Why did CN fail at making theatrical movies while Nick did it right with the Rugrats and Spongebob movies?
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Why did CN fail at making theatrical movies while Nick did it right with the Rugrats and Spongebob movies?
Go look at the competing summer movies from 2002
>Go look at the competing summer movies from 2002
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For scale.
>Spiderman(Rami version) in 2nd place.
>Lilo and Stitch in at 20th.
It's not that movie was bad, it was just completely outclassed.
9/11.
No seriously, the darker direction of the movie was a tougher sell in the wake of the attacks. The scenes of the city getting wrecked really didn't help.
>Movie about little girls on theatres
Terrible move marketing wise. No kid dared to go watch this, it flopped for a reason. At least you could watch the show at the comfort of yoyr home while hiding from everyone. Should've done a Dexter or Johnny Bravo movie instead.
Dexter already had a movie, it was just made for TV.
Funny enough Dexter had a theatrical short directed by Genndy before the PPG movie.
>Johnny Bravo movie
Didn't they plan to do this next but then it got scrapped? Or was that just a myth? Well, at least he got that weird India movie for TV some years later.
I'd have loved to see what Tingblad and Co. would have made from a Johnny film.
Wasn't it a live action vehicle for The Rock where Johnny would go looking for his biological father?
It was marketed toward little girls which alienated a big chunk of the audience...but it wasn't actually made for little girls so it's not like they'd go recommend it to their friends. And anyone who didn't give a frick what people thought and went as a longtime fan of the show was rewarded with try hard 3edgy5me shit that was anathema to the reason why the show was loved in the first place
It was just a mess all over the place
boys didn't want to ask their parents to see a movie about little girls. also, tons of competition that summer
and there aren't many CN shows that would lend themselves well to self-contained theatrical movies imo. Adventure Time is maybe the only other one
Nick dominated the TV landscape for kids for the rest of the 90s and early to mid 2000s especially when SpongeBob came along.
The art didn’t sell, and I say this as a ppg fan. Compare the poster to the rug tats movie, it’s a huge difference
I'm pretty sure it's because WB was more focused on promoting Scooby Doo. CN could only really advertise it on their channel and they advertised it hard for what it was worth.
Strange sexual nude Tommy scenes.
What parent was going to pay $20 and whatever the kid ticket is, +$40 for popcorn and +$15 for drinks to see this? No kid old enough to go by themselves was going to see this.
nobody wanted a PPG movie let alone an origin story in theaters
Spongebob is a lot more marketable. Little Johnny won’t feel embarrassed to ask his mom to see the Spongebob movie, and Spongebob is something a parent can sit through without wanting to blow their brains out