MARS NEEDS MOM open 15 years ago this week. Based on the Berkeley Breathed book, the film was animated through the process of performance capture. It grossed $39 million on $150 million budget, losing an estimated $100–144 million for Disney.
by AGOTFAN
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That’s one weird poster.
A $150M budget for a movie called Mars Needs Moms is still one of the wildest greenlights Disney ever gave.
I find it just as fascinating that apparently the first trailer for the movie has the kid voiced by Seth Green with his voice pitched up, and they then replaced him with an actual kid, lol.
This film is THE conclusive proof that high-quality animation means nothing if character designs are uniformly downright hideous. In fact, may I remind you that this film grossed just over 25% of its budget WORLDWIDE?
I have never heard of this movie before.
And judging by its gross, I’m not the only one.
This movie killed the trend of 3D performance capture animated films started by Robert Zemeckis. The technique might work, but the visual style feels too uncanny.
I remember enjoying the movie itself but I could see why it flopped it looked too weird
One of the least-marketable kids movies of my lifetime. I never saw it but by the marketing, I genuinely cannot imaging any child wanting to see this.
Not sure how true this is but I’ve read a couple of times that this movie’s financial woes led to Disney dropping “of Mars” from the title of John Carter lol.
Idk if “of Mars” would’ve done much to help John Carter’s box office but kinda interesting piece of info.
I saw this on the Disney Cruise Line as a midnight premiere. Went to bed halfway through. Didn’t hate it but it was nothing special
> It grossed $39 million on $150 million budget, losing an estimated $100–144 million for Disney.
I wonder if that number’s $111 million.