animated movie flops/bombs


Not quite my friend. Consider that Hey Arnold made $15,249,308 worldwide. The theaters keep half the gross and the movie cost $3 million to make. That's at least a $4,624,654 profit. Not the biggest amount of money, but it certainly pulled in more money for Nickelodeon than Disney got for Treasure Planet that November.
 
Transformers: The Movie flopped at theaters, although it has more than made up for it in the home video market. Most of the toy movies in the 80s flopped like Pound Puppies, Bravestarr, Gobots, and others. Care Bears could be considered a success. All Dogs Go to Heaven was considered a disappointment, but like Transformers developed a following on home video.
 
Theaters are lucky to get 10% of a gross of a film, usually even less. I worked a movie theater for a long time and the only profit we made was off of concessions, hence why concessions are so expensive.
 
It is one of my favorite Disney movies, but The Black Cauldron failed at the box office. I guess it was a little too dark for a Disney flick.
 
I really like many aspects of Treasure Planet. The character designs are awesome. Long John Silver is a terrific antihero (and making him a cyborg was brilliant). The solar-powered galleons and pirate ships were a neat idea. The kitty captain and doggy nerd were a charming pair. The only character I didn't like was the spastic robot. Mostly annoying rather than funny.

As to why the movie flopped...I have a feeling it's because it seemed too sci-fi and not very family-oriented. Plus it probably didn't appeal much to little girls. Also, Jim Hawkins wasn't a very compelling character; perhaps making him too old was the main problem. In the classic Disney live-action version, Jim was much younger. I guess he was rendered as older in the animated film in order to appeal to teen boys; that might have backfired. Too bad. There's a lot about Treasure Planet to like. It didn't deserve to be a flop.
 
Aqua Teen cost as much as an episode of the TV series did, maybe slightly more. It pretty much was a roaring success in terms of profit.
 
According to the Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, it was "released during a time when computer animated features were dominating the box offices". That's funny. Shrek, Ice Age, and a handful of Pixar movies are the only CGI blockbusters that would have been around before Treasure Planet came out.
 
"Looney Tunes Back in Action"'s extreme failure at box office is the reason why you hardly see Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and company anywhere these days. :( It was also the reason why Warner Bros. Feature Animation shut down (but then again, all but one of their films, the inferior "Space Jam", flopped anyways.)

"Brother Bear" also bombed, if I recall correctly. In fact, nearly every animated movie released in 2003 that wasn't "Finding Nemo" flopped.
But "Home On The Range" didn't necessarily bomb because it was 2D animation, it bombed cause of its weak story! Farm animals had been done to death by that point

"Snoopy Come Home" also bombed when it was released in 1972; it only had a million dollar budget but returned roughly $200,000 or so. I don't think any of the other Peanuts features after that ("Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown" and "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown") did very well at box office either.

If I recall, "Bolt" didn't do so well last year either.
 
It was... and that was just the censored version.

Uh... I'm gonna pull out The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, since it was half-animated. That movie was terrible, yet for some reason I loved it as a kid... weird though, since this movie did terrible and just came and went.


 
Bolt did very well. However, its domestic gross did not outdo its budget, though worldwide it did. It just didn't have a strong opening weekend due to being released the same weekend as Twilight and one week after Quantum of Solace, but the next weekend it actually gained some momentum while Twilight and Solace faded away fast.
 
Oooh, I just remembered something!

Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Sleeping Beauty were all box-office bombs at first.

They made it back tenfold later, of course, but still.
 
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