Only 35 million for Elio: a historic craxar crash

The latest original opus in the studio is a flop around the world. To the point of calling into question Pixar’s strategy?

The years go by but are not alike in Pixar.

After exploding all records in 2024 with Vice-versa 2 And its $ 1.7 billion in revenue is an intergalactic crash that Elio in 2025.

With $ 35 million of global revenues – barely 14 million internationally and 21 million in the USA – Elio Simply records the worst start in the history of the studio.

So far, the worst world launch for Pixar was detained by Elementaryreleased in 2023, with 44.5 million in the world. And that can give a little hope to Elio.

Because despite its cat before, Elementary had benefited from an excellent word of mouth and had ended up taking off to reach almost $ 500 million global revenue at the end of the fiscal year. Disney hopes the same scenario for Eliowhich received a very positive welcome from the public and the press, displaying a good 85% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The nice intergalactic tale on friendship will have to show a longevity exceptional throughout the summer in theaters, to try to compensate for its cost of production of 150 million dollars (Excluding international marketing).

But anyway, it shows that the originals are clearly, significantly less recipe than the suites at Pixar.

Fortunately, the studio does not only look at the figures and Pete Doctor confided In a recent first interview that the studio still plans “one for a “that is to say produce as many original films as there are suites.

Besides, the next Pixar In the cinema will still be an original: Hoppers (a robotic and animal tale) which will be released in March 2026. He will draw two suites in stride: Toy story 5 (June 2026) and The indestructibles 3 (June 2027). Then the studio will be released Gattoan original on a cat in Venice (a priori in June 2028), before engaging on Coco 2 (in March 2029).

We will recall that Pixar belongs to Disneywho plays on several tables at the same time: if Elio flop, the group can rejoice in the box of Lilo & Stitch Live-action version.

The film has already reported $ 910 million worldwide – of which 523.6 million internationally – In just five weekends. He should become the first film of the year to cross the billion.

Note that the competitor DreamWorks- which belongs to Universal – does not sail in the same spheres: his live remake of Dragons Totalize for the moment 385 million Dollars in global revenue.