Joseph Jenkinson with five Pixar movies that deserve a sequel, and five that need left well alone…. There was a time when Toy Story stood alone as Pixar’s only sequel. For years, the studio built its reputation on creating imaginative, self-contained stories that rarely needed revisiting once the credits rolled. Since the 2010s, however, characters […]
Pixar Doesn’t Have an Originality Problem, It Has a Universality Problem
Joseph Jenkinson on Pixar’s “originality problem” and its shifting storytelling priorities… Pixar earned its reputation through a seemingly endless run of original stories. Aside from the occasional revisit to the Toy Story world, the period between 1995 and 2010 (often regarded as the studio’s golden age) was defined by a string of beloved films that […]
Pixar’s Elemental lands in the top ten best debuts on Disney+
With its slow and steady race to box-office success, Disney & Pixar’s new film Elemental is also dominating the streaming space. Per a new report from Disney, Elemental saw 26.4 million views in its first five days of release, putting it in its Top 10 movie premieres of all time. This also puts the latest […]
Movie Review – Elemental (2023)
Elemental, 2023. Directed by Peter Sohn. Featuring the voice talents of Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O’Hara, Mason Wertheimer, Ronobir Lahiri, Wilma Bonet, Joe Pera, Matthew Yang King, Clara Lin Ding, Reagan To, Jeff Lapensee, Ben Morris, Jonathan Adams, Alex Kapp, and P.L. Brown. SYNOPSIS: Follows Ember and […]
Pixar boss says Elemental will be profitable following slow-burn box-office success
Following the worst opening weekend box-office gross in the history of Pixar, the studio’s head honcho has today announced that Elemental will in fact turn a healthy profit once all of the Disney dollars are counted. Elemental has performed in a manner befitting the elements at the heart of its story. It drowned with an […]
Despite lacklustre critical and fan reception, Disney rules 2023 box office so far
The studio is still the overall box office leader, even if fans and audiences aren’t fully behind Disney. Reports put Disney with $3.4 billion worldwide at the box office, which ranges from the beginning of the year to this past week (Jan. 1-July 2). That breaks out to $1.35 billion domestically and $2.05 billion abroad. This number […]
Box Office: Spider-Verse pips Elemental to swing back to the top, while The Flash crashes hard
There was plenty of narrative atop the U.S. box office this weekend, with experts eager to see how relative flops The Flash and Elemental would hold up in the face of an R-rated Jennifer Lawrence and the all conquering Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Let’s start with the big news, which would ordinarily be the film […]
Up short film sequel Carl’s Date gets new trailer
Carl Fredricksen is coming to float into our hearts again as the main character behind the fan-favorite Up will return in a new short film that will play in front of the upcoming Elemental. The all-new short, Carl’s Date, returns to the studio’s tradition of pairing its feature films with animated shorts on the big […]
Disney-Pixar’s Elemental clip introduces Ember and Wade
Disney-Pixar has released a clip from Elemental, the upcoming animated adventure from director Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur), featuring fire element Ember (Leah Lewis) and water element Wade (Mamoudou Athie); watch it below… In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about […]
Meet the residents of Element City in Disney-Pixar’s Elemental trailer
Disney and Pixar have dropped the official trailer for their latest animated fable Elemental, which transports moviegoers to an extraordinary place called Element City, where a host of elements live and work, and it’s safe to say that without any hint of elemental bias, Peter Sohn’s film looks fire. The trailer introduces us to the […]
