for decades only Disney had the special sauce when it came to animation sure
others tried to compete but they just couldn't capture the magic of hand-drawn
Disney animation but then damn it computers came along and sure with Pixar
it was like if you can't beat them buy them right but Disney can't buy every
animation studio so competitors are popping up like daisies thank buddy-boy
i like to clarify disney certainly could afford to but you know they've already
got I think more movies than they can handle
so even DreamWorks Animation is back in the game by the way and Disney thought
they killed those suckers right but DreamWorks Animation is back now part of
team Universal although Disney can take the smaller win of pushing Jeffrey
Katzenberg out of another animation studio that company the mouse has been
so cruel to Jeffrey and Jeffrey has done so much for the mouse but anyway as we
take a look at the animation slate for 2019 I just want you to keep in mind how
it went from only won one game in town to a very wide and competitive playing
field all right so now unbelievably even though we've yet to see a single teaser
for either we're getting both Toy Story 4 and frozen 2 next yeah when it rains
it pours but it's also interesting because you know boy time flies because
it seems like only yesterday right that we were wondering if we even wanted
these movies but come on resistance is futile and with these two sequels Disney
and Pixar are not only pulling out the big guns but also the safest ones in
their arsenal I am actually curious to see how they do
at the box office uh Toy Story I think everybody felt the third was like the
perfect ending so I'm curious to see what they've come up with story wise to
warrant a return although if Ken's there I'll be there and that was frozen I mean
it's just it's popular but it's not quite as popular as it once was I don't
know if maybe it took too long for them to come back with it with with a sequel
and I don't think that Olaf's frozen adventure did the brand any favors but
they're building frozen lands and theme parks across the
globe so you know Disney's heavily invested so they gotta try they gotta
try we'll see what happens now with DreamWorks Animation now that used to be
Disney's arch-nemesis but they have a new one and that's illumination
entertainment which is weird because animation fans at least in the United
States never really talked about illumination entertainment I think
because they don't want to acknowledge that what I think many feel is an
inferior studio is genuine competition for Disney picks up but if you look at
the box office it certainly is and they're also at Universal with
DreamWorks in fact with Katzenberg pushed out Chris Miller donkey reruns
both John Lasseter style and as we now know it's it's not safe for a studio to
put all their animation eggs in one basket so melon dontrey has his own big
guns in 2019 well biggish ones and the first over at illumination is the secret
life of pets to which they're hoping to turn in to another franchise for
themselves it is their most successful film out of their one single franchise
and that's despicable Me movies and those are absolutely huge I love them if
you don't like them I don't know I think maybe you just maybe you're not
admitting it it's a guilty pleasure and those movies by the way do Mad Money
overseas because of their European sensibility and also when it comes to
secret life of pets - who doesn't want more snowball right and DreamWorks
Animation now at Universal under mellowed Andris our tutelage comes
roaring back to life hopefully with one of their biggest franchises and that's
how to train your dragon now it's been five years since the last movie but
thankfully the Netflix Netflix animated series has kept interest going
theoretically theoretically I don't know if this is such a slam-dunk I don't
think that the trailer was as hot as one would suspect or had would plan for
considering how hot drew were DreamWorks is How to Train Your Dragon was back in
the day like this was like frozen level excitement and just didn't generate the
clicks with its first trailer at least then speaking of interesting here's an
interesting situation pearl studio actually used to be part of DreamWorks
Animation one of Katzenberg's last big but failed ideas and that was expansion
into China remember they were going to open up an entertainment hole like a
like a entertainment complex which would have like a movie theater all kinds of
stuff going on and also it would have they would house DreamWorks Animation's
they called it real it was I don't know why they did this oriental DreamWorks we
were like that sounds like bad branding offensive branding but that the the
division did help animate Kung Fu Panda 3 but then it's true works animation
imploded Universal sold off the stake that they acquired when they took over
DreamWorks Animation and now it's an independent animation studio called
pearl studio but anyway their first fully animated in-house movie was
developed at DreamWorks Animation so and DreamWorks Animation is sharing the
credit for this and it's called abominable and a mostly asian-american
voice cast here including agents of shields Chloe Bennet tells the story of
a group of misfits who find a young Yeti and must help it get home ET style you
can see the pitch but you know this sounds also a lot like Warner Brothers
small foot what's with animation constantly ripping it each other off
right I mean it happens in movies too live-action movies too but it happens an
awful lot in animation it's weird alright then speaking of Warner Brothers
animation they've had some genuine misses stork's was brilliant damn it I'm
still sad that we didn't do better but they've had some hits too mostly of the
lego variety they just got greedy and oversaturated their lego movies but they
took over a year-long break right and they're bringing back the brick that
started the whole build and that's the lego movie 2 with not only the original
voice cast they a new director though unfortunately Phil Lord and Chris Miller
still mixed in there but they're also they're adding current comedic sensation
Tiffany Haddish although I believe she's the alien in the first trailer and they
changed her voice so I don't understand why you would pay for Tiffany Haddish
and then change her voice like electronically I'm assuming she'll
eventually take that helmet off and sound like Tiffany Haddish
and they'll and you know Warner Brothers will get what they paid for she'll also
of course promote the movie which will be very valuable then blue sky studios
once a huge player in this field thanks to the Ice Age movies damn
has made a lot of money like wow but you know they faded it away but they refuse
to give up good for them they were just Oscar nominated for Ferdinand I'm still
haven't been able to make myself watch it even though it's an Oscar nominated
movie I know some of you said it was good a part of me just feels like they
had slots to film with the academy but just somehow it goes with animated
movies and yeah I think you can see into the future and best popular Oscar as
well right there's always maybe one or two films or you're like really in that
CAD amis like we need in five all right so their latest effort is an
incredible style action movie called spies in disguise this sounds like a
real winner basically Will Smith spawn stand in must
team up with his version of Q voiced by Tom Holland to save the day really an
amazing voice cast I don't think the blue sky studios could mess this up but
then again you know cuz it's bond Never Say Never
plus the movie is going but the movies going to be released by Disney right so
that could be interesting hopefully they'll hold it up they'll be like
welcome blue sky or they'll be like we don't want you here hahaha and bury the
competition before and you know maybe they'll sell off blue sky some of you
who thought that maybe blue sky would become their direct-to-video animation
division and I think blue skies like how dare you that's not what we're gonna
become so I'm not sure what's gonna happen over there but you know Disney
could could jettison blue sky before they even release this movie and then
this this movie would be stuck in limbo I mean Disney instead they will release
every Fox completed Fox movie but does that count for those the companies that
have distribution deals with Fox we shall see
alright then Fox also this is hustle Wow this is hilarious for our for Chris
Sanders but Fox has a live-action CGI hybrid movie also coming up from fan
favorite director Chris Sanders now if you're not familiar with Chris Sanders
and if you're into animation how could you not be but he's the guy behind lilo
and stitch he's doing really well at Disney until he got into a fight with
them over what was you know bolt it was supposed to be American dog he got
kicked off of that he left in a huff went to DreamWorks
he did how to train your dragon stuff there which of course is also you as we
were just were discussing various well that didn't even even there didn't
quite things didn't quite work out and now he's out there on his own well not
with the DreamWorks Animation but he's still at Fox and now he's back at Disney
Second Life baby and he's doing this live-action hybrid movie maybe maybe
Disney will evil stepmother right but this sounds amazing this sounds really
good so I think they should bury the hatchet and release this fantastic movie
where Harrison Ford tentatively last-last we heard they were he was in
talks for this but he would play a prospector during the Klondike Gold Rush
but the story focuses on his pack of dogs
oh that sounds so freaking good I mean maybe I could maybe actually see that
going to streaming although Harrison Ford on streaming I don't know and now
Chris Sanders would be like typical Disney BS alright so that sounds very
good to me but I although considering how alpha dude but Alpha didn't have
Harrison Ford although Harrison Ford often doesn't do well at the box office
share your thoughts on the prospects of prospects of that movie down below now
in the little leagues for 2019 there's more I told you crowd and playing field
but these aren't quite the same level of competitor we've got Sony's Angry Birds
2 & Paramount's Wonder Park which recently released a trailer but none of
these are that exciting plus MGM is trying to get into animation with a new
Addams Family that boasts a killer voiced cast I'm not kidding Oscar Isaac
Charlize Theron Chloe grace Moretz Finn wolf hard Nick Kroll Bette Midler and
recent Oscar winner Allison Janney as a reality TV host that goes up against the
family sounds good I don't like the visuals
actually aren't that much but everyone's gonna be interested in that voice cast
finally finally these movies might come out as planned
ugly dolls some real effects who has who have made movies in the past Freebirds
which was medium and then book of life which was excellent until Coco which
actually was better came along and stole its thunder and then the Playmobil movie
which I'd have to see to believe but I would be happy to see it so that's
the animation slate for 2019 as it currently stands what movies are you
definitely going to see which movies are you definitely not going to see and
what do you think of the current state of the animation industry write your
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