Simpsons doesn’t need funding; that money would have been better spent on smaller studios and brands.
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ComputerDecent4631 day ago
+20
It would have been better funding healthcare and homeless shelters.
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Kind_Development7081 day ago
+6
If they don’t get it they’ll go else where because another state or country will offer the tax credit. The state still makes money off of it but now instead of let’s say 25M it’s 3M in Tax’s.
It’s just a race to the bottom because there is tax money to be made even with giving huge credits out for films. But places are gonna keep undercutting each other because a little bit of money is better than no money. (Which was of course a lot of money originally)
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Neurojazz1 day ago
+7
Same! Safe!
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hylo231 day ago
+2
Maybe, just maybe the Simpsons will see it this way and pull in some of those little guys.
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barrtoni1 day ago
+1
This is the way.
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Faptainjack21 day ago
+1
Or a futurama movie
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St0n3yM33rkat1 day ago
+1
Nah. That time has come and gone. Newer Futurama is good but nowhere near the writing quality of the original seasons.
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SeattleHasDied1 day ago
+20
This is bullshit! "The Simpsons" brand is a profit-making juggernaut and doesn't need any cinematic welfare.
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silly_nate1 day ago
+3
Especially now that they’re an extension of Disney. Maybe if they were still just Fox and were going under and hadn’t been bought by a megacorp I could see justification for it.
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Hawkwise831 day ago
+14
Disney shouldn't qualify for government grants.
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Stinky_TheCat1 day ago
+26
Totally the property that needed to be propped up by tax payer spending...
Not you know... 2 million on 11 start ups. Why fund something new when you can shovel cash to some Corp.
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ChunkStumpmon1 day ago
+4
It’s not animated in California
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Tenoch_121 day ago
+1
Yes it is
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ChunkStumpmon1 day ago
+1
When did that happen?
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Tenoch_121 day ago
+1
It's always been animated in California
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ChunkStumpmon1 day ago
+1
[no it’s animated in Korea](https://responsejournal.net/issue/2024-11/feature/between-seoul-springfield)
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metsfanapk22 hr ago
That shows it’s animated (the key poses which there are a lot of) in California then Korea does the in betweens which is a lot of small movements like mouth and eye movements.
This is like saying some of the best animators in Disney history aren’t animating it because they didn’t animate every frame. There needs to be 24 images every second. Approximately 32,000 every episode. The fact that California only does 1-2k doesn’t mean it’s not animated here.
Doesn’t downplay what the Korean animators bring to the simpsons but “it’s not animated here” is false
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ChunkStumpmon19 hr ago
+2
That’s the kind of specious reasoning I don’t abide by fella
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Comfortable_Care27151 day ago
+10
Really? Disney can’t afford it?
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sucobe1 day ago
+8
F*** off giving Simpsons $22M. Absolutely f*** off.
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cornwallisdoggington1 day ago
+3
Stop! He’s already dead
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Bruggenmeister1 day ago
+3
Actors get millions voicing a single Episode ...
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Jack_Q_Frost_Jr1 day ago
+6
Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and the time the movies become unprofitable?
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No-Lead-67691 day ago
+7
This should piss people off more than it does.. along with tax payer funded stadiums and bribes to companies to relocate, politician insider trading..
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so1i1oquy1 day ago
+4
I mean, the Simpsons is kind of like a 501c3 at this point.
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3six51 day ago
+1
Is that a model number for a pacifier?
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so1i1oquy1 day ago
+2
Sort of
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liverstealer1 day ago
+2
Marge’s necklace should be red.
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FantasyBaseballChamp1 day ago
+2
Awful Show is Awful Rich
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ol-gormsby1 day ago
+1
What I want to see is a puppet version of "The Boys" - but I know that Matt & Trey have said "never again" for puppets. Who else might be able to do it?
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ragonastik391 day ago
+1
If the movie is being worked on/animated in California then I don’t see an issue.
That’s tax dollars going to create jobs but I’m not American so I don’t know how stuff works there haha.
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bforce13137 hr ago
+1
Seems like funding smaller or other animation ventures would have been better?
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jesseeme1 day ago
+1
Disneys a new player in this animation thing you guys, this money could really get their name out there.
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Bebopdavidson1 day ago
+1
I hope they do spider-pig again. That’s literally all I remember from the last one. And I can recite the first few seasons
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A-Good-Weather-Man1 day ago
“Fire up the sweat shops! Business is boomin!”
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OneBillPhil1 day ago
It’s good that a young upstart franchise like the Simpsons can get help from the government.
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bob_lala1 day ago
-3
Simpsons, the TV show isn’t even animated in the United States
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