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Episode 55 – Treasure Planet
It’s not often that a Disney Feature Film doesn’t make boatloads of money. Treasure Planet is one of those rare cases. In fact they lost over 30 million dollars on this project. But why? Well that is a far more complicated question to answer. With a script based on a literary classic, an all star cast, a large production budget, Big name composers and musicians, and Disney backing it, this movie should have been a money making shoe-in. Judging by its lackluster box office performance, there’s no wonder so many people haven’t heard of this film. One of us never did. That is partially why we picked it to cover this week. Frankly, we just wanted to watch a Disney film that we had never seen. But more importantly we wanted to find out what went wrong (if anything) to cause this film not to succeed. Listen with us this week as we try and figure that out in our coverage of Treasure Planet.
From Wikipedia:
Treasure Planet is a 2002 American animated science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002. It is the 43rd Disney animated feature film. The film is a science fiction adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson‘s adventure novel Treasure Island and was the first film to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAXtheaters.[2][3] The film employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation.
Highlights:
Disney, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, IMAX, Ron Clements, John Musker, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Princess and the Frog, Moana, Roy Conli, Rob Edwards, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Shrek, James Newton Howard, John Rzeznik, Goo Goo Dolls, Jim Hawkins, Austin Majors, Joseph Gordon Levitt, David Hyde Pierce, Emma Thompson, Martin Short, John Silver, Brian Murphy, Roscoe Lee Browne, Laurie, Metcalf, Michael WIncott, Patrick McGoohan, Tony Jay, Jeffrey Katzenberg
Links:
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Planet
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133240/
Theatrical Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swIfJRpOyPs
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