This actually explains a lot of why Hoodwinked was The Weinstein Company’s only good animated movie. Cause like I said, neither Bob or even Harvey Weinstein had any involvement in Hoodwinked except for distributing it. Same goes for TMNT 2007 (which is very underrated in my opinion BTW)

Sometimes the production history of a movie is more interesting that the movie itself.

Lesson learned: Never let the Weinsteins get involved in animation. Period. That said, I don't think they'll be getting involved in anything creatively for a long time, especially Harvey.

At least it is slightly more visually appealing than mars needs moms

Honestly, if I was treated this bad by a major movie studio, I would've sworn against working with them ever again.

Weinstein ruins everything he touches, no pun intended

Animat: ...Scheduled to be ready for January 14, 2009. Me: *Remembers that it was released in February 2013* Well, something's gotta go wrong. Also, that M&Ms story was hilarious.

My mom taught me that while I can write characters for a film or a TV show with any living actors I have in mind, I should not waste so much time obsessing over it, and this story showed me how that can damage a production. Harvey Weinstein argued with other producers about what actors he wanted to play the main characters, paid some actors up front without having a designated character for them, and they wasted 75,000 dollars getting Kevin Bacon in and out of Escape From Planet Earth. It was the easiest money Kevin Bacon ever made. August 28, 2021, 3:20pm

“Paying Rainmaker for nothing” Me: **slow claps** I don’t know if the Dire Straits reference was intentional but still 10/10 phrasing

I'm glad that animat is doing a history video on this movie. The movie sucks, but the story behind it is CRIMINALLY underrated

Honestly I think both Escape from Planet Earth and Legends of Oz's histories are some of the craziest in animation history. Along with The Thief and the Cobbler and Foodfight!.

Never knew Harvey Weinstein had a craving for M&M's, despite being diabetic. He did a crap job at critiquing the screenplay of Escape from Planet Earth, by the sound of it.

Honestly, with the whole M&Ms thing, you should of used Patrick and his Popcorn.

I don't know if you're lying about the M&Ms thing. But if you are, that's much better writing than this movie has. If not, that explains a lot. It's friggin gold, either way!

Rainmaker: " these rewrites weren't part of our deal " Harvey Weinstein: " I am altering the deal pray I do not alter it any further"

Who’s up for a crossover? “Escape from Planet 51”

That M&M’s story makes Harvey Weinstein sound a lot like Scoutmaster Lumpus from Camp Lazlo

The true meaning of DEVELOPMENT HELL

Kevin Bacon: *gets paid to be in the movie* Weinstein: *pays Kevin Bacon even more money to **_not_** be in the movie* Kevin Bacon: 🙂 📈 👔 STONKS

Knowing that Harvey is a terrible person, tells me that Leech's side of the story is most likely true.

The making of this movie would make an interesting movie story, like The Disaster Artist.

Was I the only one who couldn't help but laugh at the M&Ms story?

And I thought the History of Legends of Oz story was crazy

The Weinstein Company is like the opposite of Disney. Whereas Disney puts effort into their movies, Weinstein puts none, except maybe Hoodwinked. At least in animated movies.

Your body language is so fast and snappy, it’s literally impressive

I use to hate the people who worked on this movie.... now I feel bad for them......

Please cover the following in the future, I have a feeling production troubles pf these are worth talking about.: *The Trumpet of The Swan (Trailer released in 2000, but didn't come until 2001) *Shark Tale (Originally meant for November of 2004, but it looked like they rushed production for an October release of the same year) *Vallant (If critics hated it, there must be something behind production) *Disney's The Wild (There has to be something behind it, cause I heard it was in development before Madagascar) *IGOR (originally meant for 2007, but it was pulled & delayed for a 2008 release) * Free Birds (originally meant for a 2014 release, but they rush production to get it in 2013) *Norm of The North (Meant for 2012, but never saw the light of day until 2016! yeah, I bet production trouble happened) * Arctic Dogs (There's no hiding that production trouble happens w/ it glitching out) * Trouble (Already has English voice actors and has not touched American soil)

"The characters look to similar to Planet 51!" Makes the main character's species look like bootleg Megamind

Hoodwinked was supposed to be distributed by Miramax, who was owned by Disney at the time

8:49 Animat should had put a Dramatization disclaimer with that act, and it would had been perfectly accurate. Fun fact, It was infamously known that the catering staff had to rush and remove junk food from the tables cause Harvey kept eating them despite his health. No one dare say "No" to his face unless you wanted to receive a tirade, insults and the occasional physical assault from him. The guy was a overgrown spoiled brat and bully. How the hell this man ever came to be respected and worshipped in Hollywood I will never know.. of course there's the fact that he threw money at the Oscars to nominate his mediocre films.

This is the type of movie that makes you lose fate in humanity

20:38 at least John knew how to make an animated movie.

You know, "Escape From Planet Earth" isn't that bad of a movie. But lots of people who got fired from working on the movie deserved to escape from that production.

M&M situation: *exists* Me: Every day, we stray further from God

You should do a History of Norm Of The North.

I come home from a long day at school to this, thanks for consistently making quality content. I can't wait to watch

LOL on the M&M bit! I actually didn't know that Harvey had diabetes.

To this day, I still regret seeing this movie in the movie theater.

I heard Frozen took seventy years to make but it was really successful and now it has a sequel that became the highest grossing animated movie of all time.

I’m picturing HW scrambling for m&ms like a 8 year old after someone breaks open the piñata at a birthday party.

When Animat was telling the M&Ms story, I honestly thought it was a sarcastic joke he'd put in there... Was that really real???

Seriously. With all the crap going down with Harvey, I think we all forget that they were both incredibly incompetent, and owe all their success to Oscar Bait films. Three words. Fraggle Rock Movie. Look into that one. The level of idiocy on the part of the Weinsteins and their stupid notes is legendary. Corey Edwards himself, who was going to write and direct, said that he was shocked how many of dumb lowest common denominator gags they wanted to shoehorn in actually happened in the Smurfs movie. Especially the random product placement for guitar hero. And it was clear that they bought up the rights and realized they didn't want it anymore and delayed the hell out of the production until the rights expired so they could walk away from it. It's also clear that the only partnership they wanted with Henson was back during their DTV parody fairy tale Shrek wannabe movie period. Just and AWFUL company run by AWFUL people who made AWFUL animated movies against the vision of those involved. Look at Hoodwinked 2. Everything that sucked about that movie was them. Notice how many of the worst jokes are ADR'd in when characters' backs are turned. That M&M's story sounds like something a child would do. A very poorly behaved child with mental problems. And we're surprised that he did the shit he did!

When I saw the behind the scenes for the movie and saw the voice actors, George Lopez, Jane Lynch, Brendan Fraiser, and Craig Robinson, the seemed like they were just pretending to be happy with this film. But I will admit, for what it’s worst, the music group did put a lot of effort on this film.

This was one of the first animated films I didnt even remember came out till one time in class it was a choice to watch and got picked.

9:03 A small part of me is imagining that part in the story actually happening in the way Animat describes it (noises and all)

Now I want to know the history behind another animated alien movie "Planet 51" with The Rock voicing a white astronaut in an alien planet acting like a stereotypical 50s setting

No women were harmed in the making of this movie

Just like the title, crappy movies like this makes us want to escape from planet earth

Honestly, I didn't find the movie that terrible. Sure the alien designs were kind of an eye sore but still better than Planet 51.

Ah, Escape from Planet Earth; or as I like to call it: "What do you mean it was an actual movie, and not a bumper reel for a SyFy Channel kids block?" I'm sure this goes without saying, but I feel sorry for nearly everyone involved with this crashed spaceship of a flick. Except for the Weinstein brothers, the production's living proof that they were egomaniacal monsters even before the sexual harassment lawsuits were made public. Also, poor Rainmaker can't seem to catch a break, can they? First they end up botching this film, and then they get another stinker with Ratchet and Clank. I can only hope the Modern 20's end up as a better alternative to this, a waste of money and resources.

I remember seeing ads for this movie when I was younger and never seeing it! Only your reviews were the ones related to this I watched! Considering the MeToo movement helped people fully realize how bad Harvey was,I think we won't have fond memories of this one! This video was quite an interesting one! Hope more of these will help the stress from having to wait for your Onward review!

AniMat should do a video about the making of Wonder Park since it's (possibly) the first ever movie without a director because during the production of the film, former Pixar animator Dylan Brown was fired from his role as the film's director because of sexual harassment allegations he was facing at the time.

This would be an amazing topic for a Reddit AMA

What a coincidence, I was just thinking about this movie today.

well I’d ask what the matter with Harvey is but it’s Harvey goddamn Weinstein, what _isn’t_ the matter with him

The M&M’s part was very funny

Never thought I'd hear Harvey Weinstein's name after all the buzz he got himself into lately.

Well that was seven years of unforgivable torture.

The film rights is now owned by Spyglass Media Group, owned by Lantern Entertainment, with CineWorld, Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros. As Investors. ViacomCBS, via Paramount, will buy the stake of Miramax.

Bruh that M&M's story is literally me

I already knew that the movie was a disaster judging from the opening statements that you said when you first reviewed this film back in 2013 from all those rewrites and obstacles the filmmakers & animators faced so, it was crazy to revisit the wild history of what seemed to be a forgettable animated kiddy movie. Other subjects for an editorial include the Butch Hartman Oaxis scandal and the return of Young Justice.

You should've seen what happened to Mars need Moms.

Honestly, I love "Escape from Planet Earth" and never understond why this movie is called so bad ... But the taste is different and individual. The characters inspired me creating 3D CGI and writing Sci-Fi Stories around Planet Baab. I gave myself the artist name "Kip Supernova" because the character Kip from the movie. And I love blue creatures and aliens, so ... this could be also a reason for loving the movie. What ever ... 💙💙💙 I saw some original scribbles and artwork of Planet Baab and was sad because it never used for the movie.

At 1:01 I realized that Shooting Star by Owl City was playin' in the background. I LOVE THAT SONG :D

Shopkins bag. The Kid from treasure x. Blow fly. Mighty bean. Junk-o-saur. Putrid Pizza. Dodgy donut. Uggly puppet.

Anywhere where we can see the 17 rewrites of the film, or at least get brief summaries?

I never knew a bad movie was tied to a diabetic eating M&Ms off the floor like a dog

I'd like to see a movie based off this whole event.

i can't believe we're still talking about this movie

This just goes to show you, corruption in the movie business can be anywhere. Great editorial and video as always, AniMat!

I think a movie about this could be interesting, if done right. Wouldn’t you agree? I mean, a man with a great movie idea who has to put up with clueless studio executives that constantly get in the way of his project being realized…this is a Richard Williams situation if I’ve ever seen one.

CW's Powerpuff series is currently suffering from the same re-writing and re-casting problems as Escape From Planet Earth. Re-imagining the Powerpuff Girls as disillusioned 20-somethings who lost their childhood to crime fighting was already a bad enough idea on arrival for rewriting the past, but they lost a ton of money on rewrites and re-shoots, and Chloe Wang (Blossom) lost her patience with the crew, so now Powerpuff needs to cast a new Blossom. 1 rewrite is exhausting enough. I sure hope The CW can settle for _something_ they find passable as a pilot before the 17th rewrite. September 7, 2021, 10:50am

Man, the way Harvey Weinstein screwed up this film, talk about clueless.

"I tougth Monsters Inc. was a documentary about the Weinsteins."

The M&M thing had me weak! 😂😂😂

Do you plan on doing doing the History of the Good Dinosaur? That had a bit of a troubled production, but it turned out to be good anyway. The original cast was going to have Lucas Neff as Arlo, John Lithgow as Poppa Henry and Judy Greer as Ivy, later renamed Libby. Frances McDormand stayed on as Momma Ida. Plus some other iconic dinosaurs like Triceratops and Ankylosaurus were going to be in the film, but were instead passed off as toys, like I said.

Bruh, there's no consistency in the movie's development history. The amount of rewrites entirely

2013 was a pretty horrible year for feature animation but not for pop music. I remember hearing katy perry's roar and thinking it was cool as heck.

Hey Mat. Maybe you should make a video on the history of "Norm of the North". I would like to know how that film became one of the worst animated films ever made.

I remembered watching Escape From Planet Earth not once, but twice. It was pretty forgettable. Sure having an animated film featuring aliens trying to escape from confinement on Earth sounds like fun, but it deserved a better distributor than the dreaded Weinstein guy. But I do have to give this film credit with introducing me to one of the best Owl City songs of all time.

That M&M story made me laugh so hard tbh

“The writer of the Scary Movie sequels...and creator of Chernobyl” ...interesting career turn. What next the writer of the Hangover movies directs a gritty Joker movie? (...and blame the SJWs but that’s beside the point)

20:37 "That one didn't age quite so well" - JonTron

Hey AniMat, are you gonna do a 3rd video for the Legends of Oz? Y'know, to make it a trilogy that the "producers and higher ups" promised?

Escape from planet earth seems like something you'd see in the waiting room in the dentist or hostpital tbh.

You should have said "REMEMBER THIS? Probably not" in the intro

I don’t know if AniMat mentioned this in the video itself or not but you know what’s the most painful part of this movie? Like, the part that physically hurts? It’s that Stephen Fry, a person who’s said to be one of the wisest, wittiest and funniest people currently living, was one of the writers for this movie

9:03 - 9:07 It Was Extremely Hilarious When You Mimicked Harvey Weinstein’s Hunger for M&M’s at the Story Reel Test Screening

Honestly, Escape from planet Earth isn't THAT bad. I wouldn't call it GREAT, but I also wouldn't call it MEDIOCRE

Fun fact: in 2006 i give hoodwinked a award for one of the best indepent animated features

No wonder people talk shit about Harvey Weinstein! Most animated films he’s part of aren’t that great, except for Hoodwinked or TMNT. Didn’t realise how incompetent and careless TWC were until now, interesting!

boy, do I want to hear what went wrong with Arctic Dogs!😟

Escape from Planet Earth is kind of like Suicide Squad and Fant4stic. In which you can make an entire documentary about how troubled the production was.

I completely forgot it existed. Actually remembered seeing commercials for it in early 2013.

It’s amazing that this abomination came out the same year as the masterpiece that is Frozen.

I THOUGHT I DREAMED THIS MOVIE

Even In 2020 I still LOATHE this movie. Thank God there still no sequel or TV Series on THIS!!!

I'm liking these videos. It's cool to learn about contemporary Hollywood stories without tabloids.

I remember watching this movie. It feel so nostalgia especially the songs.

I saw this in a Theater