Disney CEO Bob Chapek thinks that adults don’t want to watch animated movies.
Ever since Disney, Pixar, and Dreamworks Studios have dominated the world of animation, a new debate has been sparked—who are animated films for?
It’s an old debate that has generated some heat after Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood was disqualified for Oscar consideration in the Best Animated Feature Film category earlier in October. After suggesting the decision was based on an “ingrained bias,” it’s easy to notice the mistreatment of the medium in film.
The debate isn’t helped by Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek, who has assumed that Disney’s animated content is only for children and that parents and childless adults aren’t tuning in for animated movies.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
