Why doesn't Disney re-release its films in the theaters anymore?

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Or do they and I just haven't paid attention? I can't imagine that Snow White and Pinocchio can't make more money than Barnyard or whatever.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

they can make even more money releasing them as DVDs

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

Why not do both?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure it costs A LOT less to re-release Fantasia than it did to make Madagascar!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

i would guess that the thinking goes something like, "we can make six gazillion dollars releasing a 'limited-edition' DVD of snow white thats only around for two months or we can make only one gazillion from dvd sales and one gazillion from a theatrical release" ('cause who's gonna buy the dvd when they know its coming out in the theaters in a couple months). but uh i dont work for disney.

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Why not release it in theaters for a month or two and then release a limited bells and whistles DVD six months down the road and make money off both?

Look almost every parent I talk bemoans the state of children's feature films and is nostalgic for the Disney classics. I can't imagine these people not taking their kids to the theater to see Cinderella AND then deciding NOT to buy the DVD just because the kid already saw it in theater. It's not like seeing Cars on the big screen has prevented any parent from buying the DVD or the kids from watching it 60 million times.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

Do kids today still want to see a 2D cartoon from the 1940's about a lost girl stranded in the forest with dwarves?

It's like when my family went to Disneyworld for the first time. My sister and I were all like "Who the fuck is Mr. Toad and how did his ride get so wild?"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

"Do kids today still want to see a 2D cartoon from the 1940's about a lost girl stranded in the forest with dwarves?"

Well the Peter Pan DVD is ranked 126 on Amazon, Bambi is 79, The Little Mermaid is 51, Lady and the Tramp is 41 so yeah I'd guess they do.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

i'd rather see 'secret of nimh' back in the theaters.

― ‘•’u (gear), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

cuz Disney classics make the new films look like shite

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

i'd rather see 'secret of nimh' back in the theaters.

Now we're talking. The last truly great 'classic' Disney film, even though it wasn't Disney?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

I have no interest in seeing anything Disney produced past oh 1977 in theaters, but there is a lot of gold before that point (the first five are esp. strong and stand up very well.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

Also the string from 1950 to 1961 (Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians) is excellent as well.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

Remember when CBS would show Wizard of Oz each year with huge fanfare? And goodness, the year they showed Gone With The End over two nights, there may as well have been a national curfew.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

Gone With The End?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

Um. I shouldn't type while I'm answering the phone.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

It really should have been called that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:58 (eighteen years ago)

is this thread about 'herbie goes bananas'?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Which I actually saw in the theater.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Also the string from 1950 to 1961 (Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians) is excellent as well.

You pretty much have Mary Blair to thank for that!! I'm a HUGE fan.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Re-releasing films is more expensive than you'd think, because producing prints is expensive. Unless you limit your release to cinemas with digital projectors, of course.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Basically, you can get all those classic WaltDis films at a carboot for a fraction of the price of one child cinema ticket.

Even a new DVD will be much less than the price of adult+1child...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

"Do kids today still want to see a 2D cartoon from the 1940's about a lost girl stranded in the forest with dwarves?"

Well the Peter Pan DVD is ranked 126 on Amazon, Bambi is 79, The Little Mermaid is 51, Lady and the Tramp is 41 so yeah I'd guess they do.

but those dvds aren't being bought by kids, are they? they're being bought by adults who loved them as children, and who would love their children to love them.

i say this as a kid who was raised on the old disney cartoons, and loved 'em. i've no doubt a kid sat in front of a Disney classic would glean joy and wonder from them, but at the same time i don't imagine them begging their parents to take them to see snow white (when there is competition like Cars, etc)

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

I miss those days when the whole family would gather around the TV because they were showing a movie or Peanuts special...and they had that spinning "SPECIAL" logo.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

and Dolly Madison as sponsor

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Oh hell yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure it counts, but they've got Mary Poppins in limited release right now.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Actually that does sort of count.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

"they're being bought by adults who loved them as children, and who would love their children to love them."

Uh yeah but those are the same adults who are going to drag their kids to the theater to see them rather than sit through Chicken Little!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

"Re-releasing films is more expensive than you'd think, because producing prints is expensive."

?!!? It's still less money than making a whole new crappy film!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

did I read they're actually will be a Song of the South DVD??

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

EVERYBODY GOTS A LAFFIN PLACE, BRER BAR

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Commentary track by Ethan and the Ego Trip crew.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

Not Stephin Merritt and SF Jones?

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

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