The company’s latest release, “Strange World,” this weekend became the second consecutive Disney animated offering to bomb at the box office, collecting a measly $18.6 million since opening Wednesday.—an unusual record for a company long considered a guaranteed hitmaker in children’s entertainment.
when the company’s board of directors shocked Hollywood and fired his one-time successor, Bob Chapek. He returns to a theatrical environment far harsher to animated releases than the one he left.Catch up on the headlines, understand the news and make better decisions, free in your inbox every day.Among Disney employees, the distribution of the company’s animated movies was considered one of the crucial differences between Messrs. Iger and Chapek.
Disney certainly wasn’t alone in using theatrical releases to bolster nascent streaming services. With auditoriums closed and moviegoing depressed amid the pandemic, many major studios began skipping the theater in some instances in favor of in-house services, a flexible approach that has held even as multiplexes reopen.
The company’s first major release since Covid-19 shut most theaters, last Thanksgiving’s “Encanto,” collected a disappointing $96 million in the U.S. and Canada, but found new fans during its premiere on Disney+ soon after. “Lightyear,” an installment in the blockbuster “Toy Story” franchise, made its debut exclusively in theaters in June and significantly underperformed, with a domestic gross of $118 million.
“Our creative teams will concentrate on what they do best—making world-class, franchise-based content—while our newly centralized global distribution team will focus on delivering and monetizing that content in the most optimal way across all platforms,” Mr. Chapek said when he announced the reorganization in October 2020, eight months after being named CEO.
I ger will be out within 6 months..disney will be broken up and sold...
GOOD!
I think half the Chinese population is racist! Anyways…
I remember rule 1 in business was never get political. Seems too many CEO willing forgot this basic rule. Either side you are alienating half of the population.
We will not have woke shit pushed in our faces anymore.
Disney paid $185 million to make a cartoon. Maybe that's the issue
Now that Disney also own the Star Wars franchise, I am reluctant to support any of its movies as well.
Disney has pissed-away the trust that was built by Walt for over 5 decades with the American people. Children made what Disney empire is today, and they had violated that sacred trust with the LGBT left-wing garbage! Let's see how long it will take Disney to get that trust back
So what is supposedly the majority voice we here on platforms and MSM, isn't really a majority voice.
I think parents who take their small kids to the new Disney grooming corporation indoctrination events should be investigated for child endangerment. 'Uhh ma'am, did you know Disney would be pushing gay sex to your tiny child? If not, why not?'
I saw it. Visually, it was great. Plot, story, characters, all one big turd.
I’m digging all that green.
WSJ misses the mark again and fails to point out Disney's woke culture. The majority of America is sick of it and will no longer spend money on Groomers.
Disney = 🚽
Don't be pc woke it don't pay
Newsflash: they are all the same stupid cartoons at this point. Call the prop department to find a shark they can jump over.
By the time I'd seen the whole film, I was wishing the trailer had been different. It included a number of challenging dilemmas - young love, parent/child expectations, doing what's right at the expense of convenience...all while identifying the real 'bad guy'.
Kids content has not returned to pre-covid levels in theaters. Still looks like a pure streaming play
5.4 on IMDB. Ouch. C movies with no budget get higher ratings.
Nope on Woke.
All i know about this movie, twitter pushed it to the tip when those missiles landed in Poland and we were looking at potential world war 3... Which i found in bad taste.
Good
The marketing was horrible. The trailer sucked. People are accustomed to movies on D+ after a few weeks. Not surprising here.
Go woke go broke!!!!! 🤡🤡🤡🤡
GoWokeGoBroke
Maybe it’s because there’s never been a group of people that looked like this
Go woke go broke. I wouldn’t watch or touch anything Disney.
go woke go…
- Go Woke Go Broke
Disney has a clear choice to make. Make movies that appeal to children and families, or make movies that appeal to woke journalists.
Lol the only thing troubling about the animation market is that they’re pushing non traditional lifestyles on children
Needed more Dinosaurs.
I loved it. But it may be a die hard Disney film🎯great animation!