10 Upcoming Movies That Are Already Doomed
4. Ice Age: Boiling Point
Because Hollywood just can't let a played-out idea go, of course there's a new Ice Age movie on the way.
The hit animated franchise has put out five theatrically released movies to date, which have collectively grossed an astonishing $3.2 billion worldwide, so it's easy to see why Disney wants to see if they can make financial fetch happen once again.
Yet the series' box office peaked with 2009's Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ($886.7 million), and the most recent theatrical offering, 2016's Ice Age: Collision Course, grossed just $408.6 million - only a hair more than the original film made in 2002.
Between this and the fact that each sequel has been worse-reviewed than the one before it, it's easy to suggest that Ice Age has run out of creative and commercial juice as an IP.
This was bolstered by Disney shutting down the series' animation outfit, Blue Sky Studios, in 2021, after which they produced a widely panned direct-to-Disney+ film, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, by outsourcing the animation work to another studio.
That felt like the natural end of Ice Age, then, but of course Disney is pressing on with a sixth theatrical effort, Ice Age: Boiling Point, which feels like one of Hollywood's most egregious recent example of flogging a dead horse.
Between all this and how families have been trained to wait for streaming since the pandemic, it seems highly likely that the new Ice Age will be yet another nail hammered in the series' musty coffin.