Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor - Episode 188: How Disney’s very first Silly Symphony came to be

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🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking about what’s been going on with a number of animated series over on HBO Max. They then talk about the never-completed Chris Farley version of DreamWorks Animation’s “Shrek” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.
0:05.9	I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording this week's show on Friday, August 19th, 2022,
0:14.9	which this very day drew, minions, the rise of grew, finally bowed in China.
0:22.2	Oh, okay. This film opened the state side around July 4th, so we are seven, eight weeks out,
0:30.5	and it did okay. If we count tickets that were sold for the midnight shows,
0:35.2	first day it did 3.2 million in ticket sales, and if we factor in where minions rise of grew is right
0:43.9	now, it's done 3.46 million domestic, 4.46 million international, so that's 793 million worldwide,
0:53.3	previous minions movie, which was released back in summer of 2015, sold 63.7 million worth of tickets
1:01.6	in China, so 3.2 is off to a decent start, but if you talk with the folks at Universal and Illuminations,
1:09.2	they just have no clue what's going to happen here because of the whole COVID-0 policy in China,
1:16.0	where there are still millions of people who are under lockdown, and so chances are they're not
1:22.0	going to the movies. Isn't this like the first state side animated film to be released in China
1:29.4	in a couple of years? Yeah. Lightyear got disqualified because of it's, you know, the kiss.
1:36.0	Racy subject matter. There you go. That okay. And almost every other movie has been direct
1:40.7	streaming, so yeah, it's pretty interesting. Did you ever see minions rise of grew? It is on my
1:46.4	potentials, but I did get to see luck, which we'll talk about later in today's show. That'll be
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2:06.6	It has been a weird animation-related news week. Do you want to talk about what's going on
2:13.6	with HBO Max or? Yeah, we can. I mean, I think that's a very pressing issue right now.
2:21.2	Do we start with Allison stepping away from Warner's animation group?
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