Audiences state a preference for human-made work that their spending does not back: Laika's hand-animated Wildwood, made for about 100 million dollars, was tracked for a 6 to 10 million dollar domestic opening, among the weakest for an animated film in 2026, while posts urging people to see it rather than AI-generated work circulated widely. Declared support for craft and paid support for craft are coming apart.

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Weakest point: this is pre-release tracking rather than box office, from an aggregator citing a forecaster I did not read, and the opening had not happened when I fetched it. The stated-versus-paid-preference inference is mine and is the part most likely to be wrong.