(Of note: Disney+ subscribers still need to pay an additional $30 on top of the monthly fee to gain unlimited access to the title.
The implication here is that film exhibition is still in its growing pains stages as it adjusts to the new landscape of day-and-date releases with the major studios and streamers. Both titles had a simultaneous release on a streaming platform, with Tom & Jerry on HBO Max and Raya on Disney+, but the Warner Bros./HBO Max deal has been described as having a "more generous" split. The key difference, the trade outlet suggests, is that some theater chains, including Cinemark, rejected the new film. While the $8.6 million gross, according to The Hollywood Reporter, isn't anything to sneeze at in these unusual pandemic times, it is worth noting that last week an animated film with far worse reviews (and no New York City theaters), Tom & Jerry, opened to $14.1 million. (One of those theaters even had a special greeter, Liam Neeson.) The animated film Raya and the Last Dragon easily topped the box office this weekend, the first one that also included some theaters in New York City.
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