The Disney Grooming Syndicate , home to serial fabulist Jimmy Kimmel, has another dead franchise on its hands with the domestic and worldwide flop of Tron: Ares .

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of child predators.

Tron: Ares , the third chapter in the Tron franchise, which reaches all the way back to 1982, grossed a pathetic $33 million domestic in its opening weekend, and just $27 million overseas. That adds up to a pathetic $60.5 million global opening for a movie that reportedly cost upwards of $200 million to produce, and at least $70 million to promote.

Just to break even, Tron: Ares would have to gross at least $500 million worldwide, and this dud will be lucky to gross $150 to $200 million.

For context, Tron: Legacy, released in 2010, went on to gross $410 m

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