(Red State)—Did you know Pixar released a movie?
You couldn’t be blamed if you didn’t. Disney-Pixar’s latest theatrical release, Elio, didn’t get a lot of marketing, and there’s probably a good reason for that. From all reports, the movie is terrible from top to bottom, and not just in the writing, but in the effort put forth on animating it as well.
Moreover, the film suffered the same fate many Disney movies do. According to Variety, the film had a wildly over-inflated budget and hardly got back a fraction of the cost in its opening weekend:
“Elio” has cratered in third place with $21 million from 3,750 theaters, ranking as the worst start in modern history for Pixar. Heading into the weekend, the otherworldly tale about a young boy who connects with aliens after getting mistaken for Earth’s intergalactic ambassador was aiming for $25 million to $30 million. The film, which cost $150 million to produce, added just $14 million overseas for a catastrophic global total of $35 million.
What went wrong?
You’d find a shorter answer by asking, “What didn’t go wrong?”
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