“‘Moana’ could lose at least $100 million in theaters.” Does Disney need to rethink its live-action remakes?0

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• July 14, 2026

In “Moana,” the Polynesian heroine sings about the gravitational pull she feels upon returning to the water. Disney, the studio behind the 2016 live-action remake of the animated musical, might have done well to ignore the urge to return to the sea… at least this soon. Arriving a decade after the original and just two