Pixar's LIGHTYEAR starring Chris Evans (2022) 1 1

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On 10/27/2021 at 6:48 AM, Bosco685 said:

 

Looks interesting and perhaps a bit more adult than the Toy Story movies. And of course one of my favorite David Bowie songs in the background only enhances the appeal. 

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"To Infinity and Beyond!"

Me and my boys are all in on this one.

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I may have to see this in theaters.

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First early review I've seen.

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old enough to remember when a Pixar movie was highly anticipated and most often great

Lightyear

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On 6/13/2022 at 6:54 PM, Buzzetta said:

Forget about what Chris Evans said... here is how the creators of "Lightyear" view this movie and how it fits into the Toy Story franchise. 

Evans said that this is the real life Buzz Lightyear that the toy is based on...  

That would create a LOT of interesting issues. 

Here is what the creators say:

https://www.slashfilm.com/832759/how-lightyear-fits-into-the-toy-story-timeline/#:~:text=So 70s%2C 80s%2C early 90s,would win generations of fans.

 

So the animated movie the toy was based on?

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Infinity isn’t a practical milestone at the box office, so Disney’s “Lightyear” will have to settle for a $20.5 million opening day and beyond.

 

Pixar’s spinoff of its “Toy Story” franchise blasted off on Thursday night with a respectable $5.2 million from preview screenings. However, the film is now tracking to come in below initial expectations, which initially pegged the film for a debut between $70 million and $80 million from 4,255 theaters in North America. What’s more, “Lightyear” is struggling to unseat Universal’s “Jurassic World Dominion” from the top slot on domestic charts during the dino-sequel’s sophomore weekend.

 

There’s certainly winning ways to look at the “Lightyear” opening, as its projected $52 million opening would quite easily mark the highest debut for an animated movie since the onset of the pandemic in North America. Family audiences have been somewhat skittish to return to the big screen as multiplexes have reopened, which had led Disney to rethink its release strategy, opting out of theatrical runs for Pixar’s subsequent three animated features — “Soul,” “Luca” and “Turning Red” — and instead debuting them directly on the company’s streamer Disney+ to bolster subscriptions. After spending more than two years away from theaters, a $52 million opening would show that Pixar still has a place on the big screen.

 

However, it’s not difficult to imagine that Disney was looking to make a bigger splash with “Lightyear.” The spin-off may not even net half of the $120.9 million opening of 2019’s “Toy Story 4,” even though the sci-fi film is a spinoff of Pixar’s crown jewel franchise.

 

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On 6/18/2022 at 8:29 AM, Bosco685 said:

 

disaster

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Wow!

Not sure I remember a movie leading to theaters having to post something like this with a NO REFUND disclaimer.

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Disney created its own Rosetta Stone for Pixar audiences.

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On 6/18/2022 at 12:11 PM, Bosco685 said:

Wow!

Not sure I remember a movie leading to theaters having to post something like this with a NO REFUND disclaimer.

This was a joke based off of the note The Avon Theatre posted when Tree of Life was released.

It was a deep cut joke and I wouldn’t have known unless I viewed the following tweets by the author. 

 

Edited June 19, 2022 by awakeintheashes

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So no one's blaming "covid" (yet) for this latest Disney flop?

Good.  So we can all finally agree that "pandemic era" in movies is a dead and buried term (ie, excuse) for a movie nobody cares about doing badly.   

-J.

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exploded during lift-off

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In a surprise twist, Pixar and Disney’s new movie Lightyear lost Father’s Day weekend to holdover Jurassic World Dominion at the domestic box office.

 

This is the first time in the pandemic that there’s been three major Hollywood tentpoles doing solid-to-great business (Top Gun: Maverick is the third). As a result, overall domestic revenue hit an estimated $166 million, which is down only 18 percent from 2019 (usually, that gap has been much bigger). However, it isn’t clear whether the box office chart has recovered enough to support so much product.

 

Lightyear was expected to top the chart with a $70 million to $85 million opening. Instead, the Toy Story spinoff buzzed to a disappointing $51 million from 4,255 theaters. While that’s a solid number for the COVID-19 era — as well as the biggest opening of the pandemic for an animated family film — Lightyear‘s start is nevertheless a disappointment considering it carries the storied Pixar logo.