Basically, the only modern studio consistently putting out stop motion animation movies, is Laika Studios. And yet, Laika has only had one financially successful movie, Coraline from 2009, while all their other movies have under performed.
However, Laika is currently led and owned by Travis Knight, son of Phil Knight, the owner of Nike. This has enabled Knight to continually bank roll Laika whenever they under perform, essentially making the entire stop motion animation film industry a nepo baby’s pet project.
That being said, this is actually a positive story, and reminiscent of how artists previously would be financially supported by wealthy benefactors.
Was that the budget of all of them, or each individually?
table says together. I didn’t look further because who would be stupid enough to format a table like that if that’s not what they meant
That’s not how tables work unless they specify it is a totals column.
which ISO spec is that?
I can see why you’d assume that, but it’s not what that formatting indicates. Coraline, for example, individually had a budget of $60M Source 1 Source 2
Wikipedia. They often combine rows in a column if it’s all the same, even if they’re independent amounts.
I now regret donating to Wikipedia