Lightyear: Pixar boss breaks silence on film’s box office failure

Lightyear: Pixar boss breaks silence on film’s box office failure

Lightyear: Pixar boss breaks silence on film’s box office failure

Despite being part of Pixar’s biggest franchise, Buzz Lightyear’s “solo movie” was a box office disappointment…

Last year pixar decided to take a chance with the launch Light year. The film tells the story of the astronaut franchise toy storybut with another zest – supposedly this is a film, Andy saw it in theaters before I got an astronaut toy for my birthday. However, the result at the box office was much lower than expected.

With a budget $200 millionthe film barely paid for itself, collecting a miserable box office. $226.4 million. A pixar ended up very upset about the commercial failure, and now, in an interview with Wrapper, Pete Doctor – interrupted the silence about the performance of the full-length film, the head of the studio:

“We thought about it a lot because we all love this movie. We love the characters and the premise. I think perhaps we understand what we did wrong is that we demand too much from the public. When they see Buzz, they’re like, “Great, but where’s Mr. Potato Head and Woody or Rex?” And then we put them in this sci-fi movie, and they’re like, “What?”

The film also made a number of social distancing decisions. Buzz Lightyear its toy counterpart, which we see in toy story. For example, although in the original franchise the astronaut doll has a voice Tim Allenin a feature film released in 2022, the voice of the character Chris Evans.

Andy would have watched the movie before he won the astronaut toy.

Despite Docter’s comments, many attribute the film’s lack of return to the company’s new film release strategy. Disney post-pandemic, when feature films only stayed in theaters for a month before being released. Disney+. This caused most of the public to choose to wait to watch films at home.

This strategy led to financial disasters for the company. Disney over the past two years, especially in the animation business, as evidenced by poor performance Light year and an absolute commercial failure Strange worldand the studio is rethinking the release format.

Light year available at Disney+.

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