Box Office: ‘Zootopia 2’ Returns to No. 1 as ‘Ella McCay’ Suffers One of Worst Debuts Ever for Disney With $2 Million

https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/zootopia-2-box-office-ella-mccay-flops-1236608380/

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LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 267d (1 reply)

Disney movie defeats Disney movie for top spot, while Disney movie underperforms.

With all the mergers recently, almost every theatrical movie is going to be a Disney movie soon.

jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 251d

Independent and smaller scale cinema isn't going anywhere. It's not going to make headlines though. Disney sucks all the oxygen in the press room.

rei@piefed.social · 7 pts · 267d (1 reply)

I hadn't even heard of Ella McCay until seeing this very post, so maybe the problem is that no one knows it exists.

Same thing happened with Strange World; I hadn't heard of it until after news came out about how bad it bombed.

TheImpressiveX@piefed.social · 2 pts · 266d

I hadn’t even heard of Ella McCay until seeing this very post

Based on the reviews it's getting, I think you're better off not knowing.

IWW4@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 267d (1 reply)

So a throw away movie that everyone expected to flop, flopped.

jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 251d

Just so execs can say "see?? You only want live actions, reboots and sequels!" without putting any effort at all in alternatives.