{"id":2064355,"date":"2025-10-02T13:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2064355"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:26:05","slug":"tron-ares-is-a-giant-box-office-gamble-for-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tron-ares-is-a-giant-box-office-gamble-for-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Tron: Ares Is A Giant Box Office Gamble For Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Disney has had a bit of an up-and-down year at the box office. They’ve had incredibly high highs with “Lilo & Stitch” making $1 billion earlier this summer<\/a>. They’ve also had incredibly low lows, with “Snow White” serving as one of the biggest bombs of 2025<\/a>. The studio’s next big movie, the long-awaited “Tron: Ares,” truly feels like it could go either way. The question is, will this gamble pay off? Or will this franchise expansion prove to be a grave miscalculation?<\/p>\n

Directed by Joachim R\u00f8nning (“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”), “Tron: Ares” is currently expected to pull in between $42 and $55 million when it opens next weekend domestically, per Box Office Theory<\/a>. Those estimates are right in line with earlier tracking, which had Disney’s latest entry in the “Tron” series pulling in around $44 million, per Deadline<\/a>. Those numbers suggest that this might turn into a “time is a flat circle” moment for the Mouse House.<\/p>\n

2010’s “Tron: Legacy” opened to $44 million in the U.S. before going on to make just over $400 million worldwide<\/a> against a reported $170 million budget. While the budget for “Ares” has yet to be revealed, it’s tough to make a movie on this scale with a big cast for less these days. And, even though “Tron: Legacy” was widely viewed as a disappointment at the time of its release, Disney is now looking at an almost identical opening weekend for this new sequel.<\/p>\n

The film centers on a highly sophisticated program, Ares (Jared Leto), who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings. The cast also includes Greta Lee (“Past Lives”), Evan Peters (“American Horror Story”), Hasan Minhaj (“It Ends With Us”), Jodie Turner-Smith (“After Yang”), Arturo Castro (“The Menu”), Cameron Monaghan (“Gotham”), Gillian Anderson (“Sex Education”), and Jeff Bridges, reprising his role as Flynn from the original “Tron.”<\/p>\n

Read more: The 15 Best Dystopian Novels Of All Time, Ranked<\/a><\/p>\n

Can Tron: Ares finally turn this into the blockbuster franchise Disney wants?<\/h2>\n
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