We've been discussing whether or not animated films that are not aimed at mothers, children, girls, or families will have monetary success in the film market.
Rango and Guardians made a little (when all was said and done), but it could have just been two ups in a sea of downs (and they didn't make nearly as much as Despicable Me, DreamWorks, Disney, and Pixar films, which are all clearly marketed to the family).
9 probably made nothing... http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2009/9NINE.php
It made $46 million, cost $30 million to make, cost about $15 million to the theaters, cost about $5 million to marketing (-$4 million at this point), made $9 million in DVD sales, cost $3 million to the stores and about another $2 million to marketing... and you're left with dead even. No profit.
And that's actually good. Final Fantasy and Beowulf lost a ton.
So it will be interesting to see what AD does. Which brings us to the trailer (warning: a little bit of bloody)...
Not much is known about whether it will even make it to theaters (can't even find it on IMDB):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.D._(film)
It looks like the director might have the experience to fight it through to completion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hibon
What do you think? Does it have a fighting chance? What if it died and came back to life? Would it have a chance then?
Enjoy!
- TAE
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Will A.D. (zombie animated film) be another flop in a sea of adult animated films?
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I think A.D. DOES have a chance, assuming it's eventually made. The director is mainly well-known for having done the animated sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, so he doesn't exactly have a reputation as "kid's" animator chaining him down. The other movie he's working on is a dark re-imaginig of Peter Pan.
ReplyDeleteTrue, but there's no market for adult animations in the theater and the director has no following anyway.
ReplyDelete- TAE
As someone much greater than me once said--"If it exists, there's a market for it, and if there's not there will be one day."
ReplyDeleteWell all that means is that you think there's a market for it or you convinced a studio that there's a market for it and they paid for it... and they'll pay for it again after it loses money.
ReplyDelete- TAE