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The Angry Birds Movie
2016 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly
AnimationAdventureComedyFamily
An island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.
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I will Github it soon.
The most interesting "don't know that they are dead" case is the culture industry in the US. Note a comment I made
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604338
I am blown away by how in Japan somebody can write a "web novel", get a contract for a light novel, then there is a manga, and an anime, and video games and a billion dollar media franchise. Sure there are a lot of trash light novels that don't go very far, but there really is a pipeline by which quirky individuals can get make it big -- but the path just doesn't exist in the US, the door is closed, the market is completely uncompetitive.
Hollywood knows it is not doing well financially but it is incapable of facing up to this fact. It hopes that its problems are cyclical because to some extent they are but the very idea of giving up control to creators [1] and doubles down on remakes of big franchises and crappy indy films that follow in the footsteps of Woody Allen.
[1] it can't absorb the energy of Youtubers and other "creator economy" stars and the best it can do with the internet and new media is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angry_Birds_Movie and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emoji_Movie
Sony released an angry birds movie more than 5 years after peak interest, they're a trailing indicator
I think this causes further problems as well. These big companies know they can easily be listed at the top of Google, and therefore they pump out low quality articles for every popular key phrase. They can write a "Top 10 X of 2023" list and bring in lots of traffic and referral sales, while a smaller site has no chance of doing the same. Then, the big site takes all that income, and pumps out more low quality articles. It's a rich get richer scenario.
If I search, "The top 10 movies on Netflix", I get sent to this page...
https://decider.com/list/top-10-movies-on-netflix-most-popular-right-now/
The top 5 movies above are...
1. The Boss Baby (2017)
2. The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
3. We're the Millers (2013)
4. Zookeeper (2011)
5. Mean Girls (2004)
Is this really the best the world has to offer for my search query? I could spend a week putting together a far better page for that query, but what's the point? It's not going to rank anywhere notable in the Google results. There's no incentive for me to produce that quality content.
It is secretly about org design in the same way that the movie Pi was secretly about a mathematician going insane.
The Angry Birds Movie was secretly about CG birds protecting themselves from an attack by invading green pigs.
There was an Angry Birds movie released within the last couple of years. It's still extremely popular.
The Angry Birds movie made what, like $350 million? It's a phenomenal franchise.
Making money off the stock isn't like, the only way to make money. HQ would kill to be anything close to as significant as Rovio.
Even their trailers look crappy.
The Marvel Universe is wearing out, too. Avoid "Captain America - Civil War". The writers are running out of ideas. It's a heel-face turn, always a bad sign.
Now what? Movies from video games? "Warcraft" and "Angry Birds" are in theaters now. Disney did Kipling's Jungle Book, which is a CG demo reel for animal animation. We're almost to the other side of the uncanny valley. But it takes thousands of animators to drive the tools.
> There is one last hope for Rovio — The Angry Birds Movie.
Dear god why?
Rovio still plans to release an animated Angry Birds film in 2016.
We might be over-milking this one as a society at that point. I would put my money on... something else, specifically just not more Angry Birds.
"Rovio still plans to release an animated Angry Birds film in 2016"
I really fail to see what they are trying to do with this. That game has hardly any "story" behind it and the characters are not really that interesting. I know they're trying to push a brand but all this random stuff they're making around it comes across as bland.
I guess they were not able to innovate enough. It was a good franchise, but it hasn't had the longevity of things like Minecraft or Halo.
Details:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=angry%20birds%2C%20minecraft%2C%20clash%20of%20clans%2C%20halo&cmpt=q
I wonder what they could have done differently? They sure licensed enough IP to create Star Wars, Rio, etc variants. They tried expanding into freemium racing games. I wonder if there was a way forward for them that they missed?
Q: How does this affect the Angry Birds movie expected in July 2016? https://www.pehub.com/2014/08/angry-birds-creator-rovio-ceo-hed-to-step-down/
Coming soon: The Angry Birds Movie...