I am very excited to report that Earth Day’s opening of Disneynature’s Earth was the best opening-day gross ever for a documentary (apart from concert films) in making $4 million at 1,804 theaters.
Interestingly, when I attended the early matinee showing on Earth Day the concessions person told me that 4 school bus loads pulled up for the special 10:00 AM showing. Concessions were overrun with an order of 60 kid’s treat packages.
It looks like Disney promoted quite heavily to schools and families to attend the Earth Day opening, a smart move on their part, of course.
Earth is the first release from Disneynature, the company label was established about a year ago to get Disney in the groove again of producing nature films. Disney’s Oceans is the next nature film to open on Earth Day 2010. Below is the trailer.
I just saw the new Disney movie Earth that features lots of animals, as Time Magazine put it “none of them cartoons.” The film follows a year in the life of the planet, beginning in the dead of winter, January, at the Arctic and ending a year later in the Antarctica at the end of a short summer. We meet a mother polar bear and two cubs as their snouts peek out from their winter den. The movie follows several other animals but bonding with three animals to tell the story of Earth: the polar bears, African elephants and humpback whales.
Disney put in place a new film unit called Disneynature. Earth is the company’s inaugural grand reboot to the big-screen nature documentary genre mirrored after Disney’s 1950s True Life Adventures wildlife series.
Being Earth Day, I thought, I’d take my daughter and her friends to view a fresh copy of Earth. It was spectacular, to say the least, an epic film giving due attention this vulnerable planet deserves. After the documentary, I reflected on the need to change our living habits to keep Earth intact for many generations to come.
According to Time Magazine, Earth will be opening in more than 1,800 screens around the country today, and Disney has high hopes for it because most likely it’s the biggest release of a nature film in history.
The TV premiere of FLOW is part of Sundance Channel’s 3rd season of The Green with programming kicking off on Tuesday, April 21st in celebration of Earth Day and continuing to air weekly throughout 2009. This season, every Tuesday will feature new episodes from two series, Eco Trip: The Real Cost of Living and Carbon Cops, followed by a documentary film.
I saw this trailer in the movie theater and fell in love with this documentary. Disney’s ‘Earth’ opens April 22, 2009, Earth Day. I recommend everyone go and see it, even take your kid’s entire class, too.
The film follows a year in the life of the planet, beginning in the dead of winter, January, at the Arctic and ending a year later in the Antarctica at the end of a short summer. We meet a mother polar bear and two cubs as their snouts peek out from their winter den. The movie follows several other animals but bonding with three animals to tell the story of Earth: the polar bears, African elephants and humpback whales.