Why.

Seeing the comments here, I’m reposting what I said in the !trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone community earlier today:

Look at the last 5 original properties released by Walt Disney Animation (not Pixar)…

• Wish (2023, budget $200M, box office $255M) (+$55M)
• Strange World (2022, budget $180M, box office $74M) (-$106M)
• Encanto (2021, budget $150M, box office $261M) (+$111M)
• Raya and the Last Dragon (2021, budget $100M, box office $130M) (+$30M)
• Moana (2016, budget $175M, box office $672M) (+$497M)

…versus the last 5 live-ish-action re-hashes of existing properties…

• Lilo & Stitch (2025, budget $100M, box office $1038M) (+$938M)
• Snow White (2025, budget $270M, box office $206M) (-$64M)
• Mufasa: The Lion King (2024, budget $200M, box office $723M) (+$523M)
• The Little Mermaid (2023, budget $240M, box office $570M) (+$330M)
• Cruella (2021, budget $100M, box office $234M) (+$134M)

You and I might hate them, but they’re a better financial bet. There is, literally, no accounting for good taste (at least in the short term).

Disney hasn’t abandoned the development of new animated film properties (Hexed in 2026, Gatto in 2027). They know that it’s wise to keep building from scratch, if only to uncover new gems that can then be rehashed for even more money later.

Also, one of the primary reasons I spend so much effort maintaining the content of [the trailers] community is to help uncover new movies that may have otherwise slipped under someone’s radar. If you want new animated films, you don’t have to rely on the mouse house.

• Arco
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
• A Magnificent Life
• Decorado (Scenery)

Just… why?

The animated one is barely 10 years old, and they just came out with a sequel to that one.

This is just ridiculous.

I hope this is a commercial failure for a variety of reasons. Fuck Disney.

I already saw this film like 5 years ago, pass.

More evidence this is just Disney extending their IP rights