Actors need not be alive anymore thanks to CGI. I don't know if that's the case here, but it didn't stop Olivier from a key role in 2004's "Sky Captain," (which is a quirky movie I really liked)...
Posted on 12/16/2008 10:51:46 AM PST by raccoonradio
The CG animated feature Delgo opened last weekend and nobody went to see it. According to Box Office Mojo, Delgo had the worst opening ever for a film that opened in more than 2,000 theaters earning just $511,290 or $237 per theater.
Moments like this really make one pause and reflect. What is the world coming to when an animated film with the voices of Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Chris Kattan, Anne Bancroft, Eric Idle, Val Kilmer, Lou Gossett Jr, Malcolm McDowell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Burt Reynolds and Kelly Ripa isn’t a box office blockbuster? A story that makes sense and visuals that don’t make you want to heave are quaint touches, but the filmmakers behind Delgo understood where it really counted: celebrity voice actors. They hired every B- and C-list actor this side of Dancing With the Stars and somehow still failed. You know the recession is affecting Americans deeply when they no longer want to see Chris Kattan and Kelly Ripa voicing their CG characters.
Here’s a little taste of what all of America missed last weekend.
Well Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland’s F*** The Army closed in less than a week (of course, the fact that this film about her preaching agit prop to US troops didn’t fare well opening the week that she became Hanoi Jane).
Until the mid-1960s, the voices in cartoons were by VOICE actors. Gay Purreee and Jungle Book I think set the trend for using celebrities (for names on the poster).
And those examples were voiced by known SINGERS (people work extensively with their voices).
The “names” you may recognize in pre-60s cartoons can be found in radio comedy and dramas of the 1930s-1950s.
I managed to be entirely unaware of the existence of this movie until Sunday when I went to go see Australia with my mom and sister (really amazing film, btw, we loved it) and saw the name on the ‘marquee’. In any case, that’s totally on the ‘movies I could not possibly be bothered to see no matter how bored I get’ list, which is usually pretty small.
Actors need not be alive anymore thanks to CGI. I don't know if that's the case here, but it didn't stop Olivier from a key role in 2004's "Sky Captain," (which is a quirky movie I really liked)...
Given most of Hollywood's current crop, I'd welcome their retirement much sooner than that.
Me, too.
Ick ... I couldn’t even finish the trailer. Looks like Shreck meets Indiana Jones meets Lord of the Rings.
Delgo is a No Go.
I sold a coffee maker to Chris Kattan several years ago. He was something of a pr-ck, at least on that day.
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