Foreign animated movies released direct-to-DVD in America – by Fred Patten
by Dogpatch Press Staff
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.
Are you going to see Woody Woodpecker: The Movie? It’s coming out on October 5th.
In Brazil.
But it’s a Universal movie. Or at least Universal is distributing it there.
The American public may not have noticed it, but one of the cinematic trends of the 2010s has been the production or subsidizing by American movie companies of movies featuring their famous cartoon stars, for theatrical distribution worldwide by those companies – except in the U.S. We get them as direct-to-DVD children’s movies.