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.
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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.” →