{"id":5618,"date":"2016-04-18T14:35:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2016-03-23T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:36:21","slug":"linked-dear-pixar-just-admit-you-make-sequels-for-the-money-like-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/04\/18\/linked-dear-pixar-just-admit-you-make-sequels-for-the-money-like-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Dear Pixar: Just Admit You Make Sequels For The Money, Like Everyone Else&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/news\/pixar-makes-sequels-for-money-and-thats-okay.php\">via Film School Rejects<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Like I stated a couple paragraphs previously, Pixar promised an original film a year and they\u2019ve ended up with something closer to a sequel a year. That\u2019s not great. And what\u2019s worse is that they haven\u2019t announced a new original film since 2012 (when they first marked Coco on the slate). And since then, every film they\u2019ve added- Finding Dory, Toy Story 4, The Incredibles 2, Cars 3\u2013 is a sequel.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Pixar_films\">list of every film Pixar has made<\/a>, the decline of quality there is clear. The last movie of theirs that I watched was Up. I love Pixar movies but since Up, everything is either strictly for children or a sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Film School Rejects: Like I stated a couple paragraphs previously, Pixar promised an original film a year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-05-17T19:08:28Z","apple_news_api_id":"d98630be-1930-4cee-9264-0e91919b19d2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-05-17T19:08:28Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2YYwvhkwTO6SZA6RkZsZ0g","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1sC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4567,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/04\/13\/linked-the-rise-and-rise-of-the-hollywood-film-franchise\/","url_meta":{"origin":5618,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The rise and rise of the Hollywood film franchise&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via FT.com: Obst produced Interstellar, alongside Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas, one of 2014\u2019s rare original hits. 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