Optimism And A Twigg

An INDIE ANIMATION got into THEATERS and sold 5 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH of ticket presales in FOUR DAYS.

The Avatar franchise has been so badly fucked over for YEARS. Because Paramount doesn’t actually give a SHIT about it, all they care about is MONEY. Avatar is a franchise with a HUGE fanbase, but because its animation for a slightly older audience they SINCERELY DONT THINK it can generate enough money to be worth investing in.

(And yes we can argue that Avatar is a “kids” show but when I say slightly older audience I mean this show isn’t like a Disney movie or Paw Patrol or Bluey okay?)

So studios like Glitch giving us these animated series that go widely popular are SO IMPORTANT. They are proving that animated stories for slightly older audiences can be extremely successful. And the fact that they got it into theaters is HUGE. Paramount could be making money off this IP but they sincerely don’t think people would buy tickets to see it in theaters.

And I keep seeing people wanting Avatar studios to go independent or stand up to Paramount somehow. THEY CANT REALLY DO THAT because Paramount OWNS the intellectual property that is the Avatar franchise. The creators don’t own it. Paramount could destroy Avatar studios and let the IP collect dust and there’s nothing we can do about that. Look at what EA games did to the Alice franchise. American McGee was able to develop and entire video game bible through Patreon support, people WANTED this game, but because EA owns the IP and didn’t want to do anything with it, we will NEVER see that game.