{"id":1951503,"date":"2023-06-19T22:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pixars-elemental-with-non-binary-character-flops-at-box-office\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T22:14:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:14:35","slug":"pixars-elemental-with-non-binary-character-flops-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pixars-elemental-with-non-binary-character-flops-at-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixar&#8217;s &#8216;Elemental,&#8217; featuring &#8216;non-binary&#8217; character, fails at box office."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpixars-elemental-with-non-binary-character-flops-at-box-office%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1951503&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Pixar&#8217;s &#8220;Elemental&#8221; Has Disappointing Opening Weekend at Box Office<\/h2>\n<p>Pixar\u2019s new animated kid\u2019s film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pixar\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Elemental&#8221;<\/span><\/a> had one of the worst openings in studio history, bringing in just $29.5 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/box-office-tom-holland-and-uncharted-stay-no-1\/\" title=\"Box Office: Tom Holland and \u2018Uncharted\u2019 Stay No. 1\">domestic ticket sales<\/a> at the weekend box office.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is Pixar\u2019s first non-franchise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">theatrical release<\/span><\/a> since the COVID pandemic that wasn\u2019t released directly to streaming, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/18\/business\/pixar-elemental-the-flash-box-office.html\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To put those numbers into context, Pixar\u2019s worst-performing movie ever was the first movie it ever did, &#8220;Toy Story,&#8221; which brought in $29.1 million for the then-unheard-of studio in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Pixar\u2019s top performers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/brand\/bn3530750466\/?sort=openingWeekendGross&#038;ref_=bo_bn__resort#table\">include<\/a> &#8220;The Incredibles 2,&#8221; &#8220;Toy Story 4,&#8221; &#8220;Finding Nemo,&#8221; and &#8220;Up,&#8221; per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/anafaguy\/2023\/06\/18\/box-office-struggles-elemental-posts-pixars-worst-premiere-weekend-in-decades-as-the-flash-underperforms\/?sh=1a023f402430\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forbes<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elemental&#8221; features the four elements \u2014 earth, water, fire, and air.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15789038\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IMDb<\/span><\/a> description, \u201cthe film journeys alongside an unlikely pair, Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pixars-elemental-with-non-binary-character-flops-at-box-office\/\" title=\"Pixar's 'Elemental,' featuring 'non-binary' character, fails at box office.\">fiery young woman<\/a> and the go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film is directed by Peter Sohn, best known for \u201cThe Good Dinosaur\u201d (2015).<\/p>\n<p>The new movie includes the studio\u2019s first \u201cnon-binary\u201d character, Lake, who is voiced by the \u201cnon-binary\u201d star Kai Ava Hauser.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIG ANNOUNCEMENT I got to play Pixar&#8217;s first nonbinary character! Meet Lake!<br \/>I voice Lake in the new movie <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Elemental?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Elemental<\/a>! I&#8217;m seeing it in theaters tonight with my friends, so you can catch it in theaters too if you wanna see them. \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6kBPGvCATE\">pic.twitter.com\/6kBPGvCATE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83d\udef8 Kai Ava Hauser \ud83d\udef8 (@JustAVoiceActor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustAVoiceActor\/status\/1669792764106792960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Times noted that the movie cost $200 million to make. \u201cHard to sugarcoat this,\u201d David A. Gross, a film consultant who publishes a newsletter on box office numbers, said of the lackluster results.<\/p>\n<p>NYT writer Brooks Barnes also mentioned that industry insiders have been questioning the future of Pixar since the \u201cToy Story\u201d spinoff, \u201cLightyear,\u201d underperformed expectations last year. That film also included a highly publicized same-sex kiss. One of the studio\u2019s worst performers was \u201cOnward,\u201d another animated children\u2019s film prominently featuring a gay character. \u201cOnward\u201d earned $39.1 million on opening weekend in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes went on to speculate that the poor showing could be the result of audiences still feeling hesitant about returning to theaters, or to \u201cElemental\u201d being the first non-franchise original Pixar production since the pandemic. Barnes wrote that audiences are used to waiting a few weeks for films to become available on streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve trained audiences that these films will be available for you on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/disney\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disney+<\/span><\/a>,\u201d Pete Docter, Pixar\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theyre-soldiers-theyre-not-nancy-pelosis-servants-fl-governor-desantis-orders-his-national-guard-troops-in-dc-back-to-florida-video\/\" title=\"\u201cThey\u2019re Soldiers, They\u2019re Not Nancy Pelosi\u2019s Servants\u201d \u2013 FL Governor DeSantis Orders His National Guard Troops in DC Back to Florida (VIDEO)\">chief creative officer<\/a>, said during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/biz\/news\/pixar-pete-docter-disney-elemental-cannes-inside-out-1235646648\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Variety<\/span><\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to make sure people realize there\u2019s a great deal you\u2019re missing by not seeing it on the big screen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/introducing-dw-kids\">announced plans<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lgbtq-groups-sue-florida-over-parental-rights-in-education-law\/\" title=\"LGBTQ Groups Sue Florida Over Parental Rights In Education Law\">kids entertainment content<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>numbers into perspective, Pixar&#8217;s &#8220;Elemental&#8221; had a disappointing debut, earning only $29.5 million in domestic ticket sales. This marked one of the studio&#8217;s weakest openings ever. Notably, it was their first non-franchise theatrical release since the pandemic that didn&#8217;t go directly to streaming, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1951504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8660,9199,29065,8126,8132,7057,5660,29064],"class_list":["post-1951503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-box","tag-character","tag-elemental","tag-fails","tag-featuring","tag-non-binary","tag-office","tag-pixars"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}