By Mike Huckabee
June 28, 2023
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Could Hollywood finally be learning the hard lesson of “Get woke, go broke?” Disney is not only struggling with its money-hemorrhaging streaming service and depressed theme park attendance, but its movies haven’t been setting the box office on fire, either. They’ve just been setting giant piles of money on fire.
An analysis by the Hollywood business YouTube channel Valiant Renegade estimates that Disney’s last eight movie releases have lost a combined $890 million. It would have been even worse if it weren’t for the non-woke Chris Pratt movie “Guardians of the Galaxy 3” actually making money. The others ranged from disappointments like the “girls rule/guys drool” “Thor: Love and Thunder” to 50-megaton bombs like “Lightyear” and “Strange World” (animated movies for kids that pushed gay relationships) and the race-swapped “Little Mermaid.”
Disney’s woke “Elemental” (with the “first gender-neutral” animated character) is such a bunker-buster of a bomb that it contributed to last weekend being among the worst, if not actually the worst, box office weekends on record. “The Flash” movie starring Ezra Miller, a self-proclaimed gender-neutral creep who was recently facing disturbing legal issues, opened low and dropped by a stunning 73% in weekend two. Audiences so thoroughly rejected Hollywood’s latest offerings that the animated “Spiderman” movie that had been out for four weeks returned to the #1 spot.
So you can now add theater owners to the growing list of people who are angry and fed up with wokeness, along with parents, theme park goers, and even “Wonder Woman” herself, Gal Gadot, who spoke out against the mindless gender-swapping of women into male roles.
https://movieweb.com/gal-gadot-slams-obsession-for-gender-swapping-heart-of-stone-james-bond/
Turns out it’s harder to shove this leftist garbage down an unwilling public’s throat than the elitists thought, especially now that the public has realized that they control the power of the purse. Maybe even the Grand Poobah of woke corporate extortion, Blackrock CEO Larry Fink, is finally getting the message.
Of course, this scourge won’t go away overnight. We still have the liberal media whistling past the graveyard and blaming the collapsed box office on anything other than backlash to Disney's not-so-secret-gay-agenda and other woke messaging. There are still woke movies in the pipeline, waiting to be released and die a horrible death at the box office. And despite the thousands of layoffs at Disney, there are still leftist fanatics embedded there like termites. So to help them finish the job of finishing off Disney financially, the conservative showbiz site Hollywood In Toto offers them some suggestions for more classic Disney movies that they can ruin with wokeness.
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/disney-woke-makeovers-satire/
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