Oh my God! Were the negatives spun from gold or something!?! How were Disney ever expecting to make any profit whatsoever with such a huge budget? It's The Black Cauldron all over again! It had a $44,000,000 budget and only made $21,000,000 at the U.S. box office! Home On The Range is yet another nail in the coffin for Disney............
"Well then I'll buy some furniture and give the cat a name."
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I just came across an article about the sharply rising costs in all film production including animation. Hand drawn animation of course is not cheap, especially when you have the detail that was in this. I'm sure you've noticed the difference, for instance, between Disney animation and Hanna-Barbara animation...the Disney animation is far more detailed. Also, I believe the voices were of somewhat higher priced actors. My feeling is that this movie is virtually the end of the 2-D animation era and Disney wanted to do it up brown. I'm quite sure that 2-D animation is suffering the fate of the 12 chapter cliffhangers (that were a staple for 40 years), newsreels, movie cartoons, and movie palaces. Time marches on!
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I believe that wages are far far below American wages, so their animation would be nowhere as expensive.
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Really? Spirited Away had that low a budget? It looks so much more expensive, and is a lot more beautiful than a lot of Disney animation (for example Brother Bear). Mind you, when the Japanese make a movie, they aren't just looking to make a profit, they're also using it to convey a message to the viewer. However, Americans usually want to get as much money as they possibly can out of it......
"Well then I'll buy some furniture and give the cat a name."
Spirited Away contains less actual animation than a Disney feature. Anime often makes efficient (yet effective) uses of held cels, cylces, monatges, and other cost-saving devices, while such techniques have been more or less shunned by DIsney since the mid-90s.
share"Home on the Range" has been in development since 1995, and in active production since about 1999. The film was originally called "Sweating Bullets," and, like "The Emperor's New Groove" before it, was halted halfway through production and started over from scratch. SO the actual film you see cost about $70 million; the other $40 was blown away on footage that found its way to the cutting-room floor.
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