Disney is renowned for its animation, but the company has still seen animated movies flop at the box office. Many of the early best Disney animated movies performed well enough at the box office, while the biggest flops came in the company’s later years. This is likely due to a myriad of factors, including basic inflation meaning a greater loss. Disney also has more box office flops after the rise of 3D animation, possibly due to an increase in animated blockbusters in general, meaning more competition and higher standards.
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Many box office flops become cult classics, animated Disney movies included. This reflects how the marketability and advertising strategy may not be the best representation of a movie’s quality. The most underrated Disney movies are generally not the highest earners but still deserve the attention of the Disney fanbase. Unfortunately, Disney Animation is unlikely to take a chance on the same specific subgenre again when it resulted in a huge financial loss, for one reason or another.
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Movie |
Domestic gross |
Worldwide total |
Estimated loss |
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Home On The Range |
$50,030,461 |
$145,358,062 |
$129 Million |
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Sleeping Beauty |
$5,300,000 |
$5,300,000 |
$900,000 (via Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation In Its Golden Age) |
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Pinocchio |
$1.4-1.6 Million |
$1.4-1.6 Million |
$1 Million (via Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation In Its Golden Age) |
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The Rescuers Down Under |
$27,931,461 |
$47,400,000 |
$22.3 Million |
|
The Good Dinosaur |
$123,087,120 |
$332,207,671 |
$168 Million |
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The Black Cauldron |
$21,289,084 |
$21,289,084 |
$89 Million |
|
Treasure Planet |
$38,176,783 |
$110,041,363 |
$240 Million (Yahoo!) |
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Meet the Robinsons |
$97,822,171 |
$169,333,034 |
$205 Million |
|
A Christmas Carol |
$137,855,863 |
$325,286,646 |
$175 Million |
|
Mars Needs Moms |
$21,392,758 |
$39,233,678 |
$150 Million (THR) |
|
Onward |
$61,555,145 |
$141,940,042 |
$130 Million (Yahoo!) |
|
Turning Red |
$1,399,001 |
$21,813,358 |
$167 Million (Yahoo!) |
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Lightyear |
$118,307,188 |
$226,425,420 |
$106 Million (Cinemablend) |
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Strange World |
$37,968,963 |
$73,621,640 |
$197 Million (Deadline) |
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Wish |
$63,973,821 |
$254,997,360 |
$130 Million (Deadline) |
Domestic and worldwide box office earnings are according to boxofficemojo.com. If a movie’s losses were not reported by news outlets, the estimate is based on the general rule that a movie needs to earn 2.5 times its budget to break even.
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Home On The Range (2004)
Grossed $145.3 Million Against $110 Million Budget
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When discussions surrounding Disney’s animated features come up, there are a handful of movies that tend to be forgotten. That’s easy enough when a studio has 100 years of history. Home on the Range, unfortunately, is one of those movies that is very often forgotten. That’s largely because not many people saw it.
The movie, an animated Western centered on a group of dairy cows, did not manage to land an audience, and was one of Disney’s last 2D animated movies. The final one would be released just five years later, The Princess and the Frog.
2004 was, simply put, not a great year for Disney in general. In addition to Home on the Range, the company also had two other box office bombs, though the other two were live-action movies: Hidalgo and The Alamo. Both movies failed to make a splash. So, too, did the Disney animated TV adaptation of Teacher’s Pet for the big screen. Home on the Range ended up forgotten in a sea of Disney box office losses.
Home On The Range
PG
AnimationComedyFamilyWestern
Home on the Range follows three cows Maggie, Grace and Mrs Caloway who take on a mission to stop their home from being taken away when their dairy farm is served an eviction notice. Forming a team with the Sheriff’s horse, they set out to collect the ransom on cattle rustler Alameda Slim to take their fate into their own hands.
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April 2, 2004
Runtime
75 minutes
Cast
G.W. Bailey
, Roseanne Barr
, Bobby Block
, Steve Buscemi
, Carole Cook
, Charlie Dell
Director
Will Finn
, John Sanford
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Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Grossed $5.3 Million Against $6 Million Budget
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Today, Sleeping Beauty is regarded as a Disney Princess classic. It, however, was not as beloved upon its release as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Cinderella. In fact, in its initial box office return, according to research from Michael Barrier’s book Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation In Its Golden Age, the movie did not even make its budget back.
In 1959, Sleeping Beauty was the most expensive animated movie Disney had produced. In fact, it was twice as expensive as the animated movies released right before it, like Peter Pan. At the time, Disney was more actively promoting its live-action projects than its animated projects, and some believe that may have contributed to the initial loss at the box office. The loss presented by Sleeping Beauty contributed to the studio leaning even more into live-action projects over the next few years.
Of course, since that original release, Sleeping Beauty has returned to theaters multiple times and has a much larger worldwide gross than that initial box office would suggest. Sleeping Beauty has amassed more than $51 million at the box office over time.
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sleeping beauty
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FantasyRomance
In Disney’s take on the classic fairy tale, Princess Aurora has been cursed by the evil Maleficent to prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep on her sixteenth birthday. Despite the efforts of the three fairies who raised her, the curse is soon upon Aurora, but hope lies with the handsome Prince Phillip.
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January 29, 1959
Runtime
75minutes
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Mary Costa
, Bill Shirley
, Eleanor Audley
, Verna Felton
, Barbara Jo Allen
, Barbara Luddy
, Bill Thompson
Director
Clyde Geronimi
, Wolfgang Reitherman
Writers
Erdman Penner
, Joe Rinaldi
, Winston Hibler
, Bill Peet
, Ted Sears
, Ralph Wright
, Milt Banta
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Pinocchio (1940)
Grossed $1.4-1.6 Million Against $2.6 Million Budget
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Less than $3 million for a budget for one of Disney’s animated movies would be unheard of in the modern world of movie making, but in 1940, that was a huge sum – even higher than Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, recognized as Disney’s first animated feature film.
When Pinocchio was first released to theaters in 1940, Disney was expecting success at the box office on par with Snow White. That, however, did not happen, and original box office reports vary, making it hard to know what the ticket sales really initially were. Barrier’s book tracking the history of animation, however, does note that Disney recorded a $1 million loss due to the film.
World War II likely played a role in the lack of success for the movie, since there was not much of a way to market it outside of the United States when so much of Europe was at war. Much like Sleeping Beauty and most of the classic Disney animated features, Pinocchio has been rereleased in theaters multiple times since it initially hit theaters. It’s gone on to make over $121.8 million at theaters around the world since.
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Disney’s Pinocchio
Gepetto, an old Italian carpenter, wanted to be a father so badly that his puppet of a boy came to life. However, the wooden boy doesn’t know right from wrong and his nose grows when he lies.
Release Date
February 23, 1940
Runtime
88 Minutes
Cast
Cliff Edwards
, Dickie Jones
, Christian Rub
, Walter Catlett
, Charles Judels
, Evelyn Venable
, Frankie Darro
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Ben Sharpsteen
, Hamilton Luske
, Bill Roberts
, Norman Ferguson
, Jack Kinney
, Wilfred Jackson
, T. Hee
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The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
Grossed $47.4 Million Against $25 Million Budget
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The Rescuers proved to be one of Disney’s most successful releases of the late 1970s. Kids and adults alike loved the idea of a pair of mismatched mice on a big adventure. That’s why a rare (at the time) sequel was greenlit, though it did not release in theaters until 1990. It actually ran behind schedule and animators from Disney-MGM Studios had to be called upon to help finish the animation sequences. It is also, technically, the first Disney-Pixar collaboration, though not in the way movie audiences today would think of Pixar.
The original movie had a budget of under $8 million, so Disney showed a lot of faith in the sequel when they more than tripled the budget for the Australian-set tale. Unfortunately, it did not entirely return on the investment. Of course, the movie releasing on VHS the next year, and then on DVD a decade later, would certainly have helped recoup some of that loss.
The Rescuers Down Under
G
AnimationAdventureFamilyFantasy
The Rescuers Down Under follows heroic mice Miss Bianca and Bernard as they travel to Australia to thwart a poacher who has kidnapped a boy to locate a rare golden eagle. Assisted by bumbling albatross Wilbur and field operative Jake the Kangaroo Rat, they embark on a daring rescue mission.
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November 16, 1990
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77 minutes
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Bob Newhart
, Eva Gabor
, John Candy
, Tristan Rogers
, Adam Ryen
, George C. Scott
, Wayne Robson
, Douglas Seale
, Frank Welker
, Bernard Fox
, Peter Firth
, Ed Gilbert
, Carla Meyer
, Russi Taylor
, Peter Greenwood
, Billy Barty
, Mickie McGowan
Director
Hendel Butoy
Writers
Byron Simpson
, Jim Cox
, Joe Ranft
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The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Grossed $332 Million Against $175-200 Million Budget
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The Good Dinosaur marked one of the many Disney-Pixar collaborations. Though the official budget was not made public. The Hollywood Reporter estimated that the movie would have cost anywhere from $175 to $200 million to make, right on par with other Pixar movies of the era. It has the unfortunate distinction of being considered Pixar’s first box office failure despite making over $332 million dollars at the box office.
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The movie debuted the same year as Inside Out, which might have hurt its chances for a big box office haul. It was the first time two Disney-Pixar movies hit theaters in the same calendar year, and Inside Out was certainly much more successful as audiences were drawn to the unique concept instead. Inside Out ended up making over $850 million at the box office against a similar budget.
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The Black Cauldron (1985)
Grossed $21.3 Million Against $44 Million Budget
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The Black Cauldron is the archetypical “black sheep” of the Disney lineup, too dark and too strange to land with audiences that were accustomed to the most traditional Disney formula at the time. With appreciation for the movie growing with time, some now argue that a Black Cauldron remake could be a great horror movie. However, at the time, The Black Cauldron was a disaster with potentially far-reaching consequences for Disney, not even grossing half its budget.
Disney Animation struggled throughout the 70s and 80s following Walt Disney’s death, and The Black Cauldron is considered the movie that almost ended the animation department once and for all (via SlashFilm). Behind-the-scenes problems included animator Don Bluth leaving the company, taking a number of people with him. Luckily, Disney managed to come back at the end of the 80s when The Little Mermaid kicked off the Disney Renaissance.
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The Black Cauldron
PG
AnimationAdventureFantasy
The Black Cauldron is an animated fantasy film from Walt Disney Studios, directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich. Released in 1985, it follows the young hero Taran and his quest to prevent the evil Horned King from obtaining a powerful magical relic known as the Black Cauldron. Featuring the voices of Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, and John Hurt, the film combines elements of adventure, mystery, and dark fantasy.
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Ted Berman
, Richard Rich
Release Date
July 24, 1985
Cast
Grant Bardsley
, Susan Sheridan
, Freddie Jones
, Nigel Hawthorne
, Arthur Malet
, John Byner
Runtime
80 Minutes
Writers
Lloyd Alexander
, David Jonas
, Vance Gerry
, Ted Berman
, Richard Rich
, Al Wilson
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Lightyear (2022)
Grossed $226.4 Million Against $200 Million Budget
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Lightyear was not the movie the iconic character deserved, wasting its biggest points of nostalgia and coming to an unsatisfying conclusion. Pete Doctor said regarding Lightyear‘s failure (via TheWrap):
“I think probably what we’ve ended on in terms of what went wrong is that we asked too much of the audience. […] it was just a little too distant, both in concept, and I think in the way that characters were drawn, that they were portrayed. It was much more of a science fiction.”
Lightyear is a tonally strange and even grim movie if people come expecting a continuation of Toy Story. For that matter, Lightyear likely also struggled by comparison: Even if one wants to argue that it is a redeemable movie, it is still not as good as the worst Toy Story movie.
Lightyear is a tonally strange and even grim movie if people come expecting a continuation of Toy Story.
Lightyear came out at a strange time as Hollywood slowly tried to revive movie-going culture, but people had become accustomed to watching movies at home, something which is potentially responsible for other box office failures. The movie shouldn’t have spent as much time on a convoluted new story. It is not up there with Pixar’s biggest box office hits due to a misunderstanding of what would land with audiences in the context of the character’s history.
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Lightyear
PG
AnimationActionAdventure
Disney Pixar branches the Toy Story franchise off with Lightyear, a story that centers around a human version of the Buzz Lightyear toy and his missions with Star command. Set during an exploration mission, Lightyear and his crew are attacked during a scouting mission by alien lifeforms and find themselves stranded on an unknown planet. To help get everyone home, Lightyear volunteers on a dangerous mission to test pilot their means home. However, each test light passes time and the characters age in his absence.
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Angus MacLane
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June 8, 2022
Cast
Chris Evans
, Keke Palmer
, Peter Sohn
, Taika Waititi
, Dale Soules
, James Brolin
, Uzo Aduba
Runtime
105 Minutes
Writers
Jason Headley
, Angus MacLane
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Onward (2020)
Grossed $142 Million Against $175 Million Budget
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Onward is also not one of Pixar’s best movies, but it has a lot of redeeming elements that deserve more love. The setting is tons of fun, the cast is perfect, and the story is a heartrending look at a realistic scenario. Onward explores the different effects of a parent’s death on Ian and Barley, when Ian never knew his father, but Barley has some childhood memories of him. Onward wasn’t getting fantastic reviews while in theaters, but the central question is how much COVID-19 affected its box office performance.
Onward had the great misfortune of coming out just as lockdown was going into widespread effect, resulting in many movie theaters closing for the foreseeable future. To put it simply, there is no way this didn’t hurt the movie. While other Disney and Pixar movies have been huge hits since then, Onward signaled the start of a new era of box office struggles.
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Onward
PG
ComedyAnimationAdventure
Pixar’s Onward takes place in a land filled with mythical creatures. It concerns the story of brothers Ian (Tom Holland) and Barley (Chris Pratt), who learn that their long-lost father had unlocked the ancient power of magic, something long rendered obsolete by technological advances. The brothers learn they have just 24 hours to resurrect their father and set off on a magical quest across the land to reunite their family.
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Dan Scanlon
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March 6, 2020
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
, Octavia Spencer
, Chris Pratt2
, Tom Holland
Runtime
103 minutes
Writers
Dan Scanlon
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Wish (2023)
Grossed $225 Million Against $175 Million
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Wish was supposed to be the touching centennial celebration for Disney but is universally considered to have fallen short of this goal. Wish‘s box office flop can be explained in part by the general challenges faced by post-COVID-19 movies when streaming options are hurting Disney animated movies’ earning potential. Wish was given a theatrical release on a holiday weekend, which in days past, would have been a guarantee of success when combined with the celebration of Disney’s 100th anniversary.
Many people probably just decided to wait until the movie arrived on Disney+. However, Wish‘s story wasn’t doing it any favors either. Most critics agreed that Wish was too reliant on the old Disney formula and offered nothing new, which was probably the point when the movie was supposed to be looking back over 100 years of filmmaking. However, this made for a boring movie in its own right.
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Wish
PG
AdventureComedyFantasy
Wish is a Disney animated adventure/fantasy comedy that follows Asha, a young girl from the kingdom of Rosas who wants nothing more than to care for the people of her home. One night, Rosa takes a chance to wish upon a star – only to invite a bit of chaos when her prayers are somewhat answered by an energetic cosmic entity known as Star. Together with her goat and this new friend, they’ll set off to save the kingdom from an ambitious king.
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Chris Buck
, Fawn Veerasunthorn
Release Date
November 22, 2023
Cast
Ariana DeBose
, Chris Pine
, Alan Tudyk
, Dee Bradley Baker
, Frank Welker
Runtime
95 Mins
Writers
Jennifer Lee
, Allison Moore
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Mars Needs Moms (2011)
Grossed $39.2 Million Against $150 Million Budget
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Emerging as one of the biggest box office bombs of the 2010s, Mars Needs Moms definitely didn’t fit the bill of anything close to a typical Disney movie. The whole thing is too creepy and eerie, less in a Nightmare Before Christmas way and more in a true space horror way. Mars Needs Moms’ ultimate message is set up from minute one to be force-fed to the audience, showing a boy unappreciative of his mother who is put through a “be careful what you wish for” lesson when she is kidnapped by Martians.
Coraline pulled off this story just two years earlier with a Burton-reminiscent aesthetic. However, Mars Needs Moms doesn’t have the same interesting style and is filled with unlikable characters and unappealing animation. The story is basic and the design a mess of other sci-fi properties (and not very good ones), leading to its box office failure and terrible ratings (37% on Rotten Tomatoes).
Mars Needs Moms
PG
Sci-FiFamilyAnimationAdventure
Mars Needs Moms is an animated sci-fi movie based on a book by Berkeley Breathed. Known for being a box office bomb, the 2011 Disney film follows a young boy named Milo who goes on a mission to rescue his mother from Martians who have kidnapped her to raise their own children.
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Simon Wells
Release Date
March 11, 2011
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Seth Green
, Joan Cusack
, Dan Fogler
, Breckin Meyer
, Elisabeth Harnois
, Tom Everett
, Mindy Sterling
, Raymond Ochoa
Runtime
98 Minutes
Writers
Simon Wells
, Wendy Wells
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A Christmas Carol (2009)
Grossed $325.3 Million Against $200 Million Budget
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Like Mars Needs Moms, A Christmas Carol‘s animation dips into the uncanny valley, which probably hurt it more considering the story it was telling. A Christmas Carol has been remade several times over, twice by Disney itself — the Muppets version and the Mickey Mouse version. This remake was something that definitely did not need to happen, with there being no real reason to change it to a somewhat realistic animation style.
Disney might have tried to advertise this as a new, more serious take on A Christmas Carol than the studio’s earlier iterations; a return to the story’s ghostly origins. However, it came across as pointless, especially when it is another example of a movie that doesn’t fit neatly within Disney’s branding. A Christmas Carol‘s reviews are actually decent, showing how its problem was more with marketability than the core story.
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A Christmas Carol
PG
AnimationFamilyFantasy
A Christmas Carol (2009) is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novella, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Jim Carrey in multiple roles. The film employs motion capture technology to bring to life the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man who is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. Through these supernatural encounters, Scrooge is compelled to reevaluate his life and change his ways.
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Robert Zemeckis
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November 4, 2009
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Jim Carrey
, Gary Oldman
, Colin Firth
, Robin Wright
, Cary Elwes
Runtime
94 Minutes
Writers
Robert Zemeckis
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Turning Red (2022)
Grossed $21.8 Million Against $175 Million Budget
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Turning Red has a lot going for it, conveying a relatable story about being an awkward teenager and struggling to connect with her family through the lens of an absolutely wacky, exaggerated style. Turning Red‘s design perfectly represents the world as Mei sees it, mainly through the aesthetic of boy bands marketed towards her age range. The movie received a lot of praise for the depiction of the family and friend dynamics, as well as Mei wholeheartedly defending her teenage interests.
Sadly, Turning Red was another victim of lockdown. Disney decided to forgo a theatrical release amid remaining restrictions in early 2022 and release the movie via streaming, which did not make it nearly as much money as it should have. They might have hoped that the movie would increase subscriptions, but more than likely, everyone who felt they needed a Disney+ subscription to pass the time during lockdown already had one.
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Turning Red
PG
FamilyAnimationAdventureComedy
When 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian Mei Lee transforms into a giant red panda, she discovers that she has inherited her family curse. Triggered by any strong emotion, Mei’s ability tests her strength of character and her reserve, as well as prompting a previously undiscovered rebellious streak. Torn between accepting the changes she’s going through and obeying her parents, Mei must navigate her responsibilities to her friends, her family, and herself.
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Domee Shi
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March 11, 2022
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
, Jordan Fisher
, wai ching ho
, Mia Tagano
, Orion Lee
, Lillian Lim
, Sandra Oh
, Hyein Park
, Rosalie Chiang
, Ava Morse
Runtime
100 minutes
Writers
Julia Cho
, Domee Shi
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Strange World (2022)
Grossed $73.6 Million Against $100-200 Million Budget
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Reports differ on exactly how much Strange World cost to make, but Deadline concludes that it lost Disney nearly $200 million. Strange World concluded a year of box office failures for Disney, perhaps representing ongoing issues due to streaming vs. theatrical releases. On the other hand, maybe people were just tired of lackluster Disney movies by the end of 2022. Strange World also received average but generous reviews and saw some more success on Disney+.
One of its biggest problems was that it came out within weeks of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. It is safe to say that interest in this movie was much higher, while Disney struggled to effectively advertise both of them. Strange World had a quiet, unremarkable release towards the end of 2022, which resulted in an astounding loss for the company.
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Strange World
PG
AnimationAdventureComedy
Strange World is a new film from Walt Disney Animation Studios and director Don Hall that follows the exploits of a three-generations-deep family of adventurers known as the Clade family. The family is in search of a mysterious creature little is known about, but to traverse the treacherous and uncharted land, the family will have to put aside their generational differences and work together to survive ravenous creatures, devious traps, and most of all, each other.
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Don Hall
Release Date
November 23, 2022
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Jake Gyllenhaal
, Dennis Quaid
, Jaboukie Young-White
, Gabrielle Union
, Lucy Liu
, Alan Tudyk
Runtime
102 minutes
Writers
Qui Nguyen
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Meet The Robinsons (2007)
Grossed $170 Million Against $150 Million Budget
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Meet the Robinsons is an off-beat, Disney time-travel adventure, showcasing the studio’s experimentation with 3D animation before fully committing to it. Meet the Robinsons, Mars Needs Moms, and Strange World are indicative of Disney struggling with animated sci-fi in general, when the company’s origins are in fantasy and all three of these movies are too derivative. However, Meet the Robinsons has a decent emotional storyline about letting go of the past and looking to the future, allowing it a strong afterlife following its commercial failure.
However, Meet the Robinsons’ box office flop immediately resulted in Disney canceling plans for Meet the Robinsons 2. It failed to find its footing, possibly because people still only saw 3D as Pixar’s specialty. Overall, the 2000s marked a crossroads for Disney in terms of what animation style it would use going forward; only Tangled and Frozen’s successes would finally make 3D the Disney standard.
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Meet the Robinsons
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AnimationAdventureComedyFamilySci-Fi
Meet The Robinsons follows Lewis, a young inventor determined to find his birth mother. His journey takes a turn when a mysterious boy named Wilbur Robinson whisks him away to the future. Together, they face adventures and challenges that ultimately lead Lewis to uncover the significance of family and his place in the world. This animated film explores themes of innovation, belonging, and the importance of moving forward.
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Director
Stephen J. Anderson
Release Date
March 30, 2007
Cast
Angela Bassett
, Daniel Hansen
, Jordan Fry
, Matthew Josten
, John H. H. Ford
, Dara McGarry
Runtime
95 Minutes
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Treasure Planet (2002)
Grossed $110 Million Against $140 Million Budget
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Treasure Planet features the ambitious premise of recasting Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island in a sci-fi setting. Different reports suggest that Disney might only have lost $85 million from it, but it is likely much higher (Yahoo!). The movie is primarily rendered in 2D animation, it also experiments with some 3D. While this looks incredible and elevates the setting, it unfortunately racked up production costs, making Treasure Planet an even bigger box office bomb.
Treasure Planet has come to be loved for its artistic style, proving again that profits are not everything when it comes to good movies.
Treasure Planet is one of Disney’s most expensive failures when the precocious state of animation in the 2000s complicated production and marketing. It was also released within the same time frame as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which proved to be impossible competition. However, Treasure Planet has come to be loved for its artistic style, proving again that profits are not everything when it comes to good movies.
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Treasure Planet
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Adventure
Treasure Planet is a 2002 animated adventure and Fantasy film from Walt Disney studios. Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, the story follows a young boy named Jim Hawkins as he attempts to find a fabled treasure and mend ways with his father who abandoned him.
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Director
John Musker
Release Date
November 27, 2002
Cast
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
, Martin Short
, Emma Thompson
Runtime
95minutes
Writers
John Musker
Source: Yahoo!, The Hollywood Reporter, Cinemablend, Deadline, SlashFilm, TheWrap, Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation In Its Golden Age by Michael Barrier, The Hollywood Reporter (2)
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