35 million budget!!?? - Little Nemo (1992) Discussion

[–] Disneyfan16672 13 years ago

It was several years, directors, and writers in the making. In the end, though, the story was a little slighted and not everyone ended up with what they wanted. I still think the movie is a triumph of imagination (even if its story is all over the place), and it was a favorite of mine when I was younger watching the old Disney channel (before they were taken over by their "tween" generation).

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[–] arorashadow_2003 13 years ago

Toy Story 3 was made for an estimated $200,000,000

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[–] ers1989-1 13 years ago

I more meant it regarding that time period. Most movies are crazy expensive now :0

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[–] bcross11 12 years ago

Yes 35M is extremely high considering it was release back in 89 and wasn't widely released. It dose make you wonder what was going through their mind on this one.

The lion king released by disney was a major project a tent-pole if you will and was budgeted at 50M in 94. Rock-A-Doodle released in 91 had a 18M budget. The land before time released in 88 had a 12M budget.

Animated movies have spiraled out of control recently. The princess and the frog a 2D animation cost over 100M.

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[–] HarlemEagle42 (16265) 3 years ago

Well, the animation looks great at least.

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[–] EvilDeadAsh (99) 2 years ago

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)

The first anime movie to receive a wide release in the United States. Production began in 1982, with the intention of the film being a big-budget showcase of Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co.'s animation style to American audiences. The efforts to make it a movie that would appeal to both Japanese and American audiences resulted in the film having a long and troubled production history, as different arms of production (writing, casting, animation, etc) received conflicting instructions as to how to proceed with the film. Over the course of seven years, numerous powerful figures from both Japanese and American film-making were hired in various attempts to salvage production. Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata worked for a year, between 1982-1983, but ultimately left due to creative differences with the American production company; Miyazaki later called it "the worst experience" of his career. Gary Kurtz and Chris Columbus were each brought on board at different points to act as directors/producers/writers, and Ray Bradbury was hired to write a new script. It is unknown how much each contributed to the final product. Although the film premiered in Japan in 1989, it did not receive its intended American release until 1992, a full decade after the start of production; in a final effort to market the film to American audiences, several minutes of the movie had to be edited in order to secure a softer rating.

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