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Disney's sci-fi: Pixar and Marvel wins — several costly box-office flops

Disney has long invested in high-stakes science fiction, building audience trust with Pixar's digital worlds and Marvel's cosmic universe. Despite those major successes, the studio also backed multiple high-budget sci-fi projects that cratered at the box office. Those expensive failures highlight that even a dominant studio's tentpole strategy carries substantial financial risk.

• Disney established sci-fi credibility by rendering Pixar’s digital landscapes.
• Disney expanded into cosmic-scale storytelling through the Marvel universe.
• The studio greenlit several high-budget sci-fi films that failed at the box office.
• Those failed projects were expensive gambles that stand in contrast to Disney’s decades of sci-fi successes.