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Disney/Pixar’s ‘Elio’ Is a Flop But Original Queer-Coded Version of the Film Would Have Done Much Worse
twitchy ^ | July 01, 2025 | Warren Squire

Posted on 07/01/2025 6:35:04 AM PDT by Red Badger

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello The latest Disney/Pixar animated film, 'Elio', has a dubious distinction. It has the worst opening weekend ever for a Pixar film, making only $21 million domestically and $14 million overseas. This is against a budget reportedly ranging from $150 million to $300 million. Yikes! Would you believe us if we told you things could have been even worse at the box office? Before some major changes, the 11-year-old title character was going to be gay ('queer-coded') and, for fun, put on fashion shows with clothing made out of trash he found on the beach. Oh, and he had a boy-crush. No really!

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See new posts Conversation DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm Pixar massively changed ‘ELIO’ after the original cut was test screened & not a single person raised their hand when asked if they’d pay to see the film in a movie theater

Elio was also initially a queer-coded character until leadership told them to make him more masculine

(Source: https://hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/elio-pixar-america-ferrera-director-queer-2-1236301860/)

You’re probably asking how the original pitch for the movie was approved. No sane person would ever think that’s something that would appeal to mainstream families.

Posters say the answer is clear - the studio 'talent' isn’t making movies for mass audiences, they’re making movies for themselves and about themselves.

More gay wouldn’t have saved the film.

Many posters have a simple solution that will prevent this from happening in the future.

They could have canned the film while it was in its original form or skipped the theatrical release on the reworked version and sent it straight to Disney+. Now, they have to deal with the huge financial loss of putting it in theaters and the embarrassment of it being a colossal flop.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: childabuse; disney; elio; failio; genderdysphoria; grooming; homosexualagenda; movies; namblamovie; pixar; queers

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1 posted on 07/01/2025 6:35:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Well I was going to take my kid to this movie last weekend but we went to see the Minecraft movie (again). Looks like we didn’t miss anything.


2 posted on 07/01/2025 6:39:39 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Red Badger

Still waiting for the Disney shareholders to get tired of the hemorrhaging that Disney’s wokeness is costing


3 posted on 07/01/2025 6:39:47 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Posters say the answer is clear - the studio 'talent' isn’t making movies for mass audiences, they’re making movies for themselves and about themselves.
4 posted on 07/01/2025 6:42:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Is anyone else as sick and tired of the alphabet mafia garbage propaganda in entertainment as I am?!


5 posted on 07/01/2025 6:42:43 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger

That’s true.


6 posted on 07/01/2025 6:42:56 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: j.havenfarm

They are powerless................


7 posted on 07/01/2025 6:43:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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8 posted on 07/01/2025 6:44:36 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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I posted earlier on another thread about ‘Brand Collapses’ since 2000.

I may soon need to add ‘Disney’ and ‘Pixar’ to the list...............


9 posted on 07/01/2025 6:44:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: packagingguy

Did you have to wear garbage bags to protect yourself from food flinging?


10 posted on 07/01/2025 6:45:28 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger

It’s a real shame what Disney has done to Pixar - there was a time when it was exciting to see Pixar’s releases. Cutting edge computer animation (I knew a couple of guys who worked up there) and great, watchable scripts (Toy Story, Wall-E). There’s nothing the Left’s wokism can’t ruin.


11 posted on 07/01/2025 6:46:58 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Disney must continue to do this until they go out of business.


12 posted on 07/01/2025 6:47:11 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Red Badger

Is it any wonder that children are jumping off their cruise ships?


13 posted on 07/01/2025 6:48:11 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Red Badger

First picture: two fags

Second picture: A computer animation of a faggoty boy posing like a snotty little girl.

Bharf!!!


14 posted on 07/01/2025 6:50:22 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

Disney could have 100s of flops, and it would still survive as a company. So much money, and so much revenue from their legacy (older) products.


15 posted on 07/01/2025 6:53:36 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

16 posted on 07/01/2025 7:09:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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Walt is rolling in his grave now.

And Lucas films is just as bad:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QwXvxGsKeFo


17 posted on 07/01/2025 7:09:43 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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Now, they have to deal with the huge financial loss of putting it in theaters and the embarrassment of it being a colossal flop.

Apparently at Disney after Snow White snd now Elio, there is neither embarrassment at colossal flops nor accountability for them.

18 posted on 07/01/2025 7:13:00 AM PDT by Dahoser (Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High.)
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To: j.havenfarm

That would be Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street, Morgan Stanley and Iger, being the largest share holders. And they must not mind losing hundreds and hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars to push their social agenda. In any case as long as millions of idiots are willing to cough up billions of dollars at the parks for admission and overpriced food, drink and crappy souvenirs it’s not gonna stop.


19 posted on 07/01/2025 7:14:10 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

They ran the creative guy out with metoo allegations and have flailed ever since.


20 posted on 07/01/2025 7:16:45 AM PDT by Rastus
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