Word: moving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...completely underestimated the phenomenon Toy Story would be, but it was expecting great things from A Bug's Life. It had its McDonald's meals and its merchandise deals all lined up. Pixar has alleged that Katzenberg was so intimidated that he offered to cancel Antz if Disney would move A Bug's Life away from Prince of Egypt. DreamWorks denies that, but Katzenberg eventually shifted Prince of Egypt to what he thought would be a safer date...
Disney then promptly moved its remake of Mighty Joe Young, the story of a giant ape on the loose in New York City, out of summer and head to head with Prince in December. Although Disney is known for hardball scheduling tactics (it rereleased The Little Mermaid against Fox's Anastasia, for example), it insisted it had decided to move the ape well before DreamWorks switched Prince of Egypt. Late last week Disney moved Mighty Joe Young back a week...
Ironically, Disney's toughest competition may not come from Antz. The studio is pushing A Bug's Life back from Nov. 20 to Nov. 25--not, according to Roth, to move another week away from Antz but to avoid going mano a mano with Paramount's Rugrats, the movie version of the popular children's TV show, which opens Nov. 20 and is expected to be a powerful contender in the intense holiday family-entertainment race. But that move to Nov. 25 puts A Bug's Life in direct competition with Universal's sequel to the popular pig movie, Babe...
...part of NBC's Thursday lineup, which for years has been the most dominant in prime time. Occupying the Seinfeld slot will give Frasier added prestige and viewers. If it can hold on to them, the show is virtually guaranteed to be the highest-rated comedy this season. The move is in fact a homecoming for Grammer, since Cheers, where his character originated, was shown during the same time period, and Frasier started out on that night before moving to Tuesday...
...votes," Williams declared. "Ken Lucas voted for Bill Clinton twice, and he is running from his votes. Ken Lucas should...tell [Clinton] to either resign or face swift and certain punitive consequences." Local reaction to the Clinton videotape is key to whether the Williams campaign decides to move ahead with an all-out ad war tying Lucas to Clinton. Says Scott Howell, the Williams-campaign media consultant: "Kentucky is a southern state--it's a little more character driven--so we might be less hesitant to [launch such an ad campaign] here...