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Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant
Weta Studio must suck as a movie studio then. LotR trilogy(Based on book!), King Kong (a remake!) and now Halo (based on book!).
When will Weta make anything original? 
They are just not good enough if they just copy other people!!!!  |
There's quite a big difference between small animation studios and movie studios with enormous budgets, don't you think?
The market is also quite different for anime and Hollywood, not to mention the business structure and audience.
You simply can't compare the two like that. Many of the biggest hits in anime have largely been original material -- Evangelion being a prime example, Geass and Gundam another. These franchises started out as anime.
Contrast that with the biggest blockbusters in Hollywood? Lord of the Rings, as you said; all the superhero movies, Gone with the Wind... very few are totally original like Crash.