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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 18, 2023 11:52:49 GMT -5
I do have to wonder what the hell they were thinking with this movie's $200 million budget in the first place. In general Pixar seems to just waste an absolute ton of money on production since pretty much all of their movies have these massively inflated budgets that you really can't see on the screen at all - Good Dinosaur of all things had a budget of $175 million somehow - and it's just baffling and speaks to poor use of resources. Like, Across the Spider-Verse has a budget literally half that of Elemental and it looks so, SO much better.
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Post by chrom on Jun 18, 2023 12:02:59 GMT -5
I do have to wonder what the hell they were thinking with this movie's $200 million budget in the first place. In general Pixar seems to just waste an absolute ton of money on production since pretty much all of their movies have these massively inflated budgets that you really can't see on the screen at all - Good Dinosaur of all things had a budget of $175 million somehow - and it's just baffling and speaks to poor use of resources. Like, Across the Spider-Verse has a budget literally half that of Elemental and it looks so, SO much better. Gotta wonder what they are spending it on that requires 200 million. That's almost as much as The Little Mermaid, meaning they spent nearly half a billion dollars on the two.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jun 18, 2023 12:04:25 GMT -5
Pixar movies have become like Ubisoft games to me. They may be good or bad, but I just shrug whenever I see them announced.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jun 18, 2023 14:45:12 GMT -5
I do have to wonder what the hell they were thinking with this movie's $200 million budget in the first place. In general Pixar seems to just waste an absolute ton of money on production since pretty much all of their movies have these massively inflated budgets that you really can't see on the screen at all - Good Dinosaur of all things had a budget of $175 million somehow - and it's just baffling and speaks to poor use of resources. Like, Across the Spider-Verse has a budget literally half that of Elemental and it looks so, SO much better. Pixar’s budgets always end up ballooning because they use new, more technically intense, animation tech each movie. In Elemental’s case it is because they decided to make the characters always in motion because of them being made of elements. So like the fire people are always, always moving because they are made of pure fire for example. That one little decision basically doubled the budget for honestly no real reason. I think the days of Pixar getting to flex just because they could are over, Disney needs to corral them a bit.
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Post by chrom on Jun 24, 2023 17:02:33 GMT -5
They look to be taking a big hit here. Not even 70 million at the box office so far.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 24, 2023 18:00:51 GMT -5
They look to be taking a big hit here. Not even 70 million at the box office so far. Plus side is that the movie looks to have very good legs, looking like a very solid holdover from the week before and with Ruby Gillman tracking to bomb significantly harder it might be able to hang around theaters for awhile. It's not going to break even but it might hemorrhage the bleeding a bit.
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Post by chrom on Jun 25, 2023 14:23:12 GMT -5
They look to be taking a big hit here. Not even 70 million at the box office so far. Plus side is that the movie looks to have very good legs, looking like a very solid holdover from the week before and with Ruby Gillman tracking to bomb significantly harder it might be able to hang around theaters for awhile. It's not going to break even but it might hemorrhage the bleeding a bit. It's at 121 right now, so maybe it'll do well enough to not be written as a giant loss
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jul 5, 2023 12:03:03 GMT -5
At this point, it is just ten million behind The Flash. And with it opening in UK Cinemas soon, it might beat the Flash at the box office which would be the perfect bow on all this.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 5, 2023 17:24:07 GMT -5
At this point, it is just ten million behind The Flash. And with it opening in UK Cinemas soon, it might beat the Flash at the box office which would be the perfect bow on all this. Really goes to show what having decent legs can do for a movie I guess. Elemental's still pretty much a money pit, but at least it's kind of keeping itself from being the complete disaster it looked like it was going to be despite opening way weaker than Flash did.
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Post by chrom on Jul 8, 2023 17:28:53 GMT -5
It's crossed the 200 mark which was its budget, it'll still lose money it looks like but maybe by the end of its run it won't be written off as a total loss.
With any luck it'll reach cult classic status.
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Post by chrom on Jul 16, 2023 20:54:31 GMT -5
The film continues to stick around in the box office as it's crossed the 310 million mark.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 17, 2023 7:05:29 GMT -5
watched it with a friend and her kids this weekend. it was cute. nothing groundbreaking but really impressive visuals.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jul 17, 2023 7:11:43 GMT -5
The film continues to stick around in the box office as it's crossed the 310 million mark. I don't understand why movies these days don't leave the long tail option open for their times in theaters. Seems like everything is in an out in 3 weeks. And it makes no sense cause instead of creating a sense of urgency it creates a it will be on streaming/ home video soon so if I miss it meh.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jul 17, 2023 7:22:54 GMT -5
The film continues to stick around in the box office as it's crossed the 310 million mark. It's now made more money than The Flash. That's the hilarious bow to all this.
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Post by Killah Ray on Jul 17, 2023 14:54:12 GMT -5
Caught the movie this past weekend while at Disney, and the point of the story is about as heavy handed as a chop from Gunther…
Movie was decent though I have no reason to revisit it.
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Post by HMARK Center on Jul 18, 2023 4:57:15 GMT -5
However good, bad, or mediocre the movie is, it’s definitely notable how much Disney has shunted Pixar’s output onto Disney+ the last few years, while mostly giving their own animation studio’s films theatrical runs. As stated before, they’ve really done a number on morale at Pixar, by many accounts, and it’s possible some of that is reflecting in the quality of their output of late.
Either way, Disney thought Marvel, Star Wars, and Frozen meant they were invincible from every conceivable angle, but they never stopped to think how audience tastes may shift, whether the infamous “fatigue” for some series would set in, or how far-reaching the impact of streaming on viewing and spending habits, not to mention on movie budgeting, would really be. I know Chapek gets a lot of blame, and he deserved a ton of it, but plenty of this was begun and carried on under Iger. The Bobs are The Bobs, basically.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 18, 2023 9:06:09 GMT -5
It's now one of the highest grossing Pixar movie since frozen 2...
It's apparently had really good legs after the poor opening weekend
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Post by chrom on Jul 23, 2023 16:11:26 GMT -5
Another strong week as it's at 356 million.
Not sure how much it needs to break even but it seems to have softened the blow it was expected to take as it's developing a following.
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Post by horsemen4ever on Jul 23, 2023 16:16:26 GMT -5
I am glad it is doing well. It was a good movie.
Any news on Ruby Guillman, another under the radar movie that deserved better.
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Post by chrom on Jul 23, 2023 16:21:41 GMT -5
I am glad it is doing well. It was a good movie. Any news on Ruby Guillman, another under the radar movie that deserved better. 35 million, barely half of the budget that went into it.
That's likely Dreamworks biggest flop in its history.
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