![]() I wish I could say that “Elemental” is a new Pixar classic unfairly ground up in the gears of current market realities. But he refused to accompany me to a morning screening of “Elemental,” preferring to “wait until it’s streaming.” My six-year-old son has spent countless hours watching Pixar movies at home and beelined to a theatre last summer to see his old pal Buzz Lightyear’s movie, “Lightyear,” on its opening weekend. “In fairness,” one analyst told Variety, “the shifting of consumer behavior is less on the Pixar team itself and more on the former Disney leadership that siphoned three of the animation hub’s films to streaming as part of a broader strategy.” My own reporting supports this thesis. ![]() Movie” and “ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”) and on the fact that three Pixar movies of recent years-“Soul” (2020), “Luca” (2021), and “ Turning Red” (2022)-bypassed theatres and went straight to the Disney+ streaming platform, which helped to set certain viewing habits in place. (which buoyed the sensational recent box-office performances of “ The Super Mario Bros. Postmortems of the “Elemental” disaster have focussed on the film’s lack of established I.P. To put that number in context, “ Onward,” the Pixar movie that previously held this unwanted record, earned forty-six million inflation-adjusted dollars in its opening weekend, in March, 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was already beginning to lock down public spaces. ![]() box office during the Juneteenth long weekend-the worst opening in the company’s history. The latest feature from Pixar Animation Studios, “Elemental,” about a fire creature and a water creature who fall in love, earned less than thirty million dollars at the U.S.
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