Casper Gutman
Well-Known Member
You're right. When people hear Trolls 3 is being distributed by Universal and not Fox, they'll FLOCK to the theaters.Blumhouse has rarely, if ever had a movie lose money. I think both will do ok. Exorcist could be rocky, but even the Blumhouse Halloween movies did well and they were not really great even for an overplayed slasher. Again, budget and investment. Five Nights at Freddy's is still expected to do incredibly well in its theatrical side of things.
Illumination has yet to bomb, Disney animation has. Illumination is a brand, subjectivity aside that has increased. Disney has had diminished. Investors would say taking on Wish is a risk after other DIsney animated originals of recent underperformed theatrically. (remember Encanto losing to Sing 2?) We are not talking about subjectivity. But business likelyhood.
The first Trolls movie was not in Universal's hands.