July 9 reaches cinemas in Spain, ElioThe last film Disney Pixar, and this happened after a sound failure at the United States’s box office, the premiere of which took place in the middle of the one, coincides with two successes, such as a living action How to train a dragon or Lilo and StichQuestionnaires
He raised only $ 20.8 million on his first weekend, a figure that remains below 30 from the moment Pixar This will overcome to get the best result than what happened “Elementary‘, The last original premiere of the study that covered last summer Up the feet 2Questionnaires
From Coconut In 2017, Pixar He does not accumulate success at the box office after there are several premieres in the clips directly on the Disney +platform, as they were Soul or LukeAnd Elio has the opportunity to try to improve their indicators due to their landing in a large part of European cinemas.
Changes that explain the inability of Elio in cinemas
Failure ElioHowever, it seems that this is a fact in the Pixar, the worst collection provided by the study, and whose budget seems to be $ 150 million, and many consider in the great changes that the character had, and the film as some of the reasons for this.
According to the media Hollywood reporterThe first evidence projection in Arizona in the summer of 2023 was a turning point, because although the participants liked it, but did not worry them to say that they would go to theaters, and Pixar began to work to change the project.
The most relevant was the change of the director after Adrian Molinadirector Coconutleave Elio According to the company, to devote yourself to other projects, and it went into the hands Madlin Sharafian And Domee ShiQuestionnaires but it was not the only one, another corresponding name in the film, like the actress America Ferrerapproved the “Award of the agenda” in order to resign as the voice of the mother of the protagonist, and this will be replaced by Zoe SaldanyaBut like aunt.
The rejection of Molina and Ferrera was also considered as a response to the change in the protagonist Elio, to which some characteristics were removed, and the character’s idea was alteration, which was an 11 -year -old boy in the first project, with “strange” features and enthusiasm for an ecologist and fashion.
“Suddenly you eliminate this key part that rotates around identity, and Elio becomes nothing. Elio, who is now in cinemas, is much worse than the best original version Adrian (Molina). Elio was so delightful, so cheerful and had such a greater personality that now I think this is much more common, ”said former Pixar artists in words collected in the report of the Hollywood reporter.
This course would also affect the following Pixar projects, among which the fifth production of Toy Story, and the intensity of environmental problems would be reduced in BunkersThe feature film, which is expected in the spring of 2026, or avoids a divorce topic in a film that has not surpassed more details.
