Ares’ From the Consolation of Your Personal Dwelling Subsequent Week

And so, the e book closes on Tron: Ares. After an unfortunate stint on the field workplace and a rapid-fire launch as a PVOD, what’s more likely to be the movie’s greatest likelihood at discovering an viewers—lengthy after it wanted to to maintain the Tron franchise from going into hibernation for the foreseeable future—will arrive subsequent week when Ares uploads itself to Disney+.

Simply a few months on from hitting theaters, immediately Disney confirmed that the third Tron movie will hit Disney+ subsequent week on January 7, a day after the movie makes its bodily debut on Blu-ray.

To be truthful to Ares, it’s in all probability more likely to discover a extra keen viewers on Disney+ than it was in theaters or on digital, the place you had been immediately paying for it. Certain, you’re nonetheless paying for Disney+, however you’re paying that for the entire platform, not only one film. It’s the place that’s received Andor season two *and* Tron: Ares in every week’s time. It’s a streaming service with giddy highs and dizzying lows! A streaming service with multitudes.

And that could be what Tron wants proper now, even when Ares ended up being so divisive amongst critics and audiences alike. If the movie finds an viewers on streaming—and Disney is already type of admitting to itself that Tron‘s future as a theatrical endeavor is on maintain after Ares in the meanwhile—it’d at the very least be an indication to the studio that perhaps the franchise ought to make that its residence for the longer term. In any case, Legacy did give us the wonderful, however short-lived, Tron: Rebellion animated present as a short stopgap within the lengthy wait between movies.

However that could be a giant if regardless. Even average field workplace success didn’t cease the waits between Tron movies from being something lower than many years, so after Ares didn’t even attain among the conservative estimates made for its potential success, we’d simply see Disney unplug from the Grid altogether. Until it decides to make use of just a few faceless packages for its OpenAI slop era plans. That would be a grimmer destiny for the franchise.

All that’s to say that Tron: Ares hits Disney+ on January 7, 2026. Watch it, or don’t?

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