a surefire flop. The concept is fun and easy to sell, and Kevin Spacey is popular right now. We also haven't seen any footage from the film, so a bit early to call it "bad." ;)
It is, however, easy to go on the assumption that most people won't even be aware it was a children's picture-book at Barnes & Noble that was grabbed on its easy concept and title by animation execs that needed an idea--They'll more likely look at the character and think it was DWA's cheap lame imitation of Stewie Griffin.
Whether they'll be wrong is also another question.

(Which sort of emphasizes DWA's elephant in the room that that keeps trampling their other plans:
It's not that we don't like their movies for reasons of marketing, date, industry competition, changing trends, etc., saturating more than one movie a year, or whatever reason JK gives this week...It's that we don't like them PERSONALLY.
Because the studio makes itself so very, very easy to dislike, and it becomes sort of naturally and automatically instinctive for the audience after a while.)

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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by Ben » January 27th, 2015, 7:05 am

And Spacey is popular again right now...but in another couple of years...? ;)

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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by ShyViolet » January 27th, 2015, 10:54 am

As much as I LOVE KFP and Dragon, I think both franchises will, as Ben said, more or less run their course by the time the new sequels come out. Franchises can be great but enough is enough. They need new, original stories and characters. Shrek was great but by now is GONE. They need another "Shrek" so to speak, meaning a new original film/character that will break the DWA mold and set a new tone for the oncoming years. I really, really don't want to see DWA go down. It would of course be horrible for everyone concerned (of course the staff has it the worst of all. :( )

If they really do go bankrupt they will be vulnerable to someone buying them and selling off their characters. As awful as it would be for JK I still think Disney is the safest haven for keeping the characters alive. At least they would all belong to the same company.
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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by ShyViolet » January 28th, 2015, 9:53 am

You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!

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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by droosan » January 28th, 2015, 12:00 pm

I know the movie has been removed from DW's schedule .. but given that it's had a bunch of money spent on it already (and yesterday's Ghostbusters news), I wonder if B.O.O. might be easily 're-tooled' into a Casper the Friendly Ghost vehicle :?:

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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by Ben » January 28th, 2015, 4:40 pm

Hmmm...it could look like a desperate play, but at least finally they'd be doing something 'synergenistic' (haha) with one of their biggest acquired properties. Kind of begs the question, though, that if you had such a character on the books and then started developing a comedy ghost picture, shouldn't have there been some kind of connection made already?

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Post by EricJ » January 28th, 2015, 6:31 pm

Ben wrote:Hmmm...it could look like a desperate play, but at least finally they'd be doing something 'synergenistic' (haha) with one of their biggest acquired properties. Kind of begs the question, though, that if you had such a character on the books and then started developing a comedy ghost picture, shouldn't have there been some kind of connection made already?
You get to pick on me so much for slightest personal-grudge nitpick, do I get to pick on you for not knowing what "Begs the question" means? ;)

Not sure how much of Casper Classic Media owns--Harvey Entertainment was responsible for a lot of the cheesy CGI direct-videos after the 90's movie, and Classic Media's name was on the "Scare School" video, but there were other rights that kept them from using the theme on the videos of the old cartoon releases.
In this case, though, I'd put it down to JK thinking he was ripping off better movies, and if he even knew he owned Casper, that didn't mean he had to like him.
(Mainframe's "Casper's Haunted Christmas" was pretty Cartoon Network-level anger-management snotty on the pop-kitsch deconstruction jokes, and I can't imagine DWA's jokes would be any more subtle.)

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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by ShyViolet » January 29th, 2015, 1:22 pm

You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!

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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by ShyViolet » February 4th, 2015, 8:07 pm

You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!

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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by ShyViolet » February 13th, 2015, 9:54 am

DWA spends 1 million on Oscar campaign for Dragon 2:

http://www.thestreet.mobi/story/1304541 ... gon-2.html
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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by ShyViolet » February 17th, 2015, 9:31 am

How DWA beat sequelitis and made it to the Oscars:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dadehayes/2 ... he-oscars/
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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by Ben » February 17th, 2015, 5:23 pm

In the 15 years since the Best Animated Feature category was created in 2000 to accommodate the boom in innovative animated fare, five sequels have made the nomination cut, which attests to the conversely strong quality of overall output.
Or plainly makes clear that in some years there have been so few films that they have no other option than to nominate films that happen to be follow ups.
it seems timely to take a closer look at Dragon 2, the year’s top-grossing animated film on a worldwide basis ($619 million to Big Hero 6‘s $521 million)
Or $619m to a film that's still in general release and with several worldwide markets still to go.

Not to poo on DreamWorks' party, but this is so obviously a favorable publicity piece for them and not an unbiased editorial.

As something of a balance, the 2013 piece underneath it, marking 15 Years of the company and its output, is very good.

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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by ShyViolet » February 24th, 2015, 12:31 pm

DWA in an ever more desperate state:

http://www.thestreet.mobi/story/1305636 ... -butt.html
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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by Dacey » February 24th, 2015, 1:02 pm

Still struggling with the loss? They lost only two days ago!
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Re: Will Disney buy DWA?

Post by ShyViolet » February 24th, 2015, 7:00 pm

I'm not sure I understand this. So they're selling off their main studio (Glendale)? The article doesn't explain. :?

http://deadline.com/2015/02/dreamworks- ... 201380687/

Here's more from Variety:

http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/dreamw ... 201440532/

EDIT: got it, they're selling the space, then leasing it back. Wow. :shock:

Hollywood Reporter: 57 million write down for Penguins:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/d ... ite-777474
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