{"id":207445,"date":"2025-06-23T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/207445\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:45:15","slug":"elio-crash-lands-with-lowest-opening-weekend-box-office-in-pixar-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/207445\/","title":{"rendered":"Elio crash lands with lowest opening weekend box office in Pixar history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pixar\u2019s new sci-fi animated adventure Elio has earned largely positive reviews<\/a>, but that critical acclaim has not been reflected at the box office.<\/p>\n

The film is set to make $21 million across its opening weekend, the lowest opening weekend box office haul in Pixar history.<\/p>\n

As Deadline<\/a> reports, that total is substantially less than the $29.1 million made by the first ever Pixar film, 1995\u2019s Toy Story, and lower than the $29.6 million made more recently by 2023\u2019s Elemental.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Associated Press<\/a>, analyst David A. Gross of movie consulting firm FranchiseRe said: \u201cThis is a weak opening for a new Pixar movie. These would be solid numbers for another original animation film, but this is Pixar, and by Pixar\u2019s remarkable standard, the opening is well below average.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film, which features the vocal talents of Yonas Kibreab, Zoe Salda\u00f1a and Brad Garrett, had an estimated production budget of $150 million.<\/p>\n

\"YonasYonas Kibreab voices the 11-year-old title character in \u2018Elio\u2019 (\u00a9 2024 Disney\/Pixar. All Rights Reserved.)<\/p>\n

The only Pixar films to have made less at the box office are Soul (2020), Luca (2021) and Turning Red (2022) which all opened on streaming service Disney+ before limited theatrical runs.<\/p>\n

The record box office for a Pixar movie\u2019s opening weekend stands at $182.6 million, which was made by Incredibles 2 in 2018.<\/p>\n

On social media, several fans lamented the poor box office showing for an original film, arguing that this is why studios increasingly back sequels and spin-offs.<\/p>\n

One posted a meme showing Elio alongside recent Pixar originals like Soul and Luca and wrote<\/a>: \u201cJust a reminder the reason WHY you all are getting Toy Story 5. You NEED to show up for them instead of complaining the ‘lack of marketing’. Pixar is the only animation studio left that prioritize original movies instead of sequels\/prequels\/spin- off or making an adaptation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a four-star review of the film, The Independent\u2019s Clarisse Loughrey wrote<\/a>: \u201cTo the groove of Talking Heads\u2019s \u2018Once in a Lifetime\u2019, orphaned 11-year-old Elio Solis (Yonas Kibreab) adjusts his homemade cape affixed with plastic stars, carves the words \u201cALIENS, ABDUCT ME\u201d into sand, and spreads out on the beach like a starfish. In other words, Pixar is back in the zone, relishing its brief freedom before being dragged back to its desktops to make an umpteenth Toy Story sequel (number five, coming 2026).<\/p>\n

\u201cElio is witty, sweet, and ready to shred your heartstrings like a teething puppy. It posits that we\u2019re all conducting our own kind of intergalactic exploration, entering other people\u2019s orbits in the hope of finding that elusive element we call friendship.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-207445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114732277665279320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}