Well you start by not releasing movies on D+ for at least 6 months if not much longer after the theatrical release. Elemental should be the “new on Disney+ family film released for Christmas/winter break” that they’ve done the past few years.
I don't think that would increase box office. People will still wait an additional six months for a Pixar movie. It just isn't an priority event anymore. This makes me wonder if Wish will fail too. It is very possible. Pixar better redesign Eilo before it's too late.
Quick, someone tell those analysts a lot of people will watch it on Disney+ in a few months (which will “cost” Disney tens of millions in revenue it could have captured from licensing, but is instead paying itself)The national and industry media is now weighing in late this afternoon on Elemental's financial status.
‘Elemental’ Posts Pixar’s Worst Box Office Premiere In Decades As ‘The Flash’ Underperforms
Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ earned just $29.5 million this weekend, and DC’s ‘The Flash’ brought in $55.1 million, though it fell short of expectations.www.forbes.com
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Pixar film 'Elemental' opens as studio's second-lowest box office debut
Pixar's animated movie "Elemental" took in roughly $30 million at U.S. and Canadian box offices over the weekend, the second-lowest debut in the history of the acclaimed studio behind the "Toy Story" franchise, "Finding Nemo" and other classics.www.reuters.com
This headline from the New York Times, "Pixar's Elemental Falls Flat, Adding to Worries About the Brand" mirrors my overall concern about the Pixar brand/studio and its future.
Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ Falls Flat, Adding to Worries About the Brand
The original animated film took in $29.5 million at the box office, by far the worst opening in Pixar’s three-decade history. “The Flash,” from Warner Bros., also struggled.www.nytimes.com
I don't want Wish to flop!
Me either. It looks pretty cool. Im not encouraged by this trend.
The Marvels will deserve it.
Just don’t go there, please! You’re making me nervous about it!
Did their worries go away two weeks later when Minions was released en route to a near billion dollar box office?That was the part of that New York Times article that made me laugh out loud. "Pandemic-worried families" didn't want to go to the movies last summer? Talk about living in a New York bubble and being completely out of touch with the nation as a whole.
Or worse, just throwing out lame excuses like that hoping their readers are idiots who don't remember last summer.
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Or maybe, just maybe, Covid had nothing at all to do with why Lightyear flopped and why the Pixar brand is now failing?
Oh, I didn't take it that way, I'm just sayin' theater-style isolation chamber asside, so much of these movies rely on an experience we can't get in home viewing.Not trying to portray it as a failure, I watched the first one at home way back in 2009, watching ironically, a bootleg DVD
I will agree, it is totally different at home VS. in the theater, in the theater you have committed your self having traveled there and paid for the seat and there is no pause, stop or rewind. I think that’s the difference for me.
On the other hand,there are series on series on streaming I will binge watch for hours, so if the content grabs me, I will sit there for hours an watch too.
And, what, risk making money on home video sales? Surely you jest.
Don’t send Elemental to D+ at all. Break the habit. The predictability is a large part of what’s keeping people from paying for theatrical.
The problem with that approach is then they have to spend even more money developing new D+ shows to attract and retain D+ subscribers.
