‘It took a big hit for the studio’: How dark and daring gamble The Black Cauldron became a notorious Disney flop

Instead of being the film that would take Disney to new heights, The Black Cauldron has become known as the film that nearly took down the company. That perception seems to have first emerged in a 2010 Slate article, which stated that the film “almost killed Disney animation”.

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