Disney went woke now they're going broke

Most certainly to do with wokeness.

Im a huge cinema fan and follow a lot of online chats, discussions, live chats etc.

The consensus is, most people are sick of the superhero rubbish, that gender swapping and having 5’2” waifs beat up 200 lbs guys, isn’t reality, that diversity castings are generally poor actors and don’t live up to their male predecessors. As a result they get called incels. However, about 40% of them are female.

Then there’s the ‘audiences are down’ trope. yeah Maverick, Guardians, and Avatar really suffered from footfall issues. Lol.

As a huge cinema fan - I’ve voted with my feet too. Tend to spend my cinema time these days, in pre 2008 works.

Disney at the heart of all of this, have huge financial issues now, and a $9bln bill for one of their purchases about to come due…. But the drivel still comes.

Ezra Miller - lauded by many as beautiful fascinating etc etc. The flash has bombed. can’t be anything to do with his mad antics off set including the restraining order re: very young teenage girl or the kidnapping incident, or the superhero trope been worn to pieces.

It’s Bud Light just on a bigger scale.

thank goodness.

One hopes that we will get great movies some time soon, Tom Cruise is out in about 10 days, non woke storytelling, watch the billions roll in.

But yeah, nothing to do with woke.

@Hoardasurass could you make your point a bit clearer?

Reading the article, it sounds like only having their films on their own Disney channels is what's losing them the most money. I think people are bored of live action remakes when they're too similar to the animated version too.

I love The Guardians of the Galaxy.
Misses point of thread. Or?

Nothing to do with wokeness, it's about lack of originality. The Marvel films are getting samey and the remakes of classic cartoons have largely been uninspiring (Little Mermaid is probably the best of the bunch). They need to innovate.

Yep this sums up what I think of loads of people on the board. How is diversity in casting a bad thing? Clearly hugely bigoted. Gross

And this is in Feminism Sex and Gender because? Because you equate diversity, same sex relationships and general ‘liberal’ view points on a par with trans inclusive feminism? Good to have some confirmation over where those with GC views position themselves on other inclusivity issues.

Disney is having money problems like all the big studios - netflix and Paramount are losing money hand over fist too - but the Little Mermaid made about 500 million dollars at the box office, plus toys and merchandise, and Guardians of the Galaxy did over 830 million dollars at the box office, despite cinema audiences being down globally. Definitely not flops. Nothing to do with being 'woke'.

*same sex

Hmm…not sure the “wokeness” you’re laughing at is something to mock?

A diverse cast? Single sex relationships in cartoons? Are they really that bad?