The NY TIMES published a piece today about the glut of poorly performing animated CG films. That's hardly news to anybody working the industry. The article has your typical pass-the-buck quotes from execs, like this one from Nickelodeon's Julia Pistor: "I think audiences are saying, 'I've seen a lot of computer animation and it's not so special anymore." Of course, Julia. Audiences must surely be tired of the computer animation technique itself, not by the poor decision-making of animation execs who have continuously greenlit poorly conceived, derivative, stupid films over the course of this CG animation goldrush. On another note, the most interesting "news" revealed in the piece is that DreamWorks and Aardman have had a falling out and FLUSHED AWAY will be their last film together. To my knowledge, that's the first time this news has made print.
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(Thank, Mark Gilson)