One year later Elementarythe studio Pixar returns with a highly anticipated new animated film: Vice versa 2. Released in the United States on June 14, the film has just broken a historic record.
Pixar breaks the house with Vice Versa 2
After having long been the studio that revolutionized American animated cinema, Pixar is making its long journey through the desert – albeit a paradoxical one. Indeed, despite the fact that since Covid-19, Pixar has continued to produce high-quality films (Drunk, Lucas, Red alert), the studio at the lantern has never been so much a prisoner of the catastrophic decisions of the parent company : Disney.
Indeed, not only did Disney take responsibility for depriving several Pixar films of a theatrical release to distribute them exclusively on Disney+ in order to increase subscriber interest in the platform, but the big-eared company also sabotaged the distribution ofElementaryand announced several waves of layoffs within the ranks of Pixar.
Also, the upcoming release in France of Vice versa 2sequel to the 2015 classic directed by Pete Docter – now artistic director of Pixar since the departure of John Lasseter -, appears to be an event capable of shaking up the recent history of the American studio. It must be said that the first film was a huge success, with almost 900 million in revenue (representing a profitability rate of 490%) and an Oscar for best animated film won under the nose of Memories of Marnie by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, produced by Studio Ghibli.
We can therefore expect great success for Pixar. What the first American figures seem to confirm: in fact, by winning 295 million dollars for its first weekend, Vice versa 2 breaks record for biggest opening weekend for an animated film of all time worldwide. It also breaks the record for the biggest opening weekend for a 2024 film. Figures certainly herald a great career at the box office. A deserved success, which could well reinforce Pete Docter’s desire to continue to capitalize on Pixar’s biggest successesin accordance with the report published on the site Bloomberg.
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