Animated Film Is Latest Title to Run Aground at DreamWorks. DreamWorks SKG has been one of the latest studios disappointed by a collective shrug from moviegoers. 

I think the movie execs really miss the point.  It's not an issue of hand drawn animation versus digital animation that is attracting movie goers.  Finding Nemo is just a really good movie.  As was Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Shrek.  If audiences were simply into eye-candy then the South Park movie wouldn't have been as successful as it was.

To sit there and look at flops like Titan, A.E. or Treasure Planet and decry the death of traditional animation is to look at crap like, "Dude, Where's My Car?" and decry the death of the modern road-trip adventure movie a la "Easyrider".  via [New York Times: Business]