“It’s hard to imagine a world where a film that makes $400 million would be considered a flop — for example, no film by Japanese legend Hayao Miyazaki has ever even come close to making that amount — but Pixar’s situation is nothing new in Hollywood feature animation. Ballooning budgets helped make Disney’s hand-drawn feature animation division unsustainable in the early-2000s, and more recently, DreamWorks has embarked on a major cost-cutting program to rein in costs at its feature division … ” [full post here: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/pixar/good-dinosaur-make-400-million-still-become-pixars-first-flop-125477.html ]