Welcome to Fine Tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording the show on Tuesday, November 26, 2019, which is a couple of days after frozen

two has completed its first weekend in domestic release.

So, 127 million in domestic ticket sales, which are interesting.

A lot of entertainment writers are calling a real record breaker, but not Drew Taylor.

And why is that true? Well, you know, I just take issue with the fact that we are not including John

Favros the Lion King as an animated film whose opening weekend was bigger.

It made 191 million domestically.

So, you know, I just, I think that we should include that.

I mean, it is completely animated. It it's there's no even performance capture in there

so I don't know why we're not including that in the list of animated films.

What kind of muddies the water here isn't Disney itself grouping John Favreau's

you know photo realistic Lion King as a live action film? I mean...

Yeah, it's...

They didn't submit it for the best animated feature Oscar category this year and they are calling

it the live action thing an aesthetic distinction, which I guess that's fine.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

There are certainly live action movies

that you can describe as being very cartoony,

so I guess that works, but yeah it's it's very

weird. No I agree I agree by the way I finally got to see this movie on the plane down to Orlando last

week and I have to bet, it was impressive.

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