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CultureToy Story 5 passed $879 million. Two Pixar originals barely returned their budgets. That is the ledger.
Elio finished at $154 million on a reported $150 million production budget. Hoppers reached $389 million on the same. Toy Story 5 opened to a franchise-record $312 million.
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CultureRick and Morty marketed Season 9 as 'No AI slop.' That is a position.
The Season 9 tagline names AI-generated animation as the thing the show is not. That is rarer than it looks in 2026, and the implications are interesting whether you read it as principle or as positioning.
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CultureGravity Falls ended in 2016. It has been continuing ever since.
The finale aired on Disney XD ten years ago. Since then Gravity Falls has produced three New York Times bestsellers, an international scavenger hunt, a decade of ciphers, and a franchise in continuation talks.
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