If I had three seconds to guess what large corporation leads all others in the number of homosexuals employed, I'd have to guess...
...that one.
$1.1 billion? Yeah, that kind of "cooling of interest" says that there is more to this story than interest.
But I wonder how “Caspian” (2) did, compared to “Lion” (1). If there was a significant drop-off, that could be a factor.
It is political. The Narnia Chronicles are a Christian allegory. Gee, shock that Disney won’t touch it, despite the proven bankability. Actually shocked they touched the first two. Even more shocked they didn’t manage to screw them up...
Call the people who did Shreck. Narnia is supposed to be animated.
Mr. Gresham, are you reading?
Certainly makes one wonder.
Don’t worry, they will come up with a children’s movie about greedy humans screwing up the environment like all the rest of the industry. Conformity sells movies don’t you know.
What has "cooled" the "genre" is #1: Bad production on the later HP movies, and 2: Its been nearly 10 years since any LOTR movies.
Narnia has done well consistently, so where is the loss of audience?
They stand for crap!
Walt Disney must be rolling over in his grave. This is so sad.
I REALLY loved the Lion, too.
well, to be fair, disney didn’t get 1.1 billion, that is just the gross number (box office only? not sure) I think studios get only roughly half of box office grosses.
I do wonder what the 2 films cost to make.
There was a cooling of interest, the second movie made only 2/3 what the first did, 1/2 domestically, and cost 20 million more to make. That’s bad math.
“$1.1 billion? Yeah, that kind of ‘cooling of interest’ says that there is more to this story than interest.”
No kidding!
What I want to see is a computer-generated film of George Washington (done like the movie “300” was done), broken into 3 parts: Washington’s early years up until the French & Indian War, Washington at the beginning and end of the Revolution, and Washington at the Constitutional Convention then President to his death. Since it’s all CGI, all you would need is good voice actors & actresses and all 3 parts could probably be made at a reasonable $250 million.
31 replies and nobody has been clever enough to make a reference to “Hollyweird” yet? I’m shocked.
Probably creative differences. If a modern Disney movie doesn’t have its minimum quota of burps and farts, it would appear they won’t touch it. I don’t remember any of that in the first movie, so I suspect they’ve hit their limit.
If I had three seconds to guess what large corporation leads all others in the number of homosexuals employed, I'd have to guess...
...that one.
I wonder if C.S. Lewis Christian allegory aspects had ~anything~ to do with it!
With the bad economy and an actors strike pending, this is probably a good decision.
I don’t think its anti-Christian in its intent. Disney is all about the bottom line...it doesn’t care if something is pro-Christian or anti-Christion or non-confrontational. Disney just wants your money, like any other business.
The movie has child actors...during a strike their appearance could change dramatically. A movie with high production costs is not wise at this time, especially if it would have to be re-shot or re-cast.
I gotta go with the theory that the source material just wasn't godless enough for Team Rat's liking. Of all the channels on my Cable system, Team Rat is the only one I have blocked.
“The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” is, imo, inarguably the most well known and beloved of the Nania series. It stands alone.
I’m a huge fan of C.S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles but I do feel it is more difficult to create the same suspense for the other books in the Narnia series the way it was done for LOTR trilogy. Even as a fan of the Narnia series, I confess I’m not as interested in the followups as I was for the first film. That was my favorite book, still is. No matter how good sequels could be, I’m still partial to TLTWATW.
I would still like to see the series continue as I do still enjoy it well enough and I suspect it will though perhaps with a little more care to the costs incurred in production.
I hate to say it, but though I love the books, the movies are kind of weak, despite special effects. It just doesn’t engage. I’m not surprised it doesn’t have more staying power, attracting an audience. Just saying.