Animal Farm adaptation made for the "modern audience" slaughtered at box office

Absolute nuclear bomb here for Angel Studios. Also got a C- CinemaScore from viewers, which is supposedly the lowest for an animated film since the service began. Woof.

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And the modern audience thing isn't just a meme, it was said by director Andy Serkis, presumably unironically.

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Andy Serkis explains what his Animal Farm movie is about:

"It couldn't be more relevant than today. And history repeats itself. And although Orwell was writing about totalitarianism in particularly in Russia in 1945, 1946 this book hold up as an incredible distillation of what it is to be oppressive, what it is to face authoritarianism.

And what we've done is we've contemporized it. We wanted to make it for—. There hadn't been a retelling of this that really connects with a modern audience. So we've couched it in such a way that it feels like a family film.

But the themes, the dark themes are all there. They're all present. The Orwellian nature of it is incredibly powerful under the surface, but we've smuggled the politics in so that it's a debate that can be opened up between young people and families and old. It's really watchable by everyone from 8 to 80."

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No idea what Angel Studios was thinking green lighting this.