It’s been a mixed summer at the box office in 2023, because while movies like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Barbie and Oppenheimer have been crushing it, others, like The Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, have either been underwhelming or outright bombing. Falling somewhere in the middle is Elemental, because while it hasn’t really made a box office splash, it did recently cross $400 million worldwide, which is hardly unremarkable. Now Pixar president Jim Morris has shared how bullish he is that Elemental won’t flop after all.
Morris discussed the latest Pixar release’s commercial performance in an interview with Variety. Elemental has certainly been well received critically, which includes CinemaBlend’s own Dirk Libbey rating it 4 out of 5 stars in his review, but when the executive was asked whether the movie will be profitable, he answered:
