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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 8005980" data-attributes="member: 7015558">Two things about this;1. Loved the animated movie. It is really freaky for a kid to watch, I mean the Horned King easily outstrips any other animated one in how scary he is.[ATTACH=full]122582[/ATTACH]2. Seriously doubt this is actually true. People don't know this, but the animated Black Cauldron almost bankrupted Disney, and the movie is known as "The film that almost killed Disney." I highly doubt anyone wants to revisit a property that nearly destroyed them. Wikipedia section below;The Black Cauldron was released in North America on July 26, 1985.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-BO-3" target="_blank">[3]</a> The film was also screened at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_City_Music_Hall" target="_blank">Radio City Music Hall</a> in New York City.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-nytimes-32" target="_blank">[32]</a> While officially budgeted by Disney executives at $25 million,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-JHMWhatWentWrong-10" target="_blank">[10]</a> the film's production manager, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hahn" target="_blank">Don Hahn</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-JHMWhatWentWrong-10" target="_blank">[10]</a> said in his documentary, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Sleeping_Beauty" target="_blank">Waking Sleeping Beauty</a>, that it cost $44 million to produce the film.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-WSBBudget-5" target="_blank">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-SFGSleepingBeauty-6" target="_blank">[6]</a> The $44-million budget made it the most expensive animated film ever made at the time.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-SlateRevisiting-7" target="_blank">[7]</a> The film grossed $21.3 million domestically.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-BO-3" target="_blank">[3]</a> It resulted in a loss for Walt Disney Studios and put the future of the animation department in jeopardy (earning it the nickname "the film that almost killed Disney").<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-SlateRevisiting-7" target="_blank">[7]</a> It was so poorly received that it was not distributed as a home video release for more than a decade after its theatrical run.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStewart200568%E2%80%9370-19" target="_blank">[19]</a> Adding insult to injury, the film was also beaten at the box office by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Care_Bears_Movie" target="_blank">The Care Bears Movie</a> ($22.9 million domestically), which was released several months earlier by Disney's much-smaller rival animation studio in Canada <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelvana" target="_blank">Nelvana</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-Waking_Sleeping_Beauty-33" target="_blank">[33]</a> The film was however more successful outside North America notably in France where it had 3,074,481 admissions and was the fifth most attended film of the year.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-34" target="_blank">[34]</a>The film was the last Disney animated film to be completed at the original Animation Building of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Studios_(Burbank)" target="_blank">Walt Disney Studios</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burbank,_California" target="_blank">Burbank, California</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-35" target="_blank">[35]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Animation_Studios" target="_blank">animation department</a> was moved to the Air Way facility in nearby <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendale,_California" target="_blank">Glendale</a> in December 1984, and, following corporate restructuring, eventually returned to the Burbank studio in the mid-1990s at a new facility.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film)#cite_note-Waking_Sleeping_Beauty-33" target="_blank">[33]</a></blockquote>

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