Re:Forgotten studio? Not quite. (Score 3, Interesting)

Has Don Bluth done ANYTHING that actually made someone money? Every film I've heard of him involved in seems to have disappeared onto the scrapheap of financial and critical mediocrity.

Well, An American Tail made $47.8M domestically in 1986. Land Before Time grossed $82M globally on a budget of $12.3M; that was '89. And Secret of Nimh grossed on about that level, too.

Since '89, though, I don't think anything he's done has broken even before it's been released on video. The problem with Titan A.E. is that it had that huge budget which included setting up the Arizona studio ($75M), meaning it would have need to gross at least $150M before video to even have a chance at breaking even. It got about 1/5 of that worldwide, though a little better than what his other post-Dogs films racked up. It's not all his fault, honestly; if Fox had a clue in its head it wouldn't have flushed $75M down the toilet to win a pissing match with Disney/Pixar.

Since Titan A.E., Bluth's been attached to exactly ZERO projects. Can you say... done?