The Mars Scene: Mars Needs Mom

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Robert Zemeckis' motion-capture animated film cost $150 million to produce but earned only $6.9 million in its debut at the domestic box office. In the weeks leading up to the release of mars needs moms, Disney knew interest in the film was tepid at best. With this India became the first country to achieve the feat on its maiden voyage. Buy there are many interesting facts about ISRO's Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), which has glided over 650 million km through deep space for over nine months to A scene from the movie mars needs moms. This already forgotten, $150 million CG-animated disaster featured the voices of Seth Green and Joan Cusack, and netted only $39 million worldwide. With a budget that's been reported to be in the $175 to $225 million mars needs moms is a decent movie. Maybe even a pretty good movie. But nobody seems excited about it, and that's probably because it was made using Robert Zemeckis' motion-capture process, as used in Polar Express and Christmas Carol. But you're missing Then there are misses so disastrous that they send signals to broad swaths of Hollywood. “Mars Needs Moms” is shaping up as the second type. Walt Disney Studios spent an estimated $175 million to make and market “Mars Needs Moms,” which sold $6.9 "Mars Needs Moms" is the latest 3-D cartoon to hit the cinemas, and it's fine fantasy and pure fun. It is "Gribble-tastic," to quote one of the characters. The title is a take-off on the 1966 sci-fi film "Mars Needs Women," but who would have guessed that .

Mars Needs Moms is a 3-D-animated film shooting for the stars (or in this case, Mars). Its craftsmanship showcases the latest in performance-capture technology (a la Avatar). And its story—about the relationship between a mother and son—is meant to I write about the business of Hollywood. I live in Los Angeles and I'm lucky enough to write about the thing I love most: movies. I'm a graduate of Vassar College and Northwestern University and for 15 years I worked at Forbes mostly covering the No movie called “Mars Needs Moms” has any right being this good. But it is and silly title aside director Simon Wells (“Prince of Egypt,” “The Time Machine”) has managed a feat that once seemed only the province of Pixar, cobbling together a It’s hard to be nine. As Milo (Seth Green’s captured motion, Seth Dusky’s voice) sees it, his dad’s (Tom Everett Scott) not home enough and his mother (Joan Cusack) is forever piling on the chores. Not only does he have to take out the garbage, but .