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[DeathToWindows]

aww... poor thread

[Eug Wanker]

Chicken Little: Disney's grapple on Pixar?

I tried to start this thread a few days ago, but the database is screwed.

Anyways, Disney got a promising 40+ million bux the first weekend, so things are looking up for them. But not too far up... The reviews of Chicken Little have been quite negative. 38/99 (38%) at Rotten Tomatoes so far.

[Hawkeye_a]

I've heard that Steve is considering selling Pixar to Disney. The price of the sale will be determined by the success of this Chicken movie. i dont know how far its true, but i remember reading about it either in business week or CNN money.

I hope that never happens.

Cheers

[Eug Wanker]

I wonder how good that Cars movie is... cuz the trailers for it absolutely suck.

[gumby5647]

[scottiB]

From here:

Disney got off to a wonderful start for its G-rated computer-generated toon Chicken Little which opened to $40M over the weekend, according to final numbers. Playing in 3,654 theaters, the Zach Braff-voiced comedy averaged a stellar $10,961 per location. For the studio, it was a chance to show former partner Pixar that while it may not have the muscle yet to reach the heights of Finding Nemo or The Incredibles, which both bowed to over $70M, it is in fact ready to be a formidable player in the world of computer animation in the near future. Chicken Little beat out the $36M bow of Fox's digital toon Robots from last March, but did not reach the $47M neighborhood of the DreamWorks duo Madagascar and Shark Tale. With Veterans Day and Thanksgiving approaching, Disney is hoping for the type of longevity from Little that the studio's other recent early November family titles enjoyed reaching four to fives times their opening weekend grosses.

We'll see if the chick's got legs. I doubt it.

[olePigeon]

That chicken looks like the same kid chicken in a few of the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons. One of my favorites being when Forghorn's trying to find a place to stay for the winter, so he woos one of the hens by taking her nephew out to play.

The little chicken is a super genius. They play Hid-and-Go-Seek and instead of counting to 100, the little kid pulls out a slide rule and starts doing complicated mathematics. He then digs a hole and pulls Foghorn out.

Also, they made paper airplanes. Foghorn makes a simple dart plane. "No, NO! Kid, you gotta fold it like this, ya see?!" Then the kid makes some super fighter jet paper airplane that swoops around and then shoots down Foghorn's dart plane with machine guns. Hah.

Gods bless Chuck Jones.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

I wonder how good that Cars movie is... cuz the trailers for it absolutely suck.

I agree. It was such a disappointment. Possibly the worst Pixar movie evar.

-t

[flabasha]

Considering "The Incredibles" made 30 million MORE (70 total) on the same opening weekend last year, I don't think Jobs is sweating it.

[The Godfather]

The database is scrwing up too much lately. :grr: Anyways, my post was referring to stuff already said above: Disney will make an offer to buy Pixar from the owners, and the offer will be inversely proportional to the sucess of Chicken Little, which BTW I am going to go see in my local theater.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally Posted by flabasha

Considering "The Incredibles" made 30 million MORE (70 total) on the same opening weekend last year, I don't think Jobs is sweating it.

40 million in the first weekend is very good. The pundits were saying that if it made less than 30 it would be bad for Disney.

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by turtle777

I agree. It was such a disappointment. Possibly the worst Pixar movie evar.

-t

[Weyland-Yutani]

Originally Posted by turtle777

I agree. It was such a disappointment. Possibly the worst Pixar movie evar.

-t

I hated the Finding Nemo trailer and was really not interested in seeing the movie because of it. Then I did and laughed oh so hard.

Damn fine movie. I suspect Pixar makes better movies than trailers. I also loved the Shrek trailer, but the movie was a meh. Shrek 2 was way better.

Don't judg a book by its cover and a movie by its trailer. Reminds me of the Phantom Menace trailer. Damn that trailer promised a damn fine and exciting and interesting Star Wars movie. And we got a bloody kid going "oops". <shiver> and Jar Jar..

cheers

W-Y

[Stogieman]

Originally Posted by olePigeon

That chicken looks like the same kid chicken in a few of the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons. One of my favorites being when Forghorn's trying to find a place to stay for the winter, so he woos one of the hens by taking her nephew out to play.

The little chicken is a super genius. They play Hid-and-Go-Seek and instead of counting to 100, the little kid pulls out a slide rule and starts doing complicated mathematics. He then digs a hole and pulls Foghorn out.

Also, they made paper airplanes. Foghorn makes a simple dart plane. "No, NO! Kid, you gotta fold it like this, ya see?!" Then the kid makes some super fighter jet paper airplane that swoops around and then shoots down Foghorn's dart plane with machine guns. Hah.

Gods bless Chuck Jones.

You're right. He does look like chicken little.



Is that episode available on DVD yet?

[The Godfather]

I watched it today, in Disney Digital 3D. This was the best quality 3D movie, as my eyes were never tired of watching. The models and animation are promising, considering this is the first time the Disney staff makes a full CGI flick. For storywriting, Pixar still takes the cake.

On the other hand, I am only a 27-year-old. I have no idea what children like nowadays.

P.S. Everyone gets to keep the 3D glasses (polarized, not red-blue)

[analogika]

Originally Posted by Weyland-Yutani

I hated the Finding Nemo trailer and was really not interested in seeing the movie because of it. Then I did and laughed oh so hard.

I was going to say the same thing.

The Finding Nemo trailer completely failed to interest me, but I loved the movie (almost as much as I loved Monsters, Inc.).

The Incredibles trailer, however, was excellent. But again, it was (IMO) so far surpassed by the movie that it really didn't do it justice, either.

I'm curious to see if Pixar can pull of a car movie that I can love.

It would have to make up for my having seen "Days of Thunder" at the cinema back in the day, first, though, so that's a bit of an unfair challenge.

[hayesk]

Originally Posted by The Godfather

On the other hand, I am only a 27-year-old. I have no idea what children like nowadays.

My friend took his 5 year old daughter to see Chicken Little. A couple of observations:
- none of the kids in the theatre laughed very much
- when the musical bits came on, all the kids stopped watching and just talked to each other
- he can usually judge how well his daughter likes a movie based on how much they talk about it afterwards. He said she usually talks about movies for a couple days and tells everyone she sees about it. This time, she didn't have a thing to say after the movie was over.

Sounds like it got all the kids in the theatre with marketing, but it wasn't very good for old or young people.

[BasketofPuppies]

Originally Posted by olePigeon

That chicken looks like the same kid chicken in a few of the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons. One of my favorites being when Forghorn's trying to find a place to stay for the winter, so he woos one of the hens by taking her nephew out to play.

The little chicken is a super genius. They play Hid-and-Go-Seek and instead of counting to 100, the little kid pulls out a slide rule and starts doing complicated mathematics. He then digs a hole and pulls Foghorn out.

Also, they made paper airplanes. Foghorn makes a simple dart plane. "No, NO! Kid, you gotta fold it like this, ya see?!" Then the kid makes some super fighter jet paper airplane that swoops around and then shoots down Foghorn's dart plane with machine guns. Hah.

Gods bless Chuck Jones.

You're blessing the wrong guy. Praise Bob McKimson!

And the little chicken's name was Egghead Jr.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies

You're blessing the wrong guy. Praise Bob McKimson!

And the little chicken's name was Egghead Jr.

Oops, you're right. I'm just used to all my fravorit cartoons being Chuck's. Especially the earlier B&W ones.

"Spear and magic helmet! Spear and magic helmet!"

[driven]

Not sure if it means anything:

Review from my 8 year old daughter: "Boring"
Review from my 5 year old son: "Meh ... it was ok"
Review from my 38 year old wife: "Love it, I laughed".

I didn't see it.
My wife usually doesn't get jokes.

[wdlove]

That Grapple sounds delicious.

[driven]

Originally Posted by wdlove

That Grapple sounds delicious.

I had a "crape" on the airplane yesterday.
It was a dried up cranberry. (Like a grape, but they started with a different fruit).

Hopefully they don't extend the idea to wine. (cine ???)