Wasn't Ferngully the first animated film from Fox?
Date :
June 04, 2011
Category :
Film questions
Question :
VollendJatara-Jenny
Ferngully was Released in 1992 while Don Bluth's Anastasia was released in 1997. Wouldn't that make Ferngully the 1st animated film produced by 20th Century Fox? Or was Ferngully merely distributed by Fox?
I though it was the Fox only which made it, I searched on the web and
it's difficult to found something. But I found an interesting article
which can reply to your question better than me =>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Fox_Animation
I quote: "Before 20th Century Fox started its animation division in
1997, 20th Century Fox released its first six animated films, such as
Wizards, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (both released in
1977), Fire and Ice (released in 1983), FernGully: The Last
Rainforest, Once Upon a Forest, and The Pagemaster. From 1997–2000,
they operated Fox Animation Studios, a traditional animation studio
which was started to compete with Walt Disney Animation Studios, which
was experiencing great success at the time with films such as Beauty
and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. The Fox studio, however, was
not as successful. Their first feature Anastasia, although critically
acclaimed as being of Disney caliber and often mistaken as a Disney
film, barely made a profit, taking in $58 million at the American box
office on an estimated $53 million dollar budget"
I quote: "Before 20th Century Fox started its animation division in 1997, 20th Century Fox released its first six animated films, such as Wizards, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (both released in 1977), Fire and Ice (released in 1983), FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Once Upon a Forest, and The Pagemaster. From 1997–2000, they operated Fox Animation Studios, a traditional animation studio which was started to compete with Walt Disney Animation Studios, which was experiencing great success at the time with films such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. The Fox studio, however, was not as successful. Their first feature Anastasia, although critically acclaimed as being of Disney caliber and often mistaken as a Disney film, barely made a profit, taking in $58 million at the American box office on an estimated $53 million dollar budget"