{"id":360827,"date":"2025-12-22T02:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360827\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T02:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:21:05","slug":"one-of-the-years-biggest-sci-fi-disappointments-is-also-tanking-on-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360827\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the Year\u2019s Biggest Sci-Fi Disappointments Is Also Tanking on Streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

In hindsight, the box office performance of Tron: Legacy<\/a> in 2010 doesn’t seem all that disappointing after all. The movie, directed by Joseph Kosinski<\/a> in his grand debut, was deemed unsuccessful upon release, even though it made $170 million domestically and more than $400 million worldwide. It was only after it emerged as a cult hit over the next decade that Disney decided to green-light a long-awaited third installment. But, instead of continuing the story introduced in Tron: Legacy, the studio went about soft-rebooting the franchise for the second time with Tron: Ares<\/a>. The movie emerged as one of the biggest box office bombs of the year. It recently debuted on PVOD platforms, where, after a burst of success initially, it has been in a free-fall. According to FlixPatrol, it’s on the verge of dropping out of the Apple TV charts entirely.<\/p>\n

Starring Jared Leto<\/a>, whose box office struggles have been well documented, the movie also featured Greta Lee<\/a> and brought back Jeff Bridges<\/a> as Kevin Flynn. Tron: Ares was directed by Joachim R\u00f8nning<\/a>, who had previously worked with Disney on the big-budget sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales<\/a> and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil<\/a>. Those movies did considerably well, which perhaps prompted the studio to trust R\u00f8nning with re-launching the Tron series.<\/p>\n

The new movie didn’t bring back the now-retired French electronic music duo Daft Punk to compose the score, which was one of the highlights of Tron: Legacy. The musical responsibilities, instead, were given to The Social Network<\/a>‘s Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross<\/a>, who chose to work under the admittedly exciting Nine Inch Nails name for the project. While their score was acclaimed, the movie itself received mixed reviews. It’s now sitting at a 53% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “A sensory feast of vivid neon hues and a hypnotic soundtrack, Tron: Ares is gorgeous to behold but too narratively programmatic to achieve an authentically human dimension.”<\/p>\n

Disney Is Staging a Major Comeback<\/p>\n

The film’s cinematography was overseen by another past David Fincher<\/a> collaborator, Jeff Cronenweth, who also received praise. However, the movie made just around $140 million worldwide against a reported budget of $220 million. It was the final movie in a streak of Disney underperformers this year that also included Captain America: Brave New World<\/a>, Thunderbolts*<\/a>, Snow White<\/a>, Elio<\/a>, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a>. The streak ended with Zootopia 2<\/a>, which has grossed over $1 billion worldwide. The positive momentum will likely continue with this week’s Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.<\/p>\n

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Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 8, 2025<\/p>\n

Runtime<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t119 minutes<\/p>\n

Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoachim R\u00f8nning<\/p>\n

Writers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJesse Wigutow, Steven Lisberger, Bonnie MacBird, Joachim R\u00f8nning<\/a>, David DiGilio<\/p>\n

Producers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJared Leto<\/a>, Jeffrey Silver, Sean Bailey, Steven Lisberger, Emma Ludbrook, Justin Springer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In hindsight, the box office performance of Tron: Legacy in 2010 doesn’t seem all that disappointing after all.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-360827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}