Comments on: Does 20th Century Fox Have the New Monopoly on Animation?

By: Eric McInnis

Eric McInnis — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 21:27:00 +0000

In reply to Matt G. Sony is the class clown who loves to make people laugh, and Warner are the slackers who are just starting to take school seriously.

By: Morgan Stradling

Morgan Stradling — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:51:00 +0000

In reply to Matt G. LOVE this analogy.

By: Cecelia

Cecelia — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:30:00 +0000

In reply to Matt G.

And LAIKA is like the artsy goth/emo kids who do their own thing and people think they’re weird, but kinda respect them. Especially since they don’t care that they’re weird.

Great analogy!

By: Anthony Raphael

Anthony Raphael — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 06:24:00 +0000

In reply to Matt G. Exactly what I thought about Illumination

By: AnimatedMadness

AnimatedMadness — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 05:25:00 +0000

In reply to Matt G. That summary for Illumination, nailed it.

By: Matt G

Matt G — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:40:00 +0000

I see it as Disney and DreamWorks being the cool kids in the lunch room and Fox may be allowed to sit at their table if they can manage a mega hit.

Meanwhile Illumination is like the football team. They win a game here and there, but people mainly come to their games for the mascots.

Aardman is the foreign exchange students. Everyone more-or-less likes them, but they’re small and they kind of get ignored by Americans.

So I see it as Fox building more clout. One of these companies would have to basically own the market for a monopoly to emerge. None do as of yet.