I guess it's no surprise to see two foxes in the top three! From your Twitter thread:
The Rescuers Down Under is a favorite, and I like The Rescuers, but I'm still looking at all the possible movies to pick from to finally do a sequel for, and ... Disney chose that one?
But of course, mon ami! You see, Disney is a business, and:
The Rescuers wasn’t just artistically successful; it was financially successful too. On a budget of $7.5 million, it brought in almost $200 million.
“I said to Peter Schneider, ‘Why would you do a sequel to that?’ And he said, ‘Because it was the highest grossing film of the past 10 years, that’s why. That’s what we’re going to make, whether you want to do it or not.’”
I guess it's no surprise to see two foxes in the top three! From your Twitter thread:
But of course, mon ami! You see, Disney is a business, and:
As the Collider story explains, it was also an opportunity to make a whole movie with new technology, CAPS — previously featured most prominently in a closing shot of The Little Mermaid and a Tinkerbell/Mickey animation in The Magical World of Disney.
Of course, in the end it never stood a chance against Home Alone; but producers circled their wagons and came up with…Pocahontas. So there's that!