Elemental (Pixar - June 2023)

[TsWade2]

Good heavens! More hope!

 

[wtyy21]

Elemental now certificated "FRESH" from Rotten Tomatoes.

 

[Slpy3270]

 

[Disney Analyst]

 

[TsWade2]

Whee!

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I guess since there won't be a Disney Animated film out until later this year at least they got their beer money for this..

 

[Phroobar]

What happens if Ruby Gilllman does better than Elemental?

 

[mickEblu]

Whee!

That word of mouth is kicking in.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Also, as more and more schools end their Spring session. You have to entertain kids seven days a week over the Summer...

 

[mickEblu]

You have to entertain kids seven days a week over the Summer...

Tell me about it.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

What happens if Ruby Gilllman does better than Elemental?

It will probably do as equally good as Elemental IMO.

 

[Casper Gutman]

It will probably do as equally good as Elemental IMO.

There are people who track this. Gilman is tracking to be a historic bomb, opening to half of what Elemental earned or less.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

There are people who track this. Gilman is tracking to be a historic bomb, opening to half of what Elemental earned or less.

I guess this is the Summer of Meh in theaters.

 

[Disney Irish]

I guess this is the Summer of Meh in theaters.

How is this year different than any other year? You have a handful of "blockbuster" type films and a whole box full of just mediocre films, same as every other year.

It only seems like a "summer of meh" because the "blockbusters" weren't spaced out more.

 

[TsWade2]

My friends and I going to see Elemental tomorrow.

 

[Disney Analyst]

 

[Casper Gutman]

This is how Disney is going to have to rebuild the Pixar brand after damaging it during the pandemic - open appealing originals to lackluster first weekends, relying on word of mouth to give them significant box office legs. It may take a few films, but it will be easier to REbuild the brand that way than it was to build it in the first place. What Disney can’t do but will really, really want to is to panic and start churning out nothing but sequels,

 

[drizgirl]

This is how Disney is going to have to rebuild the Pixar brand after damaging it during the pandemic - open appealing originals to lackluster first weekends, relying on word of mouth to give them significant box office legs. It may take a few films, but it will be easier to REbuild the brand that way than it was to build it in the first place. What Disney can’t do but will really, really want to is to panic and start churning out nothing but sequels,

Sounds like an amazing business plan.

 

[DKampy]

This is how Disney is going to have to rebuild the Pixar brand after damaging it during the pandemic - open appealing originals to lackluster first weekends, relying on word of mouth to give them significant box office legs. It may take a few films, but it will be easier to REbuild the brand that way than it was to build it in the first place. What Disney can’t do but will really, really want to is to panic and start churning out nothing but sequels,

Plus you never know if one is really excellent and hits the pop culture zeitgeist it may not even take a few films

 

[Casper Gutman]

Sounds like an amazing business plan.

It’s not an awful one. I’ve said before that harming Pixar by associating it in the public consciousness with streaming is the one major stumble that can be wholly pinned on Chapek. Pixar is still a name that denotes quality and inspires nostalgia, however, and it’s creative machinery is intact - the pandemic films were critically and popularly acclaimed and the one real flop, Lightyear, was both a corporately-mandated IP film and a major culture war target. Disney would certainly like Pixar to be where it was in, say, 2015, but pretty much any other studio in town would be happy to have it.