Opus1guy
08-17-2005, 10:11 AM
Over the weekend, I caught a trailer for Valiant, a computer-rendered flick about wartime birds that is set to open nationwide on Friday. "From the producer of Shrek and Shrek II," went the introduction. It wasn't until the very end that the Disney name showed up on the screen.
Yes, it's gotten that bad. By pitching a pair of blockbuster flicks put out by rival studio DreamWorks Animation (NYSE: DWA) and burying its own mention as the film's distributor, Disney seemed as if it were trying to trick moviegoers into checking the movie out. Disney's apparent desire to talk down its presence in computer animation comes after the company dismantled the last of its hand-drawn-animation studios earlier this summer.
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Yes, it's gotten that bad. By pitching a pair of blockbuster flicks put out by rival studio DreamWorks Animation (NYSE: DWA) and burying its own mention as the film's distributor, Disney seemed as if it were trying to trick moviegoers into checking the movie out. Disney's apparent desire to talk down its presence in computer animation comes after the company dismantled the last of its hand-drawn-animation studios earlier this summer.
More at:
http://www.fool.com/news/mft/2005/mft05081603.htm?ref=foolwatch