‘Elemental’ Projected to Earn $40 Million Box Office Opening, Ranking Among Pixar’s Lowest
25.05.2023 - 18:19
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“Elemental” are not looking good, as the original title about a city full of fire, water, plant and air beings is tracking for one of the worst opening weekends in Pixar history. Currently, “Elemental” is projected for an opening weekend of around $40 million.
In the near-30-year history of Pixar feature films, only two have earned 3-day openings of less than $40 million. The first was “The Good Dinosaur” — also from “Elemental” director Peter Sohn — which opened to $35 million over three days on Thanksgiving weekend 2015.
The second film was “Onward,” which opened to $39 million in March 2020 on the weekend just before COVID-19 shut down theaters for a year. Since then, the only Pixar film to get a full theatrical release is last year’s “Toy Story” spinoff “Lightyear,” which flopped with a $50.5 million domestic opening and a final total of $118 million domestic and $226 million worldwide against a $200 million budget before marketing costs.
Projections can change greatly in the three weeks between the first round of tracking and release, but Disney has work to do convincing audiences, especially families, to come out for “Elemental.” The wild success Universal has enjoyed with films like Illumination’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” and “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” even if they had the advantage of being based on established IP, shows that families have already returned to theaters.
Now Disney must convince them to do the same with an original Pixar film, something that was an easy layup for families in the 2000s and early 2010s. Having stronger reviews than “Lightyear” would certainly be a good place to start, and Disney is hoping to get that by screening “Elemental” on the final day of the Cannes Film Festival this
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