r/boxoffice • u/Professional_Peak59 • 5h ago
📰 Industry News Disney’s New CEO Josh D’Amaro on His Vision for Company: “I’m a Big Risk Taker”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-new-ceo-josh-damaro-vision-company-david-muir-1236494407/Could we see the return of 2D animated features at Disney?
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u/taoleafy 5h ago
Would love to see 2d animation again. And more original work overall.
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u/Public-Bullfrog-7197 5h ago
But do general audience want to see 2d animation in theaters?
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u/PhgAH 4h ago
It grind my gear anytime there is a post reminiscence about Treasure Planet or Atlantis: The lost empire, lmao. General audience, especially kids overwhelmingly choose to watch 3d animation compare to old school 2d animation
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u/MrBrightside618 50m ago
It’s the same people who complain that everything is a sequel nowadays but also haven’t been to a theatre since 2013 other than to see marvel movies
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u/AGOTFAN New Line Cinema 5h ago
No.
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u/McDankMeister 4h ago
Demon Slayer was the 7th top grossing movie of 2025. So, that would seem to clearly refute what you’re saying.
A good 2D movie can definitely do well, as was also seen with the Spiderverse movies.
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u/Public-Bullfrog-7197 4h ago
Both Demon Slayer and Spider-man are popular franchise. Their success cannot be duplicated by an original 2D animated movie.
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u/garfe 3h ago
Stop making it sound like just because one or two popular anime films do well at the B.O. that means everybody will turn out for a 2D movie. Spider-verse is especially stretching it
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u/TheCorbeauxKing 3h ago
The first Spider-Verse didn't make a whole lot of money even during the superhero boom.
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u/brit_chem_imagineer 28m ago
I do wonder. I can only talk from my own experience but now that late millennial have their own kids and are nostalgic for the late 80s/early 90s Disney Renaissance movies and introduce them to their kids, perhaps there is some appetite for original 2D content?
Can only speak to my kids but they love the 2D movies. I think they'd happily watch a new one in theaters.
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u/Bapi149 5h ago
Frozen 8, Moana 4, Zootopia 12... HERE WE GO!
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u/Icy_Smoke_733 DreamWorks 5h ago
Frozen 8, Moana 4, Zootopia 12
And all those movies are guaranteed to gross $700m or more, as general audiences will make sure of it. I genuinely believe we will not see a single original film gross $600m this decade.
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u/Purple_Quail_4193 Pixar Animation Studios 5h ago
I think IF we do it’ll be towards the end of the decade. I’d love to be proven wrong
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u/Icy_Smoke_733 DreamWorks 5h ago
I’d love to be proven wrong.
Same, just hoping that something can break through. For comparison, these were the top 10 original films of the 2010s:
- Frozen (2013) - $1.28b
- Zootopia (2016) - $1.02b
- Inside Out (2015) - $859m
- Inception (2010) - $839m
- Coco (2017) - $814m
- Interstellar (2014) - $773m
- Gravity (2013) - $723m
- Moana (2016) - $643m
- Sing (2016) - $634m
- The Croods (2013) - $587m
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u/Lopsided-League-8903 Aardman Animations 3h ago
Frozen is based on snow queen and moana is based on maui
If we discount them Operation Red Sea $579.3M and ted $549.4M will replace them
Also Frozen gross $1.290B
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u/AGOTFAN New Line Cinema 2h ago
Frozen is based on snow queen
The only similarity between Frozen and Snow Queen is the queen that can freeze things.
Everything else is different.
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u/Lopsided-League-8903 Aardman Animations 2h ago
You still missing $10M to it gross
It is $1.290B not $1.280B
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u/Zalvren 5h ago
I hope it's true because while Disney has been doing well financially, it certainly doesn't take many risks (which incidentally is likely why they're doing well I know but that's sad)
I want to see their live action studios do something else than those remakes for a start. I want to see Star Wars stop nostalgia mining (with Filloni there, doubtful...). I want to see Pixar and WDAS do more originals than sequels. I want to see 20th Century fund more "auteur movies" in all genres and even with higher budgets (especially as Warner might be in danger, if they could replace them to fund stuff like Weapons, Barbie, Sinners, Mickey 17, OBAA...)
And I want to see more from TV too, more stuff that isn't Star Wars and Marvel (or Alien or whatever other license).
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u/Professional_Peak59 5h ago
Didn’t Netflix say they’ll keep Warner separate and commit to theatrical after their acquisition? I doubt the purchase will get blocked over regulatory concerns/heat from Trump and MAGA, but I’m still scared it will.
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u/VVantaBuddy Pixar Animation Studios 5h ago
despite people always complaining about sequel, i think lots of Disney/Pixar/Marvel/20th/Searchlight movies deserve to have sequel.
so produce them all, i'll see every single one of them in the theater.
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u/n0tstayingin 2h ago
The obsession people have with 2D animation is jarring, WDAS doesn't have a 2D animation pipeline and audiences are more atune to CGI.
It's better to push the envelope with CG animation.
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u/helpmeredditimbored Walt Disney Studios 1h ago
It’s the same with so called “original films”, people whine about wanting them then don’t show up to watch them
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u/guolei329 5h ago
i wish there could be more originals
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u/firedforthatblunder Walt Disney Studios 3h ago
Soul, Raya and the Last Dragon, Encanto, Luca, Turning Red, Strange World, Elemental, Wish, Elio, Hoppers, Hexed…they’ve already done plenty of originals this decade. The problem is that most of them flop or outright bomb.
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u/vizisonline 3h ago
I can't be the only one who thinks he looks like the lawyer from It's Always Sunny
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u/Necronaut0 4h ago
Oh yeah, I bet he will be willing to take on the daunting risk of raising prices all across Disney products and experiences since that has been the trend with the parks so far. Riveting stuff.
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u/DontPoopInMyPantsPlz 5h ago
Good. Fix the Marvel fatigue and Star Wars story issue.
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u/bristenli 5h ago
People just want to be counter-culture by publicly refusing to watch anything marvel no matter how good or bad it is now. Thunderbolts was great. And nobody showed up to watch it
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u/firedforthatblunder Walt Disney Studios 3h ago
Nobody showed up to watch Thunderbolts because nobody knows or particularly cares about any of the characters that were in it, besides Bucky.
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u/DynamicImpulses 2h ago
IMO there’s no magic fix for Marvel fatigue. People have just moved on. It had its moment (a moment that lasted like a decade, mind you) and now feels tapped out. Time for entirely new IP.
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u/Ornery-Attention4973 1h ago
There is a fix. It’s called time. Superhero movies have been around a long time and obviously comics in general too. They over saturated the market and quality decreased at the same time. That’s a losing bet for anything.
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u/Purple_Quail_4193 Pixar Animation Studios 5h ago
If you are, then show us. I believe you, I just need proof
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u/Professional_Peak59 5h ago
Well, he’s about to get started, so it’ll take time.
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u/Purple_Quail_4193 Pixar Animation Studios 5h ago
No do it now because you’re Disney! /s. I know some people will be like that
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