3d movie pattern/live studio audiences?

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undertow

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been awhile, but did anyone notice the 3d movie pattern of the past several years where there was a pair of similar movies from two different major companies? is there some hidden competition between the majors?

Ex. Happy Feet/Surfs Up - penguins
Over the Hedge/Open Season - woodland creatures
Madagascar/The Wild - zoo animals
Antz/A Bugs Life - insects



figure nothing worth watching was on, so i went to see what the disney/nick live shows had. Upon spending 30 mins actually watching a few i heard the background chuckles of a 90s sitcom. So is this a real audience or prerecorded?
 
You forgot sea creatures with Finding Nemo and Shark Tale.

But, yeah, it's mostly been between Dreamworks, Disney, and Sony as they strive to make more money with marketable animated movies with marquee value piggy-backing off other ones. Disney does Finding Nemo, so Dreamworks does Shark Tale. Dreamworks does Madagascar, so Disney does The Wild.
 
The Wild was in production before Madagascar, Dreamworks just rushed production to beat Disney to the punch (and even made a few jokes towards The Wild IIRC)
 
Sweet heavens, how I wish that the 3d trend collpases already so they start thinking in new ideas for good movies.... oh, well....
 
Hey, 3D movies can have good original ideas. Just look at about anything Pixar does.

Anyway, similarly themed movies coming out at the same time isn't just a CGI phenomenon. Remember The Illusionist and The Prestige?
 
That's true. Pixar is really the only animation studio right now that focuses more on what is the best story than what will rank in the most money. In 2006 while other studios were releasing tons of woodland creature flicks, Pixar had the balls to unleash Cars. It may be everyone's least Pixar film, but it's still pretty damn good and did very well in the box office.
 
But it still follows the familiar formula of "things that shouldn't talk, but do". And of course they're absurdly cute and have just enough pop-culture references to get parents into the theaters.

Please don't misunderstand, Pixar is definitely the best CG studio, and their movies are easily the least abhorrent CG movies out there. But they are largely responsible for the current state of the CG landscape.



To your second question, since no one responded to it, I'm pretty certain that none of the Nick/Disney (or CN for that matter) live action shows have a real studio audience. It's all canned laughter. It's a real shame, I was hoping that the success of shows like Lizzie McGuire and Even Stevens would have closed the door on that forever. But the higher ups at Nick and Disney are apparently hellbent on removing everything that was good or clever about those shows and rolling back sitcoms to the dark ages. And the higher ups at CN are apparently hellbent on copying exactly what they do (when I first saw Out of Jimmy's Head, I thought it couldn't possibly get worse - then they added the laugh track).
 
Not all of them have laughter; Ned's Declassified, Unfabulous, and Zoey 101 don't have a laugh track.

It's up to the creator of the show if they want a laugh track or not, it works for Drake and Josh, but it doesn't for Zoey 101 (they're both made by the same guy, by the way.)
 
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