What could become the next animated non-Pixar box office mega blockbuster?

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Animated movies are always released each year, but the majority of them never seem to make at least enough money to be considered a real blockbuster, much less reach the numbers of Harry Potter, Spiderman, Star Wars and other Summer tentpole-style movies, unless they're from Pixar or the Shrek series.

Even Happy Feet, which had impressive legs for a 40M+ opener and little-to-no competition to face, and Ice Age 2 and Simpsons, which both had huge openings, all managed to fall short of the 200M+ domestic mark.

The only ones I can think of that actually managed to reach that mark was Aladdin, Lion King and the Shrek series.

I know Kung Fu Panda has crossed the 200M+ domestic threshold, but not by much, so what would it take for another animated non-Pixar movie to reach those kind of numbers?
 
It's going to be a Dreamworks film.

Seriously, when it comes to animated films these days, Pixar, Dreamworks and Blue Sky are doing really well. Disney wishes there movies were as successful as there's.
 
I'm really interested to see how Blue Sky will fare this summer with Ice Age 3 considering the last one pretty much made it's budget back in one weekend. I know it's not due months after Up, but it'll be interesting to see which one does better business.
 
I really think Princess and the Frog will be a hit. If Disney markets is right which I think they will it is no way it can't make $250-300 million in the U.S. All they have to do is market it as the return of real Disney and really push that whole 1st new traditional animation concept and this film should be a hit. Also it has to get great reviews. IF that happens I think we'll see a Disney and hopefully 2D rennisance for the next decade.
 
Nope. The next blockbuster will not be a sequel. Shrek jumped the shark after Shrek 2 and Ice Age was never a phenomenal success, it was only moderately successful.

It's impossible to predict what the next "big thing" will be, as they typically come from out of nowhere and usually no one anticipates that it will become as huge as it does.
 
Planet 51 from Ilion Animation / HandMade Films, I found the trailer hilarious. It will be released a bit late, on november the 20th, so no summer blockbuster...
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It SHOULD be The Princess and the Frog. It will certainly be more interesting than the recent Dreamworks crop of sequels and movies starring funny animals voiced by celebrities. I will probably see it 2-3 times if only out of principle, although I expect that I'll want to do so anyway.
 
That's because for all intents and purposes those three studios are the only games in town.

Look at Box Office Mojo's list of CGI animated films. Out of the 28 films that made more than 100 million domestically, only five of them were not made by either Pixar, Dreamworks or Blue Sky (two were released by Warner Bros. and the rest by non-Pixar Disney). And when you add in foreign box office grosses, those five films don't look all that hot compared to the 400-900 million accumulated by the big Pixar/Dreamworks hits.

If the next megahit doesn't come from Pixar/Dreamworks/Blue Sky, then it will probably be a fluke from another major, a la Warner's Polar Express and Happy Feet.
 
Princess and the Frog FTW. Hopefully after years of witnessing the theatrical animation industry morph from quality into a homogenous blend of CGI blandness people still recognize a good quality movie when they see it. Not that all CGI movies are bad (eg Pixar and a good deal of Dreamworks movies), but when they're overdone and have no quality to them and base themselves around lame jokes that no one will understand in 5-10 years, they'e annoying to say the least.
 
It had better. I'm not in the mood to see Disney pull the plug on its hand-drawn division all over again just 'cause their first feature in five years didn't break box-office records.
 
It will be hilarious to see Jeffery Katsenbergs reaction if Princess and the Frog is a huge hit since he said traditional animation was dead at the movies. I just hope Princess and the Frog is a huge enough hit that more studios get back to producing 2D films for theaters.
 
They didn't integrate everyone into the grass at all on that poster. If they can't get something as simple as that right, I worry about the rest of it. :sweat:
 
I'm hoping it'll be The Princess and the Frog as well...a return of the "classic" 2-D Disney musical would be nice (I have nothing against 3-D or stop-motion,it's just nice to see variety,and right now,2-D is becoming something of a rarity)....
 
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