WB looking to hire dreamworks Bill Damaschke to run WB animation Studio!

[gaastra]

WB looking to hire the guy who helped make kung fu panda, the croods, how to train your dragon and other dreamworks hits to fix its animated film division. Of course, this is after they treated it's animated stuff like trash for two years.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 1235321780

[Ben]

TWO years? More like ten! Or twenty…or, like, forever!

WB Animation — as in the non-DC TV and DTV stuff — hasn’t had any love, really, since Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng stopped making those compilations in the 1980s. We keep getting more modern blips, like with the original Space Jam and subsequent half-hearted push into Festure Animation in the late 90s/early 2Ks, and that weird moment when Storks was the only original property amongst that bunch of Lego movies, but it’s never been anything or consistent ever since they had Bugs grace that Family Entertainment logo (which, even then, was just plopped on a bunch of bought-in titles that they don't even own anymore).

We'll see what happens again this time around. WB has such an animation legacy if they take a proper look at it, but they need to stop just going back to the same old wells as they’re all dried up!

[Randall]

"Fix" its animated film division? Like, they have one? Hm. Yeah, it's been a real patchwork over the years. Ant Bully, Polar Express, Corpse Bride, Lego Movies, Storks, Small Foot.... All with the WB logo, but not really a unified effort to put out animated films. So, it will be interesting to see if this push for animated films coming direct from the studio will really take hold.

But I guess that's what Ben just said.

[Farerb]

They still have the upcoming Musker and Clements film - Metal Men.

[gaastra]

They have toto also if it ever will get released.