{"id":76,"date":"2005-07-12T00:39:44","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T04:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=76"},"modified":"2005-07-12T00:39:44","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T04:39:44","slug":"shrek-takes-a-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/12\/shrek-takes-a-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrek Takes a Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a New York Times story<\/a> on Dreamworks Animation SKG’s stock drop and general financial woes, due in part to sluggish DVD sales of Shrek 2 and Shark Tale. There seems to be a CGI-on-DVD malaise at the moment: Pixar has also been disappointed with The Incredibles’ performance.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if this is all a blip or an indication that folks are losing interest in computer animation. Clearly, the gigantic profitability of Dreamworks and Pixar’s films is predicated as much as them doing well in home video as at the box office. If they’re starting taper off on DVD, it could cause the studios to greenlight fewer features and slash the budgets of the ones they do make.<\/p>\n

And one wonders how less surefire upcoming films–Disney’s Chicken Little, say–will fare if hits like Shrek 2 and The Incredibles disappoint.<\/p>\n

Then again, maybe Dreamworks and Disney just stuffed too many copies of these discs into the channel. Anybody out there have a guess what’s going on here, and whether it’s a trend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a New York Times story on Dreamworks Animation SKG’s stock drop and general financial woes, due in part to sluggish DVD sales of Shrek 2 and Shark Tale. There seems to be a CGI-on-DVD malaise at the moment: Pixar has also been disappointed with The Incredibles’ performance. I’m not sure if this is all … Continue reading “Shrek Takes a Fall”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}