Eliodirected by Adrian Molina, Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian, recorded the worst result ever at the box office for a Pixar Animation Studios film during the first programming weekend.
The film, which made his debut in the cinema last June 18, in fact collected 21 million dollars in its first days in the United States and 35 million all over the world. As for domestic collections, it is a new negative record for a film produced by Pixar: the previous one was in fact set in 1995 by the first study film, Toy Storywhich had recorded 29.1 miliions of dollars (a figure which, however, with inflation would be higher today).
In 2023, however, Elemental Instead, he had stopped at 29.6 million dollars in the United States and 44.5 million worldwide. However, the film had then managed to go up thanks to word of mouth and good reviews, up to just under 500 million dollars globally. Considering that too Elio He is receiving good feedback from the public, The Walt Disney Company hopes that the same will happen on this occasion.
According to what reported by Variety, Elio – The story of a boy who comes into contact with the aliens after being mistaken for the Earth ambassador – would have cost $ 150 million, not to mention the huge costs for international marketing.
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