A few release dates have been bumped around. The most notable for us is Wes Anderson’s animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s, “Fantastic Mr. Fox” that has moved from a November 6 released date back a week until November 13 release. Nothing major and nothing worth panicking about if you’re an Anderson acolytes.
That put it up against Roland Emmerich’s “2o12,” but it’s probably safe to say a kids movie and a disaster film have to vastly disparate audiences.
‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ is rumored to feature the voices of Owen Wilson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, Jarvis Cocker (who’s also doing some music for the film), and Wes and Eric Anderson (his younger brother who does most of his DVD and onset illustrations).
20th Century Fox however has confirmed that the film’s stars are George Clooney and Meryl Streep which means almost certainly that Cate Blanchett is no longer part of the voice cast as was rumored. Maybe that means the other rumors are also correct? We don’t see why not; the stable of actors is from Anderson’s regular pool of people (Dafoe and Gambon were both in ‘Life Aquatic,’ Brody was in ‘Darjeeling’). Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman are also part of the cast. [Box Office Mojo via Cinematical]
Looks like the studio’s pushing it back to serve as a Thanksgiving Family cash cow, no? Seriously, unless the studio completly shits out on press, Anderson might be sitting on quite a pile of cash.
Then parents will show them Royal Tenenbaums and sweetly fuck 6 year olds up.
True, and it will probably be Wes’ biggest grossing film ever and it will have nothing to do with Wes. No offense to him, but kids films are generally an excuse to print money unless they’re too esoteric, which the stop-motion of this one (almost an antiquated obsolete look now) could, but if they market it right, it shouldn’t matter.
You’ll prolly see very little “Wes Anderson” and his films in the marketing of this one (or as much as you do in Robert Rodriguez’s “Shorts” which is not a ton), because it really doesn’t matter here and them kids won’t care.
Well, stop-motion probably won’t hurt because they’ll pull the “Coraline” or “Nightmare Before Christmas” card and even now, “Coraline” did decent critically and financially, and “Nightmare” is considered a legend. And if we do see Anderson’s name, it’ll be “Directed by the legenday Wes Anderson” or something that draws out the name but doesn’t put his other films in there. No matter what, they will try to throw his name about if for no other reason to get his core fanbase in there too.
His name will be there, but it won’t be the “visionary” that is Zack Snyder. His core base already knows it’s him. They’ll market it to the kids and Nightmare before Christmas is a classic to us, not to kids these days who may or may not have seen it. Coraline reportedly barely broke even. It’s budget was apparently $75 million and it only did $74m domestically.