Elemental - Pixar's newest movie

[sueb1863]

It was interminable

I enjoyed it a lot more when I watched it by itself. ABC ran it on TV after they realized they made a mistake and pulled it from theaters. I watch it when it comes on every year.

But when you're mentally ready to watch a full length movie dealing with some heavy themes, then yeah, you're not in the mood to watch a twenty-five-minute long holiday romp with a talking snowman. If you put a short in front of a movie it shouldn't be longer than 10-15 minutes.

For those who've seen it, how was the 'Up' short that's being shown with Elemental?

 

[Web-Head]

Caught a matinee today and I liked it. The connection between Ember and Wade was pretty great, it was nice to see Pixar tackle more of a rom-com and of course the animation and voice acting was some good stuff, as were the themes of the movie.

I liked Soul, Luca and Onward, but Elemental, Lightyear and Turning Red just aren't ones I could see myself going back to anytime soon

 

[CB Fan]

The up short was cute, the audience really loved it. Carl and Dug are great. I wouldn’t mind more shorts starring characters from past Pixar hits.

 

[TheVileOne]

I am sad now.

 

[Snow Queen]

Thought this was more or less what the trailer promised, which was... fine. It was fine. I think it's clearly very personal and there's a lot of heart you can see in it, but it never really feels like it comes together to deliver on the emotion behind that personal element.

 

[samsnee]

$28M. It will be on Disney+ by end of summer.
Good job Chapek. You’ve trained families to just wait for it to go to D+

https://www.thewrap.com/flash-elemental-box-office-bomb/

 

[DarkKnight88]

$28M. It will be on Disney+ by end of summer.
Good job Chapek. You’ve trained families to just wait for it to go to D+

https://www.thewrap.com/flash-elemental-box-office-bomb/

Ouch. The lowest Pixar opening ever. Even Toy Story opened to 29M… in 1995.

With all the firing going on at Disney, they let go of Angus MacLane, the director of Lightyear, after being with Pixar since 1997.

Unfortunately, I see the same fate will befall Peter Sohn whose been with Pixar since 2000.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Ehh, came in a bit better at 29.6 and has now added an estimated 5.4 Monday, almost equal with Flash even tho Flash opened twice as big. Some OS markets reporting upticks too. Probably not enough to save it but WoM clearly kicking in.

 

[Iceman]

Ehh, came in a bit better at 29.6 and has now added an estimated 5.4 Monday, almost equal with Flash even tho Flash opened twice as big. Some OS markets reporting upticks too. Probably not enough to save it but WoM clearly kicking in.

Seems like it’s at least putting up a small fight while Flash is absolutely collapsing.

 

[Iceman]

Ouch. The lowest Pixar opening ever. Even Toy Story opened to 29M… in 1995.

With all the firing going on at Disney, they let go of Angus MacLane, the director of Lightyear, after being with Pixar since 1997.

Unfortunately, I see the same fate will befall Peter Sohn whose been with Pixar since 2000.

Crazy, nearly 30 years ago.

 

[Drizzle]

With marketing like this, how could this movie have failed?

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Excellent Tuesday hold, only dropped around 5% (in comparison Flash fell around 15% and Spiderverse was off 23% from Monday).

 

[psylockolussus]

Hmm I think Elio wouldn't do well at the boX office as well. I saw the trailer via a YouTube ad.

Its time for Disney to reassess things.

Release a new PiXar movie every 2 years, same with Walt Disney Animation Studios. Sometimes less is more.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

WED:
Spiderverse: 3.8
Elemental: 3.5
Flash: 3.0

No big openers this weekend so it looks like it will be Spidey v. Elemental for the top spot.

 

[DarkKnight88]

If Elemental gets to take #1, it’ll at least save a little face. It might just be too much of an uphill battle at this point to be completely deemed a success, but perhaps not the embarrassment of not hitting 100M in NA it might have endured otherwise.

 

[psylockolussus]

I just found out Inside Out 2 is supposed to come out neXt year too. And Wish from PiXar's sister animation studio is out later this year. I doubt thats going to do well at the boX office.

I wonder how Disney can still churn out these animated films every few months, if they are continuously losing money? I've read yesterday that Lightyear lost them lots of money.

And theyve already announced dates for 2025 and 2026 as well...

 

[DarkKnight88]

Well these animated films are in production for like 3-4 years before they’re released, so a lot were greenlit pre-Covid. So we won’t know what the later output will look like for another 3-4 years.

 

[OrbOfConfusion]

I just found out Inside Out 2 is supposed to come out neXt year too. And Wish from PiXar's sister animation studio is out later this year. I doubt thats going to do well at the boX office.

I wonder how Disney can still churn out these animated films every few months, if they are continuously losing money? I've read yesterday that Lightyear lost them lots of money.

And theyve already announced dates for 2025 and 2026 as well...

I've never seen that film, but did it even warrant a sequel? Besides the obvious money answer.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Well, considering it was exploring a pre-teen’s emotions, I’m sure there’s plenty to explore for a teen or young adult as well.

 

[psylockolussus]

Well these animated films are in production for like 3-4 years before they’re released, so a lot were greenlit pre-Covid. So we won’t know what the later output will look like for another 3-4 years.

I'm curious if things will change. They will likely lose money again from a PiXar film and thats just never good for any studios.

I feel like 2 to 3 feature films per year from Disney (PiXar and Walt Disney Animation Studios combined) is a bit much considering these boX office numbers are at all time low for them especially if we consider price inflation. Streaming isn't as money making they thought it would, and thats another problem.

If I was the head of Disney it should be, post Wish
2024/2026/2028/2030/2032: Walt Disney Animation feature films
2025/2027/2029/2031/2033: PiXar feature films

I still remember the days when we only got 1 PiXar film in two years. And how WDAS barely have any hit in the 2000s and they pumped out so many low key films, in the first half of the decade.

 

[psylockolussus]

I've never seen that film, but did it even warrant a sequel? Besides the obvious money answer.

There's probably more emotions/moods that they could feature.

 

[Drizzle]

I'd be excited for Inside Out 2 if they hadn't ditched Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling.

 

[Iceman]

 

[Drizzle]

I'm happy it's managing to stick it out since Pixar has taken a lot of hits since the pandemic. Looking at it now in hindsight, it makes sense that it's doing okay since there aren't any other "family movies" out right now other than Across the Spider-Verse and The Little Mermaid, which have both been out longer and most families with small kids who've wanted to make the effort to see them in theaters already have. Anything else has either crashed and burned like The Flash or are movies that families with small children aren't going to see, like Indiana Jones or Mission: Impossible.

 

[samsnee]

I mean yes it’s performing better than it’s opening weekend suggested but still not going to make its budget back