To Tomovoz and also to anyone interested in the Disney sequels and why they by their very nature don't "live up" to the original movies - Re HUNCHBACK PART II post of last night - If by some chance you do watch it, keep in mind that the straight-to-video sequel was ultimately aimed at the age 3-to-6 age bracket and I think it'll stand up. I think that during the period while Skip was working on that video, they came to the realization that they needed to have a certain kind of younger-age-targeted product for the straight-to-video market, so they went to work at taking some of the more challenging aspects out of the script and video. From an artistic perspective, it seems from looking at the online comments that the people who loved the daring of the theatrical movie were very disappointed in the sequel, but it was the really the young kids who go "Oh, look, there's Quasi" at the Disney parks and shows that the final product seemed to speak to. (Thanks, MattH, for your comment last night, Skip appreciated that, since even he feels it has to be taken for what it is and nothing more.)
One fun (to us) story about money and HUNCHBACK II - When Skip gets paid for air/TV rights and such, it's broken down by song and also separately for his music used in the general underscoring. (Excluding the pop Jennifer Love Hewitt closing credit song which Hewitt co-wrote herself, the video has four songs, of which Skip wrote three) On a recent check stub, they listed a song Skip had never heard of, and he said to me that he didn't write such-and-such song but got paid, what should he do. As it happened, he had never seen the French language version and I had, so I was able to tell him that no, he did write that song, that just happens to be the French title and he was indeed entitled to that money. So even thought no one in France knows Skip's name, at least some kids are hearing his music there.
