Another one for UP – and not enough for the Princess & the Frog
Disney Pixar UP continuous its successful run in the award race leading up to the OSCARS. The latest award it can add to its growing collection: The Producers Guild of America (PGA) Producer of the Year 2010 Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures for Jonas Rivera. Congratulations!
Congratulations also to John Lasseter who was awarded by PGA the 2010 David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Motion Pictures as reported by Deadline Hollywood.
The Disney classic style 2D animated “The Princess and the Frog” on the other hand unfortunately continues to fail to make any major impression in the award season… however, that – once again – unfortunately – seems to reflect the - let’s be polite – not really convincing performance of the movie at the US boxoffice. A look at more or less current numbers shows e.g. “Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” from Fox – now in US theaters for 5 weeks having so far accumulated $204.2 million in the USA while last Thursday, January 21, “The Princess and the Frog” stood still below $100 million (to be exact: $97,955,233 according to the TAG Blog). The movie may still have legs in the US, even so it has dropped out of the top 10 and there is also the international income to be considered, which should receive another boost once the movie opens in the UK later this week (generally a rather good market for Disney in the past). However, it is save to say that the movie was not the return of classic 2D animation in the grand style Disney and Disney fans had hoped for.
