Elemental | Disney/Pixar | June 16, 2023 | What if elements have feelings?????? 😱😱😱😱 | Surprise sleeper hit with the biggest 2023 premiere on Disney+

[cannastop]

Elemental would need to have 99.9th percentile legs in Japan to make $500 million ww.

Which fair, it did have those kind of legs in Korea and NA

[JWR]

4 hours ago, AniNate said:

I naively hoped that Elemental's comeback would maybe put that discourse on the backburner. I don't think they need to cut anything as long as their movies still make money.

 

It... sort of did. 

 

The important part is that Elemental quashed the narrative that Pixar is a dying brand and that audiences won't see original animation in theaters because of Disney+.

 

Furthermore, this should give Disney more incentive to let their movies have long healthy theatrical runs.

[SpiderByte]

 

[Morieris]

13 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

 

I spaced out for a second and thought "God I wonder what number 1 is?" 🤡

 

_{(It's Mario)}

[JWR]

16 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

 

 

Not too shabby at all.

[Jonwo]

And to think, people were signing Pixar's death warrant when the OW numbers were released.

[Torontofan]

This film was more like old pixar I think. Maybe why it got bad reviews but it was a very simple nice film.

[cannastop]

29 minutes ago, Torontofan said:

This film was more like old pixar I think. Maybe why it got bad reviews but it was a very simple nice film.

OK that doesn't really make sense. But you do you

[Torontofan]

5 hours ago, cannastop said:

OK that doesn't really make sense. But you do you

 

It was a very basic simple film

 

 

[cannastop]

 

Elemental passed 7 million tickets in South Korea

[deniima]

Looks like Elemental will be getting a decent-sized expansion this weekend, domestically. Let's hope it fares better than Mermaid did this past week lol (I'm sure it will).

Edited August 30, 2023 by deniima

[YM!]

43 minutes ago, deniima said:

Looks like Elemental will be getting a decent-sized expansion this weekend, domestically. Let's hope it fares better than Mermaid did this past week lol (I'm sure it will).

Hope it could get to 155-160m with it.

[Bob Train]

48 minutes ago, deniima said:

Looks like Elemental will be getting a decent-sized expansion this weekend, domestically. Let's hope it fares better than Mermaid did this past week lol (I'm sure it will).

I don't see why it would fare better than TLM? 

[Mojoguy]

My 2 local Regal theaters dropped TLM sing along and replaced it with Elemental for Labor Day weekend.

[cannastop]

1 hour ago, Bob Train said:

I don't see why it would fare better than TLM? 

 

58 minutes ago, Mojoguy said:

My 2 local Regal theaters dropped TLM sing along and replaced it with Elemental for Labor Day weekend.

Maybe it just has better late legs than Little Mermaid. I'm curious how it will do. It seems to be back in a lot of major cinemas.

[cannastop]

1 hour ago, Bob Train said:

I don't see why it would fare better than TLM? 

A reason why it would do better is because Little Mermaid was expanding from 40 theaters to 1,600 theaters.

Elemental is in a better position now, with 235 theaters currently.

[YM!]

1 hour ago, Bob Train said:

I don't see why it would fare better than TLM? 

In fairness, people don’t know when it goes on the Plus unlike Mermaid.

[Bob Train]

1 hour ago, YM! said:

In fairness, people don’t know when it goes on the Plus unlike Mermaid.

TLM did double DOM as Elemental, had a sing along version as the re-expansion, and was announced on a much longer notice. There's really no reason for Elemental to magically finish at $160m like some are throwing around just because Disney is slapping a Labor Day re-expansion on it.

[YM!]

4 minutes ago, Bob Train said:

TLM did double DOM as Elemental, had a sing along version as the re-expansion, and was announced on a much longer notice. There's really no reason for Elemental to magically finish at $160m like some are throwing around just because Disney is slapping a Labor Day re-expansion on it.

My 160m was a bit optimistic but I can see a decent sized jump as Pixar Labor Day rereleases have done well. Cars 3 for instant added around 3M upon Labor Day weekend onward for its gross and it did about the same as Elemental, Inside Out added about 8M. The question is how wide of an expansion is it. If it’s about the same as TLM and around 2000 TC, then yeah it won’t happen but 2800-2900 TC it’s plausible.

[cannastop]

9 minutes ago, Bob Train said:

TLM did double DOM as Elemental, had a sing along version as the re-expansion, and was announced on a much longer notice. There's really no reason for Elemental to magically finish at $160m like some are throwing around just because Disney is slapping a Labor Day re-expansion on it.

I don't think Elemental will finish at 160m dom but I do think the re-expansion will do better than the Little Mermaid's.