It only cost around $85 million to make, and made $358 million.

Hotel Transylvania, also an original story, is a fine example. Above all, they can be very, very profitable.

Sony Animation’s movies normally pull in good, but not spectacular grosses. While Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, and DreamWorks continuously throw over $120 million at each new feature of theirs, studios like Sony Animation and Illumination are a little more budget-conscious. This is actually nothing new in current, mainstream feature animation. S.C.O.O.B., an all-animated movie based on – you guessed it – Scooby-Doo, will likely have a smaller budget. That’s going to be done at former Disney animator Sergio Pablos’ studio in Madrid. Following this, in spring 2018 if all goes according to plan, will be an original animated movie called Smallfoot. The group’s next two releases, The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie, ought to cost around the same amount. That picture was mostly animated and produced by Animal Logic, and the budget for the film – hyperrealistic it may have been – was an astounding $60 million. Storks is only their second picture, their first was The Lego Movie. Warner Animation Group farms the animation for their projects out to various studios. The picture, mainly made by Sony ImageWorks up in Vancouver, cost a good $70 million to produce. Warner Animation Group’s latest film is entering its second weekend of release. The add-on to this article appears at the end…

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