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In this episode of Geek Freaks Headlines, we're celebrating a monumental moment in adult animation: The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, and American Dad have each been renewed for four more seasons! We explore what this means for long-time fans, the power of streaming numbers, and how these iconic series continue to shape Fox's Animation Domination. Plus, personal reflections on growing up with these shows and what makes them so enduring.00:00 – Big animation renewals: Four more seasons for each00:08 – The Simpsons heading to 40 seasons00:14 – Streaming power: 42.4B minutes for Family Guy, 36B for Bob's Burgers00:28 – Impact on Hulu and Disney+00:34 – A personal animation journey: Growing up with The Simpsons00:50 – Love for new era shows like About Alice and The Great North01:06 – Dreaming of a podcast just to talk about adult animationThe Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, and American Dad are all renewed through the 2028–2029 season.Streaming is driving the longevity of these shows with billions of minutes watched.These series are foundational for Hulu and Disney+'s adult animation libraries.Fox continues expanding with new titles like About Alice and The Great North.The deep-rooted love for animated comedies is as personal as it is cultural.“Adult animation is literally my number one fandom.”“The Simpsons is heading to 40 seasons. I remember buying the DVD for the 20th.”“Now it seems so tame, but back then I wasn't even allowed to watch it.”“I would make a podcast about these shows... I just don't know the format.”If you're as hyped about these renewals as we are, hit that Subscribe button!Leave a review, share this episode, and tag us using #GeekFreaksPodcast.We want to hear from you! What's your favorite adult animation series? Drop your thoughts in the comments or message us.

JONATHON E. STEWART is a screenwriter best known for Pixar / Disney's Cars 3, Smallfoot, Angry Birds 2 and 2020 Scooby-Doo reboot SCOOB. With writing partner Eyal Podell, Stewart has written screenplays for Dreamworks, Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, ABC Studios, STX, Paramount Animation, Sony Animation, Fox Animation, Netflix Animation and served on Pixar's Braintrust from 2013-2014. Stewart's inspired-by-true-LGBTQ-events TV drama pilot Grace sold to ABC Studios in the fall of 2016, and modern update on the Dickens classic Two Cities in fall 2017. In 2012, Podell & Stewart's screenplay Seuss—a biopic about the legendary author—earned the #2 slot on Hollywood's Black List. Stewart is also currently working with New York Times best selling author and lifestyle entrepreneur, Lewis Howes, to develop a feature inspired by world-renowned jazz violinist, composer and educator, Christian Howes. Stewart's venture, NarrativeDrive.org, aims to mentor new, diverse and previously undiscovered voices in screenwriting, ultimately serving to have their work translated to the screen. www.jstew.com https://www.narrativedrive.org/ @JEStew3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is our interview with voice acting LEGENDS John DiMaggio and David Herman from Futurama. We discuss their favourite characters, favourite lines, as well as what makes the show so special and why they think the series keeps making a come back. David also shares an EXCLUSIVE never before heard line from an upcoming yet to be produced episode!The first two episodes of Futurama Season 12 are streaming right now on Disney+. Check out Geekcentric onYouTube | Instagram | Twitter | TikTokJoin the Geekcentric Discord HEREJoin Nate on Twitch at - twitch.tv/nateplaysgames

THE RUSSIAN FOLK LEGEND COMES TO LIFE!! Visit https://www.asteproallergy.com/ to Save on Allergy Relief! Anastasia Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Mondays are for Musicals & Animation and we got us a heaping helping of BOTH as Tara Erickson & Aaron Alexander give their first time Reaction, Commentary, Breakdown, and Spoiler Review for the Fox Animation feature based on the Russian Legend & Directed by Gary Goldman & the legendary Don Bluth (The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, All Dogs go to Heaven, Titan A.E.)! The film features the voices of Meg Ryan (You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally...) as Anastasia, John Cusack (High Fidelity, Say Anything, Gross Pointe Blank) as Dimitri, & Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, The Addams Family, Who Framed Roger Rabbit) as Rasputin along with Hank Azaria (The Simpsons, Mystery Men, Godzilla) as Bartok, Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote, Beauty and the Beast) as Dowager Empress Marie, Kelsey Grammer (Cheers, Frasier, X-Men: The Last Stand), Bernadette Peters (Annie, Pennies from Heaven, Into the Woods), Kirsten Dunst (Civil War, Spider-Man, Interview with the Vampire), Andrea Martin (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Black Christmas) & MORE! Tara & Aaron React to all the Best Scenes & Musical Numbers including the Opening Scene, Once Upon a December, In the Dark of the Night, Anastasia Dances with Dimitri, Peppermint, Paris Welcomes Anastasia, Anastasia Destroys Rasputin / "Rasputin Death", "I Remember!", and Beyond! Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ths week we head to Hollywood to look at two American animated films that had a crack at the space opera genre. We discuss the first ever animated feature made in 3D, Starchaser: The Legend of Orin and the Don Bluth animated Titan A.E, that had more than it's fair share of production issues along the way.  Visit our website https://www.journeythroughscifi.com/ Email Us! Follow us on TWITTER Add us on INSTAGRAM Like us on FACEBOOK Follow us on LETTERBOXD Support the podcast on PATREON

"Stephen Root (who voiced Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland, among other characters) confirmed in an interview with ScreenRant that the show will fast forward to a time when Bobby Hill is all grown up. He also said that he and other returning voice actors started their table reads last month. "I think we're going to time jump in [King of the Hill] a little bit so that Bobby's going to be older, and it's going to be interesting," Root said. "We're starting table reads in April, so I'm so looking forward to it.""

In this episode, we speak with Tommaso Sandretto, the Chief Revenue & Investment Officer for Blockchain Creative Labs. BCL manages a $100 million creator fund, established by Fox Entertainment and Bento Box Entertainment, which identifies growth opportunities in the NFT space. Their first project is Krapopolis, an animated series created by Dan Harmon (creator of Rick and Morty). The show is highlighted by an NFT collection of 10,420 “Krap Chickens” that grants owners access to exclusive content and private screenings, meet-and-greets with cast and producers, merchandise, show voting rights, and the first look at future drops. Tommaso takes us through the inception of the project and where he sees it heading in the future. -- Krapopolis: https://www.krapopolis.com Krapopolis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/krapopolis Blockchain Creative Labs: https://www.bcl.xyz/ Blockchain Creative Labs Launches 100 Million Creator Fund: https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/fox-bento-box-nft-creator-fund-blockchain-creative-labs-1234997173/ --- Credits: Host John Hoyos: https://twitter.com/jhzorro Co-Host Kevin Thomas Chen: https://twitter.com/kevinthomaschen Music by Oumi Kapila: https://twitter.com/Oumimusic Production by John Hoyos and Oumi Kapila Hot Wings Collective: https://twitter.com/hotwings_xyz -- Interested in sponsoring us? Email us at hotwingscollective@gmail.com © 2022 All Rights Reserved.

Bob's Burgers Spec Script: “Vegetarian, Vegetariain't” is a winning spec screenplay based on the popular FOX Animation series written by Kevin Morrison Conversation with Kevin Morrison, followed by audio version best scene script reading. Bob must contend with Gene going vegetarian and his wife snacking at a new rival restaurant. http://thatmovienerd.com/ Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://youtu.be/6cwIQ5_ck3c Film played on the WILDsound TV app next month. You can sign up for the 7 day free trial at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform. Then it's only $3.99 per month. Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod

https://Art2Life.com - It can take decades to create a unified but unique direction in our art. Many artists will stick to one medium for a long time to develop consistency in their work. But my guest for this episode took an entirely different path and his art beautifully reflects that. Rather than zeroing in on one thing, he went wide…REALLY wide. Dillon Froelich is a multidisciplinary artist based out of Sausalito, California with roots in the surf and skate culture of South Florida. The most amazing part of Dillon's story for me is how early into his career he found himself as an artist…like, right out of college early! Dillon is creating an entire universe where his characters, colors, and ideas commingle in large paintings, animations, illustrations, sneakers, skateboard designs, and graphic novels. He not only makes art for himself, but Disney, Fox Animation, and Volcom, to name a few. Everything Dillon Froelich does is so uniquely him. Much of that can be attributed to his main criteria for art-making: it has to be fun. It seems so simple, right? But it's often the missing ingredient for many artists trying to break through, myself included. What would it be like to take ourselves less seriously? To be more open to all the possibilities for our creativity? Let's find out in this week's eye-opening and inspiring conversation! ================================ LISTEN IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN… How Dillion created a unique world with his art in record time [3:13] Making art with family [11:29] Why South Florida is a huge creative inspiration for Dillon [14:13] Dillon's use of imagery in storytelling [15:57] Embracing collaboration in art-making [22:39] Reflecting on Dillon's journey as an artist and the road ahead [23:53] How Dillon promoted his work during the pandemic [26:31]  The role fun plays in Dillon's art [34:41]  Final thoughts [37:51]  ================================ RESOURCES MENTIONED Javier Mariscal (Artist) https://mariscal.com/en/welcome  https://www.instagram.com/mariscaloficial/  Karen Tei Yamashita (Author) https://coffeehousepress.org/products/karen-tei-yamashita-the-complete-works  ================================= CONNECT WITH DILLON FROELICH Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dillfroelich/?hl=en  Website: https://dillonfroelich.com  The Froelichs: https://www.thefroelichs.co    ============================= CONNECT WITH NICHOLAS WILTON:   Facebook: https://facebook.com/art2lifeworld/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/art2life_world/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Art2Life Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/art2life_world/ Join the Art2Life Artists' List and get the Sunday vlog here: https://art2life.lpages.co/sign-up-for-the-a2l-vlog/   #Art2Life #FineArt #AbstractArt #ModernArt #Contemporary

Welcome back loyal readers, listeners and Warriors. Keeping with the timestamp format to explain what's in the podcast and when!  Here is what is in Chapter 167. Hope you enjoy it.Matinee Moments (4:22):  Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Red Notice, No Sudden Move, Spider-Man and more!Small Screen Sweeps (34:37): Animal Kingdom, Heels, DC on CW, Fox Animation, Curb Your Enthusiasm, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and more!Games For Greg (51:55): I played Sonic Forces! Time for a new game. GTA 3 Trilogy still having issues!Concert Conchairto (1:03:28): Who has a new Christmas Album this year?Sports Splashzone (1:06:39): The MLB Lockout is here! NFL is still going strong! NHL and NBA are still getting settled in! NCAA Football Playoffa!Fights For Money (1:20:53): Crawford vs Porter & UFC Fight Night results. UFC Fight Night and UFC 267 predictionsTurnbuckle Time (1:36:00):  WWE Survivor Series results. RAW and Smackdown news, NXT 2.0 War Games predictions!All this and more, there was a lot to discuss, so sit back, relax and enjoy. Take a listen and don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify or Amazon and follow me @onemanrenegade on twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Thanks for listening and don't forget to check out my ebay the YouTube Channel! STAY SAFE! HAVE FUN!OMRP - 167 - Ghost Wars!

Welcome back loyal readers, listeners and Survivors. Keeping with the timestamp format to explain what's in the podcast and when!  Here is what is in Chapter 166. Hope you enjoy it.Matinee Moments (3:55):  Dune, Halloween Kills, Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin, Coming 2 America, Woodstock 99, Shang-Chi, Eternals and more!Small Screen Sweeps (48:25): Animal Kingdom, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, DC on CW, Fox Animation, Curb Your Enthusiasm and more!Games For Greg (56:47):  Did I play Sonic Forces? GTA 3 Trilogy and Zelda Game and Watch!Concert Conchairto (1:02:22): Am I going to Red Hot Chili Peppers? Pearl Jam getting ready to tour?Sports Splashzone (1:03:54): The MLB Awards were announced! NFL is going strong! NHL and NBA are getting settled in!Fights For Money (1:12:37): Canelo won a match! Crawford vs Porter & UFC Fight Night predictions.Turnbuckle Time (1:15:43):  AEW Full Gear results. NXT 2.0 War Games is coming! WWE Survivor Series predictions!All this and more, there was a lot to discuss, so sit back, relax and enjoy. Take a listen and don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify or Amazon and follow me @onemanrenegade on twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Thanks for listening and don't forget to check out the YouTube Channel! STAY SAFE! HAVE FUN!OMRP - Chapter 166 - Strive to Survive!

For every Star Wars, there's a hundred middling films and outright flops. Plus, hear about movie so unlucky, they may actually have been cursed, in a sample of the Your Brain On Facts audiobook. Read the full script.   Support the show. It's been quite a while since we got a review for the YBOF book.  Can you take a sec and let us know what you thought? Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Music by David Fesliyan and Kevin McLeod   Making a movie is a difficult, time-consuming, and expensive propositions.  While some projects come together naturally, others seem to have tragedy, misfortune, and just plain bad luck heaped upon them.  Horror films are fertile ground for apparent curses and it a movie would be hard-pressed to seem more cursed than 1976's The Omen, the tale of an American diplomat who adopts a baby boy, ostensibly the Antichrist, and people around him begin dying.  Even Robert Munger, who came up with the concept for the film, began to feel uneasy during pre-production, telling producer Harvey Bernhard, “The devil's greatest single weapon is to be invisible, and you're going to take off his cloak of invisibility to millions of people.”  Releasing the movie on June 6, 1976, or as close as they could get to 666, probably did not help matters.   Gregory Peck has only recently agreed to take the role of the ambassador when his son shot and killed himself, leaving no suicide note.   Undeterred, or perhaps therapeutically focusing on his work, Peck flew to England to begin filming.  While flying through a storm over the Atlantic, Peck's plane was struck by lightning, causing an engine to catch fire and nearly causing them to crash into the ocean.  The film's other producer, Mace Neufeld, also had his plane struck by lightning.  Even after those long odds, that was not the end of their aerial adversity.  One of the first shots planned for the film was an aerial shot of London, to be shot from a rented plane. At the last minute, the rental company instead gave the original plane to a group of Japanese businessmen.  The curse did not seem to get that update, because that plane crashed, killing everyone on board.   One scene called for Peck to be attacked by “devil dogs,” in the form of a pack of Rottweilers.  The dogs were supposed to attack a heavily padded stuntman.  For reasons unknown, the dogs began to attack the stuntman in earnest, biting through the padding and ignoring their trainer's orders to stop.  Another animal-based scene saw the big cat wrangler mauled to death by a tiger.   As if being in a plane struck by lightning was not harrowing enough, the Hilton hotel Neufeld was staying at exploded.  Luckily, Neufeld was not there at the time.  Not to be deterred, the curse turned its sights to the restaurant were the producers and other film executives were going and it blew up, too.  Neufeld missed the explosion by minutes.  The actual perpetrator would turn out to be the Irish Republican Army and it was only Neufeld's dodgy luck that he was meant to be in both places.   Special effects consultant John Richardson created The Omen's unforgettable death scenes, including one in which a man is beheaded by a sheet of glass sailing off the top of a car.  Two weeks before the film was released, Richardson and his assistant, Liz Moore, were involved in a head-on collision.  Moore was killed, cut in half by the other vehicle's wheel.  Richardson opened his eyes after the collision a kilometer marker reading “Ommen 6,66,”  The closest town was Ommen, Netherlands, and the accident happened at kilometer 66.6.    The highest-grossing horror movie of all time (when adjusted for inflation) and the only horror movie to ever be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture is 1973's The Exorcist.  In it, a young girl named Reagan, played by Linda Blair, is possessed by a demon and forced to commit horrible acts as two priests fight to save her.  The trouble started before filming even began, when the set caught fire, destroying everything except Regan's room.  The malefactor had talons, and black, beady eyes, and was a harbinger of disease--a pigeon had somehow gotten into a circuit box, which caused a short that caused the fire.  Reverend Thomas Bermingham, the technical advisor, was asked to exorcise the set, but he refused.   Both Blair and Ellen Burstyn, who played her mother, were badly injured during the shoot.  One scene has the demon violently throwing Reagan around on her bed.  The rig to do this broke during one take, injuring Blair's back.  Another scene called for the demon to throw Burstyn across the room and into a wall, which the crew achieved with a wire rig.  Director William Friedkin was unhappy with the first take and told the crewman operating the rig to use more force.  He did not warn Burstyn.  Her cry of alarm and pain in the film is genuine.  Colliding with the wall at speed injured her lower spine, leaving her in permanent pain.     They were comparatively lucky.  Actors Jack MacGowran and Vasiliki Maliaros, whose characters die in the movie, both died while it was in post-production.  At least four other people, including a night watchmen, died during filming.  Max Von Sydow's brother died on Sydow's first day on set.  Actress Mercedes McCambridge, who provided the voice of the demon Pazuzu, had to face her son murdering his wife and children before committing suicide.   Many believed that the physical copies of the film were cursed and that showing it was an open invitation to evil.  A church across the street from an Italian theater was struck by lightning during a showing.  One movie-goer was so frightened they passed out in the theater and broke their jaw falling into the seat in front of them.  They sued the filmmakers, claiming that subliminal messages in the film had caused them to faint.  Warner Brothers settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.  Not everything bad can be blamed on demons, though.  Regular old people sent thirteen year old Blair so many death threats that the studio had to provide her with bodyguards for six months after the movie came out.   Speaking of demonic possession, the 2012 movie The Possession centers on a young girl who falls under the control of a malevolent spirit that lives inside a cursed antique box. The story is based on an account of an allegedly haunted dybbuk box.  Even though director Sam Raimi would not let the dybbuk box's owner bring it anywhere near the set, strange and frightening things happened on set.  Lights exploded directly over people's heads, strange smells and cold air blew in from nowhere, and immediately after filming wrapped, all of the props were destroyed in a fire for which the first department could not determine the cause. Sometimes a movie's bad karma takes time to manifest and the misfortunes only crop up after the film had been released.   Horror classic Rosemary's Baby, released in the summer of 1968, was based on the premise that God is dead, but the Devil is alive and returning to earth with the aid of a cult.  The film's composer, 37 year old Krzysztof Komeda, fell off a rock ledge at a party that fall.  He lingered in a coma for four months before finally dying.  His death was quite similar to the way the witches rid themselves of a suspicious friend of the titular Rosemary.  The producer, William Castle, already suffering considerable stress from the amount of hate mail he had received about the film, was incapacitated with severe kidney stones.  While delirious in the hospital, he cried out, “Rosemary, for God's sake, drop the knife!”  Castle recovered his health, but never made a successful movie again.  Director Roman Polanski suffered no physical harm after the film.  The same could not be said for his heavily-pregnant wife, Sharon Tate.  She and four friends were brutally murdered by members of the cult known as the Manson Family, while Rosemary's Baby was still in theaters.  In his autobiography, Polanksi recalled he had had a “grotesque thought” the last time he saw his wife: “You will never see her again.” Conspiracy theorists and other non-traditional thinkers believe these events were set in motion by an elaborate Satanic plot, at the behest of the Beatles. Their White Album was written at an Indian meditation retreat, which the movie's star, Mia Farrow, attended.  The song title Helter Skelter was written in blood on a wall at the Tate murder, albeit misspelled.  A decade later, John Lennon was shot and killed across the street from the Dakota, where Rosemary's Baby had been filmed. 1982's Poltergeist tells the story of a family that is tormented by vengeful spirits because their new house was built over a graveyard with the bodies left in the ground.  When it came time for the prop department to source skeletons for the infamous scene with JoBeth Williams in the muddy pool, contrary to what one might expect, it was actually cheaper to buy real human skeletons than realistic plastic ones.  (They only told Williams about that afterwards.)  In a case of ‘life imitating art,' specifically with regards to disrespectful treatment of dead bodies, the cast seemed to be plagued by bad fortune.  The curse extended not only the original film, but to its sequels as well.  Shortly after Poltergeist was released, Dominique Dunne, who played the older sister, was strangled to death by her abusive ex-boyfriend, ending her career before it began. Heather O'Rourke, the adorable blonde girl who uttered the iconic line “They're heeere,” died during bowel obstruction surgery after suffering cardiac arrest and septic shock due to being misdiagnosed by her doctor.  She was only twelve years old.  Julian Beck of Poltergeist II: The Other Side died of stomach cancer before the film was released.  Will Sampson, also known for playing Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, died the following year from complications of a heart-lung transplant.     Bonus fact: Some fans claim Poltergeist foretold O'Rourke's death.  There was a poster in the 1982 movie for Super Bowl XXII in 1988.  Heather O'Rourke was hospitalized the day of Super Bowl XXII and died the following day.  The game was played in San Diego, the city in which O'Rourke passed away.   Choosing the right location to shoot a film is a pivotal decision.  You have to take into account things like lighting conditions, availability of utilities, and proximity to noisy things such as airports.  What you should not have to consider is the radiation level, but you should not ignore it either.  The producers of the film 1956 movie The Conqueror chose an area of Utah desert a hundred miles away from the Nevada Test Site.  (They also chose to cast John Wayne as Genghis Khan.)   Throughout the 1950's, approximately 100 nuclear bombs of varying intensities were detonated at the Nevada Test Site.  The mushroom clouds could reach tens of thousands of feet high; desert winds would carry radioactive particles all the way to Utah.  The area in which The Conqueror filmed was likely blanketed in this dust.   The Conqueror, co-starring Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and Pedro Armendáriz, was a moderate box office success, but a critical failure and soon found itself on ‘worst films of all time' lists.  The true legacy of the film had yet to be revealed.  Of the 220 people who worked on the production, 92 developed some form of cancer, with 46 dying of it, including Wayne, Hayward, Moorehead, and Armendáriz.  The director, Dick Powell, died of lymphoma in 1963.  Wayne developed lung cancer and then the stomach cancer that would ultimately kill him in 1979.  Wayne would remain convinced that his chain-smoking was to blame for the cancers, even as friends tried to convince him it was from exposure to radiation.  Wayne's sons, who visited the set during filming and actually played with Geiger counters among the contaminated rocks, both developed tumors.  Susan Hayward died from brain cancer in 1975 at 57.   The authorities in 1954 had declared the area to be safe from radioactive fallout, even though abnormal levels of radiation were detected.  However, modern research has shown that the soil in some areas near the filming site would have remained radioactive for sixty years.  Howard Hughes, producer of The Conqueror, came to realize in the early 1970's that people who have been involved with the production were dying.   As the person who approved the filming location, Hughes felt culpable and paid $12 million to buy all existing copies of the film.  Though the link between the location and the cancers that cannot be definitely proven, experts argue that the preponderance of cases goes beyond mere coincidence.   MIDROLL   My grandmother had a lovely cross-stitched sampler above her fireplace with a quote that I really took to heart and have carried with me through my life, “Everything happens for a reason.  Sometimes the reason is you're stupid and make bad decisions.”  … I wish my grandma had a sense of humor like that.  Every movie that fails does so for a reason.  Several, usually, a veritable swarm of failure bees, ready to sting the audience right in the brain and the studio right in its wallet.  And sometimes, that sting is fatal.  For the studio, I mean.  I don't know of any cases where someone died because the movie they were watching was so bad it killed them.  At least that gives Tommy Wiseau something to reach for.   Like we saw with the banking crisis, there is no such thing as ‘too big to fail' in Hollywood, either.  Take Eddie Murphy, for example.  He was already established for his roles in 48 Hrs and Trading places before 1984's Beverly Hills Cop.  [sfx axel f]  I'll risk the copyright strike, I don't care.  If Hollywood were a lady, she was throwing her panties at Murphy until around, let's call it 1995's Vampire in Brooklyn.  Since then, for every Shrek, there are three Norberts, or one Pluto Nash.  Did you see this fart bomb of a movie when it came out in 2002?  Yeah, neither did anyone else.  His first foray into live-action family comedies stank like a pair of armored trousers after the Hundred Years war.  The sci-fi comedy (and we use the term loosely) didn't receive one breath of praise, with everyone lambasting the script, humour, acting and visual effects.  And they dragged poor Rasario Dawson into it.  Its 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes says it all, though the audience gave it 19%.  One of the biggest box-office flops ever, the movie had a $100 million production budget but earned only $7.1 million at theaters worldwide, meaning it lost a whopping $92.9 million.   Sometimes the likely cause for a movie's failure is staring us all right in the face, but it feels like no one talked about, even though we *alllll talked about it, the casting of Johnny Depp in the ‘are you sure there's nothing else in the bottom of this barrel' elephant in the room, 2013's The Lone Ranger.  Depp was joined by fellow Pirates of the Caribbean alums Gore Verbinski, Jerry Bruckheimer and the House of Mouse must have felt confident this wonder trio could bring home the gold.  Yeah, no.  The production ran into trouble, costs escalated and the whole thing was nearly shut down before it was completed.  When it finally hit cinema screens, The Lone Ranger was slammed by critics and shunned by audiences. [sfx it stinks]  But it did still manage to garner two Oscar nominations, for 'Visual Effects' and 'Makeup and Hairstyling.'  Must have been a light year.  The Lone Ranger lost almost Pluto Nash's production budget, being in the red by $98 million.   If you look at film losses as the ratio of budget to loss, you've got to tip your hat to  2016's Monster Trucks.  Paramount hoped to launch a franchise, because there is literally no other way to run a movie studio, but kids can be as fickle with their entertainment options as they are with the sides on their dinner plate.  The $125m CGI romp's opening barely scraped over $10 million at the box office, meaning a loss of $115 million.  If it needed to be said, this section is about films with wide releases and big ad budgets.  Projects from smaller producers have a riskier time with it.  When my (GRRM doc, five tickets at Byrd).   If you look up the lowest-grossing film of all time, you'll find a film that was mentioned in the scam health retreat episode To Your Health (Spa) (ep. 101), but it happened on purpose, from a certain point of view.  2006's Zyzzyx Road was shown once a day, at noon, for six days at Highland Park Village Theater in Dallas, Texas, in a movie theater rented by the producers for $1,000.  The filmmakers wanted a limited release.  They didn't want to release the film domestically until it underwent foreign distribution, buuut they had to do the domestic release to fulfill the U.S. release obligation required by the Screen Actors Guild for low-budget films.  Low-budget is actually quantified as those with budgets less than $2.5 million that are not meant to be direct-to-video.  That strategy made Zyzzyx Road the lowest-grossing film in history; officially, it earned a whopping box office tally of $30, from six patrons.  Unofficially, its opening weekend netted $20, after the leading man refunded two tickets to the movie's makeup artist and the friend she brought. Lots of films fail, happens every day, but some films fail so spectacularly, they take the whole studio down with them, sometimes nearly and sometimes very actually..  Students of movie history with a penchant for disasters know all about 1963's Cleopatra, starring disserviacably diva-ish Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The period epic had such a disjointed production that actors sometimes didn't know which scenes were being shot until they arrived on set that day.  With a budget swelling uncontrollably to $44 million, the largest at the time, equivalent to $392mil today, the movie faced a real uphill battle to break even, let alone turn a profit.  Movie tickets cost $.85 then and there was no home video market, so 20th Century Fox would have needed to have sold 56 million tickets to stay in the black.  Quick google, the population of the US was 190 million at the time, so...yeah, ain't gonna happen, Cap'n.  They were pretty much screwed.  Cleopatra holds the unique distinction of being the highest-grossing film that year that lost money.  Although the studio didn't fold, Fox was forced to sell off 300 acres of its lot and postpone other productions to avoid permanently closing its doors.  Cleopatra did eventually recoup its budget with foreign distribution, but 1964's historical epic The Fall of the Roman Empire wasn't so lucky.  Samuel Bronston Productions spent a fortune re-creating the 92,000-square meter Roman Forum that once served as the heart of the ancient city, in turn building Hollywood's largest ever outdoor set.  It had Sophia Loren in it, for gods sake.  Do you know what she looked like in 1964?!  Sadly, Fall of the Roman Empire only managed to earn back a quarter of its $19 million budget.  Just three months after its release, Bronston's own empire fell, into bankruptcy.   Speaking of big decisions at Fox, one of the people who greenlit Star Wars was Alan Ladd Jr, who left to form his own studio, Ladd Company.  For my British listeners, feel free to pause and imagine an all-lad movie studio, oi-oi, we'll wait.  The Ladd Company pursued ambitious projects like The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's book about the early days of the space program.  That was a big hit, wasn't it?  I never saw it, but it has good name recognition.  While critics sang its praises and it won four Oscars, The Right Stuff failed to find an audience at the box office.  The same thing happened with Twice Upon a Time, an animated feature executive produced by George Lucas, which did *not have good name recognition and when I do a Google image search, it doesn't look even 1% familiar.  Even though they still had Police Academy in the chute, the Ladd Company was forced to sell its assets to Warner Bros.   Speaking of name recognition, even films that are iconic these days bombed big time when they came out.  Try to imagine TV in December without every single channel running Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life at least twice.  Trivia fans, which should be every one here, already know that IAWL did not do well on release --a release in January, it's worth mentioning, which may have been part of the problem-- before lapsing into the public domain and being shown by every tv station needing content on the cheap.  Hell, there was a local station where I grew up in north-east PA that used a jingle of the phrase “IAWL” as their tagline.  The same thing ‘why would you even do that' release date misstep happened with Hocus Pocus, actually.  It was released originally in July, well before social media made loving Halloween a major personality trait, then Disney sat on the movie for over a year before putting it out on home video the next September.  Back to 1946, It's a Wonderful Life's disappointing performance was devastating for Capra, who had actually opened his own production studio, Liberty Films.  Capra and fellow filmmakers George Stevens and William Wyler were trying to free themselves from meddling from studio executives' meddling, but their professional freedom was short-lived.  With no track record, Liberty Films needed the film to get them to live up to Capra's usual standards of success.  It didn't, as we've established, and Capra was forced to sell Liberty to Paramount and work for someone else.   If you've been saying, I haven't heard of half of these people, how about Francis Ford Coppola?  Coppola shapes the landscape of 1970s cinema.  Ever hear of The Godfather, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now?  Yeah, thought so.  The '80s, however, not so much.  His first movie of the decade, One From the Heart, spent the majority of its high budget on pioneering visual techniques and a faithful recreation of Nevada's McCarran International Airport.  He's a details guy.  But fans of his earlier, dark, gritty, hyper-masculine work were left completely baffled when they sat down for a Coppola movie and found themselves in a candy-colored Vegas musical rom-com.   The film failed to pull in even a million dollars against its budget of $27mil.  Coppola's own studio, Zoetrope, never recovered from the financial loss.   Speaking of film legends who stumble headlong into bankruptcy, we present  for the consideration of several readers, Don Bluth.  Bluth left his job as an animator at Disney in 1979 to create the animation department for 20th Century Fox.  We're talking The Secret of N.I.M.H, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, and Bluth and crew at Fox Animation put those out while Disney delivered disappointing efforts like The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver and Company.   But Disney found its footing again with The Little Mermaid in 1989 and they've been unquestionably unstoppable ever since.  In 1997, Bluth released the critically acclaimed Anastasia; less than three years later, the studio was done.  In June 2000, Titan A.E. hit theaters, a lush, traditionally-animated movie with great character designs and solid casting and acting that flew through space and braved alien worlds.  It wasn't a bad movie.  For some reason, despite having a hysterically bad memory, I can still remember the chorus of the song from the big ‘let's do cool things with the ship' sequence.  Titan AE hit theaters, but not, ya know, hard.  Fox Animation spent $85 million on the film targeted at a teen audience, who are not a big enough segment of the broader animation-viewing market.  It earned $9 million on its opening weekend and the following *week, Fox announced it was closing the studio.  The writing had already been on the wall.  In December 1999, executives forced Bluth to lay off 80% of his animators after the box office bonanza that was the CGI Toy Story 2 led Fox execs to conclude that hand-drawn animation was on the way out.   Prior performance is no predictor of future success.  The Land Before Time didn't help Bluth with Titan AE, and not even the freaking Lord of the Rings trilogy, with its many Oscars, could save New Line Cinema.  From its creation in the 1970s and even after Warner Bros. bought a controlling stake, New Line Cinema was a mid-major movie studio that acted like an indie, taking chances on edgy, quirky movies like Pink Flamingos, Boogie Nights, and Mortal Kombat.  If you don't think MK belongs in those examples, the only video game movies had been Street Fighter, blargh, Double Dragon, yawn, and Super Mario Brothers, a veritable kick in the nards to be gamers and moviegoers.   Four years after The Return of the King ended the LOTR trilogy...eventually... New Line wanted another fantasy series cash cow, and it looked to The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman's first entry in the His Dark Materials trilogy.  New Line pumped $200 million on the project, more than it had spent on The Lord of the Rings.  To offset production costs, the company pre-sold the overseas rights, essentially getting an advance, meaning that when the film hit theaters outside of North America, they wouldn't see any more money.  That made profit virtually impossible... as did the film's relatively small $70 million domestic take.  Thus Warner Bros. absorbed New Line into its existing film production divisions, well, 10% of the studio.  The other 90% got sacked.   Sources: get ones from book https://www.triviagenius.com/5-movies-that-lost-the-most-money/XtY_ghx5DQAG1g4j https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/643698/movies-that-bankrupted-studios https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/86201/6-movies-ruined-their-studios https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a843659/expensive-movie-flops-bombs-box-office-failure-justice-league/ https://chillopedia.com/15-movies-that-killed-careers/  

Greg got sucked into a wormhole to join Khaki and his friend Kay on a crossover spectacular to discuss the 2000 Fox Animation film: Titan A.E. You can check it out here: https://sofarscape.com/episode/titan-a-e or search SoFarscape anywhere you get your podcasts!

One of Don Bluth's and Gary Goldman's most popular animated works, Fox Animation's 1997 film puts a fairy tale twist on the legend of Anastasia. Join Kelly, Kate, and Laura as they celebrate the music, moments, and animation that make Anastasia one of their favorite princesses.Get behind the scenes content and vote for upcoming episodes on Patreon.E-mail: fanimatedpodcast@gmail.comFacebook: Fanimated Podcastinstagram: @fanimatedpodcastTwitter: @FanimatedPYouTube: Fanimated MediaKelly Anderson's instagram: @kanderdrawSupport the show (https://patreon.com/fanimated)

Especial dedicado a Blue Sky Studios. Diana Su les platica la historia del estudio de animación detrás de películas como La era de hielo, Rio, Espías a escondidas, que fue fundado en 1987, fue adquirido por Disney en 2019 y cerrará sus puertas en abril de 2021. ¿Qué pasó?

Disney closed down Blue Sky Studios, a remanant of Fox Animation known for the Ice Age franchise, after a poor performance from their last feature. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shalom-kolontarov/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shalom-kolontarov/support

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guests James "Jaimetud" Sullivan, Taylor "Whyboy" Wyatt, and Nero Angelus continue off from a podcast a few months ago about the Sullivan-Bluth Studios movies with The Fox Animation Studios trilogy with Anastasia, Bartok the Magnificent, and Titan A.E. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/old-school-lane/support

March is the month of Disney here on Podcapers! We're gonna have the best Disney bashing content on the Internet this month and in order to preserve Scott's sanity we're starting with a recent purchase of Disney's. Scott actually likes Anastasia so it's up him and Jillian DiBlasio to defend its honour against all those who say it just rips off the Disney formula. It's its own thing guys! Leave Anastasia alone! Listen & Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | PodBean | Podchaser | Podparadise | Listen Notes |  Player.FM | RSS Follow us on: Twitter: @AP2HYC Instagram: @AP2HYC Facebook.com/AP2HYC YouTube.com/AP2HYCape Edited by Alexandra Mirabal Timecode: Fixing the Disney Formula, Historical Accuracy, and Rasputin - 05:00 Once Upon a December, In the Dark of the Night, and Traveling by Song - 30:00 The Dowager Empress, The Final Fight, and Fox Animation - 1:00:00

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"Hey, for your information, I happen to be humanity's last great hope." Hosts Serg Beret and Patrick Raissi peer into the universe after earth is gone (and Fox Animation for that matter) with Don Bluth's "Titan A.E." Listen as the hosts discuss the reason this film failed at the box office, if it actually deserved said fate and how "Treasure Planet" is another unsung sci-fi gem. Find more episodes and more at filmaweekpodcast.com Follow @filmaweek on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter Follow @sergberet on Instagram & Twitter Follow Patrick Raissi @pachathegreat on Instagram & @HumaneRamblings on Twitter

Talking all about the classic sci fi Don Bluth & Gary Goldman animated flick from the turn of the century. In what is the last 2D film of the Fox Animation department sadly. Well 2D with 3D backgrounds. But this great childhood classic with it's Heavy Metal vibe always holds up well. Even if it had to compete with the new flood of anime popularity taken over the youths. But come on by with us and go back with a great film in Titan A.E.   Old Man Orange is Spencer Scott Holmes & Ryan Dunigan - 2018 Support the Show the easy and simple way, by using one of our Amazon Links to make your purchases. Doesn't cost you a penny but sends a little something our way. Thanks!   Titan A.E. https://amzn.to/2js39J7 via @amazon BUY MY COMIC BOOK!!! Ha ha... Seriously!Pizza Boyz Issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or just grab the new Graphic with extra bonuses by Spencer Scott Holmes http://amzn.to/2Dsw1Jk via @amazon Comix Centralhttps://www.comixcentral.com/?s=pizza+boyz Comixology!http://bit.ly/2qg5DjC

Aislene and Gracie open Non-Disney Animation month with Anastasia. A film from Fox Animation, from the year 1997, it tells the (historically inaccurate) tale of the lost Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. Directed by Don Bluth, and considered one of the best non-Disney Animation films, we can't help but dive into the history, and maybe even rant about a few things. Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-feminist-critique/support

ADAM C. STONE President of Entertainment / Phenomenon A fourteen year veteran of the entertainment industry, Adam Stone joined Phenomenon in November of 2015 as the President of Entertainment. Phenomenon has a First Look Overhead Deal at Warner Brothers for both Film and Television. The film and television production company was designed to capitalize on Phenomenon’s research, analytics and cultural insights generated by the parent company, an innovations agency. Prior to joining Phenomenon, Stone spent several years as President of Production for Vertigo Entertainment, a premier film and television production company also with a First Look Overhead Deal at Warner Brothers. During Stone’s time with Vertigo they were one of the most active production companies in Los Angeles– releasing five pictures (OLD BOY, RUN ALL NIGHT, THE LEGO MOVIE, POLTERGEIST, and THE VOICES) and taking “Bates Motel” through the first three seasons. During this period Vertigo also put the next two franchise installments of International, animated event film, THE LEGO MOVIE into production, made THE BOY with Lakeshore and STX, SLEEPLESS NIGHT starring Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan, which Stone produced, BLAIR WITCH expansion THE WOODS directed by Adam Wingard, THE RING 3 for Paramount. and secured a greenlight for subversive YA mega property, DEATH NOTE, for Netflix. In addition to the aforementioned productions, Vertigo sold twenty three feature film projects and five television shows during Stone’s tenure. Stone is currently in production on the animated film NIMONA at Fox Animation, directed by the Oscar winning filmmaker, Patrick Osbourne and written by the Oscar nominated writer Marc Haimes. NIMONA is based on Noelle Stevenson’s National Book Award Candidate, NYT Bestselling, critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same title.

ADAM C. STONE President of Entertainment / Phenomenon A fourteen year veteran of the entertainment industry, Adam Stone joined Phenomenon in November of 2015 as the President of Entertainment. Phenomenon has a First Look Overhead Deal at Warner Brothers for both Film and Television. The film and television production company was designed to capitalize on Phenomenon’s research, analytics and cultural insights generated by the parent company, an innovations agency. Prior to joining Phenomenon, Stone spent several years as President of Production for Vertigo Entertainment, a premier film and television production company also with a First Look Overhead Deal at Warner Brothers. During Stone’s time with Vertigo they were one of the most active production companies in Los Angeles– releasing five pictures (OLD BOY, RUN ALL NIGHT, THE LEGO MOVIE, POLTERGEIST, and THE VOICES) and taking “Bates Motel” through the first three seasons. During this period Vertigo also put the next two franchise installments of International, animated event film, THE LEGO MOVIE into production, made THE BOY with Lakeshore and STX, SLEEPLESS NIGHT starring Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan, which Stone produced, BLAIR WITCH expansion THE WOODS directed by Adam Wingard, THE RING 3 for Paramount. and secured a greenlight for subversive YA mega property, DEATH NOTE, for Netflix. In addition to the aforementioned productions, Vertigo sold twenty three feature film projects and five television shows during Stone’s tenure. Stone is currently in production on the animated film NIMONA at Fox Animation, directed by the Oscar winning filmmaker, Patrick Osbourne and written by the Oscar nominated writer Marc Haimes. NIMONA is based on Noelle Stevenson’s National Book Award Candidate, NYT Bestselling, critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same title.

Christendom grad and father of five Ben Hatke's first graphic novel, Zita the Spacegirl, was picked up recently by Fox Animation for a movie and there is hope that one day they will make it to the big screen. Zita the Spacegirl chronicles the adventures of young Zita as she braves the unknown in pursuit of her friend who vanished after pushing a mysterious red button. The story, and subsequent trilogy, became a hit with readers who have become big fans of Hatke’s work. What many of the fans don’t know, however, is that Zita was not Hatke’s idea. Read the full story here: http://catholicherald.com/News/Local_News/Christendom_College_alumnus_finds_love_and_a_movie_deal_thanks_to__Zita_the_Spacegirl_/ Are you enjoying the Catholic Herald's podcasts? Spread the Good News! Please subscribe to our station and give us a shout-out on Facebook or Twitter.

In this week's episode of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin (@Gilligan_McJew) is joined by special guest Amber Garza (@AmberHardFemme) as they discuss the male snowflakes angered by Alamo Drafthouse's female only screenings of Wonder Woman, the new Runaways series from Marvel, and mourn the end of Netflix's Sense8 in This Week in Queer. This Week's Topics Include: BIG OPENING: KEVIN: An Animaniacs reboot is in the works AMBER: Women only screenings of Wonder Woman at Alamo Drafthouse   DOWN AND NERDY:   KEVIN: Secret Empire, Hulk, Saga, American Gods AMBER: LA Zinefest, Zinefests in general     STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER: Villain for Supergirl season 3 cast   THIS WEEK IN QUEER: Netflix has canceled Sense8   CLIP OF THE WEEK: Deadpool blooper reel released   THE WEEK IN GEEK:   MOVIES Fan film exploring the origins of Voldemort releases a teaser trailer Henry Zaga cast as Sunspot in New Mutants movie Cast & title revealed for Sharknado 5 Fox Animation has optioned The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag   TV Floriana Lima, Maggie on Supergirl, reduced to recurring next season Harley Quinn appearing in Gotham season finale Poster released for Netflix Castlevania animated series Netflix Punisher to be released in November Stephen Amell competed on American Ninja Warrior for Red Nose Day Preacher season 2 trailer released   COMICS More Runaways teases and confirms new series from Rainbow Rowell & Kris Anka Iceman taking on Daken in Marvel solicitations Interview with Brian K. Vaughn teases the Y: The Last Man series   SHILF KEVIN: Media AMBER: She-Hulk & Nightcrawler

In Day 2 of DELTOROCON, Parker Lyons and Greg Kishbaugh interview Jorge Gutierrez, the director of the upcoming Fox Animation film, THE BOOK OF LIFE, produced by Guillermo del Toro.  Jorge talks about how he got the film made and his experience working with Guillermo, and what fans can expect when THE BOOK OF LIFE gets released in October.