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2025-07-01 Economy

Disney Hit With More Layoffs As Latest Woke Projects Bomb Hard

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-01 01:26|| || Front Page|| [315 views ] Top

#1 Continuing with their messaging that minority characters are infallible no matter what they do,

BTW, it's not just Disney "messaging."

Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-01 01:39|| 2025-07-01 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Oh, it gets better: Elio was originally written and cast with the title character being a gay 11-year old boy.

Not only did test audiences overwhelmingly hate it, actress America Ferarra - who is far from a MAGA coservative - quit the movie and her voice role. A good chunk of the movie was rewritten....but it doesn't seem to have helped.

That whirring noise you hear is Walt rotating in his grave fast enough to enrich uranium.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-07-01 06:40|| 2025-07-01 06:40|| Front Page Top

#3
Attendance numbers for 2024 are hard to find, almost like hidden.

I guess Disney's Business model must have counted on, more perverted, DEI, minority attendance than actually cared to waste the $$.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-07-01 06:45|| 2025-07-01 06:45|| Front Page Top

#4 per box office mojo, Elio, which is an animated film, had a $20M domestic opening weekend and a second weekend of about $10M

It had a production cost of at least $150M, probably will cost $300M or more after adding marketing, distribution, etc. So it may well be a net loss for Disney.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-07-01 07:22|| 2025-07-01 07:22|| Front Page Top

#5 DEIronheart.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-01 09:59|| 2025-07-01 09:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Looks like the sympathy meter will not move when Disney tries to get their mouse copyright extended to forever.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-01 10:53|| 2025-07-01 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 The lead actor for their next superhero whatever got stoned out his mind and fellated some risque glow sticks.

Now the lead actress on the next dinosaur movie is complaining about Male Gaze, though she has been cast as attractive woman her whole career; that and I guess it will be hybrid dinosaurs. You know, flying velociraptors. Ugh.

But wait, there's more. Are you pumped for Season 2 of Kanobi? A Mando and Grogu movie? Trilogy?

How about a new section of park based on the Cars Universe? Remember Cars? Remember?

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-01 12:29|| 2025-07-01 12:29|| Front Page Top

#8 And Robert Downey, Jr. looks sick or vegan.

Oh.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-01 19:04|| 2025-07-01 19:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Couple laughs.

The Architect, The Matrix:
"We have destroyed your Jurassic Park sequels six times...we have become very efficient."

Me to a dinosaur lover:
"This sequel looks like a Ubisoft General version of Lara Croft."
"LOL"

Here's a posit:
The original version of Elio was about a confused good looking boy being abducted by the 'spicier' parts of the LG+ community. A Groomer allegory, if you will, they want this 'one eye'.
Gross I know, wraps with the immigrant children being divvy'd to 'foster parents'. Been gaslighted for less..

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-01 19:53|| 2025-07-01 19:53|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ assuming you are talking about Jurassic Park: rebirth

that is not a Disney production, it is a Universal Pictures production

Based on the viewership in europe where it has already been released, this is expected to be a substantial money maker - projected first weekend sales of $100M or so in the USA

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-07-01 19:55|| 2025-07-01 19:55|| Front Page Top

#11 My word, swksvolFF, you get started pretty early in the day. I'm only on my second. But, good stuff!

Posted by KBK 2025-07-01 20:11|| 2025-07-01 20:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes, it will sell tickets.

Guess I didn't know or care, She so associated with MCU.

The overall health of entertainment is suspect.

And I have to admit, my predictions that an interactive movie game has turned out to be shit. "Walking Simulator" is what they are being panned as, the Indiana Jones game, Dragon Veil, World of Warcraft, other AAA games.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-01 20:14|| 2025-07-01 20:14|| Front Page Top

#13 My dude KBK, the release of a How to Train Your Dragon, or The Running man, are two points which should never be touched. Like Krull, or Total Recall, or Red Dawn. Toy Story 5, live action Frozen 3?

It is all retro-grade, and not in the fun sense like the video game Dead Cells.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-01 20:27|| 2025-07-01 20:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Like it, have fun, new system '5' racing, fine, it is about enjoying yourself. I might fly a Rhubarb in a minute and that isn't for everyone, but I'm starting to understand the hold out of Dragon Lance.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-01 20:38|| 2025-07-01 20:38|| Front Page Top

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