Animation to Live-action Films

The last few posts to CMG covered several trends regarding animated movies, and I wanted to talk about another - the industry's trend of turning animated assets into live-action remakes.  Disney, for example, has 'converted' or 'remade' 'The Jungle Book', 'Maleficent' and has several, such as, 'Beauty and the Beast', 'The Little Mermaid', and 'Dumbo' in the remake-works.


The studios have a huge reservoir of animated assets going back decades, providing excellent, ready-made story-lines which are known by consumers across the globe. In fact, Variety conducted a survey which asked which animated movies deserved a live-action remake. The results:

1. The Lion King
2. Other
3. How I Trained My Dragon
4. Spirited Away
5. Shrek
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox

If your favorite wasn't listed don't fret, the animated remake is here to stay and there are plenty of outstanding films that beg for a live 'convert'.