Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor: How Coraline’s Revival Sparked Disney’s Return to Theaters (Ep 273)

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Fine Tooning, Jim Hill and Drew Taylor discuss how the successful 15th-anniversary re-release of Coraline inspired Disney to bring back some of its beloved classics to theaters. Find out how The Nightmare Before Christmas and Hocus Pocus are making their return to the big screen this Halloween season. Join us as we cover: Coraline’s Box Office Success: How a cult classic reignited Disney’s interest in re-releases. The Return of Hocus Pocus: Why is this Halloween favorite back in theaters, and what does it mean for Disney's strategy? The Wild Robot’s DreamWorks Triumph: Early reviews from the Toronto premiere and its impact on the animation industry. Tune in for all this and more, as we dive into the latest animation news and Halloween favorites making their way back to theaters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to fine-tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.
0:06.5	I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, whose writings on the industry you can regularly read over on the rap and whose musings on the Mission Impossible movies
0:16.8	You can listen to on Light the Fuse the official Mission Impossible podcast.
0:22.3	Anyway, he and I are recording this week's show Mission Impossible Podcast. Podcast.
0:23.0	Anyway, he and I are recording this week's show on Sunday, September 15th, 2023, and I...
0:30.0	Did you see what happened in LA earlier today over on Kingswell Avenue?
0:37.0	What happened?
0:38.0	Well, the block were Walt Disney's first animation operation in Southern California.
0:47.0	Again, on Kingswell Avenue.
0:50.0	Earlier today, the City of Los Angeles designated that space as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio Square.
1:00.8	Oh, that's great.
1:02.0	Yep.
1:03.0	By the way, if you want to visit the Ac where the studio was actually located, that's 4-5-61 Kingswell
1:08.9	Avenue in LA.
1:09.9	Well, all right, that specific storefront is now the Kingswell skate shop.
1:15.6	But what's kind of cool is they have a couple of Disney related photo ops inside.
1:19.8	And just in case you're wondering, it was October 16th, 1923, when Walt and Roy signed their first
1:29.6	contract to make movies out in Hollywood.
1:31.8	So that's when Disney
1:33.8	Brother Studio officially got off the ground. So that is a month and a day
1:37.8	from today, the place turns 101 years old. So go buy a skateboard I guess is what I'm saying. Let's see what else what else? Oh and Drew you were
1:50.9	busy this weekend as well right yeah well I hosted a I didn't host it but I
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