6 Lessons Pixar Can Learn From Elemental's Massive Streaming Success

Elemental has become a Disney+ sensation.

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Elemental struggled at the box office, but the Pixar movie has become a huge hit on Disney+, and there are a lot of lessons the studio can learn from its success. The 2023 movie follows a series of frustrations at Pixar, as the studio's last release, Lightyear, completely bombed at the box office despite being part of a multi-billion-dollar franchise.

Elemental's box office was heavily reported for two months, and a lot of bold claims were made about whether Pixar is still the gold standard of animation. Now that Elemental has been streamed 26.4 million times, those claims have been nullified. The only issue is that, while 26.4 million is a high number of streams, that doesn't make money for Pixar or Disney in the same way theatrical ticket sales do.

4 Pixar Shouldn't Just Focus On Sequels In The Future Following the golden age of Pixar in the 2000s with extremely original movies, the studio has been leaning heavily on sequels, prequels, and spinoffs in the past decade with movies like Monsters University, Cars 3, and Lightyear. That's because sequels have a guaranteed audience, and they're less of a risk for the studio.

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