Disney and Pixar’s “Elemental” just keeps continuing its stellar box-office comeback story. After debuting to the second-worst domestic opening weekend for a Pixar film ever with $29.6 million, the once dubbed ‘flop’ has seen a big turn around in its fortunes.
Weeks on, the film has hanged in there with very strong legs in the over two months since its release. Now, Slashfilm reports the film has become the biggest original film of the entire pandemic era.
With the the latest box office totals in, “Elemental” has taken in $469.5 worldwide. This officially puts the film above Pixar’s own 2006 entry “Cars” ($462 million worldwide) and the original 1995 “Toy Story” ($394 million worldwide).
Thanks to its substantial $200 million budget, it’s not clear what the profitability on the film will be. The movie is already out on PVOD services which should yield a very tidy sum for Disney.
The story of the film unfolds in Element City, where a host of elements (air, earth, water and fire) live and work. Ember is a quick-witted and fiery woman who has always stayed close to home in Firetown.
Here she finally ventures out of her comfort zone to explore this world. She soon meets a go-with-the-flow guy named Wade who are about to discover something elemental: How much they actually have in common.
