Exactly. This isn’t Warner Bros deliberately being cheap. Its about weighing the cost vs the sales outlook. Spending more does not equate more sales. Especially if a company can make 2 different films for the price of one film with longer running time.

Those 21,600 frames of animation is roughly about the same as 10,000 pages of comics. What’s the going page rate for artist? That’s a lot of money.

When it comes to animated movies, each frame costs money. At 24 frames per second, for a 90 minute movie, you’re looking at an additional 21,600 frames of animation. So going for those extra minutes is cost prohibitive.

If I can find it for less than SRP, I might go with Blu-ray just for fun.

Also potentially good: The press release mentioning animated films in the works for WW, Flash and GL. Hopefully they’ll take their time to make these really, really specatcular.

“Justice League” is also mentioned as “in development.” What’s up with that? I’m hoping that the the live action JL never gets made, but I’d love a new animated movie with the Timm-verse JL cast. Maybe throw in a few of the bigger guns from JLU as well.

No mention of The Judas Contract… Wasn’t that supposed to be coming soon?

Presumably, these are intended to be televised at some point. At 90 minutes, stuff would have to be cut out to fit into a two hour block with commericals. 75 gives them room to add a few more commercials than usual [30-minute shows are 20-21 minutes now, and 60-minute shows are between 40 & 42].

Still very odd that there’s no mention of voice casting for something that’s going to be out in a just a few months. Compare this to the New Fronier hype, where they’ve been touting the cast for months.

It’s crucial they get a good actor for Bats/Bruce. Any chance at all that they’d get Kevin Conroy? I’m sure he wouldn’t turn down the chance to do the role again. I doubt many fans would complain either.

Hearing good things about Jeremy Sisto in New Frontier, so he might be good too even though this will be different than that movie.

My point here, however, is that the DCU animated films have been really short so far. People have complained that the Supes: Doomsday and JL: New Frontier movies are too short and leave a lot of the original books out. This is a different animal than those two movies, but even a single storyline here might’ve been a short. Now figure six stories over 75 minutes and… Well, we’ll see. Like others, I don’t know why they can’t do these at a 90-minute or more feature length.

I’ve never seen Animatrix, though I’ve heard good things. Perhaps it’s worth seeing before Gotham Knight comes out, at least to get me used to the idea. That said, given “feast for the eyes” vs. a good story I’ll take the good story every time. As long as the art is decent, I want a story that will hold up.

http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=71

The Animatrix, for instance, has a couple of absolutely phenomenal shorts (my favorites were the 14 minute Beyond and the 10 minute World Record; both are available through iTunes). If even one of these shorts is NEARLY as good as those two, it’ll be worth the rental.

In spite of that, and in spite of not being an anime fan, this looks too good to pass up. I’m just not interested in the New Frontier movie (But then, I didn’t like the original books either), but this Batman project looks really sweet.

Has it been confirmed that Bale’s going to be voicing Bats? Interesting that nowhere does this press release discuss the voice talent.