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Actors <keyword id="23884528" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ray-Romano" source="keywords">Ray Romano</keyword>, <keyword id="23170392" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="John-Leguizamo" source="keywords">John Leguizamo</keyword>, and <keyword id="20069771" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Queen-Latifah" source="keywords">Queen Latifah</keyword> have shared an update with their fans about the sequel of the animated film franchise 'Ice Age', according to The Hollywood Reporter. The stars, who have lent their voices to the previous films, shared that '<keyword id="23170391" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ice-Age-6" source="keywords">Ice Age 6</keyword>' is in the works. In a video shown at D23 Brazil, which was shared on Disney's social media handle, Romano can be seen shivering in the cold and saying, "Ray Romano here with some big news! Wow, it's cold in here. Did the AC break or something?" At the same time, Latifah called Romano and said, "Hey Ray, ready to give the big announcement? I see you got my gift. I thought it would be fun," as snow began to fall on the soundstage. Romano then reveals that "Ice Age 6 is coming to theatres." Leguizamo added, "The Herd is back, baby! I gotta call everybody I know." 'Ice Age' is an American media franchise centring on a group of mammals surviving the Pleistocene ice age. It consists of computer-animated films, short films, TV specials and a series of video games. The five films that were released in theatres are 'Ice Age' in 2002, 'Ice Age: The Meltdown' in 2006, 'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs' in 2009, 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and 'Ice Age: Collision Course' in 2016. Disney has not yet shared the official release date for 'Ice Age 6', as per The Hollywood Reporter.

'Ice Age 6' in the works with Ray Romano, Queen Latifah returning

Every animated Disney film, ranked by critics

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Amazon made a big bet on nerdworld when it decided to back Critical Role's animated series.</li><li>In 2019, the crew's Kickstarter broke records with a $11.3 million fundraising round.</li></ul>In 2019, a group of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/critical-role-dungeons-dragons-sold-out-live-show-wembley-arena-2023-9">eight voice actors in Los Angeles</a> was best known for playing "Dungeons &amp; Dragons" on Twitch. But what seemed like niche internet fame at the time soon snowballed into something far more lucrative.A moonshot fundraising campaign to make a short animated series based on their "D&amp;D" campaign ended up breaking Kickstarter records at the time. The "Critical Role" fandom gave the crew more than $11.3 million to get to work, and they later secured Amazon's backing to take their pitch on at the Prime Video streaming platform.Five years on, the cast of "Critical Role" is nerdworld business royalty — and three seasons deep in "The Legend of Vox Machina," the animated series based on their first "D&amp;D" campaign. The eight cofounders now run the company of the same name. It's serious business: They are <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/critical-role-candela-obscura-liam-obrien-gothic-horror-gaming-2024-4">selling out arenas</a>, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/critical-role-liam-obrien-moonward-podcast-book-publishing-comics-media-2024-8">expanding into the audio drama business</a>, and running <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/critical-role-daggerheart-preorders-2024-9">their own game publishing arm</a>.In teasers for "The Legend of Vox Machina's" third season, the adventuring party — all voiced by the CR cofounders — travel to hell and back to find a way to save their world of Exandria.The first three episodes of "The Legend of Vox Machina" will be available on Prime Video on October 3. This season has twelve episodes, which will be released weekly in four tranches.During interviews with Business Insider in early August, the cast teased that this upcoming season would be <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/critical-role-the-legend-of-vox-machina-season-three-trailer-2024-8">all kinds of heartbreaking</a>, a tragic tonal shift from the jam-packed action of the first two seasons.Speaking to BI again before the season's launch, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/critical-role-candela-obscura-liam-obrien-gothic-horror-gaming-2024-4">CR cofounder Liam O'Brien</a> said this third season will cover some "incredibly rewarding, heartbreaking, and inspiring moments" from the first CR campaign."These stories were deeply personal when they spilled out of our mouths at the table all those years ago," O'Brien said."And we only know each other better, have only performed with each other longer, have only become more important to each other over the years," he said of his friends, the CR cofounders. "Getting to bring this level of structure, polish, love, and care — and animation and art too — is beyond surreal."O'Brien also teased that despite all the trials his character, Vax'ildan, goes through this season, there's much more in store for his half-elven rogue."If we are lucky enough to tell the entire story — that we hope to, knock on wood — I think he's just getting started," O'Brien told BI."The Legend of Vox Machina's" third season will also see the druid Keyleth — played by CR creative director Marisha Ray — getting more powerful. According to the sneak peek fans have gotten of the season, this season will also show how Keyleth falls deeper in love with O'Brien's Vax'ildan."She's in her girlboss era for sure. It's been so fun to explore again and to see it play out in concert with everything else going on in Exandria," Ray said.<h2 id="f2a425c0-9a97-4559-b469-92ee4333dcd1">There's more Amazon-backed animation work in the pipeline, CR's cofounders say</h2><div type="image" title="Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Laura Bailey, Sam Riegel, Ashley Johnson, Liam O'Brien and Travis Willingham attend The Prime Experience: Saturday Morning Cartoons Ft. &quot;The Boys Presents: Diabolical&quot;, &quot;Fairfax&quot; &amp; &quot;The Legend of Vox Machina&quot; on May 07, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California." height="3488" width="4717" msid="113851809" hostid="261" sizebytes="807232"></div>Critical Role is also working on "Mighty Nein," another Amazon-backed animated series based on the team's second long-running "D&amp;D" campaign.No word yet from Prime Video on an official release date, but the CR said in a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/LVMandM9onPrime/status/1799214891624214945">June 7 X post</a> that the recording process was underway."The Mighty Nein definitely is its own beast. And you can look at the two series side by side, and with the knowledge of them sharing a world, you can see where that connective tissue is," Critical Role chief creative officer Matthew Mercer said. "But the second campaign that it's based on had an entirely different vibe and an entirely different story, with a very unique mix of different characters."Mercer — who's also <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/critical-role-matt-mercer-shocks-fans-collaboration-dm-campaign-three-2024-9">the crew's regular game master</a> — added that with the "Mighty Nein" series, viewers will see the broader world of Exandria, the world he crafted, and in which all of Critical Role's campaigns to date have been based."We'll get to see the perspectives outside of the Mighty Nein and how the rest of the world is also wrestling with the rising tensions," Mercer said.Cast member and CR cofounder Laura Bailey told BI that in "Mighty Nein," the cast is getting to explore their characters' origins more, and in a way that they didn't get to with Vox Machina."You get to see them, their backstories, and them coming together," Bailey said.

Amazon's big bet — Critical Role's breakout nerdworld animated series — is back for another wild season

Fans questioned why Pharrell Williams  made his biopic a Lego animation &mdash; but critics say it's way better than you'd think

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Warning: Major spoilers ahead for Chris Sanders' movie, "The Wild Robot."</li><li>Sanders says working on "The Lion King" helped him pull off a shocking moment in "The Wild Robot."</li></ul>Chris Sanders has a history of incorporating serious topics into animated films for children. Before directing modern classics like "Lilo &amp; Stitch" and "How to Train Your Dragon," he was the head storyboard artist at Disney Animation and helped develop iconic titles like "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin," and "The Lion King" (he received "Story By" credits for all three).So when it came to crafting another heartwarming yet tear-jerking animated classic, he took cues from his work on "The Lion King" and the film's most devastating moment. "The Wild Robot," which is based on the acclaimed book series by Peter Brown, follows <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-plays-roz-the-wild-robot-lupita-nyongo-vocal-cord-injury-2024-9">a robot named ROZZUM 7134 (Lupita Nyong'o)</a> — "Roz" for short — who powers on for the first time on an island inhabited only by wildlife. Programmed to assist the needs of humans, Roz sets out to see if any of the animals on the island need assistance.<div type="image" title="Robot looking at duck" height="3400" width="8000" msid="113765383" hostid="261" sizebytes="376852"></div>Struggling to get acclimated to the island, Roz accidentally crashes into a goose's nest, killing the mother. When only one of her eggs survives, Roz makes it her purpose to raise that gosling until it's old enough to join the winter migration.Though the scene won't traumatize a generation of kids the way the death of Bambi's mother did in "Bambi," it's still a shocking moment for a children's film. But Sanders knew it would have to be in the movie, since it's a key point of action in Brown's books."It's the core of his story," Sanders told Business Insider. Any good story needs stakes, even one meant for children. "Death is all over this island because it has to be a place with consequences."Some of that death is addressed with comedy. In one scene, a mother opossum voiced by Catherine O'Hara is relieved to hear one of her babies has been eaten because she has too many (the scene ends with the baby turning out to still be alive). But with the mother goose's death, Sanders knew he would have to play it straight. So he used the death of Mufasa in "The Lion King" as a guide.<div type="image" title="Lion King Scar Mufasa" height="999" width="1777" msid="113765388" hostid="261" sizebytes="34366"></div>"I learned on 'Lion King,' you can do that kind of thing, but you handle it in a certain way so that you don't pull punches," he said. Softening the blow will only hurt the story's effectiveness later, but it's a delicate dance: "You want that to be really powerful, but you do it carefully.""The Wild Robot" does this by making the actual mother goose's death happen quickly — it's less than a minute of screen time, and the focus is more on Roz discovering the egg and caring for it than focusing on death itself.The scene sets the tone for a movie that's an emotional ride, one that stands on the shoulders of the classic Disney titles Sanders was a part of decades ago."The Wild Robot" is in theaters now.

The latest animated tearjerker has a scene inspired by Mufasa's death in 'The Lion King,' so get your tissues ready

The 15 highest-grossing animated movies of all time

Washington [US], July 11 (ANI): Nearly a month after its release on Friday, June 14, '<keyword id="20201788" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Inside-Out-2" source="keywords">Inside Out 2</keyword>' has surpassed <keyword id="22072059" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Incredibles-2" source="keywords">Incredibles 2</keyword> in revenue to become the <keyword id="20231440" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="highest-grossing-movie" source="keywords">highest-grossing movie</keyword> in <keyword id="20162406" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pixar" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Pixar" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Pixar">Pixar</keyword>'s history. As reported by Variety, Inside Out 2 has earned $1.25 billion globally, surpassing Incredibles 2's $1.24 billion record. This achievement makes it the fourth <keyword id="22368065" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="highest-grossing-animated-movie" source="Orion">highest-grossing animated movie</keyword> ever, trailing only Frozen ($1.29 billion), The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($1.36 billion), and Frozen II ($1.45 billion). The sequel quickly exceeded the overall gross of the original Inside Out, which made $859 million worldwide in 2015. The film's success was anticipated, as <keyword id="20509343" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-Walt-Disney-Company" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="The Walt Disney Company" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="The Walt Disney Company">The Walt Disney Company</keyword> had earlier announced that 'Inside Out 2' became the fastest animated film to reach $1 billion at the global box office, achieving this milestone in less than three weeks after its release. 'Inside Out 2' is now one of only 11 animated films to have crossed the $1 billion mark. It is also the first movie to achieve this feat since July 2023's 'Barbie.' The sequel follows 13-year-old Riley as she experiences new emotions during puberty and prepares for high school. Directed by Kelsey Mann, the film introduces new emotions like Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment, Ennui, and Nostalgia, in addition to the original five: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. Amy Poehler, who voices Joy, told PEOPLE that the first film was naturally set up for a sequel. "At the very end of the original, Joy has that great moment where she's like, 'Finally, everything the way it's supposed to be.' Then we see that big puberty button, 'Should we press this?' We do press it in the second movie," Poehler said in September 2022. She had been advocating for a sequel for years. "I've been bugging Pete Docter [the Chief Creative Officer of studio Pixar] and the team and just saying, 'When are you guys going to make another one? When's that happening?' When they told me their idea of how to approach the second one, I thought it was just genius," she told PEOPLE in June. Inside Out 2 is now playing in theatres.

'Inside Out 2' surpasses 'Incredibles 2' to become highest-grossing movie in Pixar's history

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s daughter said he once used a chainsaw to cut off the head of a dead whale.</li><li>The story was recounted by Kick Kennedy in a 2012 profile that went viral over the weekend.</li></ul>In an unexpected turn of events, the <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jennifer-lopez-divorce-canceled-tour-pr-experts-recover-2024-8">Bennifer breakup</a> has led to the discovery of what appears to be another bizarre story of <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jr-campaign-ending-money-fortune-trump-endorsement-2024-8">Robert F. Kennedy Jr</a> and a dead animal.Following <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://pagesix.com/2024/08/24/celebrity-news/ben-affleck-has-been-hanging-out-with-rfk-jr-s-daughter-kick-kennedy/">a tabloid report</a> that Kennedy's daughter Kathleen Alexandra "Kick" Kennedy has been spotted spending time with actor Ben Affleck amid <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-divorce-settlement-prenup-assets-2024-8">his divorce from Jennifer Lopez,</a> it appears the internet collectively Googled the under-the-radar member of the <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kennedy-family-members-who-oppose-rfk-jr-campaign-2024-2024-4">Kennedy clan </a>over the weekend.What they found was a 2012 profile of the 36-year-old in <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a924/kick-kennedy-interview/">Town &amp; Country</a> in which she shared an anecdote about her father which the writer characterized as an example of his "eccentric environmentalism."The story goes that sometime in the mid-1990s, a six-year-old Kick joined her dad as he retrieved the head of a dead whale from a beach near the Kennedy compound in <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kennedy-family-returns-to-hyannis-port-every-year-despite-tragedy-2023-7">Hyannis Port</a>.Kennedy — who <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rfk-jr-drops-out-presidential-race-2024-8">on Friday suspended his long-shot presidential campaign and threw his support behind Donald Trump</a> — decapitated the whale with a chainsaw, Kick said.He then secured its head to the roof of the family minivan with bungee cords, Kick added.<div type="image" title="Kennedy pictured petting a whale in Mexico in 1997." height="1341" width="2040" msid="112813210" hostid="261" sizebytes="283628"></div>What Kennedy apparently intended to do with the whale's head was not specified, but the article did note he "likes to study animal skulls and skeletons."Per Kick's retelling, the family came into a bit of a problem once they got on the road for the five-hour drive back to their home in New York."Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Kick said.She recalled that to deal with the leaking whale juice, "we all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out.""People on the highway were giving us the finger," she added."But that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us," Kick, named after her great-aunt Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy Cavendish, said of her childhood.<div type="image" title="Robert Kennedy Jr., with his daughter Kathleen &quot;Kick&quot; Alexandra Kennedy, and third wife Cheryl Hines in 2015." height="2000" width="1333" msid="112813212" hostid="261" sizebytes="98032"></div>A representative for Kennedy did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been linked to numerous bizarre headlines.Earlier this month, the 70-year-old came clean about taking a dead bear cub from the road and <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/robert-kennedy-dumped-dead-bear-cub-central-park-new-york-2024-8">planting it in Central Park in 2014,</a> which led to local news coverage.Ahead of his involvement in the bear story being reported, Kennedy told comedian <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/comedian-roseanne-barr-tucker-carlson-left-no-humor-2023-2">Roseanne Barr</a> in a <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1820132549798347109">video posted X</a> that he intended to skin the animal and store the meat in his fridge. However, at the encouragement of his friends he went ahead with the prank instead.He left the dead bear on top of a bike at the side of the road. Per <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign">The New Yorker</a>, "a person with knowledge of the event said that Kennedy thought it would be funny to make it look as if the animal had been killed by an errant cyclist."A photo of Kennedy pretending to grimace with his hand in the dead eight-month-old bear cub's bloody mouth was shared by the publication and instantly went viral.Per the state report detailing the necropsy the Department of Environmental Conservation performed on the bear cub, obtained by BI, <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rfk-jr-central-park-dead-bear-mouth-brain-2024-8">Kennedy may have been touching the bear's leaked brain tissue</a>.Kennedy joked that sticking his hand in the bear's mouth could have been how he got his <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rfk-jr-brain-dead-worm-parasite-expert-2024-5">brain worm</a>.However, he testified about the parasite in his cranium in a <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rfk-jr-worm-ate-part-of-his-brain-memory-issues-2024-5">deposition two years before</a> the bear was killed, according to The New York Times.Days after the bear story came out, Kennedy told reporters that the bear wasn't the only dead animal he'd taken from the road."I've been picking up roadkill my whole life," Kennedy told reporters, per <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/rfk-jr-bear-carcass-central-park-freezer-full-roadkill-meat/5680747/">NBC</a>. "I have a freezer full of it. A thousand cubic-foot freezer."A spokesperson clarified to the <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://apnews.com/article/rfk-new-york-ballot-access-lawsuit-e522e2348e54125420fffe8ca25a0d9f">Associated Press</a> that the freezer was only 21 cubic feet.

A wild story about RFK Jr. and a dead animal has resurfaced, thanks in part to the Bennifer rumor mill

The fifth installment of the animated fantasy comedy franchise "<keyword id="20444363" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="shrek" source="keywords">Shrek</keyword>" will hit the screens in 2026. The original cast of the film -- <keyword id="22171767" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mike-Myers" source="keywords">Mike Myers</keyword>, <keyword id="21416955" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Eddie-Murphy" source="keywords">Eddie Murphy</keyword> and <keyword id="20082498" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cameron-Diaz" source="keywords">Cameron Diaz</keyword> -- will return for the sequel. <keyword id="20855174" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Dreamworks-Animation" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Dreamworks Animation" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Dreamworks Animation">Dreamworks Animation</keyword>, the studio behind the movie, shared the update on its X page on Tuesday. "Not too Far, Far Away... @Shrek 5 is coming to theaters on July 1, 2026 with Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz," the banner captioned the announcement video. According to Variety, "<keyword id="20444362" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Shrek-5" source="keywords">Shrek 5</keyword>" will be directed by Walt Dohrn, who served as a writer and artist on "Shrek 2" and "Shrek the Third". He was also the head of story on "Shrek Forever After", in which he also voiced the character of Rumpelstiltskin. Brad Ableson will serve as co-director. It's unknown whether <keyword id="22362741" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Antonio-Banderas" source="keywords">Antonio Banderas</keyword> will return as the feisty cat <keyword id="22362742" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="puss" source="keywords">Puss</keyword> in Boots in the new movie. "Shrek 5" will be produced by franchise returner Gina Shay and Illumination founder Chris Meledandri. In an interview last month, Murphy let it slip that voice recording for the film has already begun with a spin-off movie on his character <keyword id="55197" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="donkey" source="Orion">Donkey</keyword>. "We started doing ('Shrek 5') months ago. I did this. I recorded the first act, and we'll be doing it this year, we'll finish it up. 'Shrek' is coming out and Donkey's gonna have his own movie. We're gonna do Donkey as well. So we're gonna do a 'Shrek,' and we're doing a Donkey (movie)," he had said. The "Shrek" franchise released four feature films between 2001 and 2010. Besides becoming a box office hit, the first "Shrek" film became the first Oscar winner in the animated feature category. Its success led to sequels "Shrek 2" (2004), "Shrek the Third" (2007) and "Shrek Forever After" (2010), which also did favourable business at the box office. A spin-off based on the character of Puss in Boots also spawned another franchise - two films "Puss in Boots" (2011) and "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" (2022) and "The Adventures of Puss in Boots", an animated TV series which ran from 2015 to 2018.

'Shrek 5' officially announced, film to release in 2026

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Donald Sutherland was instrumental in getting "Animal House" made when he signed on.</li><li>He did it as a favor to director John Landis but wanted more money instead of points.</li></ul>"National Lampoon's Animal House" is one of the greatest comedies ever. Yet, when it was being made, not even one of its stars believed in the potential of a small comedy about toga parties.That is why when it came down to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-sutherland-actor-the-hunger-games-dead-obituary-2024-6">Donald Sutherland</a> taking a fee of either 2% of the film's gross profits or $35,000, he took the latter. He later recalled it as a mistake that cost him a lot of money.Despite the movie's now classic status, studio execs didn't have much faith in "Animal House" at the time.According to Matty Simmons' "<a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?amazonTrackingID=biauto-47638-20&amp;h=2d0a9c992dbfe76a4926a3bf16f5337c450d7fe0a97702d18af508a71a605a90&amp;postID=5335b0646da8116c5575daa2&amp;postSlug=animal-house-mistake-that-cost-donald-sutherland-millions-2014-3&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFat-Drunk-Stupid-Inside-Behind%2Fdp%2F0312552262">Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House</a>," these were the words of Universal Studios boss Ned Tanen after he read the first outline for the movie: "Everybody is drunk, or high, or getting laid. I'd never make this movie."It wasn't until the production promised Tanen that they could make the film for $3 million that Universal signed on. However, the studio still wanted a star to sell the movie to audiences.For Universal, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/where-are-they-now-snl-cast-members-2019-7">"Saturday Night Live" stand-out John Belushi</a> wasn't enough, so director John Landis went to his friend, Donald Sutherland (a huge star by 1978), and asked him for a favor. A hesitant Sutherland ultimately agreed to be in the film, but only after Landis told him that all his scenes could be done in a day.The studio and the comedy now had its "star." Yet, there was still the important matter of just how much Sutherland would get paid for the one day on set.<h2>Sutherland wanted more cash upfront rather than a stake in the profits</h2>Simmons said the studio wanted a star but "wouldn't pay for a star." This led to a negotiation that Sutherland would regret for years. "[Sutherland] first asked for $250,000 and, in Landis's words, 'The studio said, 'Get the f--- outta here!'" Simmons wrote. Universal then countered Sutherland's offer with a simple $20,000 for a day's work plus points (a percentage of the profits) on the film. <div type="image" title="Donald Sutherland in 2019." height="1779" width="2373" msid="111148292" hostid="261"></div>The problem was that Sutherland wanted nothing to do with points in the film. According to the book, Sutherland famously told Landis: "I can't take that offer. I just want the money. I don't want any points in the movie."Universal eventually offered a fee of $35,000 with no points for a day plus one — in Hollywood speak, meaning technically two days of work because you can't hire an actor for just one day in case they go over time. Sutherland happily accepted that offer and went on to play the film's pot-smoking professor, Dave Jennings.Then, on July 28, 1978, Sutherland and the rest of the world saw the finished product when "Animal House" hit theaters, and comedy would never be the same.<h2>'Animal House' was an animal at the box office.</h2>"Animal House" would become one of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-comedy-movies-of-all-time-2016-7">most successful comedies</a> ever, pulling in over <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=animalhouse.htm">$141 million at the box office</a> on the $3 million production budget Universal was initially promised. Adjusted for inflation, that's about $674 million in today's dollars.Even in 2024, it still <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/mpaa_title_lifetime_gross/?by_mpaa=R">ranks</a> as the 62nd highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time in terms of domestic gross.In a 2012 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxBJiyyZ2ic">interview on the "Opie and Anthony" radio show</a>, Sutherland said that the number of points he was offered was 2%.When asked, "Do you know what would 2% roughly have translated into?" Sutherland smirked and responded, "I don't want to know."

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Fox will release "Universal Basic Guys," a new animated series, this fall.</li><li>The show satirizes universal basic income. It stars two brothers in a $3,000-a-month program.</li></ul>If you do anything successfully for long enough, someone is bound to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/south-park-creators-matt-parker-trey-stone-net-worth-2023-7">make a quippy cartoon</a> about it. Basic income programs are the next victim, now on Fox."Universal Basic Guys" stars a pair of brothers who join a $3,000-a-month basic income program after the hot dog factory where they work becomes automated. A universal basic income is often cited as <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-sam-altman-universal-basic-income-idea-compute-gpt-7-2024-5">a potential solution</a> to the likely job losses created by artificial intelligence.The animated series is co-produced by Fox Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television. Fox and Sony first ordered the first season in 2022. It is scheduled to premiere in the fall, but Fox has already ordered a second season.The show follows brothers Mark and Hank Hoagies. Destitute and looking for purpose, the brothers discover their town has a "radical universal basic income" pilot program.The show is a satirical take on the numerous <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-gbi-ubi-low-income-americans-afford-housing-food-2024-5">basic income pilots</a> that cities across the United States have experimented with in recent years. Most of these are guaranteed basic income programs, which target low-income residents by offering them monthly cash payments with no strings attached. Most programs, like <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/iowa-basic-income-cash-payments-ban-universal-basic-income-2024-6">one in Iowa</a> that gives low-income residents $500 a month, report that recipients <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-people-spend-universal-basic-income-ubi-food-housing-transportation-2024-4">spend most of the funds on essentials</a> like rent and food.A universal basic income was made popular by entrepreneur Andrew Yang during the 2020 presidential election and continues to be a favorite talking point for tech CEOs working in the AI industry. A universal basic income would give monthly no-strings-attached cash payments to everyone, regardless of their financial status.While more cities are experimenting with basic income programs, they have also been the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-opposition-discriminatory-universal-basic-income-argument-2024-4">target of conservative ire</a>. Some lawmakers have criticized the programs as <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/iowa-republicans-block-guaranteed-basic-income-socialism-steroids-ubi-poverty-2024-1">akin to socialism</a>, while others have <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-paul-bettencourt-guaranteed-basic-income-ubi-uplift-harris-houston-2024-1">called them unconstitutional</a>. A common refrain is that basic incomes encourage recipients not to work, though <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-works-red-state-blue-state-2023-10">studies have shown the opposite</a>.For the Hoagies brothers, the monthly payments allow them to relive their youth with some local friends. The program the brothers join is a universal program, meaning all members of the town receive $3,000 a month."Mark, Hank, and the rest of their local buddies are once again kids in the summertime, overflowing with the perilous combo of free time and stupid ideas," the show's description says. "This is a show about men trying to find purpose in a world where they're no longer needed.""Universal Basic Guys" is set to join <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1443566492929134">Fox's "Animation Domination" lineup</a>. Promotional marketing for the show features the main character, Mark Hoagies, alongside Homer Simpson of "The Simpsons" and Bob of "Bob's Burgers," two other downtrodden animated patriarchs popular on Fox.In <a target="_blank" href="https://www.foxflash.com/releases/view/fox-orders-animated-series-universal-basic-guysthe-hoagie-bros-wt-for-2024">a statement</a>, Michael Thorn, Fox's network president, said that co-creators and executive producers Adam and Craig Malamut are "two of the boldest and most irreverent voices" on television. The brothers are best known for their work on "Game of Zones," a popular "Game of Thrones" parody about the NBA that ran for seven seasons on Bleacher Report.Sony Pictures Television Studios and the Malamut brothers did not immediately return a request for comment from Business Insider.

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