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 Monday August 26 2019 the day after

this year's D23 expo wrapped and Drew are you okay?

I'm tired. Drew, are you okay?

I'm tired. I was fighting off a cold the whole weekend, which was interesting,

but I'm here. I am ready to talk about D23 and I think this is going to be very therapeutic for both of us. Yeah okay well now folks we're going to say

there for the second half of the show but we have

quick news run down about what's happened to animation over the past week and I guess the

logical place to start and again this is we've been talking about this

Drew since the beginning of this year but we have yet another animated sequel

angry birds too that well in this case failed to take flight at the box office.

Have you looked at the numbers for this thing or?

Yes and they are not great and what's interesting too is that the critics really liked it a lot more than the first

Absolutely I mean if you go over to rotten tomatoes I want to say this thing had well the first film

When it came out it had a 46% audience rating and a 44 for freshness rating so you know that's that's not great

Whereas the sequel got a 74% freshness rating and an 85% audience rating.

So again, you figure with scores like that you'd actually do

better than the first film and it's it's actually the opposite. Before we get

started here today sort of was doing the comparison of the box office,

that right now, Angry Birds 2 is, I want to say, 27 million total for its domestic run whereas you know the original angry birds 13 days

into its domestic run was 74 out so the, the sequel has done 35% of the business so far of the original film.

And that to me is just nuts.

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