How is tangled so expensive

He continued developing the film until , when suffered from a heart attack. Tangled hit quite a snag trying to get to theaters. The film was originally supposed to be more of a faithful adaptation of Rapunzel, but after The Princess and the Frog missed expectations, they decided they needed to refocus the film.

The Walt Disney Animation Studio is no different. With nearly 60 animated feature films that span 83 years, the budgets vary greatly from film to film. Was it from some deleted scene? It took about ten years of multiple aborted attempts, each of which got quite far into it before they scrapped everything and started again.

Imagine half a regular animated film budget, but spent three or four separate times. Also, animating the hair was a bitch. There was a really good article I read about it, but I forget where…. I thought it was pretty good.

I did feel the musical numbers were weak. Also inflation. For example, Gone with the Wind is actually the highest grossing movie of all time. The same is certainly true of its movies! Setting aside movies in the Marvel, Star Wars , and Pixar universes, Disney has more than enough pricey original films all its own. You might be asking: why? Because Disney shelled out lots of money to use non-photorealistic rendering technology, making it the first Disney animated film to do so! It allowed animators to create 3D-looking backgrounds, so it at least looked really impressive, even though not a lot of people wound up actually seeing it.

Ralph may have broken the Internet in , but he also broke budgetary records for Disney. Fortunately for Disney, their expensive gamble paid off enough that they made tons of money on it and went on to make a sequel! Indeed, the version of The Lion King is another live-action Disney movie that cost a boatload to bring to life.

The budget for The Lion King 2. Disney animated film actually cost more than almost anything the company has ever created. Tangled took the crown as the most expensive animated movie ever made when it debuted in Not only did it take a lengthy six years to create, but the film used an intensive mix of computer animation and non-photorealistic renderings to produce, which takes a ton of work and costs a ton of money.

Davy Jones. Clearly, as time goes on and new technologies emerge, Disney is willing to shell out big bucks for its movies, remakes, and franchises. Which expensive movie are you the most surprised by?

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