Musical Animated Feature ‘Wish’ Garners 13.2M Views In First 5 Days On Disney+

Matt Grobar
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Disney revealed on Monday that its musical animated feature Wish, starring Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) and Chris Pine (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) garnered 13.2 million views globally in its first five days streaming on Disney+.

This amounts to the third biggest premiere on the service, behind those of Encanto and Frozen 2, with a view being defined as total stream time divided by runtime.

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Earlier this year securing a Golden Globe nomination for Best Animated Feature, Wish takes place in the magical kingdom of Rosas, where Asha (DeBose), a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force — a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe — the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico (Chris Pine) — to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.

Also starring Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama, Harvey Guillén, Evan Peters, Ramy Youssef and Jon Rudnitsky, the film is directed by Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn, who worked from a script by Disney Animation chief Jennifer Lee and Allison Moore. Peter Del Vecho and Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster Jones produced the film, with Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice providing its original songs, and Dave Metzger penning its original score.

While Disney had high hopes for Wish, a title tied to the studio’s centennial, the film wound up disappointing critically and commercially, even as it grossed over $253 million worldwide. Up next for the studio’s animation division is Moana 2, which sets sail on November 27th.

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