July 28, 2005

Mark Dindal's new film: Chicken Little

Check out the new trailers for Chicken Little. As usual, I like the Japanese trailer the best:

http://www.threedy.com/site/forum/showthread.php?p=366425

I think these new trailers look great. They make me really excited about the pictures.

I've always been a big fan of Mark Dindal. He's directed "Cat's Don't Dance," "The Emperor's New Groove," and now "Chicken Little" I love the other two films and I expect this film to be as good, if not better. I feel for Mark Dindal, every film Mark has worked on there's always been some trouble with the production. In Cat's they wanted to change the cats to ducks halfway through pre-viz. Emperor's New Groove was handed to him as a re-write and in Chicken Little, the main character started off as a girl. But he's always pull them though. I can't wait to see how this one turns out. I also love the snap of his animation. All three films have really snappy timing that's energetic and fun to watch.

I'd like to make a prediction, I think that this film will effect the Disney-Pixar negotiations a lot. I'm not sure how exactly, but I think this film will be very successful and that Disney will feel like they don't need Pixar. Personally, I'd like to see Pixar become it's own distributor. It would be the hard road for Pixar, especially because that would mean that they'd go up against Disney and Dreamworks. Both of those studios have proven that they like to play dirty, but I think they could pull it off. And in the long run they'd be a bigger better studio because of it. But really, what do I know, I'm just pulling all of that out of my ass:)

Really, I hope this turns out to be a winner. It looks great already!

4 comments:

Benjamin De Schrijver said...

You're absolutely right. The Japanese trailer is way superior. It seems like they're making the same mistake again, like they did with Treasure Planet (at least that was a mistake to me): focusing the trailer on the jokes and action. At least the Japanese trailer showed that there were actually going to be real relationships and interesting characters.

- Benjamin

Anonymous said...

Pixar will not become its own distributor, at least not in the near term. Distribution depends on volume. With the infrastructure you have to set up, you need more than half a dozen films a year (possibly as many as a dozen) before you're at a point where it's easy to cover overhead and make distribution cost reasonable.

Pixar is far better off making a deal with an existing distributor, as it would be more cost-effective.

-Mark Mayerson

Ethan_Hall_2006 said...

Hi Mark, your absolutely right about Pixar and distribution. I know that it's probably impossible for Pixar to distribute it's own films, but I would still like to see them do it:) I would just like to see them become more independent.

Ethan_Hall_2006 said...

Hi Drew, yes please do. I hope that his technique turns out to be good, I really do. I'm just skeptical, because of his approach.