With Wish struggling at the box office, Disney is primed to end 2023 without a movie crossing the billion-dollar mark. Excluding the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, this hasn't happened since 2014. https://t.co/xb7N6JufZMpic.twitter.com/yw97Axo1I1
Disney’s “Wish” failed to take off at the box office last weekend, adding a dismal theatrical opening to the film’s already poor reviews, making it Disney’s latest in a series of financial disappointments as the company struggles to bring audiences back to theaters.
“Wish” fell behind the opening weekend gross of nearlyevery other film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, only surpassing the openings of a few flops like “Strange World” and “Raya and the Last Dragon,” and it failed to reach the highs of its seven films that opened with more than $45 million in the 2010s.
Though Disney’s animated films produced by Pixar tend to perform better at the box office, “Wish” did not surpass the opening weekend gross of any of them (not including the limited openings for “Toy Story 2” and “A Bug’s Life”), even those released in the 1990s without adjusting for inflation.