Tie-Ins

Just to add a little to my post the other day about TV tie-in movies: another type of show that frequently spawns tie-in movies with the orginal cast is a show aimed at kids, or with a large kid audience. Especially when that show is owned by a big studio that’s aggressive about cross-promotion, like Disney’s surprisingly hazardous Hannah Montana. But that kind of movie (and the Lizzie McGuire movie and so on) is different, because they tend to be relatively low-budget movies, and they’re not expected to perform at the level of the big blockbusters, the way the Simpsons and Sex and the City movies did.