Last June, Pixar released a movie called Elio. It cost $150 million to make and earned $35 million on opening weekend, the worst debut in the studio's 30-year history. A year earlier, the sequel Inside Out 2 made $1.69 billion. Toy Story 5 was greenlit between those two numbers.Every original movie Pixar has released since the pandemic has lost money or skipped theaters. Onward opened in March 2020 and earned $141 million worldwide. The pandemic shut theaters down days after release. Soul, Luca,