/co/ - Comics & Cartoons

Maleficent still looks to be kinda on the fence. Overall it'll be an interesting take on this.

Well that's enough fairy tale abuse for one night.

>>227379
Wonder if they'll carry the angle Frozen some fans picked up. Pair her with Mulan or something.

>>227384
That would be awesome, but considering that Frozen is (to my knowledge) a more explicit Disney tale instead of just ripping off Grimm or something, they probably won't go that way. That Mulan was heavily suggested as a homosexual (I don't think it was ever stated outright, but they put in all the suggestiveness to leave no doubt) is probably pushing the envelope for them.

And, if there is, it certainly won't be Icest. (Frozcest? I don't keep up with the kids these days.)

That would be nuts and also pretty dangerous considering how attached some are getting to their little fan world they are building around the "message" they are getting from the movie. Those Frozen General threads stopped being about the movie directly a long time ago last I heard.

>Oricon announced on May 12 that the original soundtrack album for Walt Disney Animation Studios' 3DCG musical fantasy film Frozen, which was released in Japan on March 12, has sold 466,000 units in two months and has become the top-selling animation film soundtrack album in history. The previous record holder was the album for the 1978 anime film Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato, the second feature film for the Yamato franchise, which was released in August 1978 and sold 386,000 LPs at the time. The current third is "Symphony Galaxy Express 999" released in July 1979 with 382,000 LPs.

>The album took the top spot two weeks in a row in the Oricon weekly album sales ranking selling 166,000 units in the recent week. The number is the highest since the release, and more sales is expected in the coming weeks.

>In the most recent Japanese movie box office (May 10-11), Frozen held first place for the ninth-straight weekend. Since its opening on March 14, it has earned 17,078,292,150 yen (about US$164,400,000) with 13,501,594 tickets sales, and will definitely reach the record of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (17,300,000,000 yen/2002) by the end of this week.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/05/12-1/frozen-soundtrack-album-breaks-record-of-farewell-yamato-36-years-ago

>>227401
Its never going to leave, is it. Ah the new Frozen "Standard"

"Yes Western Animation is being taken seriously"

"But at what cost"

>>227401
Frozen is doing crazy good in Japan. As in "its eighth weekend earned more than its opening weekend" good. There's even talk of it overtaking Spirited Away, which is SACRILEGE.

>>227405
Fascinating, wonder if it does will that have some kinda effect in the industry over there.

>>227405
I still don't know what the fuss was over Spirited Away, to be honest.

>>227385
You mean Elsanna?
One of the reasons I had to stay away from tumblr for a long time?

>>227446
And the reason I blocked the Generals, well more that they started falling into who's fan fiction universe is better kinda garbage. And that was when I realized Disney did the right thing in scrapping the Star Wars EU for parts

>Titanic
>jeez is that still sitting up there
>nope, it's Avatar now

Eugh.

>>227446
"Elsanna" is the popular term? No imagination. Good porn, though. Regardless, I guess I should see it at some point...

>>227449
Indeed. And it might have fucked them on merchandising deals, like didn't Chewbacca get crushed by a moon in one of the books? So if a movie took place after that, he wouldn't be in it, so no Chewie plushies or whatever. I guarantee they are doing the movies because of the metric fuck-ton of cash they will make from merchandise, not out of any love for the franchise.

>>227671
I'd rather my smut be understood than imaginative, although I suppose someone should give an artist an esoteric ship name to work with and see what happens. For science.

So for Maleficent apparently shows off her true nature in the new film as Aurora's true Fairy Godmother

>>227724
I felt she was good for what characterization she had. No reasons beyond fashion as to butchering pups for their spots.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/maleficent_2014/

Something I'm learning as I write stuff, don't change things too much where they no longer feel connected to the original or similar base being used. Sometimes it can work but that trend seems to be drying up and more times than not just bites one in the backside.

>>227727
So supposedly Jolie is only good thing about the film, and it's plot became a rape n' revenge PG flick?
What the fuck?

Also, maybe we can cut back on the "villain is just misunderstood" thing. I know Disney wants wicked bad, but this is starting to get obsessive.

>>227731
Most the good reviews look to go with that line of Jolie being the redeeming thing in it.

>>227732
>I know Disney wants wicked bad
Is there a story behind this? I mean, obviously in the sense that Maleficent seems to BE Wicked: Disney Edition, but is there some sort of backstory about Disney negotiating for Wicked and being rebuffed?

They've been in Trademark stuff for a while with Warner Bros over Various pieces of the Wizard of Oz property. Its a very complex thing from the looks of it as to who as the rights to use what. As for outright purchasing of the whole thing. I'd say that if happening is behind the scenes just like their Marvel and LucasArts purchases. The old Walt Disney Magic of keeping the project quiet so nobody jacks the price or balks. I don't think its public but I wouldn't be surprised if they want it all.

Universal Studios is sitting on the movie rights to Wicked and have apparently been waiting for the theater show version to die down a bit before making a feature.

>>227740
>>227752
Huh. I'm not surprised about Wicked having licensing issues, but the fact that there would be any issues with Wizard of Oz in general surprises me--the book is Public Domain. Sure, you might not be able to get away with Ruby Slippers (as opposed to the silver ones) or other things that originated in the movie version, but I didn't think anyone would be able to sue for a straight adaptation, or even a new adaptation in the vein of Wicked, as long as it WASN'T Wicked.

I don't think you could, as I've seen a couple of books use a similar them but not be wicked. I know there was a Alice and Wonderland book series that I could sear Burton aped most his movie from.

Frozen is destroying marriages one by one.

>Unfortunately, not all spouses can agree to disagree when it comes to entertainment, as is the case with the woman in Japan who’s looking for a divorce because her husband isn’t a fan of Disney’s Frozen.

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/05/29/frozen-fan-gets-hot-under-collar-when-husband-asks-what-the-big-deal-is-asks-for-divorce/

Cripes these films, slapdash stories about non romantic love wedged into a movie. No reason to go total nuts.

YO

Maleficent was fucking amazing.

>>227862
I...Wholeheartedly disagree.

But I'm a bit of a nut for the original.

http://www.hypable.com/2014/06/16/disney-channel-descendants-villain-kids-photo/\

Disney, you weird.

>>227868
I love the original too, but I saw the desperate need for this movie, like this is a WAAAAAAAAAAAY better version of the events for women, like, the original is kinda gross to show young girls know what I mean? No one took away the original, there is just a version where it's not as gross a story to tell girls.

Except the film presents a Maleficent who never does anything evil and it takes a dump on the original protagonists of the 1959 film: The three good fairies.

Sleeping Beauty isn't about the princess and the prince, it's a conflict between Maleficent and the good fairies with the young couple as basically props to move their battle forward. Hell, the climax is basically the Good Fairies playing a game of Dragon's Lair using a real person. Phillip doesn't do anything except what the fairies point him towards or get him out from and never speaks in those last few minutes of the movie.

>>228183
Sure, but that's not what most people take away from the original.

>>228272
I don't think she's still Asian in this version.

I don't really know much about Big Hero 6. I bought an issue at Half-Price out of curiosity, but never read it. Buttoven recently tweeted about how every panel prominently featured a woman's breast, so that's not a great starting point. I do know Man of Action was involved with the comic series, so I imagine the cast are nothing but smug fucks, since that's the only thing Man of Actions knows.

>>228280
The comics are not good, and the movie is doing a VERY loose adaptation.

>>228272
I wonder if the people who give Disney such shit for character design reuse also consider Tezuka and Miyazaki hacks.

>>228280
The names of the characters rubs me the wrong way, like they based them off of what they knew about anime from the time of Speed Racer or some shit. It's less offensive than the Great Ten which was made in the late 2000s and has no excuse for some of the shit it used, but shit, it was made in 1998, lots other series made more on-target parodies of Japanese media by then.

>>228400
I read that post but it seriously downplays the degree to which character designs are reused by Ghibli. It is notorious enough that they are considered to have a "Star System" like Tezukas where certain "actors" just play roles in their movies. Mei played Ponyo, the male protagonists are almost all played by the same actor, etc.

>>228401

This seriously. It'd be one thing if they were like "Okay Miyazaki is kinda guilty of this too" but it reads more like "NO! WE CAN CRITICIZE MIYAZAKI BECAUSE HE MAKES GOOD MOVIES AND FROZEN IS A PIECE OF SHIT"

>>228403
That being said, I (as the poster of >>228401) just want to point out--I'm not saying this as an attack on Ghibli. I love Ghibli, and I don't think anyone in their right mind would call Ghibli lazy--they HAND DRAW things that would be a lot of work to do on computer. That storm scene in Ponyo made me exhausted just LOOKING at it.

I'm just pointing out what I see as a double standard among Internet Armchair Critics.

Star Wars: Force for Change - …

New Model of the X-Wing. Hope Luke and The Solo Spawn have the Red Stripes of Red/Rogue Squadron. And a Mouse Droid gets underfoot as usual.

//youtube.com/watch?v=jZn_TrwbPN8

Preview they played earlier. Seeing a few Stormies bite it in just seven minutes.

Disney already knows Star Wars: Rebels will be a big hit, so it ordered another season before its premier.

http://www.nickandmore.com/2014/10/02/disney-xd-orders-second-season-of-star-wars-rebels/

>>230298

Well it seems to line up enough with Clone Wars, lots of dead troopers shot with scorch marks and others being sucked out into the Void.

//youtube.com/watch?v=1kGEz1zDGgY

Didn't they cut this number from the stage play recently?

//youtube.com/watch?v=d0PgF_cfrhM

Glad to hear JEJ back as Darth Vader. Matt Sloan just wasn't doing it well for me.

"Children of the Jedi" and of course the Emperor is being a dick not telling Vader what he's actually talking about.

>>230808
Interesting choice considering they already tackled this part of the world with Lilo and Stitch, sorta. Waiting for them to do a film set in indigenous Australia, continental Africa, or maybe even central Asia, like with Otoyomegatari.

>Disney metal cover albums
>only in Japan
>have a bunch of j-pop and j-rock artists but also some western artists like Andrew WfuckingK

I never knew about this. God fucking damn it. Why is Tokyo Disney so much cooler than ours? We need something like this. I'm thinking AC/DC.

//youtube.com/watch?v=Q0fLojt3HIo

So Big Hero 6 is pretty good.

>>231603
>We need something like this.
Eh. Japan's proven to be a market where this sort of venture is sustainable.
Imagine getting western metalheads to listen to Disney music. I doubt the money they'd put into it have a proper return.

>>231612
People would buy it based on curiosity and novelty alone. Plus kids like rock and metal, clearly.

>>231613
Mnope. Its all EDM these days.
Make a disney remix album with Guetta, avicii, and other genre guys.
That sells.

>>231615
Dude, it's fucking Disney. They could afford to put out a novelty music album.

>>231618
Oh of course they can afford it.
They can afford to do anything.

Its not realistic to think they'd want to, though.

>>231619
Plenty of things have come about because Disney didn't particularly want to though. I'm pretty sure Wreck-It Ralph happened from a "Sure, go ahead" instead of a "This is a great idea and will surely bring in profit!"

>>231621
>I'm pretty sure Wreck-It Ralph happened from a "Sure, go ahead" instead of a "This is a great idea and will surely bring in profit!"

Okay then.
Why do you think that, anon?

>>231622
Even in 2014, making a film centered around video games is still a risky move.

>>231623
Well, videogames as a whole have evolved a crapton. I don't think it was that big of a risk considering how much they rake in year after year.

Why is nobody talking about how good Big Hero 6 is? I mean damn. I haven't seen a Disney movie that good in ages. (not counting Pixar mind you, and I never saw Frozen)

>>231751
It was really fun and enjoyable! But I sorta feel like it didn't live up to its own standards?
Like, Wreck it Ralph is a perfectly fine flick but it doesn't really do anything with its story beyond the formula.

>>231752
I don't really see what BH6 could've done that it didn't do, tbh. Wreck It Ralph's problem was that it was too short, this one was not.

Ralph had and odd development cycle to which I don't know who's story it was really supposed to be.

Saw the first episode of Penn Zero. Its not bad. Has a Quantum Leap vibe to it that works well so far as the first episode.

Frozen OST is free on Google.

https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bu7q2ux5x44ox7l57g77cdu3hai

>>232286
Okay I don't watch the show at all, but I want you to let me know if I've got this right
Elsa from Frozen and Cinderella (?) are in lesbians together and are off to get married. Is that right?

>>232286
Huh. Somebody better teach lesbians there's stuff other than hand holding.
How else are they going to reproduce!?

>>232288
Fuck me for thinking two women looking lovingly at each other, one of whom is in a wedding dress, holding hands and walking away together is romantic.

Calm down. I don't watch the show. I was just curious

>>232289

Also thanks for the explanation

>>232291
I was joking.
I just thought it was funny how so little split apart both shows were having almost the exact same 'reveals'.

Hell, if anything, its a bone thrown to all those elsanna shippers in the world.
So of course its romantic!

>>232685
>Renumbering the series
Ruined before it even starts.

>>232696
Trying to force rebranding into an ongoing series like that is always a bit awkward and rarely turns out well.
Lucky it's just a number.

>>232709
Yeah, I don't think people who buy Disney comics really care about numbers.

Word is they are adding Frozen fictional country stuff into the Epcot Norway pavilion.

Inside Out trailer is a bit cringing. It really should have shown Riley's internal setup instead of horribly sexist versions of the mother and father.

//youtube.com/watch?v=OwxnpcV_Guw

>>232724
Fuck off, SJW.

>>232728
90% of everyone who watches that scene will say "Ha ha ha! That's so true!" In fact, I showed both of my parents that trailer just to prove it, and they thought it was funny.

So yeah, complaints about sexism DOES make you a pathetic SJW.

>>232725
>>232731
>complaints about sexism DOES make you a pathetic SJW.
You've got a point, but you are coming off way too hostile. I wouldn't say that everyone who claims this is "sexist" is an SJW, but I would say they need to stop being so goddamn sensitive over nothing.

I thought it was cute.

>>232731
The poster claims it's sexist and the one that ends up looking worse is the father.
They might be a straight-laced MRA for all you know.

>>232731
Its not true and its ancient '90s Trope garbage of men being clueless and the woman wishing she'd picked the other man.

it dates the film horribly to feel even older than it is. My thing is after all the rather neutral takes on parents over the years to hit that this hard in this one seems really out of place.

>>232740
Its a shitty trailer full of shitty sitcom humour for a film even the people who've worked on it think its a bad representation of.

I wouldn't chalk it up to malice as much as bad marketing.

>>232742
From the way Tween sitcoms have the same formula of Bratty "Sister", Dumbass "Dad" and Neurotic "Mother". It wouldn't surprise me if they were attempting to connect with some group though that repeated old stuff.

>>232743
You say that as though it's something that's more common in Tween sitcoms than any other sitcoms. Pretty much any Domcom is going to have that setup--the ones that don't are often remarkable for not indulging in that setup.

>>232744
Currently Disney has one of those on their branded channel that being Girl Meets World where the characters appears to have substance beyond being the usual vapid Airheads. I think it works in part because its not trying to be a constant onslaught of jokes from the "funny" character. Dog with a Blog is fucking insufferable.

>>232743
>It wouldn't surprise me if they were attempting to connect with some group though that repeated old stuff.
Even the people who've worked on this movie think its a bad representation of it.

>>232748
Which shows why Marketing and Executives in general are woefully out of date and are at least ten years behind on their thinking.

>Among milestones, “Big Hero 6″ passed “Beauty and the Beast” to become the third highest-grossing Disney Animation release with $219.3 million, behind “The Lion King” and “Frozen.”

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/box-office-fifty-shades-of-grey-explodes-with-record-breaking-81-7-million-1201434486/

>>233247
Anybody suck it up enough to watch Fifty Shades? Word is the movie is actually kinda OK since bad prose was the cause of a lot of the original book's suckiness. And honestly from what I can tell the original work seems a lot tamer than the furor raised around it made it out to be. It's still a bad representation of BDSM but it's less The Turner Diaries for women's rights and just another low-quality erotic novel that inexplicably made it big.

>>233248

The text itself is tame, but the subtext—that the book glorifies an emotionally abusive relationship, regardless of how much Ana consents to Christian’s sexual whims—is far more insidious. But that’s a discussion for /mtv/, I suppose.

>>233296
>disgusting SJW trash

Keep that shit out of my Disney thread.

>>233298
I'm understanding the term "SJW" less and less the more I use the internet.

>>233299
Fat trans-female feminist giving an extremely pretentious defense of a shitty book, in a comic covered in pink. Yes, I would classify this as SJW.

>>233300
You're an idiot. She wasn't "defending" the book. She was calling it trash and saying that as long as people know it's trash when they're reading it, there's no reason to get on their case about it.

Which is what I've been saying about Twilight and 50 Shades and all that sort of thing all along. It's pornography. Men don't expect our pornography to be well written, why is it so important to give women crap for their pornography being poorly written?

>>233301
>why is it so important to give women crap for their pornography being poorly written?
Because they give men crap for having pornography in general?

>>233298
>>233300
This pretty much shows pretty much how you know nothing about Erika Moen and her work.

>>233302
Do "they?" I have never been hassled by a woman about viewing pornography. The closest I've come to being hassled by a woman about my pornography habits is that one girl I know once thought it was silly of me to keep porn on my harddrive when you can just stream anything you need these days.

>>233298
What in the world?

If anything, her stance of "yea it's bad but as long as people understand it's fiction and won't corrupt people then it's fine to like it" is the antithesis of SJW's "it triggers me and it can make impressionable people do bad things so it should be censored".

>>233296
Totally OT (even more than it already is, considering) but I like the art style of this comic.

>>233310
While I'm not quiet pervy enough to watch it because of the characters (yet) I got to say that the look of the show is amazing. Overall, many shows aimed at little kids look awesome, even though their audience doesn't care, while most shows aimed at older kids, like TMNT, look awful.

I miss the times when nobody tried to combine 3D with anime tropes which have been out of date since Sailor Moon.

>>233394
It wasn't my favourite of the five Oscar contenders, but I can't say it didn't deserve its gong. Disney put a lot of love into it and that love definitely shows.

Considering The Book of Life and The Lego Movie didn't make the nominations and yet we still got a very strong slate at the Oscars, 2014 was a pretty damn good year for animated movies, wasn't it?

>>233397
Am I the only one who doesn't really like Lego Movie all that much? Visually it was fantastic to look at, but a lot of the writing and comedy was juvenile and not in a multiple-demographic appeal kind of way. And tons of cameos do not a good movie make.

>>233398
I can understand that as "the mind of a child" since that is what it was. Though really the jokey nature of Lego and stuff could have been handled better.

>>233397
Damn straight.
Honestly, I even think Book of Life was a better movie than BH6.

But then... there's a point where the Academy would feel uncomfortable awarding that many mexicans.

>>233402
Book of Life was mediocre. The cover songs were all awful, and the story was pretty cliche and not really worth talking about. It had nice visuals, but that was about it.

I haven't seen BH6 yet, but if Book of Life was somehow better then neither movie deserves an award.

>>233404
>I haven't seen BH6 yet
Fun fact: Above poster is still right.

>>233402
Maybe put down your posterboard and pitchfork, yeah? Book of Life was just "okay". Not to mention the female character designs were awful - before I watched the movie I was convinced that La Muerte and Maria were the same character in different costumes.

>>233402
Well, I didn't want to get all Primary School "everyone gets a gold star" about it, but my point was that all the nominees and even the leftovers that didn't get nominated all had something going for them quality-wise. Some were more commercial than others, but none of them felt like soulless cashgrabs, they all had heart.

That's why I don't mind BH6 getting the statue, even taking into account how much its win was down to it being the only cartoon the dumb-as-rocks Oscar voters were dragged by their kids to see last year: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/award-season-focus/proof-that-oscar-voters-are-clueless-about-animation-109456.html
>Voter #5: I only watch the ones that my kid wants to see, so I didn’t see Boxtrolls but I saw Big Hero 6 and I saw Dragon. We both connected to Big Hero 6 — I just found it to be more satisfying. The biggest snub for me was Chris Miller and Phil Lord not getting in for Lego. When a movie is that successful and culturally hits all the right chords and does that kind of box-office — for that movie not to be in over these two obscure freakin’ Chinese fuckin’ things that nobody ever freakin’ saw? That is my biggest bitch. Most people didn’t even know what they were! How does that happen? That, to me, is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen.

>Song of the Sea
>obscure freakin’ Chinese fuckin’ thing

>>233409
Song of the Sea is a Chinese cartoon now? Time to make a thread on /a/ then.

>>233411
Ah, yes. So implying the reason Book of Life didn't win because the Oscars didn't want Mexicans to win is a rational thing to think?

>>233412
No. The reason I said a thing was because its so absurd someone would have to be out of their mind to think it wouldn't be said it jest.

>An all-new DuckTales, an animated comedy series based on the Emmy Award-winning series beloved by a generation of viewers, has been ordered for launch in 2017 on Disney XD channels around the world. Set to be produced by Disney Television Animation, the new series will again star Disney's enduringly popular characters: Scrooge McDuck, his grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, and Donald Duck. The announcement was made today by Marc Buhaj, Senior Vice President, Programming and General Manager, Disney XD.

>Buhaj said, "DuckTales' has a special place in Disney's TV animation history, it drew its inspiration from Disney Legend Carl Barks' comic books and through its storytelling and artistic showmanship, set an enduring standard for animated entertainment that connects with both kids and adults. Our new series will bring that same energy and adventurous spirit to a new generation."

>According to the studio press release, the new series' will "once again take viewers along as Scrooge McDuck, his curious and mischief-making grandnephews -- Huey, Dewey and Louie -- and the optimistic yet temperamental Donald Duck embark on high-flying adventures worldwide. Other beloved characters slated to be in the new stories are: Duckworth, Gyro Gearloose, Launchpad McQuack, Flintheart Glomgold, Magica DeSpell & Poe, Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys (Burger Beagle, Bouncer Beagle), Mrs. Beakley and Webbigail Vanderquack."

http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/disney-revives-ducktales-for-2017-launch-on-disney-xd-20150225

>>233414

Well I’ll be damned.

It’s too much to hope for a Rescue Rangers revival, I guess—but with that live-action/CGI movie on the way, I’m not sure I’d want one…

>>233416
Ducktales 2 Remastered when.

>>233417

Rescue Rangers Remastered when.

>>233433
I feel like they might just promote that short more than Cinderella. Actually, is this the first time they released a trailer for a pre-movie short? Do they normally do this?

>>233435
Do you want to build a LESBIANNNNNNNSSS! Disney looks to be moving with something Nick still really can't get behind.

>>233436
What, incest?

>>233435
Sisters showing care for each other?
Clearly incestuous lesbians. Why else would anyone show any affection ever?

>>233435
to all posters

joke alert

womp womp

>>233440
Impossible to tell

>>233442
Not really, since I highly doubt Disney would include a nod to sapphic incest in their movie for kids.

>>233444
On the other hand, it's not hard at all to believe that there are fans who would convince themselves it was intentional subtext on Disney's part.

>>233445
But it seems the joke was made as to poke fun at said fans.

>>233435
There was a Tangled short?

//youtube.com/watch?v=qjycf7h4KZM

>Deadline reports that following a strong performance in China - a territory which is becoming more and more important to a movie's box office performance - Big Hero 6 has now crossed the $600 million mark worldwide with a current cume of $604.8 million (that's made up of $221.3 million domestically and $383.5 million internationally). That means it now sits behind Frozen and The Lion King as the third highest grossing Disney Animation release of all-time, and between this and its big awards season wins, you have to wonder how much longer it will be before a sequel is officially announced.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=116360

>>233660
I had a feeling Big Hero 6 would get Pacific Rim'd, it pushes all the right buttons for the Chinese market and having an Asian-American protagonist certainly couldn't have hurt.

>>233717
Also Tadashi is a great draw for the fujoshi crowd. Yes, fujoshi and not just fangirls. I'll leave you guys to do the math who the other guy is while I retch elsewhere.

http://bigshinyrobot.com/58601/star-wars-introduces-lgbt-character-canon/

>BIG NEWS

Even though I know there have been a few in the EU before this. But those aren't canon anymore so BIG NEWS.

Pbbbht.

>>233801
Why can't Disney just do this naturally? Instead of waving their arms in the air going "Look! We're being progressive!"

>>233802

Well they want attention for doing something progressive. While we've got Pearls recent revelations about her feelings and relationship with rose in the past and Korra and Asami at the end being a growth of character.

its basically how screwed up Batwoman came in when she was introduced as "the lesbian" as her defining character trait instead of being part of her character.

She's likely a replacement for Daala being Moff and all.

>>233801
>who is Juhani

>>233807
Doesn't count KOTOR is no longer in the canon.

>>233813
I've got an idea of how it could be done. Anna out looking for a companion for Elsa who is still very reclusive. Fire Element aligned individual of some kind. Maybe just as reclusive for similar reasons. Anna working on bringing them together.

>>233807

Real shame as she was a good character.

>>233813
Crap. Just now realized I linked the wrong article.

http://www.slashfilm.com/frozen-2-announced/

It is funny how fast it went from "No Frozen 2" to Yes, we're making a Frozen 2."

Live-Action Bambi Trailer:

//youtube.com/watch?v=HkJtvgwICAY

>>235089
Oooh, not one mention of turning into animals either, that's a REALLY promising sign when it comes to Disney and POC.

>>235090
Well they are making Zootopia which comes out around that same time. So that would be too many animal films. Lucky them. Glad that actually got someone from the region to be in the film.

>>235090
>POC
Eh, I find that term REALLY annoying and condescending, speaking as one myself. Just saying nonwhite is fine. We all know what you mean, and it's way more clear than Goalpost Moving: The Word which I've seen plastered numerous times onto the Irish, Greeks (umm... Golden Dawn anyone?), and Ukrainians.

>>235095
Oki-dokie, won't use it again.

POC is actually a useful term sometimes. It's perfectly valid when talking specifically about American racial issues, considering the US's history of explicitly colorist policies. But I hate what Tumblr's done to the term and how it tries to shoehorn this square peg into to round holes where the term doesn't make any sense. For example Latin American ethnic politics, where the idea of "race" is way different enough so a wealthy half-African might be considered "whiter" than a poor mixed person with more European background, or two full-blood siblings might be considered different races.

Or for discussions about East Asia where discussions of POC are completely irrelevant because everybody already qualifies as one, and that never stopped a lot of the horrible racism that goes on there. Or hell, a lot of talk about Tumblr's concept of "privilege" in general, considering Chinese culture is often considered "privileged" in a lot of countries yet the actual Chinese people living there face a lot of discrimination.

Thread derailed by race bullshit.

>>235112
Then why not contribute something more relevant? Three or four posts is hardly "derailing" and it's not even over anything particularly controversial.

Speaking of which, do we know what Zootopia is supposed to be about precisely? It's supposed to be CG, but so far the style looks more like traditional animation.

>>235113
It looks like what they tried to do with Tangled before having to redo that movie from scratch.

>>235113
Last heard about it few years back it was Stuffy Rabbit Cop lady new to the force and the only rabbit teamed with a Slacker Fox Conman type. And there is some big mystery. I like the idea of so many different animals living together. From what has been seen I get a real Mega City One feel of things.

Hope if they are trying the filter thing again all the bugs are worked out. That was what limited Tangled is that when they put the filter in over the characters it went all to hell.

>>235118
that call out, now what is Scrooge going to get to match that?

>>235118

>first frame

Holy shit, is that actually the real line?

>>235120
>>235122
I mean, from a certain point of view, no, that's probably not an accurate translation of the original Italian story from 1966, but yes, that is what IDW put there.

>>235120
>>235122
Apparently it is. God bless Jonathan H. Gray.

//youtube.com/watch?v=t4UUQqefajc

I'd be intrigued if this was picked up for a series with an actual budget.

Tangled is getting an animated series.

http://blogs.disney.com/insider/2015/06/03/what-makes-the-tangled-animated-series-so-special/

>But what makes the Tangled series so special is the amount of talent that they’ve retained from the original feature film. This new series will feature Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi reprising their roles of Rapunzel and Flynn Rider (nee Eugene) from the movie and showcase new songs from Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater, who were responsible for all of those catchy tunes in the original film. Clare Keane, daughter of Disney Legend Glen Keane (who at one point was the director on a very different version of the film and who later served as an animation supervisor), consulted on the film. They’re really getting the band back together. This is roughly the equivalent of snagging Robin Williams for the Aladdin television series.

>>235151
Be nice to have something to break the tween morass

>>236093
>>236109

Obligatory comment.

>>236093
It says a lot, but then like a proper teaser, it actually says nothing at all.
But at least they established the blindingly obvious concept.

>>236113
The people in charge of PR at Disney want to make sure 100% of the audience get the intended message.

Expect the movie to paws every 5 seconds to have a narrator explain what's happening on-screen.

>>236255
And I threw up a little. When they add Frozen I'll slap all Square employees in the face.

>>236257
>When they add Disney's biggest money maker of the decade, I'll slap all Square employees in the face.
Logic.

Sounds like the plans for Epcot renovating it from the stagnate technology and cultural pavilion it's been for decades.

Inside Out: showing that four years of "meh" doesn't make you forget how to make good movies.

It was great.

Great but lacking that little bit of something to cement itself as a classic

So Toy Story 4 is a thing now.

>>237948
Clearly a new trilogy, following the same arc as the first but with the new kid!

>>237954
Nope, it's been described as a love story between Woody and Bo Peep. I imagine it's a prequel since Bo Peep is missing in TS3.