That show cost $25 million to create, according to a person near the production. “The Lion King,” for instance, ousted “The Phantom of the Opera” this past April from its long reign atop of the list of all-time Broadway box office hits after generating gross ticket sales of just over $853.8 million, Disney said.ĭreamWorks’ “Shrek, the Musical,” which has been playing in London’s West End for over a year, posted a second-quarter operating loss of approximately $5 million, according to the company’s last earnings call on July 31. And past DreamWorks stage productions have not been hits like Disney on Ice, which has played for decades, or Broadway stage musicals like “The Lion King” and “Beauty and the Beast,” both based on popular Disney films. touring show based on the DreamWorks film “Madagascar” was cut short without a reason given by the company. “We’re excited by the momentum the show has right now,” said Bill Damaschke, DreamWorks’ chief creative officer, noting the show was the company’s largest stage production yet and was still in the early stages. It uses 23 animatronically engineered dragon puppets, some with wingspans of up to 46 feet and weighing over 1.6 tons.
debut in June, tells of a Viking teenager named Hiccup and his tribe of dragon slayers. cities through 2013, and makers of the show hope to tour next in Europe and Asia. There are plans to continue to other U.S.
The show, which recently played at New York’s Nassau Coliseum, is now in Montreal. The response from Marino - who with his wife surprised their children, ages 7 and 10, with the front-section seats - is exactly what DreamWorks hopes to get in cities across North America. “You get to kind of feel it, rather than just watch it on screen,” Marino said at the intermission of “How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular,” a massive arena show that played recently in New York and is based on the 2010 film from DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.ĭreamWorks, the studio behind the “Shrek” and “Madagascar” film franchises, is transforming its popular family movies into stage productions, extending their product lives in a strategy used successfully by The Walt Disney Co with its “Disney on Ice” arena show and Broadway shows.ĭreamworks teamed up with theater production group Global Creatures - whose animatronics arm had already made another arena show based on dinosaurs - and promoter S2BN Entertainment to create the live show. I remember seeing them when I was a kid and we went to see really old movies.Actors Riley Miner and Gemma Nguyen are shown on the back of the character Toothless from the stage production of Dreamworks "How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular" in this publicity photo released to Reuters on August 16, 2012. And they totally did show an animated short film with the little dancing popcorn bags and stuff to help people understand what they should be doing during the intermission lol. So when they went to movies instead of shows, the proprietors naturally insisted that the intermission thing was kept, so that their profits didn't go down (welcome to unmanaged capitalism :( ). So the audience went and freshened both themselves and their drinks and snacks, thus making intermissions another source of profit for the proprietors.
The actors and the audiences both needed a break about halfway through, so they brought the curtains together and called it "intermission" (don't know if the poor band got a break during that time though). Intermissions are a really old-school thing from the days when shows were live, and "dinner and a show" was pretty much an entire evening thing.
#Movie intermission animation movie#
When do they show these? Do you have an intermission, or are they showing these before the movie starts?Understandable. I understand that there probably are commericals for snacks available at the cinema running in theatres.
I never got the references in this strip, I was just able to guess what the basic premise was about.
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