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Topic: Lotsa kiddie movies in winter/spring 2014
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Mike Blakesley
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Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-12-2014 01:04 PM
After a relatively barren holiday season for kids movies, there are a bunch of them coming out in the next few months. I don't remember a time when there were so many kids' movies coming out during this time of year.
We have:
The Nut Job (Jan. 17)
Lego (Feb. 7)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (March 7)
Muppets Most Wanted (March 21)
Rio 2 (April 11)
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (June 13)
When I first heard about Lego I was surprised there hadn't been a Lego movie before since about every other toy has been movie-ized. I think Lego has the potential to be huge, providing it's good. The trailers look pretty good, although I'm not a huge fan of stop motion animation it makes sense for this movie. Looks like there will be good doses of adult-level humor in there so it'll be fun for all ages.
I'm also slightly excited about "Mr. Peabody and Sherman." I think this has the potential to be a good movie, but a marketing challenge -- how many of today's kids remember the original cartoons, which were just a side-line series in the "Bullwinkle" show? (And we all may remember how the Bullwinkle movie a few years ago did.) However, Fox is good at marketing movies during this time frame (Ice Age, the original Rio, etc.) so it could be a sleeper.
Disney, of course, will be firing on all marketing cylinders for the Muppets movie, and Fox will have a pre-sold commodity in "How to Train Your Dragon 2."
Out of all these titles, I think Rio 2 has the best grossing potential. Everybody liked the original and it will have the slight benefit of the Easter holiday.
The only one that's really questionable is "The Nut Job," but it could use the recent dearth of kiddie movies to cash in in January.
Too bad the studios don't apply this strategy to all movies and create a 12-month calendar of good quality films, as opposed to cramming all the good stuff around the holidays and summer.
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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 01-13-2014 08:34 AM
quote: Chris Slycord
The one I think will be a flop is the May animated release movie "Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return."
Should have been live action, and starring Miley Cyrus. Given that Judy Garland was allegedly high on an impressive range of illegal substances throughout the shooting of the original, it would help her reinvention along nicely!
A few years ago I sent an April fool email to a few friends and colleagues, consisting of a faked BBC News webpage reporting that a remake of Snow White was in the works, to be directed by Quentin Tarantino from a script by Bruce La Bruce. In the movie, Snow White was to be portrayed as a butch lesbian, the dwarfs were a drug gang from the hood, and the movie was to finish with a prolonged, graphic torture scene involving the wicked witch and a soldering iron. It got forwarded to various people, and had fooled dozens of victims by the time it was done. I believe that there was even a complaint letter to the Disney company...
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