A friend said to me the other day that I must be happy about the changing scene at Disney Toon studios, with Lasseter and Catmull hammering the final nail in the coffin regarding the Disney Cheapquels.
Believe me, I'm thrilled.
But there is a sad side to this as well...about what could have been.
The exciting thing about the Cheapquels is that they generated a tremendous amount of money for the company...it could have shown the way to produce exciting fresh quality driven product by way of DVD to homes around the world.
They really didn't have to be Cheapquels after all.
If the Disney Company had seen the light, they could have made great animated motion pictures with their Direct To Video Distribution channels. Instead, they chose the wrong people to head up the division and wasted a whole lot of money. One nameless person at Disney Toon Studios told me that the Cheapquels weren't all that cheap to produce! One of these pictures cost about $20 million dollars in story alone because someone of top was very insecure and demanded changes in story and in personnel.
Think about it...$20 million bucks...down the tubes.
I know several people who could have delivered two great movies for that amount and they still wouldn't be considered cheapquels.
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Well, Brian, you soil your pants long enough, they'll eventually fall off!
No, but really, I pray that Disney will begin doing some amazing stuff soon, maybe they'll even start keeping more production here.
All the best, and I can't wait to see more of your work!
PS-Why don't you drop a comment on my board once in a while.
Well that might be true or not. There's still a few executives out there that have been soiling their pants for years, but still manage to keep the darn things up!
Well, anyone with enough common sense would know to stay clear of them!
Word is that the Pixar cats running Disney got the most troublesome exec, the one to blame for wasting the most money and abusing many creative people on those cheapquels, pushed aside. They couldn't get rid of this person due to a still in effect long running employment contract.
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