[...]Here is a Great Blog You Might Find Interesting that we Encourage You[...]……

I am a high school English teacher in California; one of my students is writing a research paper on animation and has your blog on the four charts of the Disney Renaissance listed as a source on his Works Cited page. I tracked down the blog since his information was incomplete, and looked in vain for a citation on where you found the numbers in your charts. What was your primary source? He cannot use your information unless he finds out where you got the information because (I am sure you will understand) blogs are not considered scholarly sources.

Thanks for your help!

Kim

Didn;t Aladdin cost $28 to make while Lion King cost $45?

Dinosaur either way is not relevant for the analysis. Sure, it might fall into the time frame I used for the analysis but that movie is 3D animated, not 2D animated. It might not be that clear now that I reread some of the post so: the analysis purely is about classical animated flicks Disney is well known for.

Regarding the marketing costs: I thought for some time to add those numbers to the analysis. But I didn’t do that as marketing is a whole different beast. One thing that makes it problematic is the fact, that marketing costs are not the same as production costs. For example: if one movie doesn’t fare that well at the box office, Disney could’ve booked additional ads in TV or newspaper or on the net. It’s highly situational. But perhaps I will do another analysis including those costs as there might be some interesting results.