The Walt Disney Company keeps saying; "Uh ... The Lion King (2019) isn't animation but live-action".
This is like saying that Germany won World War II. Both statements are false on their lying faces. Sad that a lot of the media isn't pointing this out.
... In an earlier piece on Deadline, D’Alessandro and Nancy Tartaglione, wrote that Frozen 2 would likely “rep a new global opening record for an animated film.” It’s a bizarre claim to make since there hasn’t been a single projection that Frozen 2 will come within even $100 million of The Lion King remake’s $467 million opening weekend. In the sentence that immediately follows, D’Alessandro and Tartaglione admit that the only way their reporting could be true is if they don’t count The Lion King as animated: “I understand that Disney considers Jon Favreau’s CGI reboot of The Lion King to be in the live-action category.” ...
I know damn well we live in a corporatist age, and that corporations often call the tune. But why the media knuckles under to the fiction that Favereau's feature-length, animated remake of the original The Lion King is a mystery known only to various weak-kneed publishers, editors, reporters.
One thing for a conglomerate to blow smoke up people's backsides. Conglomerates do that all the time. Quite another when news entities help them do it.
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