CableCoShow t1_ix150vc wrote
Reply to comment by sgavary in Why do animated action shows need to sell tons of merch to stay afloat? Isn’t the ad revenue enough? by sgavary
A show or film that sells a lot of merch will dwarf the ad or box office revenue. Disney discovered this after Pixar had a few hits and they shifted their strategy to put out stuff that would sell merch. The box office from Pixar's biggest hit is like 1/10th or maybe even 1/100th of what they make in consumer products. That's why they only make Pixar, Disney Animation, Marvel, and Star Wars movies these days. Those films sell merch.
trialrun1 t1_ix2b72a wrote
You throw in merch sales, and Cars is the biggest Pixar movie of all time. It's not even close.
Marvel's Spider-man deal with Sony was basically them realizing that they made so much money on merchandise every time a Spider-Man movie came out that the actual prophet on the movie itself is kinda irrelevant. So Sony gets to keep Spider-man rights forever as long as they put out a Spider-Man movie every three years or something like that.
Bobby_Marks2 t1_ix2t70m wrote
>You throw in merch sales, and Cars is the biggest Pixar movie of all time. It's not even close.
trialrun1 t1_ix69g4g wrote
Last time I checked was pre Toy Story 4 so it's totally possible that Toy Story as a franchise has overtaken Cars. I know that each Toy Story has out grossed the previous one in terms of toy sales while I think it goes the other way for Cars and the first Cars movie might still be the highest grossing individual movie in terms of merch for the company.
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