>>98328111>mainstream PG-13 animated film with mature themes and a good story9 didn't do that well and that was one of the very few American-made PG-13 animated films, it's actually the last American-made animated movie to get a PG-13.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within bombed because people thought it looked uncanny.
And even independent/anime films with a PG-13 rating don't get the mainstream attention, even with something like The Wind Rises, and that had an all-star voice cast for the English dub and was distributed by Disney under Touchstone Pictures.
Not sure if The Breadwinner will get mainstream attention, even if it has Angelina Jolie's name attached to it.
And even if you target teens or adults more and still end up with a PG rating, it will still bomb, regardless if it will later be vindicated, as Titan A.E., Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Treasure Planet demonstrated.
However, Loving Vincent made quite some hype on social networking sites so there is hope.
