Ice Age is a childhood marvel that many of us have seen, but it hasn't been released in six years since the last one was released in 2016. One of the biggest pieces of bad news for Ice Age fans is that Blue Sky Studios, the studio that made Ice Age, announced its dissolution and launched its own farewell video. Does the dissolution of Blue Sky Studio mean that there is no sequel to Ice Age? The odds are like this. Let's analyze it in detail, as follows:
Blue Sky Studio has been down for three years
Blue Sky Studio's last feature-length film was "Becoming a Secret Agent" released in 2019, and it has been three years since then. For an animation studio that hasn't launched a new work for three years, it's actually dead in name only. There are two reasons for the poor management of Blue Sky Studio, the new IP is not powerful + the epidemic is hit. First of all, its "Becoming Agent" launched in 2019, although it has Wilsmith, a big bull, joined, but the box office does not exceed 200 million US dollars.
The box office of "Becoming a Secret Agent" directly led to the embarrassment of Blue Sky Studio, because the last movie "Ice Age 5" only had a global box office of more than 300 million US dollars, while "Ice Age 4" box office was as high as 877 million, in other words, "Ice Age" This ace IP has also appeared Waterloo, before and after the two box office fell more than half a billion, more than three billion yuan. The old IP is sluggish and the new IP has not risen, and the situation of Blue Sky Studio is immediately embarrassing, although it has a history of thirty-four years of animation, but it is a joke to talk about history in front of the box office.
The most tragic point of Blue Sky Studio is the epidemic, due to the epidemic, the global box office has shrunk sharply, and it was only slightly warmed up until last year and 2021. But in 2021, Blue Sky Studio has announced its dissolution, and it does not have a work in its hands that can help it revive itself, so it is powerless to return to heaven. In fact, even if Blue Sky Studio can launch an animation last year to fight for luck, it is still likely to win, because last year's animation market did not have a few box office explosions.
Is there a sequel to Ice Age? Yes but low probability
Blue Sky Studios, which produced Ice Age, has announced its dissolution, so will there be a sequel to Ice Age? Possible but unlikely. First of all, the current IP of Ice Age is in Disney's hands, and Disney has a bunch of animation studios under it, and it wants to make a sequel and succeed with a big swing. But the value of the IP of "Ice Age" is not worth making a sequel, and the box office of "Ice Age 5" in 2016 is only more than three hundred million US dollars, and now that six years have passed, its box office appeal will only be weaker.
On the other hand, if "Ice Age 5" were taken over by another production team, would it still have the original taste? The box office decline of "Ice Age 5" relative to "Ice Age 4" means that this IP is temporarily difficult to attract new fans, and can only serve old fans. But old fans don't necessarily recognize "Ice Age" produced by non-Blue Sky Studios, after all, people want a feeling. Therefore, the sequel to "Ice Age" is very embarrassing, replacing others to be old fans and not buying it, and finding an old man to do a studio has been disbanded.
"Ice Age 5" has a high probability of being the masterpiece of the "Ice Age" series of movies, of course, "Ice Age" will have other works to audit, after all, it only launched the animation "Buck's Adventure" in January this year. But Buck's Adventures is a spin-off of Ice Age, and the previous main characters were only cameos, with the protagonist replaced by Buck the Weasel.
summary:
Due to the double whammy of the epidemic and the non-preservation of IP value, the "Ice Age" production company Blue Sky Studios was eventually dissolved, and the "Ice Age" series of movies is likely not to launch a sequel. "Ice Age" and our farewell, representing the end of a generation's childhood, of course, "Ice Age" will not be forever, it will continue in the form of fan or animation, but the authentic taste of "Ice Age" may not be anymore.