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Box Office Analyst Estimates That Disney Has Lost $890 Million on Last Eight Studio Releases, Including Woke Little Mermaid and Elemental

Box office analyst and YouTuber Valliant Renegade has estimated that the Walt Disney Co. has lost $890 million on the last eight studio releases, including the woke Little Mermaid remake and Elemental, an anti-racism animated film featuring a non-binary character.

The films contributing to the losses include “Lightyear,” “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “Strange World,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “The Little Mermaid,” and “Elemental.”

Valliant Renegade said that the eight films cost roughly $2.75 billion but only brought in $1.86 billion.

“That can’t go on forever. It’s just simple numbers, folks,” Valliant Renegade said in a video about his estimate. “That’s where we are. The Walt Disney Company is just making all the wrong decisions not only creatively, but in the distribution channels as well.”

[b][i]I am NOT snickering with delight. I just thought of something amusing.[/i][/b]

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AbbeyRhode · F

I AM snickering with delight. Disney has made it clear that they've abandoned the families that made them rich, and they now support groomers and pedos. That company can't crash and burn fast enough, and good riddance.

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Slade · 56-60, M

@stratosranger preferably used as a site for nuclear testing

Shaveit · 61-69, M

@Slade what exactly does ESPN have to offer but racial controversy?

Slade · 56-60, M

@Shaveit They generously push tranny and sexist shit

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Richard65 · M

@Budwick nah, not that, just how sad it is that a man of your advanced age can get so angry over some Disney films. And you clearly are really angry. It's quite pitiful. Maybe just give your bigotry and racism a day off and rest your brain. Seriously. You're a very troubled man.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@Richard65 Angry?
I'm not nearly as angry as Disney that lost 890 Million !!

Richard65 · M

@Budwick yeah, of course they lost $890 million. Hollywood has a long history of creative accounting in order to show blockbusters actually flopped. That way they minimise their tax burden and avoid paying residuals to actors. They've done that since the movies were invented, it's common knowledge.

sdave455 · 41-45, M

Disney is learning the hard way that what goes around comes around. They treated their best people like garbage in favor of some woke idiots. Now they are reaping the rewards of that.

graphite · 61-69, M

These corporations just never learn. They keep following the same recipe for failure and expect a different result next time around.

BizSuitStacy · M

The slow drip to normalize pedophilia ain't going over so well.

akindheart · 61-69, F

good. let that teach them a lesson. Walt must be turning in his grave

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Barefooter25 · 46-50, M

@akindheart That and many of their former child actors have had trouble with the law. Unfortunately, some are already dead. Poor Walt Disney and Annette Funnicello are probably spinning in their graves.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@Barefooter25 i so agree. Disney should have stayed out of the whole woke thing. when i heard about the pedophilia, i wanted to cry. what a perfect opportunity for a pedophile, right?

SW-User

@akindheart [quote]when i heard about the pedophilia, i wanted to cry[/quote] What pedophilia, specifically, did you hear about? A specific example. I'll wait.

Applepiedom · 56-60, M

They also fired the diversity director in the midst of "pride" month. Yeah, Disney is in well at all. Ha ha

nedkelly · 61-69, M

I am a great believer in sticking to tradition, not pampering to the minority of .005% who believe that they special. Yes, they are special but do not shove their beliefs on the majority

Shaveit · 61-69, M

@nedkelly it’s not my place to judge anybody’s feelings or beliefs. Now if everybody else would believe that we’d all get along just fine
when you give something to a group it is just like depriving something from a group it is discrimination!

Barefooter25 · 46-50, M

Awww...that's a shame!!! They are still planning to come out with even more woke movies. I'm also pretty sure that the new Indiana Jones movie will be joining that list soon.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@Barefooter25 No, not Indy!

Shaveit · 61-69, M

Hopefully, all these big companies losing their butts on this Wolk stuff… Will make Americans realize that they’re buying power matters. Budweiser has been pushing their old style commercials, very heavily for the last few weeks, trying to recover from their debacle.

Musicman · 61-69, M

@Shaveit I hope they learn their lesson. I don't care how big a company like Disney is. You can only lose hundreds of millions of dollars for so long before your stock holders and board of directors says enough!!

SW-User

@Shaveit Try telling that to Sony Pictures :) The latest Spiderman movie has made almost a billion dollars in a month worldwide.

There's an African‑Latino Spider-Man, Miles Morales as the main character; Gwen Stacy’s Spidey endorses trans rights; there’s an Indian Spider‑Man with an anti‑colonial outlook living in a Mumbai‑Manhattan hybrid; and a pregnant biker Spider‑Woman. And worst of all, the movie's main theme is how identity is a constant negotiation of race, class, nationality and gender. Your worst woke nightmare 😂

Musicman · 61-69, M

It's always nice hearing good news. 🙂

robingoodfellow · M

Black Panther Wakanda forever has made something like 1.2 billion dollars.

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Richard65 · M

@stratosranger to hide their true profit margins and minimise their tax burden. Some also do it to evade paying residuals to actors, as Dave Prowse found out when Lucasfilm notified him that he wouldn't be paid residuals for Return of the Jedi because the movie had never gone into profit. Most major corporations do this. It's all about keeping as much money as they can, even if they have to pretend a blockbuster was actually a flop.

robingoodfellow · M

@stratosranger I think the number I saw reflected streaming and home video sales as well. Regardless, to me it seems like if you've got to depend on a billion dollar box office to be completely successful then you're setting yourself up for failure. In Hollywood a movie needs to earn 3x it's cost to be considered a modest hit. Mermaid cost 250 million. Doesn't feel realistic for it to earn at least 3/4 of a billion dollar at the box office in an age where less people go to the movies. And quite frankly these mega budget CGI spectacles have become mundane. They all look and feel the same and they're churned out factory style. It's not like it used to be when a film like the original Star Wars or Raider of the Lost Ark came out, when big movies were an event and everyone ran out to see them to join in the conversation.

trollslayer · 46-50, M

@Richard65 interesting comments here. Thanks.

carpediem · 61-69, M

Walt must be rolling over in his grave. You reap what you sow. Screw ‘em.

TheunderdogofNY · 36-40, M

Class action time for the shareholders 📉

Rolexeo · 26-30, M

Don't think they care, which is very strange

SW-User

The main problem with both "the little mermaid" and elemental is that they're shit. Not that they're woke. Not one single "Live action" Disney cash-in, "woke" or otherwise, has done anything LIKE as well as the original cartoon. They deserve to be flops.

trollslayer · 46-50, M

How is remaking Little Mermaid "woke"?

Not sure I understand - but perhaps a misuse of the term "woke"?

Budwick · 70-79, M

@trollslayer Not remaking Little Mermaid - the movie Little Mermaid .

trollslayer · 46-50, M

@Budwick So how is that woke? Not having seen it, my understanding is this is pretty much the same story except human actors instead of animation, correct?

Budwick · 70-79, M

@trollslayer https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12128465/Disney-mocked-woke-thon-250M-Little-Mermaid-live-action-reboot-drag-queen-witch.html

Briggett · T

It not the first time that they lost money in the movies.
Technically only reboot of superhero and action movies are the top box office draws.
So I’m surprised.

graphite · 61-69, M

Little Mermaid has about $499 million on a budget that's about half that, so not really a bomb, I suppose.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 46-50, M

They may not be terribly surprised by the results. They may be testing boundaries. A very expensive form of market research but I think Disney can afford it.

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