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With ‘Inside Out 2’ and ‘Despicable Me 4’ Propping Up the Summer Box Office, Could 2024 Be the Year of Animation?
As the Hollywood struggles to bring audiences back after the strikes, one sector is doing gangbusters: animation. And the year's just getting started.
On the theatrical front, Skydance (the David Ellison-owned, John Lasseter-operated studio behind “Luck”) touted their upcoming “Spellbound,” an old-school princess movie from “Shrek” co-director Vicky Jenson (featuring original songs by “Beauty and the Beast” composer Alan Menken) that looks charming, but also a decade or so behind the curve. Among the other American studios in attendance, Disney teased footage from “Moana 2,” which should infuse still more life into the box office this Thanksgiving, while Andy Serkis appeared in-person to tout anime spin-off “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” a decidedly adult-looking battle epic (with a red-haired heroine to mix things up on typically male-dominated Middle Earth). Attending Annecy for the first time, Sanders personally introduced nearly 20 minutes of footage, which looked strikingly different from previous DWA features: After crash-landing in a forest, the title character (a helper droid voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) tries to make herself useful to an orphaned duckling.
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