Minecraft Breaks Records, Disney Pauses Tangled, and Animation Takes Over CinemaCon (Ep. 301)

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Fine Tooning, Jim Hill and Drew Taylor break down the biggest stories shaking up the animation world, including: The explosive box office debut of A Minecraft Movie – Surpassing expectations with $157 million, becoming the biggest opening ever for a video game adaptation. Disney pauses its live-action Tangled remake – After Snow White’s underperformance, the studio rethinks its strategy for adapting more recent animated hits. CinemaCon 2025 highlights – Major announcements from Paramount and Disney, including updates on Elio, Zootopia 2, How to Train Your Dragon, The Smurfs, and a John Wick animated prequel. Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke plummets post-IMAX run, while The Day the Earth Blew Up vanishes from the charts. TV animation shake-ups – New seasons for Phineas & Ferb and South Park, and multi-season renewals for The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, and American Dad. Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld – A new animated anthology from Lucasfilm launching May 4 on Disney+. With so much news packed into one week, Jim and Drew cover everything from theatrical blockbusters to the streaming wars—and what it all means for the future of animation. Be Our Guest Vacations Planning your next Disney vacation? Be Our Guest Vacations is a Platinum-level Earmarked travel agency with concierge-level service to make every trip magical. Their team of expert agents plans vacations across the globe, from Disney and Universal to cruises and adventures, ensuring you have the best possible experience without the stress. Learn More 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.
0:06.4	I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, whose writings in the industry you can regularly read over on the rap,
0:12.5	and whose musings on the Mission Impossible movies you can listen to on Light the Fuse, the official Mission Impossible podcast.
0:20.2	He and I recording this week's show on Sunday, April 6th.
0:25.6	And no lie, folks, this is a busy, busy time for Mr. Chairler, who is always busy.
0:30.6	But this is crazy busy.
0:31.9	What?
0:32.3	You were just out at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Thursday, right?
0:37.0	Thursday, I was at CinemaCon, yes.
0:38.9	Okay.
0:40.1	Yeah.
0:40.4	And then just yesterday, you and Matt Braley were at the Barnes & Noble at the Grove,
0:46.0	doing what, a talk and the signing for your recently released, Coffee Table Book,
0:51.6	The Art of Disney's Amphibia.
0:54.3	And then, what?
0:56.3	A millisecond after we get this done, you have to hop in a car and drive out to Las
1:00.5	Filles because you're running a Q&A.
1:03.4	What are we doing the Q&A for this evening?
1:05.3	The Q&A is they're doing a series of screenings of films by Christopher Landon, who has a new movie coming out called Drop this week.
1:14.2	And so I am going out to do the Q&A after Freaky, but before his Netflix movie called We, I think it's called We bought a ghost.
1:23.7	So I'm going to be doing that Q&A.
1:25.5	Also, Jim, you left out the fact that on Friday I drove to Chapman University.
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