Let's Blow This Popsicle Stand: Universal Partners With ‘Foodfight!’ Studio For More CGI Films - Polidicks

[quote]The average child or adult animation fan with an untrained eye might look at the animated feature Foodfight! and think to themself, “That’s not the greatest animated film I’ve ever seen in my entire life.” That’s precisely why the average child or adult animation fan with an untrained eye doesn’t work in a movie studio. A Hollywood executive looks at Foodfight! and see its unfettered brilliance as a postmodern statement on consumerism and commodity culture. Foodfight! is auteur filmmaking at its finest, says the enlightened movie executive, and he knows immediately that he can do but one thing: commission more brand-based projects like Foodfight! Today, Universal Studios Home Entertainment’s Universal 1440 division announced that they’ve signed a first-look agreement with Foodfight! producer Threshold Animation Studios to create more direct-to-video CGI films “based on highly celebrated family brands.” “Threshold has a proven track record in delivering quality productions that excel both in storytelling and in animation,” said Glenn Ross, executive vice-president and general manager of Universal 1440 Entertainment. “We look forward to further building upon our existing relationship and effectively launching exciting, new home entertainment properties and franchises.” “I’m thrilled to formalize the great home entertainment relationship we’ve enjoyed with Universal these past few years,” said Foodfight! director and Threshold ceo Larry Kasanoff. “I think their home entertainment distribution and marketing prowess, the great brands we are lining up and our animation will make for some terrific films.” Threshold has produced other DVD-exclusive projects for Universal Studios Home Entertainment in the past: Bionicle, the Legend Reborn, and a feature-length Lego film, LEGO: The Adventures of Clutch Powers.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.cartoonbrew.com/dvd/universal-partners-with-foodfight-studio-for-more-cgi-films-103553.html[/url] Maybe with Universal on their side, they'll do a better job.

Didn't that movie turn out to be a front for a money laundering scheme?

survival of the fittest, universal

[QUOTE]to create more direct-to-video CGI films “based on highly celebrated family brands.”[/QUOTE] They probably just want all that advertising money :v: Foodfight was terrible but the creators probably made a lot of bank on all those products.

Hasn't Foodfight! been proven to cause cancer?

FUCK YES CAN'T WAIT

i mean i know they did the best they could given a shitscraping of a budget but [QUOTE]“Threshold has a proven track record in delivering quality productions that excel both in storytelling and in animation,” said Glenn Ross, executive vice-president and general manager of Universal 1440 Entertainment. “We look forward to further building upon our existing relationship and effectively launching exciting, new home entertainment properties and franchises.”[/QUOTE] what the cunts

[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;45973066]i mean i know they did the best they could given a [B]shitscraping of a budget but[/B] what the cunts[/QUOTE] Their budget was $65,000,000. I think shitscraping isn't the right term to use here.

To be entirely honest, I enjoyed that Bionicle movie as a kid. Never saw the Lego one, though. Foodfight! Is definitely their worst project.

Didn't it blow hard because they spent millions on some finished project, which ended up getting lost somehow, and they had to spend several years trying to remake the same movie without taking that much money again?

[QUOTE=Aphtonites;45972918]They probably just want all that advertising money :v: Foodfight was terrible but the creators probably made a lot of bank on all those products.[/QUOTE] no it bombed

[QUOTE=NuggetWarmer;45973108]Their budget was $65,000,000. I think shitscraping isn't the right term to use here.[/QUOTE] it was 65 mil to pay the voice talent AND for the original animation. after that animation was stolen or w/e they had to remake the movie from the ground up with new (terrible) assets original animation trailer (based on the animation before the big theft) [video=youtube;81uIhu8qrrs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uIhu8qrrs[/video]

[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;45973228]it was 65 mil to pay the voice talent AND for the original animation. after that animation was stolen or w/e they had to remake the movie from the ground up with new (terrible) assets original animation trailer (based on the animation before the big theft) [video=youtube;81uIhu8qrrs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uIhu8qrrs[/video][/QUOTE] Still doesn't seem any better than the actual finished project.

Cartoon Brew's like the Onion, right? Right, guys? Guys?

[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;45973333]Still doesn't seem any better than the actual finished project.[/QUOTE] It looks much better. Load of shite, but better.

[QUOTE=NuggetWarmer;45973108]Their budget was $65,000,000. I think shitscraping isn't the right term to use here.[/QUOTE] That's low budget. Hollywood blockbusters regularly crest 750 million bucks to produce.

[QUOTE=TestECull;45973444]That's low budget. Hollywood blockbusters regularly crest 750 million bucks to produce.[/QUOTE] Did you ever watch the final result that came out of said budget in this context?

[QUOTE=TestECull;45973444]That's low budget. Hollywood blockbusters regularly crest 750 million bucks to produce.[/QUOTE] The fact it made little more than 50 grand for its box office though

[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;45973228]it was 65 mil to pay the voice talent AND for the original animation. after that animation was stolen or w/e they had to remake the movie from the ground up with new (terrible) assets original animation trailer (based on the animation before the big theft) [video=youtube;81uIhu8qrrs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uIhu8qrrs[/video][/QUOTE] the yeaaaargh scream with the sauce bottles confuses the shit out of me every time

[QUOTE=abcpea;45974002]the yeaaaargh scream with the sauce bottles confuses the shit out of me every time[/QUOTE] Is It just me or Is that the sound from the fast zombie lunging from HL2? I swear to fuck It is.

[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;45973228]it was 65 mil to pay the voice talent AND for the original animation. after that animation was stolen or w/e they had to remake the movie from the ground up with new (terrible) assets original animation trailer (based on the animation before the big theft) [video=youtube;81uIhu8qrrs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uIhu8qrrs[/video][/QUOTE] "something didn't seem quite right, tell me what's an exobyte" These are prodigious lyrics

[QUOTE=Duskin;45974077]Is It just me or Is that the sound from the fast zombie lunging from HL2? I swear to fuck It is.[/QUOTE] It might be, memory serving the fast zombie used a modified Howie scream for the lunging scream.

[QUOTE=TestECull;45973444]That's low budget. Hollywood blockbusters regularly crest 750 million bucks to produce.[/QUOTE] Uhh is this sarcasm? I can't tell. [editline]14th September 2014[/editline] Because that is like 4 times what a normal blockbuster has budget wise

The most annoying thing is the demo reel that Larry Kasanoff, the owner of Threshold, used to sell himself, contained 54% work that my father directed, 44% work that his company's current manager directed, and 2% work that current Threshold staff actually could have worked on. None of it was anynthing that Kasanoff himself touched. Fucking annoying little twerp.

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[quote]The average child or adult animation fan with an untrained eye might look at the animated feature Foodfight! and think to themself, “That’s not the greatest animated film I’ve ever seen in my entire life.”[/quote] I assume these people will also say 'I'm not feeling very well' when they've got cancer?

[QUOTE=TestECull;45973444]That's low budget. Hollywood blockbusters regularly crest 750 million bucks to produce.[/QUOTE] $750 million is way over the average for a big movie. Godzilla came in at $160m, Inception was about the same; the dark knight was a bit more, but they're definitely far from your figure. Can't really think of any movie getting near that budget, to be honest. The average for an Adam Sandler shit flick is about those $70m, though. Amazing that you can waste so much money. And is the 24/7 Foodfight! stream still up? Edit: It is. Oh god.

[QUOTE=Swiket;45972867]Didn't that movie turn out to be a front for a money laundering scheme?[/QUOTE] Source?

Foodfight 2 confirmed?

[QUOTE=Xonax;45977264]Source?[/QUOTE] It wasn't, it was a legit attempt at a movie but the director was a man who was a completely juvenile narcissistic retard who couldn't direct his way out of an open field. Larry Kasanoff is a complete moron. He kept making people redo scenes months after they were set in stone, he had ADHD something fierce and kept redirecting teams and leaving scenes half finished, he also did not understand that an [B]ANIMATED MOVIE[/B] needed [B]ANIMATORS[/B] and kept firing them. I've got a whole fucking flowchart showing the exact sequence that Larry ruined the movie step by step. It's such a shame because the movie idea actually held great promise, and if the movie had released on time and on budget it should have actually been quite good and done well in box office. Source: I grew up and pretty much spent every summer day in Threshold with my dad, who worked there. I was a motion capture actor(my part was lost in the theft), and my voice was to be used for several parts (in fact, I think it actually was used in the finish product as some background chatter). My brother worked security guard at nights after the theft. Larry used to call me "little dude" which I thought was cool then but looking back he is a right arrogant cunt to the highest degree. He also had a retarded chocolate lab named Monkey, who was gigantic and Larry also refused to train him. I [I]hate[/I] Larry. He ruined my father's career in movies.