It forces the Mouse House to make original high quality animated features. That's one reason I actually like Walt Disney's live-action fairy tale theater franchise. After 2019, they kinda have to make some more originals, if only to have original hits to make sequels from in the first place. So even if Pixar has gone a little sequel-happy since 2010, which again may just be a matter of not being indirectly penalized for sequels as they were prior to the 2006 deal, they've somewhat run out of movies to sequel-ize. Yes, I suppose you could do Coco 2, The Incredibles 3 or Toy Story 4,516 somewhere down the line. Yet, Cars 3 arguably ended that franchise (give or take a Cruz Ramirez spin-off) and Ratatouille 2 isn't exactly anyone's top priority (great movie, strong overseas figures, but piss-poor merchandise sales). But here's the thing: After that, what else is there left to sequel-ize? Call me crazy, but I don't think the world is clamoring for sequels to Brave, A Bug's Life or The Good Dinosaur, while the likes of Up and Wall-E are not exactly sequel-friendly. Now that balance is going to get shifted in the next few years, as next summer brings The Incredibles 2 and the summer after that brings Toy Story 4. Since 2010, we've had five sequels ( Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Monsters University, Finding Dory and Cars 3) and four originals ( Brave, Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur and Coco). Yes, we've had more sequels since 2010 ( partially because the initial Pixar/Disney deal didn't count sequels as part of the required films), but we've also had about as many non-sequels. Yet, the studio has essentially been doing what it has always done. ![]() ![]() The media has been crowing about Pixar having lost its mojo since being bought outright by Disney back in 2006, and especially since Cars 2 became the first Pixar release to get majority negative reviews. Of note, it's the second Pixar original in just two years to get rave reviews and rock-solid box office.
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