Pixar cannot lose. If there were a way to hedge a bet on an entire studio, I’d want Pixar in my corner.
Toy Story 3 is one of the most anticipated movies of all time – with the first two in the series garnering critical acclaim, massive box-office receipts, and Oscar nominations. Can you imagine if someone pulled you aside decades ago and told you that there would one day be a movie where anthropomorphic toys would make everybody weep profusely and gross near a billion? Would you punch that person, and ask them to get away from you, or would you embrace them and their vision of a future where toys could make bank?
I would embrace them. And the man who greenlit Toy Story 3, because it managed to rake in more than 100 million dollars over the weekend, and be awesome. Specifically, 110.3 million dollars. It was Pixar’s biggest opening in history, the second highest opening for an animated feature (behind Shrek the Third) and that makes it 11 consecutive blockbusters for the company. 11. Consecutive. Blockbusters. No other contemporary movie studio has that kind of track record. When it comes to children’s films that translate well across all age brackets, Pixar is king.
And nobody is going to usurp that throne.
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