‘WISH’FUL THINKING: Disney’s Latest Woke Movie BOMBS at the Box Office

Disney’s latest animated film ‘Wish’ bombed at the Box Office in recent days, generating just $31 million during its opening weekend.

The movie cost $200 million to produce.

Disney’s ‘WISH’ underperforms on its opening weekend at the domestic box office.

The movie was tracking to open with +$40M but ended up only earning $31M.

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— The Hollywood Handle (@HollywoodHandle) November 26, 2023

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/xb7N6JufZM pic.twitter.com/yw97Axo1I1

— IGN (@IGN) November 28, 2023

From Forbes Magazine:

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.