{"id":1859,"date":"2005-12-11T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2005-12-11T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T11:03:25","slug":"the-rise-of-indie-cgi-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1859","title":{"rendered":"The rise of indie CGI animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Straight from the &#8220;clippings-I&#8217;m-saving-for-my-thesis&#8221; file: <i>The Hollywood Reporter<\/i> examines one early Weinstein Company project, <i>Hoodwinked,<\/i> as an example of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/thr\/columns\/film_reporter_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001657633\">CGI indie films<\/a>.  The budget for <i>Hoodwinked?<\/i> About US$35M.  Not a small pile of cash, to be sure, but when you consider that, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Incredibles#U.S._box_office_take\">according to Wikipedia<\/a>, Pixar&#8217;s latest film <i>The Incredibles<\/i> had a budget of $US92M and brought in a box office take of $US259M <i>domestic<\/i> and US$366M abroad, for a whopping total of $US625M (I repeat &#150; <i>US$625,000,000<\/i>), then <i>Hoodwinked<\/i> only has to make just under <i>six percent<\/i> of that take to break even.  (Alec, you want to check my math on this?)<br \/>\n<i>(Postscript: cool!  Post #100!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straight from the &#8220;clippings-I&#8217;m-saving-for-my-thesis&#8221; file: The Hollywood Reporter examines one early Weinstein Company project, Hoodwinked, as an example of CGI indie films. The budget for Hoodwinked? About US$35M. Not a small pile of cash, to be sure, but when you consider that, according to Wikipedia, Pixar&#8217;s latest film The Incredibles had a budget of $US92M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-tZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}