Re: Toon Dies, Man Kills (whatif?)

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Re: Toon Dies, Man Kills

Posted on: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:25:35 -0500

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Lee Ratner wrote:

> On Jan 31, 1:26 am, The Black Marvel wrote:
> >
> >
> > In a freak accident at home, Don Bluth is bitten on the hand by a rat
> > carrying rabies. Bluth is busy dealing with the impending bankruptcy
> > of his self-titled production company, and so fails to notice the
> > symptoms until it's too late: Bluth dies of rabies. Don Bluth
> > Productions falls apart and is never revived.

If the POD is 1984, then we've already gotten Bluth's 1982 _Secret of
NIMH_. Combine this with the fact that American Tail was a Spielberg
production and he really wanted to get into animation, and I can't see
the project dying. Someone else will come in to save it, or Spielberg
teams up with WB for a feature film (as later happened for Tiny Toons
on TV)

> > Disney picks up a few of
> > his subordinates, but ultimately most seek opportunities elsewhere.
> > _Cauldron_ fails, as in OTL, and with no then-profitable American
> > animation studios Eisner and Katzenberg make the fateful decision to
> > shutter Disney's animation studio in 1986.
> >
> > The most successful American-produced animated film of the late 1980s
> > is..._Transformers: The Movie_
>
> How does the effect TV animation? TV animation was still going
> rather strong in the mid-1980s and presumably would still be produced
> by Hanna-Barbara and other companies. Disney had more than a few
> animated hits on tv around this time like Ducktales and Gummi Bears.
> Does Disney killing its animated studio mean that it kills its
> animated films to or is it killing everything? Maybe Pixar goes into
> the TV animated show business in this ATL.
>
Disney would be a fool to kill their TV animation. Maybe we'd see them
move from theatrical releases to direct to video much earlier. If we
still get WB's animation revival on time (Tiny Toons, Batman, etc) I
can see them deciding to try and do theatrical films more in those two
directions instead of trying to copy Disney musicals.

> It might also effect the rise of anime in America. The first people
> who tried to release anime over commercially, promoted it has being
> sort of anti-Disney animation. This was in the earliy 1990s around the
> time of the Disney revival. If Disney animation is dead than it would
> be kind of hard to do this.

Unedited anime started hitting the US in the late 80's, as an outgrowth
of the success of Robotech on TV. It was promoted as being more "adult"
then american animation in general, and the lack of Little Mermaid on
the big screen won't affect that. The question will be if a more
successful Batman: Mask of the Phantasm in theaters (thanks to higher
budget and promotion) and no Disney competition would bring the release
of Japanese action or SF anime into theaters. Streamline tried and
failed to get their stuff into more then limited release.

--
Chris Mack "If we show any weakness, the monsters will get cocky!"
'Invid Fan' - 'Yokai Monsters Along With Ghosts'

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