Weekend Box Office Animated Addams Family Condorito Movie. Results, reboots, birds. Leading the animated pack, in 8th place, was The Lego Ninjago Movie. Fell 3. 8, is up to 5. Storks was at 5. Looks to come up rather short, Im afraid. Addams-Family-cover.jpg?resize=800%2C400' alt='Addams Family Animated' title='Addams Family Animated' />Maybe it could catch on elsewhere. My Little Pony mustve been frontloaded, because it fell hard. Its down 5. 3, which is pretty bad for a family friendly release that opened with so little. I mean, when youre now behind the previous family animated movie thats been out for nearly a month, thats pretty telling. It has now mustered up 1. Yeah, 2. D and traditional animation are only good for TV show adaptations alright. The things not outgrossing Winnie the Pooh 2. The Princess and the Frogs gross, thats for sure. Again, I can only hope it didnt cost too much. Loving Vincent cracked the Top 2. Now rolling in 5. It has now reached 7. Getting closer to 1 million Despicable Me 3 lingers. Finding Dorys worldwide gross. Leaps fading, looking to finish with 2. Cars 3 remains a 1. Captain Underpants slowly nears 1. French cinemas right now. MGMs Addams Family Movie Gets Director. MGM still wants in on the animation game, despite everything theyve gone through and where theyre at now. To my understanding, MGM cant distribute films on their after filing for bankruptcy in 2. Now they sort of cooperate with a few big studios, like Sony and Warner Bros. Currently, one animated feature of theirs is a definite, and its going to be released by Paramount this coming spring The belated Gnomeo Juliet sequel, Sherlock Gnomes. MGMs co producing and co distributing, Starz and Rocket Pictures are the main production companies behind it, with Mikros doing to my knowledge most of the animation. For a little while, they had been trying to get a feature from the house that made their 2. Igor off the ground, Bunyan Babe. That one ended up being dropped and given to a team that did it on the cheap, and released it straight to VOD. Just in time for Halloween the durable Addams Family is heading for another incarnation, this time as an MGM animated movie. MGM is in final negotiations with. THE opening title of The Addams family in High DefinitionThe cartoon series by Hanna Barbera USA Enjoy. Addams Family Animated Gifs' title='Addams Family Animated Gifs' />Try, try again as they always say. Now theyre trying to launch an animated feature based on The Addams Family. Bow Wow The Price Of Fame Zip. Conrad Vernon, one of Sausage Partys directors and former Dream. Works director he was a director on all three Madagascar films, is at the helm and will produce. Gjh6866dsRw/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Addams Family Animated' title='Addams Family Animated' />Warner Animation recently named him director of an animated Jetsons feature thats seemingly a little less likely these days. This isnt the first time MGM tried to get an Addams Family animated movie going, and they actually picked up the project after Illumination of all studios Illuminations version was going to involve Tim Burton, and he possibly wouldve directed, too The same screenwriter of the 2. Monster House and Corpse Bride writer Pamela Pettler has also penned the script for this one, though revisions will be done by Matt Lieberman, who is also attached to Warner Animations Scooby. Coincidentally, the Addams Family appeared in animated form on The New Scooby Doo Movies in the early 1. That episode and the re runs of the early 9. Hanna Barbera, who did the 7. Barry Sonnenfeld directed live action movies that came out at the time. Id say its been a long time coming. The Addams Family originally appeared in newspaper cartoons, so I think the subject matter is perfect for animation if its done right, but not in the homogenized quasi Pixar look were so accustomed to. Since its coming from MGM, I dont think they should even think of going such a route. Instead, they should take cues from films like The Book of Life and create a distinct look. Maybe something close to the original cartoon panelsAnyways, Im not sure if this will be going anywhere anytime soon. I reckon that MGM is going to wait and see how Sherlock Gnomes does before going through with these sorts of projects. MGM, after the Golden Age of Animation, has had a rather interesting history with feature animation. They released Chuck Jones animated feature adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth, infamously left Don Bluths debut feature The Secret of NIMH to wither in the summer of 1. The 9. 0s werent quite fruitful for them, same for many other distributors looking to get in on DisneyBluths success. Out of all the distributors, they sagged in the early aughts. Some projects were proposed, they went nowhere. Addams Family Animated Wikia CharactersAddams Family Animated Series OnlineIgor somehow got made, it didnt make much of a mark. I think its kind of a shame actually. The MGM cartoon studio was one of the premier animation forces of the 1. Tom Jerry series and Tex Averys wild, innovative, and uproarious cartoons, but also a very worthy series of one shot cartoons. They never really transitioned into fully animated features well, then, the post Golden Age years, or even during the supposed Renaissance. If any studio in the 1. MGM. They didnt. They instead did a couple live action films featuring Tom and Jerry, most notably Anchors Aweigh. Despite not being the company they once were, perhaps MGM can finally get a piece of the cake in the coming years. Who knows, but hopefully The Addams Family gets some kind of traction. Condorito Comes to America. But who is Condorito, you might ask Condorito is a Chilean comic strip character that was created in 1. Rene Pepo Rios, in response to a segment from Walt Disneys 1. Saludos Amigos. He wasnt pleased with the Chile themed Pedro segment, feeling that the little skit with the anthropomorphic mail plane was an insult. Condoritos feature length CG film was a long time coming, and it has opened already in Latin America. Fox distributed it there. Despite Foxs desire to launch more and more animated features, they will not be handling this films US release. I mean, the reasons are obvious. What average American knows who Condorito is Lionsgate has picked up the American distribution rights, and will release it here on January 1. That spot was once occupied by Sherlock Gnomes, after it moved, Paddington 2 settled in as the first Paddington was a mid January release in the US in 2. Not that Lionsgate is expecting a big blockbuster out of it anyways, but I find it interesting nonetheless. Im hearing that a US trailer is unraveling before screenings of My Little Pony havent been able to catch that stuff at work these past few weeks, sorry fellas, but Box Office Mojo curiously lists it with its Spanish language title Condorito La Pelicula. Basically, Spanish for The Movie. The site also lists it as a foreign language film. Is Lionsgate going the Un Gallo can Muchos Huevos route with this film In the late summer of 2. Pantelion Films a venture backed by Lionsgate to distribute Latin American films released the Mexican animated feature Un Gallo can Muchos Huevos in little more than 6. No dubbing, no nothing, it was the original version of the movie with subtitles. And the movie received a PG 1. I mean, its in the damn title Opening with 3 million in less than 4. Finishing up with 9 million domestic, it showed that there is an audience for these films. I actually had no idea what the Huevos franchise even was until this movie rolled in I only found out about Condorito a few years ago when reading about Saludos Amigos. So yes, its very possible that this will be a Pantelion release come January 2. Now if I can track down a US trailer that indicates this, yeah. That would be useful. Its cool to see that Muchos Huevos tiny success in the states possibly lead to this. Much better than having it Americanized and stripped of what made it a little different.