Disney Film Featuring Gay Main Character Bombs at Box Office - Yahoo News

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Disney suffered 1 of its worst theatrical releases ever with its latest animated movie Strange World, which brought successful conscionable $18.6 cardinal implicit the five-day vacation play contempt being heralded arsenic the archetypal Disney movie to see an openly cheery main character.

Strange World had Disney’s second-worst opening play ever, down lone the pandemic-era merchandise of West Side Story directed by Steven Spielberg, Variety reported Sunday. Ultimately, Strange World only garnered astir fractional of its projected agelong play revenue.

The movie featured a star-studded formed including dependable acting from Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Lucy Liu, and Gabrielle Union, and sported a monolithic fund betwixt $120 and $130 million, the Daily Mail writes.

Expectations were initially precocious for Strange World with Disney projecting the movie to gain betwixt $30 and $40 cardinal dollars implicit the agelong weekend. However, those figures were rapidly, and significantly, revised downwards erstwhile it was understood however poorly the movie was performing with audiences.

As with different caller Disney animated movies including Lightyear (another disappointing container bureau flop), Strange World sought to crowbar progressive causes into the film, including for the archetypal clip successful Disney’s past an openly cheery main character. However, 1 wide movie reviewer said Disney would apt usage homophobia to shield it from the film’s evident shortcomings.

“Disney is 100% going to blasted STRANGE WORLD’s inevitable atrocious container bureau connected the information that there’s an openly cheery quality successful the movie erstwhile successful reality, it’s going to flop due to the fact that they didn’t marketplace it astatine all. They’ll usage this arsenic an excuse to not person queer rep ever again,” movie professional Jordan Woodson tweeted past week.

Aside from the progressive emphasis, for some, the movie simply failed to entertain. “Took the kids to the movies contiguous to ticker a Disney cartoon called Strange World. Within 10 minutes of the movie, my 10-year-old lad said ‘Dad, I person nary tendency to ticker this movie. Can we leave?’ We left. The leaders astatine Disney person forgotten who the PAYING lawsuit is,” the fashionable podcaster Patrick Bet-David tweeted.

Disney’s latest flop comes connected the heels of the instrumentality of its iconic erstwhile CEO Bob Iger who is expected to crook astir the ailing institution aft suffering respective fiscal setbacks. Iger is taking implicit for Bob Chapek, who openly embraced progressive societal causes portion starring the media company, drafting the ire of Governor Ron DeSantis and chap Florida Republicans.

Disney+, the company’s touted streaming service, has mislaid much than $8 cardinal since it archetypal launched 3 years ago.