Disney's Frozen - Part 1

[TheIrishAvenger]

It seems like Frozen will come in second this week behind The Marked Ones, according to estimates.

Nope. #1 again with $20M (Paranormal earned $18M), it'll hit $300M domestic tomorrow.

 

[Liam_H]

Most likely Tuesday. Break is over so movies will be dropping around 70% Monday.

 

[X Knight]

glad to see Frozen's #1 this weekend!!

just shy of the $300m mark.

but I agree with Liam, it should hit that by Tues or Wed at the latest.

I'm more confident now that this could reach $350m, especially if it can string together a couple more $10m+ weekends.

Before, I said it would probably stop around $310m-$320m.

It should probably pass $310m by the end of next weekend. If it doesn't get to $350m, then I can see $330m-$340m being the final range.

 

[DACrowe]

$300 million? Woohoo! I really hope this leads to more of the classic Disney style and even a broader rejection of all animation have to be the custey self-aware DreamWorks style. However, what I really would like is if this led to more hand drawn animated films in the future.

 

[X Knight]

$300 million? Woohoo! I really hope this leads to more of the classic Disney style and even a broader rejection of all animation have to be the custey self-aware DreamWorks style. However, what I really would like is if this led to more hand drawn animated films in the future.

not quite. still need a few more days.

but I have a feeling hand drawn animation is all but dead...........

 

[terry78]

If CG keeps making this bank hand drawn will only be feasible on tv.

 

[jmc]

It's not the CG it's the story.

 

[Octoberist]

not quite. still need a few more days.

but I have a feeling hand drawn animation is all but dead...........

nothing truly dies in the world of cinema. Also, in foreign films hand drawn animation is alive and well, especially in Japan and France.

Also I think in a few years we'll get CG movies that'll mimic hand drawn animation. Like Paperman or the new Powerpuff Girls reboot (that looks amazing)

 

[Loki882]

Again, after seeing the movie, I don't think that this movie would have been nearly as effective if it WASN'T in CG. Certainly the ice visuals wouldn't have looked nearly as amazing.

 

[X Knight]

nothing truly dies in the world of cinema. Also, in foreign films hand drawn animation is alive and well, especially in Japan and France.

Also I think in a few years we'll get CG movies that'll mimic hand drawn animation. Like Paperman or the new Powerpuff Girls reboot (that looks amazing)

oh, I hope we do get some more quality, hand drawn animated feature films.

if nothing else for the variety.

 

[Spade]

Disney will have a hard time at that, since they laid off most of the 2D animators who made Paperman right after it swept awards season.

 

[Liam_H]

Lets see for the past 4 weeks Frozen has been performing ahead of Tangled by about 43%, 50%, 72%, 77%. To keep such a pace would bring the domestic total to $354M.

Hard to believe but if it keeps up its going to be passing DM2. Remains to be seen if The Nut Job is gonna slow it down.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Remember this?

But now the curtain is falling on "princess movies," which have been a part of Disney Animation's heritage since the 1937 debut of its first feature film, "Snow White." The studio's Wednesday release of "Tangled," a contemporary retelling of the Rapunzel story, will be the last fairy tale produced by Disney's animation group for the foreseeable future.

"Films and genres do run a course," said Pixar Animation Studios chief Ed Catmull, who along with director John Lasseter oversees Disney Animation. "They may come back later because someone has a fresh take on it … but we don't have any other musicals or fairy tales lined up." Indeed, Catmull and Lasseter killed two other fairy tale movies that had been in development, "The Snow Queen" and "Jack and the Beanstalk."

MGA Entertainment, the maker of Bratz dolls, knocked the toy industry's blond bombshell off her stilettos by recognizing how little girls' interests have morphed.

"You've got to go with the times," MGA Chief Executive Isaac Larian said. "You can't keep selling what the mothers and the fathers played with before. You've got to see life through their lens."

Other filmmakers have been grappling with this evolving sensibility.

Bonnie Arnold, an animation veteran who most recently produced DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon," said animated films must vie in the cineplex with effects-laden action films that a generation ago might have been considered more mature fare.

"You see elementary school kids standing in line to see 'Iron Man' or 'Transformers,' " Arnold said. "To be honest, that's who we're all competing with on some level."

Oh, how things change. I bet Disney is in a rush to find the next fairy tale princess story asap.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/21/entertainment/la-et-1121-tangled-20101121

 

[X Knight]

hopefully, Frozen doesn't have too big of a drop off next week.

if it can average about $1m per day Mon-Thurs, and then do around $15m for the weekend, that could add another $19m-$20m to its total, bringing it into the $310m-$320m range.

 

[X Knight]

Remember this?







Oh, how things change. I bet Disney is in a rush to find the next fairy tale princess story asap.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/21/entertainment/la-et-1121-tangled-20101121

yep!!

and to those naysayers I say..........

 

[Loki882]

I say, if you've got them, flaunt them. Good for you Elsa.

 

[sueb1863]

I thought the guy who voiced Mad Hatter in the animated Alice in Wonderland voiced King Candy, they sound so similar and their character designs are similar.

That's because King Candy's voice was based on Ed Wynn, who did the voice for the Mad Hatter. KC's appearance was based on Wynn as well, just like the Mad Hatter's design was.

Here's an article about Tudyk finding inspiration for King Candy from Wynn:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/giving-voice-to-an-oldtimer-20130426-2ijn4.html

Wynn died in 1966.

 

[Loki882]

Remember this?







Oh, how things change. I bet Disney is in a rush to find the next fairy tale princess story asap.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/21/entertainment/la-et-1121-tangled-20101121

Yeah but to be fair, this is a traditional fairy tale princess movie, but kind of not at the same time since they spend to entire movie subverting tropes from traditional fairy tale princess movies. So it's both classical and modern at the same time.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Yeah but to be fair, this is a traditional fairy tale princess movie, but kind of not at the same time since they spend to entire movie subverting tropes from traditional fairy tale princess movies. So it's both classical and modern at the same time.

Pretty much. It is very much like Beauty and the Beast in that regard. It works because it isn't typical, it isn't just another Princess movie.

 

[Raiden]

Pretty much. It is very much like Beauty and the Beast in that regard. It works because it isn't typical, it isn't just another Princess movie.

This describes Tangled as a princess movie as well. Both movies are pretty much developed from the same mindset of changing the traditional formula to a new retelling of the classic stories.

 

[TheVileOne]

The second Disney Renaissance has officially begun.

 

[redhawk23]

If CG keeps making this bank hand drawn will only be feasible on tv.

Has that not been the case for pretty much the last 9 years or so?

 

[Raiden]

 

[Loki882]

The second Disney Renaissance has officially begun.

No, the Disney Revival (that's what I call it) began with Princess and the Frog and continued on through Tangled. This is simply another step up. I'm really interested in the Big Hero Six movie. Disney doing a Marvel Comics animated film, sounds cool to me.

 

[Loki882]

She looks much better with her hair down.