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Door's Box Office Woes Could Get Worse If Its Movie Isn't Delayed Again
Cynthia Frey (2025), Cookiess Za To Hero (2027), And Animation Works 2 (2027)
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Angel Shaw
Aug 10, 2024
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Disney's Two New 2025 Movie Delays Explained: What It Means For Door Entertainment
Summary
Elio's box office success hinges on timing - release date could clash with DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon.
Pixar's Elio faces challenges due to being a new story with lesser known stars compared to established franchises.
Delaying Elio could be the best move for Pixar to avoid competition with highly anticipated DreamWorks movie.
Pixar is working to turn its bad luck around, but unless it delays the release of Elio again, the studio's past box-office woes will be repeated. The upcoming sci-fi movie was initially meant to be released in March 2024, but the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes pushed it back over a year. It's clear the Disney studio is trying to give this film its best possible shot at success, especially after films like Elemental flopped at the box office. However, the current release window for Elio could be a significant problem.
Elio is the sci-fi adventure story of a young boy (Elio) who is mistaken by a group of aliens to be Earth's leader and beamed up to represent his planet. It's the sort of charming story that would be expected from Pixar, and with Adrian Molina (Coco, Lightyear, Luca) serving as both writer and director, the project is in great hands. Overall, it seems like Elio could be the studio's chance at redemption since their last original story, Elemental, performed abysmally at the box office during its opening weekend. Still, timing is everything, and Elio is currently at a disadvantage.
Elio Teaser Traailer (Trailer)
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Elio Is Currently Releasing The Same day As The Live-Action How To Train Your Dragon
Elio from Pixar's Elio Teaser Trailer
Pixar's new sci-fi movie was supposed to be released in March 2024, but in October 2023, the studio announced that Elio would be released in theaters on June 13, 2025. This decision is believed to have been made for a variety of reasons. First, the SAG-AFTRA and WGA labor strikes halted most movie and TV productions, so Pixar was inevitably subjected to delays for this reason. Additionally, with Kung Fu Panda 4 releasing in March 2024, it was thought that Pixar felt Elio wouldn't hold up in the competition.
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However, since DearmWorks' live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie is also hitting theaters on June 13, 2025, Elio could still run into a problem. Though one is live-action and the other is animated, both How to Train Your Dragon and Elio have the same target audience, so families will be forced to choose between one or the other. This could be especially detrimental to the Pixar movie's opening weekend since Elio is unlikely to beat out the DreamWorks movie this time around.
How to Train Your Dragon will be DreamWorks' first live-action remake of an animated film.
Why How To Train Your Dragon Has Better Chances At The Box Office Than Elio
Pixar movies certainly hold some weight, and despite Elemental's poor performance in 2023, the studio is still expected to produce films that draw audiences to the theaters. However, since Elio is a brand new story with very few big stars among the cast, it's unlikely that the movie will hold up well against the release of How to Train Your Dragon. The movie is DreamWorks' first live-action remake, which has many intrigued. Then, there is the fact that Hiccup's story is already familiar to audiences, and all three animated How to Train Your Dragon movies performed well at the box office.
Movie Title
Domestic Box Office Gross
Global Box Office Gross
How to Train Your Dragon
$217,581,231
$494,878,759
How to Train Your Dragon 2
$177,002,924
$621,537,519
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
$160,799,505
$521,799,505
On the other hand, as a fresh and new story, Elio is at a disadvantage. Though Disney's sequels and remakes have managed some decent numbers at the box office, original stories have struggled to keep up. Pixar's Elemental did okay in the long run, but its opening weekend only pulled about $30 million, which was a major disappointment for the studio. It's hoped that Elio will be able to do better, but pitting the film against an established franchise like How to Train Your Dragon is essentially setting the sci-fi up to fail.
Pixar's Box Office Problems Could Get Worse If Elio Isn't Delayed Again
Wade from Elemental and Elio
The news about the live-action How to Train Your Dragon is a great reason to take the risk and delay Elio by another couple of months.
The release date for How to Train Your Dragon was announced a month after Pixar moved Elio to June 13, 2025, and the latter studio has been so far quiet about any further adjustments. After already delaying the movie by 15 months, Pixar may be hesitant to push Elio back any further, especially since so much is riding on the sci-fi doing well at the box office. However, the news about the live-action How to Train Your Dragon is a great reason to take the risk and delay Elio by another couple of months, especially since 2024 is likely to begin an upward trend.
Since Elio was pushed to 2025, the only Pixar movie hitting theaters in 2024 is Inside Out 2, which will likely do well at the box office. The first movie managed an impressive $858 million globally in 2015, and the trailer for the sequel saw a record number of views on YouTube in the first 24 hours after it dropped. If Inside Out does well, it could mean the solution for Pixar's box office troubles. However, if Elio isn't delayed and is forced to compete with DreamWorks in June 2025, then the studio could be right back where it started.
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Adventure
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Release Date
June 13, 2025
Director
Adrian Molina
Cast
Yonas Kibreab , America Ferrera
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