Thoughts on the animation movies by DreamWorks before the release of Shrek?
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Thoughts on the animation movies by DreamWorks before the release of Shrek?
chicken run isn't dreamworks
It did have DreamWorks people on the story artists department (where most of the writing/gags come from)
Elaborate, good morning sirs?
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Two good movies, two mid-movies, and then there's Chicken Run which was a videotaped abortion.
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What is that supposed to mean?
>auschwitz imagery
jeeeeeeez
I liked Antz when I saw it. I know it's a rushed mock buster of A Bug's Life but it user harsher language, has more mature themes, and speaks to my cynical Xennial soul. It perfectly set the stage for the kind of movie Shrek was going to be too. If Pixar was Hulkamania WWF, DreamWorks was nWo WCW.
>Rushed mockbuster of Bug's life
Other way around, newbie.
>At the time, the current Disney studio executives were starting a bitter competitive rivalry with Jeffrey Katzenberg and his new DreamWorks films. In 1995, Katzenberg announced The Prince of Egypt to debut in November 1998 as DreamWorks' first animated release. A year later, Disney scheduled Bugs to open on the same weekend, which infuriated Katzenberg. Katzenberg invited Disney executives to DreamWorks to negotiate a release date change for Bugs, but the company refused to budge. DreamWorks pushed Prince of Egypt to the Christmas season and the studio had decided not to begin full marketing for Antz until after Prince of Egypt was released. Disney afterward announced release dates for films that were going to compete with The Prince of Egypt, and both studios had to compete with Paramount Pictures, which was releasing The Rugrats Movie in November, based on Nickelodeon's animated series Rugrats. Katzenberg suddenly moved the opening of Antz from March 1999 to October 1998, in order to successfully beat A Bug's Life into cinemas.
>David Price writes in his 2008 book The Pixar Touch that a rumor, "never confirmed", was that Katzenberg had given PDI "rich financial incentives to induce them to whatever it would take to have Antz ready first, despite Pixar's head start". Jobs furiously called Katzenberg to explain that there was nothing he could do to convince Disney to change the date. Katzenberg said to him that Jobs himself had taught him how to conduct similar business long ago, explaining that Jobs had come to Pixar's rescue from near bankruptcy by making the deal for Toy Story with Disney. He flat-out told Jobs that he had enough power with Disney to convince them to change specific plans on their films. Lasseter also claimed Katzenberg had phoned him with a final proposition to delay Antz if Disney and Pixar changed the date of A Bug's Life, but Katzenberg vehemently denied this. Jobs believed it was "a blatant extortion attempt".[
I didn't know Joseph King of Dreams was a movie. If I loved Prince of Egypt will I like King of Dreams?
>stopmotion movie
>traditional animation
>cgi
one thing DreamWorks had over Disney was its films using different mediums for their films.
>Nightmare Before Christmas/James and the Giant Peach
>Toy Story/A Bug's Life
>Renaissance movies
Disney wasn't any different in the 90s.
>Nightmare Before Christmas/James and the Giant Peach
Not really disney
Imagine if Katzenberg stayed at Disney after 1994. DreamWorks wouldn't exist.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/23/business/now-playing-disney-in-turmoil.html
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Antz was a decent hit, but it didn't even approach the numbers of the previous CGI movie (Toy Story) or the next one (its direct competitor, A Bug's Life)
The Prince of Egypt was a hit, but not the extent which they expected. It became the highest grossing 2D movie not made by Disney, but it still failed to reach the high numbers of the Renaissance movies (it couldn't even surpass Hercules, which was considered a dissapointment by Disney)
The Road to El Dorado was a failure. Only 75 million worldwide. DreamWorks was left shocked.
Chicken Run was a big hit, becoming the highest grossing stop motion movie ever to this day. It also did much better than previous stop motion movies (like Nightmare Before Christmas or James and the Giant Peach)
Shrek was a blockbuster that changed the industry. It became the highest grossing animation movie since The Lion King (not counting Toy Story 2, which was a hyped sequel) and ended up as the 4th highest grossing movie from 2001.
My family owned a dvd of El Dorado, I loved it. A sequel would be nice
i loved them, shrek certainly ruined that studio