Well, you may be right. We'll have to wait and see. And speaking of Coco's promotion, today the embargo has been lifted and many articles from the press day, like the ones blackcauldron85 has posted, have been published. Here are some more:estefan wrote:I think we'll get a better idea for the overall excitement level for Coco when the promotion begins in full force in September, which is when Disney typically starts whipping out the heavy marketing for their Thanksgiving releases.
There are some issues that I can see people having with this film. I don't know all the details but this is what I've gleaned online.blackcauldron85 wrote:For those (not necessarily here) who poo-poo on Pixar for making a Day of the Dead movie so soon after The Book of Life (which I don't agree with, I don't see it as an issue at all; other holidays have numerous movies based on them), there's another movie (by a Mexican animation company) being made:
https://www.facebook.com/diademuertosth ... =2&theater
(via user La Catrina on CartoonBrew.com)
‘Coco’ Director Lee Unkrich Doesn’t Understand Why Some People Are ‘Threatened’ By His Film
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/pixar/coco-d ... 53128.html
That's because Pixar has the bad habit of naming people co-directors when they're really just assistant directors. This is Lee Unkrich's film through and through, the same way Inside Out was Pete Docter's film and not Ronnie del Carmen's. That's why the co-directors aren't credited as such when the films are submitted for Oscar consideration. The fact that Pixar likes to parade people of color and women involved with a film's production for publicity reasons is irrelevant.estefan wrote:Adrian Molina, the co-director and credited screenwriter, is Mexican-American. But most people seem to be focusing on Lee Unkrich being the director, even though Molina has been just as active in promoting the film.
I mean, it's not wrong. I don't really see this making a big thing in either Europe or Asia, tbh, mostly because for them South/Latin America is just very foreign for them. (And even for USA, whose idea of Latin America is just Mexico, Puerto Rico and Cuba; fuck the rest trying to "steal the spotlight").JeanGreyForever wrote: had been pitching this film to several studious and I think Disney rejected it under the basis that no one who wasn't Mexican would be interested.
Yes, they are technically assistant directors, but no less pivotal. And co-directors aren't nominated for Oscars, because those are the Oscar rules only recognise the main director.Sotiris wrote:That's because Pixar has the bad habit of naming people co-directors when they're really just assistant directors. This is Lee Unkrich's film through and through, the same way Inside Out was Pete Docter's film and not Ronnie del Carmen's. That's why the co-directors aren't credited as such when the films are submitted for Oscar consideration. The fact that Pixar likes to parade people of color and women involved with a film's production for publicity reasons is irrelevant.estefan wrote:Adrian Molina, the co-director and credited screenwriter, is Mexican-American. But most people seem to be focusing on Lee Unkrich being the director, even though Molina has been just as active in promoting the film.
Yes, they are. Musker & Clements, Buck & Lee, Howard & Moore etc. The difference is that at WDAS co-directors are actually directors whereas at Pixar they may get that title but they don't have an equal role to that of the director.estefan wrote:And co-directors aren't nominated for Oscars, because those are the Oscar rules only recognise the main director.
estefan wrote:He (and other assistant directors, for that matter) isn't just sitting on his butt a lot of the time, waiting for Unkrich to call on him.
I was referring to those credited specifically as "co-directors." They don't get nominated for Oscars. Like how Musker and Clements got "directed by" credits on Moana, but Don Hall and Chris Williams got "co-directed by" credits on the film.Sotiris wrote:Yes, they are. Musker & Clements, Buck & Lee, Howard & Moore etc. The difference is that at WDAS co-directors are actually directors whereas at Pixar they may get that title but they don't have an equal role to that of the director.estefan wrote:And co-directors aren't nominated for Oscars, because the Oscar rules only recognise the main director.
This. The fact that Unkrich can't understand why some people would feel "threatened" by a company trying to absorb a holiday is laughable.JeanGreyForever wrote:
Disney trying to buy the copyright for the Day of the Dead was really off-putting to many people especially those whose heritage involves this holiday. They saw this as Disney only seeing their culture as something to mooch off from and having no respect for it whatsoever. I suppose it would be the equivalent of a country trying to buy the rights to Christmas.
