Inside the Animation Money Machine: Zootopia 2, Frozen Paydays & the New Economics of Disney Franchises (Ep. 334)
The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network
Jim Hill Media Podcast Network
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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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. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, whose writings on the industry you can regularly read over on the rap, |
| 0:13.6 | and whose musings on the Mission Impossible movies, you can still listen to, unlike theuse, the official Mission Impossible podcast. |
| 0:21.8 | Anyway, Drew and I are recording this week's show on Sunday night, November 23rd. |
| 0:28.2 | Podcasts were live Tuesday, November 25th, which is when in what? |
| 0:33.8 | In the late afternoon, early evening, those preview night screening Zootopia to begin, right? |
| 0:41.1 | Yes, yes. It's Zootopia Week, Jim. How do you feel? Do you feel the excitement? Your heart rate is a little bit elevated. You're ready to go back to Zootopia. Tell me how you're feeling. |
| 0:51.6 | Well, you know, I was down in Orlando this past week, |
| 0:56.8 | and what was fascinating is you could not escape Zootopia. You know, I mean, for example, |
| 1:04.5 | I needed a charger cord for my phone while I was at the contemporary. |
| 1:12.2 | So I went to the Fantasia store and, you know, middle aisle straight down the store, |
| 1:18.8 | all's utopia merchandise. |
| 1:20.7 | The one that was genuinely bizarre, Drew, is I am leaving Orlando on Saturday morning, |
| 1:29.3 | at 6 o'clock in the morning. |
| 1:32.2 | And it was one of these things where it's like, I'm not hallucinating. |
| 1:37.2 | You know, you know when you put your stuff in the tray and they put it through the metal detector. |
| 1:37.8 | Oh, I saw that. |
| 1:39.1 | Yes, that they're like selling that as ad space now. |
| 1:42.8 | And I saw that there was a Zootopia thing right? Zootopia too. |
| 1:46.8 | Yes. And it was just one of these things where it's like, okay, all right, I get it. I'm supposed to pay |
| 1:50.9 | attention to this. Now, important to stress here that because of your gig over at the rep, you've, |
| 1:57.5 | you've actually got to already do some very cool things related to this Byron Howard |
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