What is the release window for ‘Elemental’ on Disney Plus?

Disney and Pixar are known for producing hits, and Elemental, their latest joint attempt, is set to follow this established trend.

Not every Disney/Pixar collaboration produces a winner, of course, but few releases from the animation pros flop. Even the less popular releases, like last year’s Lightyear, make fans of their most important audience members — kids — and provide joy with each rewatch.

No one really expects Elemental to be any different, despite an abysmal opening weekend, and it’s already making fans of many of its viewers. That poor box-office performance is almost certainly due to the competition the film faced, with both The Flash and The Blackening offering up steep opposition for ticket sales, along with the knowledge that it will eventually be available on Disney Plus. Still, audiences are loving the flick — providing it with a shining 92 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, alongside its 75 percent Tomatometer score — and they’ve got little but praise for Disney and Pixar’s latest venture into animation. Given the slew of highly-anticipated releases currently in theaters, and headed to theaters later this month, quite a few Pixar fans might miss Elemental on the big screen, but they won’t have a long wait before the flick arrives on streaming.

Elemental Disney Plus release window

Like most films that are still in theaters, Elemental has yet to receive a concrete streaming release date. The film officially arrived in U.S. theaters on June 16 (and globally on July 7), and it will likely slip onto streaming — on Disney Plus, of course — a few months later.

The typical Disney-adjacent release — yes, we’re including MCU and Star Wars flicks in that estimation — takes between one and three months to go from theatrical release to streaming release. With that in mind, audiences can expect Elemental to arrive on Disney Plus between the end of July and early September, though we’d be surprised to see the flick arrive later than mid-August. Films like this one tend to be on the shorter end of the estimation, with Lightyear taking around 45 days between theaters and streaming, as opposed to Quantumania‘s far longer 90-day wait.