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UPDATED: Disney has set a wide release date for its animated feature Planes for August 9, 2013. The pic is a semi-Cars spinoff about airplanes and centers on Dusty, a cropduster, who Jon Cryer was originally going to voice before that fell through. The film had been slated to be a direct-to-video release here when it was first previewed at last year’s D23 Expo, but obviously that strategy obviously has shifted. Klay Hall, who comes from a family of aviators, is directing. Planes is joined on the release-date schedule by the Matt Damon-Jodie Foster sci-fi pic Elysium, which Sony recently shifted to the summer slot; and Warner Bros’ drug-smuggling road-trip comedy We’re The Millers, starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis.
Disney Dates ‘Planes’ For August 9, 2013
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Hmmm. I thought this one was a direct to video. Maybe it turned out better than they hoped.
This is the Disney style for their 2nd Tier animation. Call it Direct to Video then about 2/3 of the way through production say it’s so great it’s going theatrical.
It keeps them from having to pay “Feature” rates for talent, artists and vendors.
If im reading this right, Planes, like Jungle Book 2, Return to Neverland, and the 3 Disneytoon Pooh films (not counting the recent pooh film), will get a wide release. If that’s true, its going to suffer in comparison to the other animated films. Not only will the plot be derided as too simple but the animation, since it was lower-budgeted for dvd release, will seemingly suffer in comparison. It looks terrific for a dvd release but as a film, even Dreamworks Turbo will be hailed as superior.
Interested to see how this one turned out. From DTV to theatrical? What do they think this is – another Toy Story 2? Ha, I doubt it.
Jon Cryer was the main voice of the lead… but I think with it now getting a theatrical push maybe they’ll need a new star. Bet the calls are going out to all of Tinsel Town’s hot young male actors and actresses as I type…
Just when you thought Pixar couldn’t sell out any more…
Pixar has no connection to this at all. This is all Disney! Give Pixar a little credit for saying no to this crap.
At least it isn’t Pixar and is actually just Disney being silly.
Better title: “Return of the cheapquel”
When Disney bought Pixar, John Lassetter was so against the lame sequels that DisneyToon was making (Cinderalla 2, Little Mermaid 2, Pocahontas 2), that he pretty much shut down the entire division. I guess the Tinkerbell movies have been doing good enough (in home video), but how could John be OK with releasing this direct-to-video-and-aimed-at-boys-age-8-and-younger crap theatrically? Even if it’s not Pixar, its going to cheapen the brand more so than Cars 2 has. Is Disney that desperate to fill their slate? I predict a GBO of $30M and horrific reviews.
Toy story 2 was reworked heavily after the announcement of a theatrical release. This feels they are just taking the completed direct to video film (except for a new lead voice actor) and putting it out as a theatrical release, likely for the supposed “3d” effects and the glasses required, since 3d tv rate of adoption is low. This reminds me of when disney put out return to never land and jungle book 2 as theatrical releases although they are made as direct to video films. Results of those to critics and audience were not favorable.
Just be happy people are making movies – even animated ones.
They’ve been planning on going theatrical for well over a year with Planes. This is no “cheapquel”…FAR from it. I predict 150 mil easy.
This doesn’t feel like a cash grab to me. Lasseter runs Toon Disney also, and the Fairies franchise is almost as lucrative as Cars as far as merch goes, yet he’s never let one of those go to theaters (and the reviews for those have been good for kids movies.) I don’t think they’d compromise all the progress on either the Pixar brand or Disney Feature Animation if they didn’t believe they had something special.
I liked the Cars/Planes crossover short, which looked great.
I hope it’s good.
As the originator of the term “cheapquel.” Marcus Grant said–ENNOUGH already. Disney has to stop cheapening it’s brand with crap like this.
Someone is putting Jennifer Aniston in another movie?
Do people never learn?