Hollywood

I became aware of Leave the World Behind, a new film that’s now streaming on Netflix, when Julia Roberts mentioned it a few days ago on the Graham Norton Show, where she co-guested with Cher, Tom Hanks, and Timothée Chalamet. Her sales pitch was impressive. She said that when the producers were casting it, they sent her a copy of the 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam on which it’s based. She dove into it at once, but took a long time getting to the end because it was so terrifying that she had to put it down at sunset.

Disney has spent the last year developing and refining its destructive habit of producing films infected by woke themes — and it’s become surprisingly good at it. The result, of course, has been disastrous for the mega-entertainment company; almost every film Disney sent to theaters this year flopped at the box office.

Zegler got told to shut up after single handedly sinking the movie prior to production.

You can’t have Snow White played by a whiny leftist.

I bet the plug gets pulled.

Hasbro Toys has just announced the layoff of 1,100 souls a few weeks before Christmas, which comes two years after extending a deal with the Disney Grooming Syndicate to sell Star Wars, Marvel, and Indiana Jones toys.

… I can’t recall when a major corporation like Disney changed its shooting schedule or marketing for a movie in response to a small studio’s challenge.

Disney did precisely that. Right after The Daily Wire announced that it would be releasing a Snow White movie as counterprogramming to the troubled Disney production, Snow White and the Diverse Forest Creatures of Endor, or whatever it will be called.

The Walt Disney Company is facing an impending lawsuit from 9,000 women who allege the company engaged in widespread gender-based pay discrimination. And no, that number is not a typo.

Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars have been accused of turning a blind eye to Saudi Arabia’s ‘egregious’ human rights abuses by going to a film festival in the Kingdom.

The likes of Will Smith, Sharon Stone and Johnny Depp have already attended the Red Sea Film Fesival in Jeddah, which human rights groups say is being for ‘arts-washing’.

The festival, which is run by a foundation chaired by the Saudi culture minister, is said to have offered stars as much as $1million each for their appearances.

Wokeness is a symptom of the company’s disease.

The people running Disney appear crazier than that guy who stripped naked on “It’s a Small World” Sunday and started dancing with the animatronics and climbing on the iconic ride’s structure.

“Generally, our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted when our entertainment offerings and products, as well as our methods to make our offerings and products available to consumers, do not achieve sufficient consumer acceptance,” the company’s stock report explains with regard to recent bombs. “Further, consumers’ perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals, often differ widely and present risks to our reputation and brands.”

The Disney Grooming Institute had the worst box office year imaginable in 2023. Couldn’t happen to a nicer den of thieves of children’s innocence.

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is projected to open on December 22 somewhere in the disastrous range of $32 million to $42 million.

Domestically, it is projected to top out in the disastrous range of $105 million to $168 million.

Maybe people are just tired of woke superhero movies?

The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s Wish is looking like yet another box office flop in a year filled with Disney flops.

Disney’s latest animated feature, this one intended to celebrate Disney’s 100th anniversary, was projected to do much better than it has over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. As of now, it looks like Wish won’t even come close to hitting its worst-case scenario.

Let’s face it the Disneyland and Disney World fight videos are superior entertainment to Disney’s movies.

The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s The Marvels collapsed by a breathtaking 73 percent in its second weekend, earning only $12 million for a dismal two-weekend total of $67 million.

How bad is that?

Well, if The Marvels had opened to $67 million, it still would have been considered a failure.

He is perhaps the last person you would expect to see giving safety instructions but that is exactly what actor Alec Baldwin has been caught on camera doing, just a year after he was holding a gun that fired a fatal shot, killing cinematographer Helnya Hutchins, on the set of Rust.

The end of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike has changed the way at least one studio thinks about its hiring practice for writers, and it may wind up being a refreshing change. Marvel Studios, which as we know Disney owns, is rethinking how it hires writers for its struggling streaming series.