New animated films and the money making of

[WebHead]

Ever since Toy Story,.. more and more Pixar type films have come out. The industry has discovered that it is very lucrative to release these types of films. They cost less to make and draw in a bigger audience. Based on this, I have a feeling the market is going to be saturated with these films very soon. So how long will it last? Is it just a fad? Or will it only get bigger over time? It seems like if they do saturate the market, people will be turned off from these types of movies and the whole experience will lose it's luster.

[+Daemon+]

they need to keep them original if they dont then it will die

[thorian]

Ever since Toy Story,.. more and more Pixar type films have come out. The industry has discovered that it is very lucrative to release these types of films. They cost less to make and draw in a bigger audience. Based on this, I have a feeling the market is going to be saturated with these films very soon. So how long will it last? Is it just a fad? Or will it only get bigger over time? It seems like if they do saturate the market, people will be turned off from these types of movies and the whole experience will lose it's luster.


Remember "Final Fantasy The Spirits Within" it almost broke Sony. And the images were just as good and a very adult storyline. People seem to think animated = little kids

then again I like anime more then a lot of crap that hollywood has produced lately. I wasent too fond of the disney releases (including Pixar) they just seem too juvinile

[Stalemate]

Anime has had an impact on North American culture, that's true, but we're still far from the popularity it enjoys in Asia or even Europe.

FF - The Spirits Within was spectacular by artistic and technological standards, but the story was so... well... "Final Fantasy-ish" that it may have alienated some viewers. Change that into some pre-digested Hollywood minimalist plotline and people will flock to it. :p


Animation in films - if not outright animated films - will keep making inroads into upcoming releases. We've seen the magic that can be done in the Matrix and LOTR series of movies.

The future can only offer us more and better on that front, to the point where it will be difficult to tell the difference between the real and the unreal in movies.

[Cleetus]

As long as the movies are good, who cares?

[WebHead]

I guess what I am saying is that these new animated films are great. I just don't want to see a great thing become saturated and diluted.

[geeksRus]

it'll get bigger...why? it seems that hollywood cant make a decent film about real subjects with real characters...they are out of touch with mainstream america. look at the last huge budget films. gladiator was a great film with good characters...since then the so-called 'historical' films have been disasters. people wont go to see just any crap because of a big budget. the CGI films are well received because they appeal to a wide audience...

[Cleetus]

mmmmm pixar quality CGI porn mmmmm

[WebHead]

mmmmm pixar quality CGI porn mmmmm

Imagine the possibilites. :eek:

[Tekboy]

mmmmm pixar quality CGI porn mmmmm
ROFL! You sure are consistent!

You just made my day, Cleetus.

If you had the money to finance it, I bet you could get filthy rich.

[Lost]

...So how long will it last? Is it just a fad? Or will it only get bigger over time? It seems like if they do saturate the market, people will be turned off from these types of movies and the whole experience will lose it's luster.

I said the same thing about two years ago when there was a flood of reality shows on the networks, and now today they have saturated the market with apprentice knockoffs to the point where there are possibly more reality shows than any other genre, to me they got dull fast but the networks are still flooded with em cause they make easy money and they'll keep pumping em out until people get tired of em and they stop making the dough, considering most of the animations are funded by the very same networks, I see them performing the same money grubbing stunt's,
they'll just keep cramming em down peoples throat's till they stop making money.

[Jediab]

Do you think that possibly one of the reasons a lot of the films lately have not made a ton of money is people wait until it comes out on video/DVD?

I know I have seen previews for a film that I wanted to see, but was unable to see it in the theater. Then I see it on DVD, and make the comment that I am glad I didnt spend money to see it in the theater.

I think some people feel less ripped off if they see a crappy movie if they spend 3 to 4 bucks for a movie (dvd/video rental), than 5 to 10 bucks for a movie (theater screening).

[Khazad]

they dropped the ball when they made FF: the spirits within. They produced the most amazing CG ever done to date, but they alienated FF fans by going with a completely sci-fi story and non ff fans would have needed somethign extremely innovative to get them to forget the FF stigma (nerd stigma). Fantasy/historical epics have been the hot ticket items the last couple of years. They should have produced a Final Fantasy movie, with a fantasy setting and storylines similar to what they put into their games and they would have had a blockbuster on their hands.

[Lost]

I think "spirits within" would have done well if they hadn't branded it as an FF, the Cg was exceptionall the story wasn't bad, but it was pitched as a movie incarnation of the series, and as the FF fans voiced, it wasn't even close.It didn't even have mogs,no kupo.

[TechZ]

Take a look, they already have a Shrek 3 and new one called Cars in the making, its a new Cash Cow, these animated movies.

[Jeff the Brit]

I suspect that Hollywood actors are beginning to get worried about their futures. Once the animators crack producing believable human characters, the real life ones will have work cheap and reliable and avoid sex and drug scandals if they want to stay in business.
What will happen when a bunch of computers can churn out films starring a resurrected Clark Gable etc ? The scriptwriters should be OK for a while, until plots and dialogue can be invented by a lump of silicon (I'm not entirely sure that isn't already the case :) )

All hail the new film industry ... virtual actors, virtual sets, virtual writers, real owners pocketing the dosh.