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tb4000
11-02-2008, 10:04 PM
This is the talkback thread for "Glago's Guest" Short Pulled from "Bolt" (http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=26894).

Why did they pull the short? I was really looking forward to seeing it later this month on the screen. Is it too avant garde for the mainstream Bolt?
Dudley
11-03-2008, 08:25 AM
What is it with Disney pulling shorts off the movies they were intended to be shown on?
Darking
11-03-2008, 11:52 AM
Yeah. I was looking forward to seeing this when I went to see Bolt. I hope they don't do the same thing as the Goofy short and put it in front of a movie I have no intention of seeing.
NewcomerDC
11-03-2008, 01:30 PM
Sorry for the post but what was the short about?

It seems that Disney is depending on start power to get some big bucks in two weeks rather than giving us what could had been a good time in the box office.

Maybe the short will be seen with another Disney film or get a chance of being with Bolt on the Disney DVD release. Then I think about that hamster and how Disney might make an animated short about him rather than putting this short on the DVD.
Baltofan
11-03-2008, 02:21 PM
I would love to see a movie about Mitten in the past.
Ed Liu
11-03-2008, 02:34 PM
It just dawned on me that the second story Huntsman linked to here (http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=3032461&postcount=32) could have something to do with pulling the short. The 6-minute featurette that was categorized as a short film caused a lot of grief from theater owners. Maybe Disney just doesn't want a repeat if "Glago's Guest" runs too long.
Darking
11-03-2008, 05:55 PM
Sorry for the post but what was the short about?

Here's a webpage with a clip from the short.
http://www.disneyanimation.com/projects/shorts/glago/index.html
Dudley
11-03-2008, 06:18 PM
It just dawned on me that the second story Huntsman linked to here (http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=3032461&postcount=32) could have something to do with pulling the short. The 6-minute featurette that was categorized as a short film caused a lot of grief from theater owners. Maybe Disney just doesn't want a repeat if "Glago's Guest" runs too long.

Well that's just great.

Animated shorts aren't coming back to theaters because apparently the theater owners don't WANT them back.
tb4000
11-04-2008, 08:17 AM
Well that's just great.

Animated shorts aren't coming back to theaters because apparently the theater owners don't WANT them back.


Not when they can show a three minute commercial about the hipness of a Scion xB.
Ed Liu
11-04-2008, 10:03 AM
Well that's just great.

Animated shorts aren't coming back to theaters because apparently the theater owners don't WANT them back.

I think I'd lay as much blame on this on Disney as on the theater owners. Most of the BTS featurettes that run before the movies are essentially commercials, not real behind-the-scenes material. A standalone BTS feature that runs under 10 minutes before the movie is even out is a commercial. To label it a "short film" is a pretty questionable thing to do.

I'm not a fan of commercials in movie theaters, but if Disney wants to run a commercial to promote Bolt, then they can pay for the advertising time so we can ignore it before the movie starts just like everyone else does. The problem is that pulling a move like that has made it harder for the legitimate short films like "Glago's Guest" from getting the kind of distribution they should.

And, again, I'm only drawing a line between two seemingly unconnected news stories that might be related. I don't have any special knowledge of the situation, and I could be entirely wrong about this.

-- Ed