Why yes, a Pixar original being extremely well liked and exhibiting strong legs as the brand struggles to rebuild after years of damaging release decisions in an incredibly unstable box office environment is good news. It's good news for anyone who likes Pixar in particular or original animation in general.
Well that's weird. I mean, they did very well with The Bad Guys and Puss In Boots Last Wish.
Puss in Boats 2 and Bad Guys were absolutely excellent, far and away the best films Dreamworks has produced. I loved them.
Puss in Boots cost $100M to produce vs Elemental’s $200M, and pulled $500M at the box office.
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I don't think Universal caries about that one. It is like a leftover that didn't get released during covid. Mario made up for it.Thank goodness for small favors.
Universal will probably lost money on this one, even though it only had a $70 Million production budget (one third of Elemental's budget).
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I think Indy will end up being a bigger flop than Elemental or TLM when all is said and done. It's budget is $350 million, so it needs at least $700 million to break even.
Avatar 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3.
Budget is $270, so, it'll need $810 for break-even.
I would think that aside from GoTG Vol.3 and Avatar 2, Wish can making up box office losses taken by Elemental and TLM, as well as Quantumania. For Disney's 100th anniversary, marketing the upcoming film Wish has given higher priority than marketing for the live-action remake of TLM (or in lesser-extent Elemental), which were also released at centennial, so they didn't want Wish to theatrically flop again as situation in Strange World last year.
I don't think their animation marketing knows what they are doing. Everything has flopped so far this year (outside of GOTG3).
I don't know how much money they actually got from Avatar 2. I think Cameron got most of it since he paid for it almost out of pocket. I think he had enough pull to avoid most distribution fees.
