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• The Sequelitis-addled, opening weekend-disappointer—Toy Story 4—just crossed half a billion in a week. • That's for an animated film that not only were today's animated audiences not alive for the debut of but many of them also weren't even around for the last installment. • When we think about the power of Disney's streaming service, think about how the ongoing life that many of its properties clearly enjoy and the long long afterlife of its features and how it's like nothing else in the popular culture. • Sequelitis also apparently missed the sixth Annabelle. $31 million in five days on the sixth installment of a low-budget horror franchise. So are we ready to put an asterisk on the sequelitis talk saying *not including horror? • It's also a positive blip for Warners, before the "Can't open a movie" narrative hardened into gospel. • When you're stressing about the third Annabelle film, and