The Walt Disney Company is Partnering with a Gay Group Called "EqualPride" to Provide "Diverse Content" for Its Failing Streaming Service

Before getting to that: Disney might be on the way to back-to-back box office bo bs.

A claimed synopsis of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny proves that Kathleen Kennedy hasn't lost that "magic touch" yet!

I won't quote it, in case some of you are worried that you'll have this awful, terrible movie "spoiled" for you.

Here's a spoiler: It's an embarrassment and Kathleen Kennedy will be given another huge bonus for it because she's a Privileged White Woman and gets graded on the Minority Curve.

No but really, it's being badly reviewed and critics are pointing out that, get this!, the Stronk Empowered Brunette is the real star of the movie, not the old white man (spit).

This is brutal:

The BBC review called the film "gloomy and depressing," but that's not the critical takeaway from the pan.
["Dial of Destiny"] has the air of a film passing the torch (or whip) to the next generation. But it does all this in an even gloomier fashion than The Force Awakens did. I'm not sure how many fans want to see Indiana Jones as a broken, helpless old man who cowers in the corner while his patronising goddaughter takes the lead, but that's what we're given, and it's as bleak as it sounds.

And critics are giving the rebooted "Little Mermaid" bad reviews, from "mixed" to "unfavorable." And many are mocking its wokeness.

Disney mocked for 'woke-a-thon' $250M Little Mermaid live-action reboot: with 'drag queen' Ursula, King Triton the environmentalist, mixed-race mermen, and 'affirmative consent' slipped into prince's love song
The Little Mermaid live action remake premiered on Friday to mixed reviews
Many critics accuse Disney of an uninspired repackaging of old content
Others complain of the movie's rewrite to match its progressive politics
By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com
Disney is under fire for 'wokery' slipped into its live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, which is projected to bring in $100 million for the company despite mixed reviews this Memorial Day weekend.
Critics and audiences have given the reboot of the 1989 animated classic 'average' and 'unfavorable' reviews on ratings site Metacritic. Some bash the makers' efforts to update the film to contemporary social mores.
Naysayers have focussed on tweaks to the plot and lyrics that play around with sex, ethnicity and cultural values to make the 125-minute remake fit with Disney's progressive politics.
In the new version, King Triton, played by Javier Bardem, has developed environmentalist leanings, complaining that humans are polluting the oceans and ravaging his undersea kingdom of Atlantica.
Melissa McCarthy, who plays the villainous sea witch Ursula in the remake, has said her performance was influenced by drag queens -- cross-dressing male comics who have become a lightning rod for America's culture wars.
McCarthy's inspiration may be in keeping with the original, as the original Ursula was based on the famous drag artist, Divine, who appeared in movies from the 1960s to the 1980s.
'I just hope to do every incredible drag queen proud,' McCarthy told Deadline.
Tweaks to the original lyrics are also raising eyebrows.
The song 'Kiss the Girl,' sung by Sebastian the crab, in which Prince Eric smooches Ariel, has been rewritten so the royal secures affirmative consent before puckering up his lips.
In the 1989 version, the crab sang: 'Possible she want you too/There is one way to ask her/It don't take a word, not a single word/Go on and kiss the girl.'
The 2023 version, however, has been updated for the #MeToo era.
'Possible she want you, too/Use your words, boy, and ask her,' runs the new version.

Disney likes to show off its wokeness in America, but they continue releasing racially-scrubbed marketing materials in China. They removed Finn from Star Wars posters; they put Black Panther in a mask so you couldn't see he was black in posters for that movie.

And now, for the Little Mermaid, the poster features the hero in silhouette so you can't tell she's black. Compare the posters for the Chinese market to the one for America:

Disney loves challenging/subverting American culture -- but damn, if they don't twist themselves to support Chinese bigotries!

You may or may not have heard about Kathleen Kennedy's Willow reboot. I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear that she gender-swapped the main character, and made her a Stronk Empowered Brunette (like all of Kathleen Kennedy's self-insert characters), and then gave her a Teenage Lesbian Romance to complete the Woke Set.

It was dismally reviewed and had among the lowest ratings Disney Minus has ever seen. (And that's saying something!)

Disney is deleting the show. No, not canceling. Deleting. They are declaring the entire project a loss for tax purposes, which requires that they remove it from their streaming services. You can't say something is a legal loss if you are continuing to (hypothetically) profit off it.

So it's being deleted. Retired forever, put into the vaults to never be seen again.

If both Indiana Jones and the Little Mermaid disappoint at the box office, the Deathwatch clock for Bob Iger's firing will start running.

You can't release one woke bomb after another forever, Bobby-Boy.

Bobby-Boy continues tanking Disney and stealing billions of shareholder value as embezzled in-kind donations to his future presidential run as the Wokest Candidate in US history.

But he's got a Not-So-Secret Weapon to restore Disney Minus to its former non-glory: More Queer Content for its streaming "service" !

From ThatParkPlace.com:

The Walt Disney Company is partnering with EqualPride and other "diversity" agencies to outsource work on "diverse content" for streaming, both in marketing and in mini-series formats.
In addition to EqualPride, a company known for having Lexus create ads focusing on progressive propaganda about evolving the American family, Disney is partnering with COCINA, a unit of the parent company MECENAS Media, Group Black and UnitedMasters, Inc., parent company of creative agency Translation. The four agencies will be involved in content creation for Disney's streaming platforms, as well as marketing and advertising efforts.
"In 2021, we took a stand and asked that all of our Upfront deals have specific inclusion commitments. Now in year three, we are still delivering on our intention in the way we collaborate with brands -- 365 days a year," John Campbell, Senior Vice President of Client Partnerships at Disney Advertising said in a statement. "These collaborations are a natural extension of our ongoing commitment to reflect the diversity of our audience, the workforce, and the world in which we do business and are part of our multifaceted, long-term approach to intentionally and authentically reach our viewers."
The decision comes as Disney prepares to also host the largest political gathering of LGBTQIA+ organizations in the world, right in the heart of Disney World.

Disney's public favorability is plunging.

By the numbers: The company was ranked the fifth most polarizing brand of 100 in this year's survey -- measured by the gap between the assessments of Republican and Democratic respondents.
Overall, Disney's Reputational Quotient, or RQ(R), score was 70.9 out of a possible 100. That's down from 73.4 in 2022. The score represents measurements across multiple dimensions that touch on character, trust and trajectory.
Among Democrats, it jumped to 80.3 from 72.5. But it plunged 14 points with Republicans, to 61 from 75.
The average RQ gap between Republicans and Democrats in this year's survey was 4.4. In Disney's case, it was 19.3. While Disney's reputation score has been declining since the 2017 survey, that trend had been bipartisan -- until this year.
...

Between the lines: Disney lost momentum across each of nine attributes measured in the Axios Harris 100 poll -- with the biggest declines among citizenship and growth.
Disney lost 6.2 points in perceptions of future growth, 4.3 points on citizenship ("shares my values" and "supports good causes") and 2.9 points on ethics.
What they're saying: "The lesson here is that when you divide you subtract," said Harris Poll CEO John Gerzema. "When you divide audiences, you're ultimately going to be subtracting customers for your business."
Unlike brands like Patagonia or Chick-fil-A that already are identified with ideological or policy views, Disney "didn't have a track record for speaking out on this issue," came to the issue late and flip-flopped, Gerzema said.

Disney was recently forced to cancel its "Galactic Starcruiser" Hotel, a colossal, embarrassing, humiliating failure. This was a Star Wars themed hotel which was of high-school-glee-club-level quality. The cost was $2,400 per person for a two night "experience," or $6,000 for a family of four (sharing two rooms, I would expect).

Disney chose an odd time to announce they were closing latest Kathleen Kennedy catastrophe.

The announcement about the Starcruiser came as Kathleen Kennedy was entering the theater at Cannes. It seems to have been timed for maximum damage. It's strange that it came from the company that employs Mrs. Kennedy. Make of it what you will.
There were many who said the Galactic Starcruiser was fine. They said that those disenfranchised from Star Wars were just a disgruntled minority -- a bunch of rubes. That can now safely be put to bed. Star Wars is in trouble. The sequel trilogy has damaged the brand immensely. And boutique experiences are no longer manageable for a franchise that has largely sent its most ardent fans packing.
Meanwhile, Nintendo is bringing Mario and Zelda to Orlando (more on the latter soon). We're about to see what true fan enthusiasm looks like.

Go to 1:00 to see the level of quality you're getting for $2,400 per person for two nights (in the middle of Florida).

That video was deleted by Disney.

I saw another video, this one of a "news report" that would play in the "Galactic Starcruiser" hotel. It was literally just a woman in bad makeup reading a script in front of a cheap greenscreen. Semi-pro YouTubers produce higher quality videos.

The "Galactic Starcruiser" cost $2 fucking bil-fucking-lion dollars, and has had trouble attracting even a smattering of guests since it opened.

Weird -- when you deliberately drive off your older, wealthier customer base to pursue a young and poor base who are chronically unemployed and who sit on Twitter all day long posting about #MuhPronouns, you're going to find that you're not able to fill as many $1,200 per night, per person, rooms as you might have expected.

So Disney closed that. Another huge Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy failure. They're taking a $300 million tax write-off on the catastrophe.

They also removed the disastrous "Diverse Reboot" Willow from the streaming service -- also taking a tax write-off for that. No one was watching it anyway, so they can claim the project was a loss.

WDW Pro reports that Disney closed the failing hotel because they're low on cash and can't meet their expenses -- even with all those ESG-boosted lines of credit from Woke Financial Institutions.

They say that Disney wants to buy Hulu outright -- they currently jointly own it with another mega-corporation, Comcast I think -- and just doesn't have the cash-on-hand any longer. They say Disney has lost half of its cash in the past few years.

Disney also announced that they were ending a project to build some kind of "town," I guess for Disney Obsessives, outside of the park.

Bob Iger and his allies on the left are spinning this as a Big Win for Disney in its war on DeSantis. They're claiming Bob Iger showed DeSantis that if you F*** Around, you'll find out.

In other words, they're claiming that this was a choice Iger made as part of his losing fight with Florida.

What the left forgets to mention is that Disney is required to cut billions from its exorbitant spending, both by its deteriorating market position and by activist investor Nelson Peltz, who ended a proxy fight with Disney, fighting to get himself on the board, only on the condition that Disney make deep cuts to its expenses.

So no, this was not a "win" for Iger. This was a win for Nelson Peltz, who demanded huge cuts.

Disney also cut three billion from its budget for what it ironically calls "content." 98% of this "content" is produced outside of Florida.

Did Iger chop $3 billion from his "content" budget just to Own DeSantis, too?

Flashback: Disney's not-so-secret gay agenda.

SCOOP: I've obtained video from inside Disney's all-hands meeting about the Florida parental rights bill, in which executive producer Latoya Raveneau says her team has implemented a "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" and is regularly "adding queerness" to children's programming. pic.twitter.com/eJnZMpKIXT
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022

Posted by: Ace at 04:00 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 26, 2023 04:00 PM (ncXxy)

2 How much longer before Disney turns that Castle Tower into an erect penis?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 26, 2023 04:01 PM (lf83v)

3 F Disney

Posted by: rickb223 at May 26, 2023 04:01 PM (wNEUK)

4 If you take a shot at the King you had better hope you don't miss and disney missed when it took a shot at desantis and Florida.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 26, 2023 04:02 PM (ncXxy)

5 Die Mouse, die already.

Posted by: BignJames at May 26, 2023 04:02 PM (AwYPR)

6 I am proud to announce my support for Diane Fienstien for POTUS. I think she is more competent and alert then Joe Biden ....

Posted by: Frank N. Stien at May 26, 2023 04:03 PM (EnsGU)

7 LFG

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 26, 2023 04:03 PM (4U+62)

8 wow these Disney people are All In on the deviance

Posted by: DB - boycott everything at May 26, 2023 04:04 PM (geLO8)

9 If being anti kid-toucher is "anti LGBTQ" then LBGTQ are a bunch of kid-touchers.
If not, not.
But you can't have it both ways.

Posted by: Zek at May 26, 2023 04:04 PM (lcQJG)

10 Good news, Disney investors. The NAACP doesn't want black people to visit Disney World in Florida.

Expect more losses, Mouseketeers!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 26, 2023 04:05 PM (lf83v)

11 Avoid Monkeypox with this one, weird trick...

Posted by: Zek at May 26, 2023 04:05 PM (lcQJG)

12 Willow goes in the vault like Song of the South? Never to be seen again.

Posted by: InZona at May 26, 2023 04:05 PM (P/us6)

13 DeSantis fired Disney.
Trump fired Omarosa.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 26, 2023 04:06 PM (to8pj)

14 Keep boycotting Disney

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2023 04:08 PM (xhxe8)

15 Didley Corpse: "Please hand me a bigger shovel. This hole is no where deep enough."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 26, 2023 04:08 PM (17s+e)

16 Black Little Mermaid? Pffft.
Every White Supremacist knows they can't swim.

Posted by: wth at May 26, 2023 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

17 Reminder: Trump doesn't want Ron to attack Disney any more.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 26, 2023 04:09 PM (i7Q7S)

18 Fuck Disney. That's all I got.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 26, 2023 04:09 PM (Xrfse)

19 Comcast CEO was on a call and he said that they can call a sale of HULU and the only way for them to Pay for HULU is a stock and if they do that comcast would then be the biggest shareholder and have a say on who's on the board,

Comcast/Universal is expanding, NintendoLand, Minion Land, Zelda Land expanding Harry Potter, What does Disney have that they have not ruined, Comcast is on the way up Disney on the way down, Disney is no longer 1 in Animated movies Comcast is.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 26, 2023 04:10 PM (dKiJG)

20 I just can't get hyped up on Trump vs DeSantis. Until the structural and endemic cheating baked into multiple states is dealt with, it doesn't matter which one of them is the nominee. For the record, I would vote for either of them.

Posted by: Nightowl at May 26, 2023 04:10 PM (xnoj9)

21 They chose.....poorly.

Posted by: That Crusader Guy guarding the holy grail at May 26, 2023 04:11 PM (Aqht8)

22 "Disney begins third round of layoffs as it aims to cut 7,000 jobs by summer"

LULZ

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 26, 2023 04:11 PM (i7Q7S)

23 Melissa McCarthy? Serena Gorda.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 26, 2023 04:11 PM (17s+e)

24 Aren't Teenage Lesbian Romances something Hollywood gives itself awards for every few years?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 26, 2023 04:11 PM (lc5cP)

25 The new Little Mermaid has new songs in it, too, and at least one is sung by the incomprehensibly employed Akwafina. Its a rap song.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (0hOvj)

26 Disney is deleting the show. No, not canceling. Deleting. They are declaring the entire project a loss for tax purposes...Disney was recently forced to cancel its "Galactic Starcruiser" Hotel, a colossal, embarrassing, humiliating failure....They say that Disney wants to buy Hulu outright -- they currently jointly own it with another mega-corporation, Comcast I think -- and just doesn't have the cash-on-hand any longer. They say Disney has lost half of its cash in the past few years.

I mentioned in an earlier thread that Doomcock has an interview up with a source hinting Disney may have something to do with the writer's strike. Why now? Because the strike let's Disney suspend shows and gives cover to fire problematic employees, saving money NOW and in the future, while trying to retain their woke credentials.
https://youtu.be/gfbb9_c6aEI

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (NCgXW)

27 Disney has become radioactive like Bud Light. It automatically triggers a debate and forces people to take sides.

Nobody wants that shit, except mentally ill art professors from Hunter College with grey dreadlocks, tattoos and a machete.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (lf83v)

28 BTW, it looks like the Flash movie is going to underperform if not outright bomb as well.

Posted by: Nightowl at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (xnoj9)

29 I'm a little surprised that the assortment of Disney Princesses does not yet include Dylan Mulvaney.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (eOEVl)

30 >>>back-to-back box office bo bs

?

Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (LodBx)

31 Why doesn't Disney just move everything to South Carolina?

Posted by: Haley! at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (2tUFv)

32 The cost was $2,400 per person for a two night "experience"

This, not wokeness, killed to hotel. I mean, c'mon, unless the "experience" is time traveling back to the 80s to do blow off of Carrie Fisher's tits while she's dressed in that golden slavegirl outfit . . . .

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (ppBhU)

33 wow these Disney people are All In on the deviance
Posted by: DB - boycott everything at May 26, 2023 04:04 PM (geLO

.........

Boy Scouts > The Mickey Mouse Club

Posted by: wth at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (v0R5T)

34 Will Black Little Mermaid by followed up by White Sandford and Sons?

I mean...Kevin James is looking for work.

ITS THE BIG ONE CARRIE!

Posted by: 18-1 at May 26, 2023 04:13 PM (lc5cP)

35 Do sodomites go to rainbow movies in large numbers just because they're diverse? Or is it possible they like to go to a good movie.

Posted by: NL at May 26, 2023 04:13 PM (eGTCV)

36 Why doesn't Disney just move everything to South Carolina?

Nikki, you ignorant slut!

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 04:13 PM (eOEVl)

37 >>> 18 Fuck Disney. That's all I got.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 26, 2023 04:09 PM (Xrfse)

Really???

With whose cylinder?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 26, 2023 04:13 PM (llON8)

38 17 Reminder: Trump doesn't want Ron to attack Disney any more.
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 26, 2023 04:09 PM (i7Q7S)

OR Bud Light

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 26, 2023 04:13 PM (Vj7LT)

39
𝅘𝅥𝅮
It's a Queer World after all,
It's a Queer World after all,
It's a Queer World after all,
It's a Queer, Queer World. 𝅘𝅥𝅮

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2023 04:13 PM (MoZTd)

40 who have become a lightning rod for America's culture wars.
--------

Love that passive voice and subtle use of the word "rod".

Posted by: ... at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (AJXx4)

41 I just can't get hyped up on Trump vs DeSantis. Until the structural and endemic cheating baked into multiple states is dealt with, it doesn't matter which one of them is the nominee. For the record, I would vote for either of them.

Posted by: Nightowl at May 26, 2023 04:10 PM (xnoj9)

What bugs me is...we got a year and a half of this bs 'til the election....then we start over.

Posted by: BignJames at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (AwYPR)

42 >>> 28 BTW, it looks like the Flash movie is going to underperform if not outright bomb as well.
Posted by: Nightowl at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (xnoj9)

Oh no!!

ANyway...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (llON8)

43 All of you are a bunch of pedophobes, as am I. Not that I'm afraid of pedos I just want them out of society By Any Means Necessary.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (17s+e)

44 I wanna know if Kathy Kennedy is finally gonna be fired. Wasn't Indiana Jones the test?

Posted by: runner at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (16bie)

45 30 Consider buying an 'm'.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (tA1/w)

46 I just checked. It's only a 45 minute drive for us to go and buy Bud Lite at a Target, then catch the latest Disney movie. Sounds like ideal Memorial Day fun, right?

Posted by: Eeyore at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (TgBWG)

47 BATTLE OF THE TITANS:

Haley vs. Scott: From South Carolina allies to 2024 rivals

Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (2tUFv)

48 Everything I have heard about the Flash movie sounds like it will be really great, except for how a violent child molesting pervert is the lead role. Twice.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (0hOvj)

49 Fecal Pride!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (a14uN)

50 Brainiac Karen on MSNBC with our favorite Nicole Wallace saying that Drumpf doesn't know how declassifying works and Jack Smith is The Paolo.

Woah! Neal Katyal is weighing in. Trump was just letting any and every one of our enemies read the HigHlY classified documents...

Case closed -- said by those who claim to be close to the investigation.

Throat and/or cunt punches all around. And you get one, and you get...

Posted by: micky at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (3byMq)

51 >>>I mentioned in an earlier thread that Doomcock has an interview up with a source hinting Disney may have something to do with the writer's strike. Why now? Because the strike let's Disney suspend shows and gives cover to fire problematic employees, saving money NOW and in the future, while trying to retain their woke credentials.

I like Doomcock but his tips are very spotty. I've been waiting for Kathleen Kennedy to be fired for five years now.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (KRtlO)

52 Akwafina.

Sounds like some sort of overpriced water.

Its a rap song.

I don't usually like rap, but the I agree with the "targeting" your kids rap in the sidebar.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 04:15 PM (Keyt1)

53 When will people be legally required to holiday at Disney World/Land?
Did I come across as a Brit because I said holiday instead of vacation?

Posted by: NL at May 26, 2023 04:15 PM (eGTCV)

54 22 "Disney begins third round of layoffs as it aims to cut 7,000 jobs by summer"

LULZ
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 26, 2023 04:11 PM (i7Q7S)

Yikes.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 04:15 PM (LodBx)

55 >>>4 I wanna know if Kathy Kennedy is finally gonna be fired. Wasn't Indiana Jones the test?

allegedly this is her last hoorah, however it goes.

But it will go bad, of course. She is the most incompetent studio head who has ever worked in hollywood.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:15 PM (KRtlO)

56 What does Disney have that they have not ruined, Comcast is on the way up Disney on the way down, Disney is no longer 1 in Animated movies Comcast is.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Am I a bad person for laughing?

If only Disney had stuck to cartoons and kids movies without the gay.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (wNEUK)

57 Reminder: Trump doesn't want Ron to attack Disney any more.
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 26, 2023 04:09 PM (i7Q7S)

And he said "pussy" Don't forget that unforgiveable transgression against a moral and just USA

He also might have had an "actual" homosexual in his cabinet!

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (xhaym)

58 Which U.S. Embassy is featured in that top photo?

/I'm guessing it's not in a Muslim country ... stunning & brave!

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (LDSrz)

59 Bob Iger and his allies on the left are spinning this as a Big Win for Disney in its war on DeSantis. They're claiming Bob Iger showed DeSantis that if you F*** Around, you'll find out.

========

I think it was a smaller admin HQ for about 2,000 employees. California transplants.

They're not going to build it anywhere else. They're just going to keep the employees in CA. I don't think that's any sort of huge loss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (LvTSG)

60 mentally ill art professors from Hunter College with grey dreadlocks, tattoos and a machete.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (lf83v)
.......

That could be a new Disney cartoon.

Posted by: wth at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (v0R5T)

61 I mean, c'mon, unless the "experience" is time traveling back to the 80s to do blow off of Carrie Fisher's tits while she's dressed in that golden slavegirl outfit . . . .

I thought that one of the problems was that the hotel ignored the first three Star Wars movies - it only had Kennedy Star Wars.

Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (2tUFv)

62 44 I wanna know if Kathy Kennedy is finally gonna be fired. Wasn't Indiana Jones the test?
Posted by: runner at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (16bie)

the most expensive Movie ever made 350 Million, if this trash fire doesn't get her fired nothing will

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (Vj7LT)

63 let's not do the DeSantis v. Trump argument here. Let's just appreciate that Disney is losing all of its money and audience.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (KRtlO)

64
Did I come across as a Brit because I said holiday instead of vacation?
Posted by: NL at May 26, 2023 04:15 PM (eGTCV)

Don't forget the Watney's Red Barrel.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (MoZTd)

65 >>22 "Disney begins third round of layoffs as it aims to cut 7,000 jobs by summer"

LULZ
Posted by: Jay in PA

Less employees to sell overpriced food, beverages and merch. I read where the park is literally going to shit. The bathrooms are disgusting now.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 26, 2023 04:17 PM (to8pj)

66 Disney has chosen it's side, it's time to let it deal with the consequences for that choice.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 26, 2023 04:17 PM (xcxpd)

67 Bob Iger and his allies on the left are spinning this as a Big Win for Disney in its war on DeSantis. They're claiming Bob Iger showed DeSantis that if you F*** Around, you'll find out.

This is a Biden level of delusion.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 04:17 PM (eOEVl)

68 Disney is deleting the show. No, not canceling. Deleting. They are declaring the entire project a loss for tax purposes...Disney was recently forced to cancel its "Galactic Starcruiser" Hotel, a colossal, embarrassing, humiliating failure....They say that Disney wants to buy Hulu outright -- they currently jointly own it with another mega-corporation, Comcast I think -- and just doesn't have the cash-on-hand any longer. They say Disney has lost half of its cash in the past few years.

==========

I'd bet they're going to find another way to try to monetize it somehow. License it to a place like FreeVee or even just releasing it on Blu-ray.

Release it on Blu-ray. Sell 2,000 copies. It'll make more for them than just letting it languish on the streaming service.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:17 PM (LvTSG)

69 "I think it was a smaller admin HQ for about 2,000 employees. California transplants."

=====

Yes, several employees resigned because they didn't want to move and the project never even started.

But total sick burn on Gov Ron!!!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 26, 2023 04:17 PM (i7Q7S)

70 >>>
I thought that one of the problems was that the hotel ignored the first three Star Wars movies - it only had Kennedy Star Wars.

that is a big problem. She did the same thing with the Disney theme park area. It's all Kathleen Kennedy star wars. No one cares about seeing Rey Palpatine.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:17 PM (KRtlO)

71 30 >>>back-to-back box office bo bs

?
Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (LodBx)

45 30 Consider buying an 'm'.
Posted by: Next2Nothing at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (tA1/w)

Oh! Ironic.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 04:17 PM (LodBx)

72 63 let's not do the DeSantis v. Trump argument here. Let's just appreciate that Disney is losing all of its money and audience.
Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (KRtlO)

This is supposed to be a happy occasion!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 26, 2023 04:18 PM (eYoxG)

73 55 allegedly this is her last hoorah, however it goes.

But it will go bad, of course. She is the most incompetent studio head who has ever worked in hollywood.
Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:15 PM (KRtlO)

=========

Allegedly, her contract wasn't going to be extended, and then it got extended by 5 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

74 I wanna know if Kathy Kennedy is finally gonna be fired.

My guess is that she will retire soon and have a huge festival by Disney showcasing how wonderful she was.

Her big plot line to destroy two franchises is exactly the same: new annoying female character who is always right kills off old white male hero everyone loves.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:18 PM (0hOvj)

75 Which U.S. Embassy is featured in that top photo?
________

The People's Republic of Bangapedo.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 26, 2023 04:18 PM (lf83v)

76
I wanna know if Kathy Kennedy is finally gonna be fired. Wasn't Indiana Jones the test?
Posted by: runner at May 26, 2023 04:14 PM (16bie)

If you criticize a woman, you're sexist.
If you criticize a POC, you're racist.
If you criticize a gay, you're a homophobe
If you criticize a Muslim, you're Islamophobic

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2023 04:18 PM (MoZTd)

77 let's not do the DeSantis v. Trump argument here. Let's just appreciate that Disney is losing all of its money and audience.
Posted by: ace

This is supposed to be a happy occasion!
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

It is! It is!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (wNEUK)

78 >>>I'd bet they're going to find another way to try to monetize it somehow. License it to a place like FreeVee or even just releasing it on Blu-ray.

no they make more money from the write off. I think I heard they're writing off $300 million. wait, that can't be right. That's too much.

Well they're writing off a bunch of millions, anyway. If they keep exhibiting that they lose the write-off.

this is why Bat-Girl had to be consigned to the vaults, too: You can't attempt to monetize a project once you've declared it a tax loss. Or something.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (KRtlO)

79 If both Indiana Jones and the Little Mermaid disappoint at the box office, the Deathwatch clock for Bob Iger's firing will start running.

They will. Both bomb, I mean.

Iger has pretty much destroyed Disney. Nice legacy, Bob.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (guGkK)

80 At $88.29/shr, Disney is still above their 52 week low of $84.07, barely.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (aD39U)

81 Accordiing to a post at Insty, NJ enacted a law that is the largest gun ban in American history. Even BB guns. Owning a BB gun in NJ that doesn't have a serial number rolled by a federally-registered firearms manufacturer is a felony.

Posted by: mrp at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (rj6Yv)

82 I wonder how much this is in play --

A lot of companies seem to be addicted to TNBT (The Next Big Thing) in everything they do - design, marketing, finance, etc.

For a long while China was TNBT, and they all focused on that market. Now China is tightening up and sees much reduced growth prospect for Western companies, so they switched to this crap. Maybe this crap was held back for a while "because it does not sell in China" and so there was a reserve pressure that is now bursting.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (b80MX)

83 70 >>>
I thought that one of the problems was that the hotel ignored the first three Star Wars movies - it only had Kennedy Star Wars.

that is a big problem. She did the same thing with the Disney theme park area. It's all Kathleen Kennedy star wars. No one cares about seeing Rey Palpatine.
Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:17 PM (KRtlO)

=========

It's 100 rooms that are massively expensive and you're in constant stimuli attack for the entire $10,000 two days.

The idea that it would have been successful if they had talked more about Luke Skywalker is ludicrous. The entire experience looked miserable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (LvTSG)

84 I thought that one of the problems was that the hotel ignored the first three Star Wars movies - it only had Kennedy Star Wars.

Everything I've seen about it makes it look super generic space opera. It doesn't even feel like Star Wars, the decor and everything is just Science Fiction in a black and white can with stars on it

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (0hOvj)

85 I'm rereading Atlas Shrugged for the first time in years.

Kathleen Kennedy would fit in nicely with the looters.

Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 04:20 PM (2tUFv)

86 78 Well they're writing off a bunch of millions, anyway. If they keep exhibiting that they lose the write-off.

this is why Bat-Girl had to be consigned to the vaults, too: You can't attempt to monetize a project once you've declared it a tax loss. Or something.
Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (KRtlO)

=========

Does the write off require it to be shelved? John Carter was "written off" because of the massive losses, but they still went through the standard physical release.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:20 PM (LvTSG)

87 Her big plot line to destroy two franchises is exactly the same: new annoying female character who is always right kills off old white male hero everyone loves.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:18 PM (0hOvj)

I'd call her a one-trick pony but it would be insulting to ponies that can competently do a trick.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2023 04:20 PM (guGkK)

88 mentally ill art professors from Hunter College with grey dreadlocks, tattoos and a machete.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (lf83v)

It sounds like the reboot of Rick and Morty without Justin Roiland!

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2023 04:20 PM (xhaym)

89 The People's Republic of Bangapedo.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 26, 2023 04:18 PM (lf83v)

Funny, I want to move to The Republic of Hangapedo.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at May 26, 2023 04:20 PM (57n01)

90 It's 100 rooms that are massively expensive and you're in constant stimuli attack for the entire $10,000 two days.

I imagine it's like being on the floor of a Las Vegas casino.
*shivers*

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 04:20 PM (eOEVl)

91 81 Accordiing to a post at Insty, NJ enacted a law that is the largest gun ban in American history. Even BB guns. Owning a BB gun in NJ that doesn't have a serial number rolled by a federally-registered firearms manufacturer is a felony.
Posted by: mrp
---------------
You'll shoot your eye out!

Posted by: Governor of NJ at May 26, 2023 04:21 PM (b80MX)

92 Old but on topic:

@ChinaInFocusNTD May 24
#Amazon is shutting down service to its app store in #China after it announced it was going to suspend its Kindle e-bookstore services in the country. This comes after the exodus of various other companies from the country.

Posted by: weft cut loop at May 26, 2023 04:21 PM (jzzG8)

93 79 If both Indiana Jones and the Little Mermaid disappoint at the box office, the Deathwatch clock for Bob Iger's firing will start running.

They will. Both bomb, I mean.

Iger has pretty much destroyed Disney. Nice legacy, Bob.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (guGkK)

=========

The Little Mermaid did $10 million in previews yesterday. It looks like it'll make $100 million this weekend. It may end up disappointing, but it probably won't be a real bomb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

94 I realize they have a need to be "woke", but if they didn't have that as their overriding concern apparently, why couldn't they just hire back some older retired writers who hadn't yet gone to meet the Lord who might-you know-have some creativity still there with some fresh ideas?.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 04:21 PM (Keyt1)

95
Am I a bad person for laughing?

If only Disney had stuck to cartoons and kids movies without the gay.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (wNEUK)

No, PIXAR John Lassiter was fired because he likes to give hugs and HE WAS IN THE WAY according to the person POC who accused him. nothing sexual just they saw him as a White Guy that needed to go. He has started a new Studio and is working with Apple which he has done in the Past so they can be 3rd.

Also Universal is getting a Special District just like Disney,

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 26, 2023 04:21 PM (Vj7LT)

96 If only Disney had stuck to cartoons and kids movies without the gay.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (wNEUK)

-------

The Deep State & MDM-MSM Propaganda Arms (BIRM) assured them that now more than half of Americans are gay, tranny, or both -- including over 75% of all children.

/Come on, man -- pick up a copy of The NYT sometime ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist at May 26, 2023 04:21 PM (LDSrz)

97 90 I imagine it's like being on the floor of a Las Vegas casino.
*shivers*
Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 04:20 PM (eOEVl)

=========

From what I understand, even in the room itself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

98 A video like this helps add credibility to your cause:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsmICBRKOk

Posted by: Listen to this at May 26, 2023 04:22 PM (DhOHl)

99 Disney has become radioactive like Bud Light. It automatically triggers a debate and forces people to take sides.

Not moi. They mean nothing to me.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 26, 2023 04:22 PM (Xrfse)

100 The idea that it would have been successful if they had talked more about Luke Skywalker is ludicrous. The entire experience looked miserable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (LvTSG)

At least in summer camp you leave with a nice wallet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2023 04:22 PM (guGkK)

101 100

Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 04:22 PM (LodBx)

102 Disney may very well join Anheuser-Busch and Target circling the drain. Wokeness at the Mouse House must be off the hook.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2023 04:22 PM (Q4IgG)

103 I bet Little Mermaid makes money, every little girl will want to see it. They won't really like it but they will not be upset or sad, just meh.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:22 PM (0hOvj)

104 29 I'm a little surprised that the assortment of Disney Princesses does not yet include Dylan Mulvaney.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM

It's coming. A new gender-bending Pinocchio? I'm a real ~~boy~~ girl!

The ~~Goonies~~ Groomies, where a DeSantis-lookalike is coming to kick out a peaceful Queer Town, and they have to convert enough voters to vote him out!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 26, 2023 04:22 PM (NCgXW)

105 101 100
Posted by: m
_________

Ha-ha.

Posted by: Nelson Muntz at May 26, 2023 04:23 PM (lf83v)

106 102 Disney may very well join Anheuser-Busch and Target circling the drain. Wokeness at the Mouse House must be off the hook.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2023 04:22 PM (Q4IgG)

=======

This history of Disney is a series of booms and busts. They were on the verge of declaring bankruptcy in the 80s. I think they were in real trouble in the late 90s and early 2000s (remember Brother Bear?).

The simple fact of the matter is: Disney has been kind of terribly run for decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

107 89 The People's Republic of Bangapedo.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 26, 2023 04:18 PM (lf83v)

Funny, I want to move to The Republic of Hangapedo.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at May 26, 2023 04:20 PM (57n01)

There's room in Trebuchetapedointoanactivevolcano. Come on down. We speak...German.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 26, 2023 04:23 PM (PiwSw)

108 A video like this helps add credibility to your cause:

I think she figured everyone else was going to join in, then the background orchestra would swell and SOCIAL JUSTICE WINS

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:23 PM (0hOvj)

109 Now reported Trump is *literally* walking around with boxes full of classified documents. Walking.around.with.them.

This bint on with MW is really something. She's above reproach *AND* has a top sec clearance.

Posted by: micky at May 26, 2023 04:23 PM (3byMq)

110 86 78 Well they're writing off a bunch of millions, anyway. If they keep exhibiting that they lose the write-off.

this is why Bat-Girl had to be consigned to the vaults, too: You can't attempt to monetize a project once you've declared it a tax loss. Or something.
Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:19 PM (KRtlO)

=========

Does the write off require it to be shelved? John Carter was "written off" because of the massive losses, but they still went through the standard physical release.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:20 PM (LvTSG)

It depends.

You can't purchase an IP for $1B, print money with it, and declare it wasn't really worth what you paid and take a loss for tax purposes on it. The market value on it has to actually be impaired for some reason.

If you built the IP yourself, you were probably expensing your development costs in the first place, not capitalizing them, for tax purposes (I'm not 100% sure about entertainment for IP but this is how it works for other forms of IP).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 26, 2023 04:23 PM (eYoxG)

111 ""Disney loves challenging/subverting American culture -- but damn, if they don't twist themselves to support Chinese bigotries!""

--

That's so true and it's getting really annoying. It extends to Christianity too. It's ok to demand Christians accept gay marriage and trans ideology and woke culture. But it's not ok to demand it of any other religion. All other religions are off-limits and their tenets are treated with respect and are considered sacred.

Posted by: Adrienne at May 26, 2023 04:23 PM (gegMK)

112 This is so surprising. Kathy always got my coffee exactly the way I like it when she worked for me.

Posted by: Steven Spielberg at May 26, 2023 04:24 PM (guGkK)

113 osted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:22 PM (0hOvj)
104 29 I'm a little surprised that the assortment of Disney Princesses does not yet include Dylan Mulvaney.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM

It's coming. A new gender-bending Pinocchio? I'm a real boy girl!

WE SHOULD AGITATE FOR THAT! WE SHOULD MAKE THAT A MEME AND TWEET AT DISNEY THAT THEY MUST DO THIS TO VALIDATE DYLAN!!!

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:24 PM (KRtlO)

114 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 26, 2023 04:24 PM (53FwK)

115
The Goonies Groomies, where a DeSantis-lookalike is coming to kick out a peaceful Queer Town, and they have to convert enough voters to vote him out!

I re-watched that movie recently and noticed there are a LOT of scenes of the female lead from behind, who remember is wearing a tennis skirt, crawling through tunnels...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 26, 2023 04:24 PM (lc5cP)

116 I dunno. At what point do shareholders say it's not worth bleeding money for social policy? I frankly don't care if they lose money. But are these corporations now playthings for rich liberal assholes who don't care how much money they lose? Disney is lucky in the sense their consumers have been very loyal. While they're losing money and market share a lot of people are ignoring it for the nostalgia. That's short sighted in my estimation as your future consumers are going to be harder to get and keep.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 26, 2023 04:24 PM (HDGM5)

117 85 I'm rereading Atlas Shrugged for the first time in years.

Kathleen Kennedy would fit in nicely with the looters.
Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month!

As much as I like that story, the book is a hard slog of a read. Rand badly needed an editor.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 26, 2023 04:25 PM (sAmhv)

118 116 I dunno. At what point do shareholders say it's not worth bleeding money for social policy? I frankly don't care if they lose money. But are these corporations now playthings for rich liberal assholes who don't care how much money they lose? Disney is lucky in the sense their consumers have been very loyal. While they're losing money and market share a lot of people are ignoring it for the nostalgia. That's short sighted in my estimation as your future consumers are going to be harder to get and keep.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 26, 2023 04:24 PM (HDGM5)

========

"When the social policy changes. Damn the money."
-Blackrock

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:25 PM (LvTSG)

119 Any bets that Capt. Bill and his merry band of rump rangers take their next soiree on a Disney Cruise?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 26, 2023 04:25 PM (to8pj)

120 >>>Kathy always got my coffee exactly the way I like it when she worked for me.

Actually, she didn't. He said she was a horrible assistant. He says that instead of taking notes, which was her job, she would derail creative meetings by saying things like, and I quote (more or less), "Instead of getting the girl at the end, what if Indiana Jones gets the dog instead?!"

Spielberg really said all this.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:25 PM (KRtlO)

121 what could possibly be worth $2400 a night at a Disney hotel?

or does Disney really know the 'marks' when it sees them

Posted by: DB - boycott everything at May 26, 2023 04:25 PM (geLO8)

122 The simple fact of the matter is: Disney has been kind of terribly run for decades.

Its true, people tend only to remember the good periods but forget stuff like Oliver & Company. Disney had some really awful stretches then some visionary came along and pulled their fat out of the fire.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:25 PM (0hOvj)

123 Bankruptcies, especially ones that affect terrible corporations run by an incompetent twisted Epsteinite, are usually nice.

But the thing everyone learns in business: the pieces get bought up, and the music goes on. And the problem here is that the banks are more than willing to fund the next woke owner of Disney, all using the Fed Reserve if they really had to. The largest upwards transfer of wealth I'm history is not likely to see what's left of Disney bought out by The Daily Wire.

Posted by: trev006 at May 26, 2023 04:26 PM (FWpta)

124 120 Actually, she didn't. He said she was a horrible assistant. He says that instead of taking notes, which was her job, she would derail creative meetings by saying things like, and I quote (more or less), "Instead of getting the girl at the end, what if Indiana Jones gets the dog instead?!"

Spielberg really said all this.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:25 PM (KRtlO)

========

And he kept working with her because she has video of him fucking kids.

Allegedly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

125 >>>back-to-back box office bo bs

?
Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 04:12 PM (LodBx)

I read that as boobs. You people are a bad influence on me.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 26, 2023 04:26 PM (Wy1BU)

126 Spielberg really said all this.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:25 PM (KRtlO)

It really does burnish his legacy to realize he ran projects with this millstone around his waist. Especially Jurassic Park. Kudos to him.

Posted by: trev006 at May 26, 2023 04:27 PM (FWpta)

127 America has been so generous to Mouse, Inc. Extending copyright termination dates, copyright exceptions, unique property right rules, etc., etc., Whatever Disney desires, its wishes are fulfilled. Thanks, Tinkerbell!

And what have their loyal subjects received in return? Scorn, lectures, thinner wallets, and demands from the throne for their unending gratitude.

Posted by: mrp at May 26, 2023 04:27 PM (rj6Yv)

128 Its true, people tend only to remember the good periods but forget stuff like Oliver & Company.
_______

The Boatniks.

Posted by: Nelson Muntz at May 26, 2023 04:27 PM (lf83v)

129 I know it's probably wrong, but the idea of an S&M Cinderella has intrigued me. A new market? Perhaps, because I'd got to that themed hotel once or a hundred times for $1,200 a night.

Posted by: Veritas at May 26, 2023 04:28 PM (MV2Ia)

130 Yeah I seem to remember her name being high in the credits on many Spielberg movies

she learned nothing from the collaboration, it seems

Posted by: DB - boycott everything at May 26, 2023 04:28 PM (geLO8)

131 what could possibly be worth $2400 a night at a Disney hotel?

Its basically... you know how they have stuff on trains where they do mystery theater and everyone in the car participates? Its LARP for 2 days, on a schedule, with nothing to do and nowhere to go EXCEPT in the hotel.

They really thought this was a good idea.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:28 PM (0hOvj)

132
Has there ever been an adaptation of The Little Mermaid that's been true to Andersen's tale?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2023 04:28 PM (MoZTd)

133 Can't wait for Minnie Meets Fritz The Cat.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 26, 2023 04:28 PM (to8pj)

134 I'd bet they're going to find another way to try to monetize it somehow. License it to a place like FreeVee or even just releasing it on Blu-ray.

Release it on Blu-ray. Sell 2,000 copies. It'll make more for them than just letting it languish on the streaming service.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:17 PM (LvTSG)

Legal Mindset and Mexican Ironman were talking about why they did that, They can write off it off for the next quarter and The Hotel was killed just after a 12 months if they did it before they could not write it off.

Also He did the math and it would take Disney 600 years to pay off the Star Wars Hotel. They paid 1 Billion thinking the Hotel would have 90% occupancy

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 26, 2023 04:28 PM (Vj7LT)

135 Coming soon to the USA, common sense guitar control:

https://youtu.be/SNtgnGkqgHA

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 26, 2023 04:29 PM (Bd6X8)

136 what could possibly be worth $2400 a night at a Disney hotel?

Ahem. Ever been blown by a real princess?

Posted by: Stromboli at May 26, 2023 04:29 PM (guGkK)

137 It really does burnish his legacy to realize he ran projects with this millstone around his waist.

I think Spielberg's greatest gift was being able to make good movies with his vision despite studio interference.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:29 PM (0hOvj)

138 Spielberg trashes Kathleen Kennedy

https://youtu.be/NWLMCCIxdx8?t=63

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:29 PM (KRtlO)

139 130 Yeah I seem to remember her name being high in the credits on many Spielberg movies

she learned nothing from the collaboration, it seems
Posted by: DB - boycott everything at May 26, 2023 04:28 PM (geLO

=========

The most basic job of the producer is to secure money. In a studio production, they're essentially just studio representatives. When it comes to a production with someone like a Spielberg who, not only is powerful creatively because of respect, whatever, is also his own producer, someone like Kathleen Kennedy is just...there.

Spielberg just has to say no and do his own thing, like he would any other studio representative.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:29 PM (LvTSG)

140 Has there ever been an adaptation of The Little Mermaid that's been true to Andersen's tale?

What do you mean, a black mermaid with rap music and a happy ending isn't the real Danish fairy tale?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:30 PM (0hOvj)

141 Disney is going the way of General Electric. Getting its ass beat every day.

The Dow Jones will drop them soon from the industrial average.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 26, 2023 04:30 PM (lf83v)

142 Has there ever been an adaptation of The Little Mermaid that's been true to Andersen's tale?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2023 04:28 PM (MoZTd)
--------
Dude was big on downer endings.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 04:30 PM (2hlEI)

143
Ahem. Ever been blown by a real princess?

Hmm, so its all fun and games when Jasmine or Belle walks through the door but pity the poor man that has Princess Dylan...

Posted by: Some Moron at May 26, 2023 04:30 PM (lc5cP)

144 what could possibly be worth $2400 a night at a Disney hotel?

Ahem. Ever been blown by a real princess?

Considering the direction Disney has been going, wouldn't it be more likely you'd have to blow a "princess?"

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 26, 2023 04:30 PM (Bd6X8)

145 And he kept working with her because she has video of him fucking kids.

Allegedly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

Much as it's off-brand of me to say so, I hope not. Did you know he has three teenaged girls who wrote an episode of Tiny Toons for him? I wonder what happened to them.

Anyways, did you know a Kennedy daughter died very mysteriously in 2020? Huh doesn't begin to cover it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Maeve_Kennedy_McKean

Posted by: trev006 at May 26, 2023 04:30 PM (FWpta)

146 And he kept working with her because she has video of him fucking kids.

Allegedly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

She must have a video of Bob Iger fucking kids too then.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2023 04:30 PM (guGkK)

147 Ahem. Ever been blown by a real princess?
______

No.

Posted by: Prince Harry at May 26, 2023 04:31 PM (lf83v)

148 I read that as boobs. You people are a bad influence on me.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 26, 2023 04:26 PM (Wy1BU)

Bobs. As in bobs and vagene.

(You can call me Kumar if you like)

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2023 04:31 PM (xhaym)

149 Black Orphan Annie has been done; when will we get Annie adopted by a groomer?

Posted by: NL at May 26, 2023 04:31 PM (eGTCV)

150
No.

Posted by: Prince Harry at May 26, 2023 04:31 PM (lf83v)

Its sexist to even ask Harry!

Posted by: Sparkle Farkle doom scrolling instagram at May 26, 2023 04:32 PM (lc5cP)

151 I was expecting to see Stacy Abrams in the Star Wars clip.

Here's a horrible thought: Are they going to redo old John Wayne or Clint Eastwood movies? Jimmie Stewart kissing Henry Fonda?

Maybe I should watch out lest I give them ideas.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 26, 2023 04:32 PM (TgBWG)

152 Maybe I just don't understand the movie business. How does someone like Kathleen Kennedy continually fail, and still keep her job. It's not like she's doing the executives.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 26, 2023 04:32 PM (ATSTk)

153 Black Orphan Annie has been done; when will we get Annie adopted by a groomer?

Little Abortion Annie?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 26, 2023 04:32 PM (Bd6X8)

154 I think Spielberg's greatest gift was being able to make good movies with his vision despite studio interference.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:29 PM (0hOvj)

Jurassic Park was likely the last "unfilmable" movie. The marriage of prototype CGI and some of the most convincing/ expensive animatronics ever were the work of a true visionary.

Posted by: trev006 at May 26, 2023 04:32 PM (FWpta)

155 I've got one word to say about Dismally+.

Bravo!!

Posted by: Axeman at May 26, 2023 04:32 PM (OaZlZ)

156 >>>151 I was expecting to see Stacy Abrams in the Star Wars clip.

Well Lizzo was a guest star in the Star Wars Mandalorian series. Close enough?

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:32 PM (KRtlO)

157 152 Maybe I just don't understand the movie business. How does someone like Kathleen Kennedy continually fail, and still keep her job. It's not like she's doing the executives.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 26, 2023 04:32 PM (ATSTk)

Maybe she does starlet procurement?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 26, 2023 04:32 PM (eYoxG)

158 Here is some million dollar advice to Disney.

The market has to be more targeted since with streaming they no longer have to win the "family" and instead have to appeal to each segment enough that those people want to watch.

But you don't shift the whole company to serve one segment. You don't sell cheap Chevy's in the Cadillac showroom. They need different brands for each segment.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 26, 2023 04:32 PM (b80MX)

159 JUST IN: Texas House Announces It will Vote on Resolution to Impeach Highly Popular Attorney General Ken Paxton Tomorrow at 1 PM

https://tinyurl.com/mr45454y
___

John Durham Will Testify Before House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, June 21

https://tinyurl.com/2p93fuuw

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 26, 2023 04:33 PM (tWJ78)

160 Can't wait for Minnie Meets Fritz The Cat.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 26, 2023 04:28 PM (to8pj)

Heh.
I got that reference!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 26, 2023 04:33 PM (YGqO/)

161
The UAW in Michigan in the 60's and 70's existed to destroy the companies they "partnered" with.

Small companies today face the insurance expense of woke indeterminate pronoun snowflakes suing because "I was made to feel uncomfortable".

The enemies have been inside the gate for a generation.

Lawfare is raging. Gear up.

Posted by: Auspex at May 26, 2023 04:33 PM (j4U/Z)

162 Putin's speech on wokeness killing the west and its similarity to 1917 Russia seems appropriate for this thread.

https://tinyurl.com/3z2ut5k3

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 26, 2023 04:33 PM (tlfKR)

163 >>> 63
==
Let's just appreciate that Disney is losing all of its money and audience.
Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:16 PM (KRtlO)

This ace guy is pretty smart, almost as smart as chuy.

*points at Disney*

HA HA!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 26, 2023 04:34 PM (llON8)

164 when will we get Annie adopted by a groomer?
_______

Annie becomes "Andy" and has to perform certain favors for Daddy Warbucks so he will pay for "his" transition.

Posted by: Sandy the Dog (Arf) at May 26, 2023 04:34 PM (lf83v)

165 To further prop things up... or not

Live action Moana is being promised.

Die Disney die.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2023 04:34 PM (pyjZt)

166 How does someone like Kathleen Kennedy continually fail, and still keep her job. It's not like she's doing the executives.

They usually do but she probably is really good at the inter office politics and has dirt on people. From everything I have heard about Disney its horrendous to work for, everyone backstabbing and trying to get ahead, betraying people and lies. Its super political not in the government sense but the office politics sense. It sounds like hell to work in.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:34 PM (0hOvj)

167
I just talked to a Disney insider who just talked to a Disney insider. They (deliberately obscuring gender because they cannot afford to get fired) said that with all of what you see, it's so much worse on the inside. "You can't imagine what's going on right now." Literally, projects that were a day away from going into production canceled because they had been originally pitched by white men.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2023 04:34 PM (lCaJd)

168 Is Doomcock's insider the same person who was Ulstraman's insider?

And I watched a podcast saying Disney man now have a choice in buying Comcast's share of Hulu as the contract had that wording in it when Hulu was Disney, Comcast and Fox, and then Disney bought Fox leaving the Mouse with a big bag to hold.

Even better, Comcast is think of doing their own streaming service which would take their content off Hulu, leaving the Mouse with a big check for a less valuable service.

One might almost think the Mouse flew too close to the sun, and no one is interested in trying to break their fall.

Posted by: Bete at May 26, 2023 04:34 PM (eQzgG)

169 Just what Disney needs...more gay.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 26, 2023 04:34 PM (XMwZJ)

170 what could possibly be worth $2400 a night at a Disney hotel?
===========================
I don't "get" Disney in general. I was just in Germany, doing some drone training in Bavaria, across the lake from Schloss Neuschwanstein, "Mad" King Ludwig's creation supposedly the model for the Disney Castle. If it (actually) had anything to do with Disney's plan, they utterly managed to bleach out any charm and uniqueness out of the original structure: kind of the way Disney commoditizes the entertainment experience.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 26, 2023 04:34 PM (7Fj9P)

171 152 Maybe I just don't understand the movie business. How does someone like Kathleen Kennedy continually fail, and still keep her job. It's not like she's doing the executives.
Posted by: Marcus T

In all business, there are people who put her in charge, and people who put them in charge. And they all approved on what she did.

So for them to say "this is a mistake" is to say "I made a mistake," and no exec. ever says that.

Companies never take responsibility for their own errors. They wouldn't be in the C-suite if they had ever done that. This is universal.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 26, 2023 04:35 PM (b80MX)

172 what could possibly be worth $2400 a night at a Disney hotel?

Ahem. Ever been blown by a real princess?
Posted by: Stromboli at May 26, 2023 04:29 PM (guGkK)

I, for one, have not. But willing to give it a try.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah, thinks it's all ops at May 26, 2023 04:35 PM (sJHOI)

173 To further prop things up... or not

Live action Moana is being promised.

A part MADE for Dylan Mulvaney!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2023 04:35 PM (guGkK)

174 >>> 162 Putin's speech on wokeness killing the west and its similarity to 1917 Russia seems appropriate for this thread.

https://tinyurl.com/3z2ut5k3
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 26, 2023 04:33 PM (tlfKR)

Is the Eff.Bee.EYE going to arrest him for hatespeech?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 26, 2023 04:35 PM (llON8)

175
What do you mean, a black mermaid with rap music and a happy ending isn't the real Danish fairy tale?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:30 PM (0hOvj)

I don't consider The Little Mermaid tragic. It's transfigurative. The cantata by Eugen d'Albert ends almost ecstatically.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2023 04:35 PM (MoZTd)

176 How does someone like Kathleen Kennedy continually fail, and still keep her job.

Welcome to the new and improved Amerika!

Posted by: The Left at May 26, 2023 04:35 PM (Xrfse)

177 Am I the only one who thinks that the "Disney Renaissance" which began with the original Little Mermaid was mostly hype? As an animated features, as a musicals, both Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast were relatively ambitious, but the pictures themselves were second-rate.

Oh, it probably has already been mentioned, but animated Ursula was based on Divine, so the drag queen thing was baked in the Disney cake over thirty years ago.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 26, 2023 04:35 PM (/5pVW)

178 I suspect Disney thought they had a captive audience, like the NFL. And there are some people that will always follow Disney no matter what. My sister is one. Its weird to see. But it looks like Disney vastly over-estimated that audience.

And all these companies are learning a lesson the hard way. America simply is not as brand loyal as it used to be. Brands defined Silents and Boomers. Their cars, their smokes, and their liquor. Its not like that as much now, and its going to be less and less like that going forward.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 04:36 PM (4ixcl)

179 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2023 04:28 PM (MoZTd)

I didn't see the original movie, but the story mentions Ariel getting a soul and eventually going to heaven. That would probably be a no-no?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 04:36 PM (Keyt1)

180 Don't tell me 'last hurrah' if there's more hurrahs a-comin'

That's Bait & Switch!!

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah, thinks it's all ops at May 26, 2023 04:36 PM (sJHOI)

181 I'm sure Hans Christian Anderson meant for Ariel to be Black... Aren't most Scandinavians ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2023 04:36 PM (bs+z0)

182 Its sexist to even ask Harry!
Posted by: Sparkle Farkle
_________

I'm so lonely.

*sobs*

Posted by: Prince Harry at May 26, 2023 04:36 PM (lf83v)

183 Ahem. Ever been blown by a real princess?
______

No.

Posted by: Prince Harry at May 26, 2023 04:31 PM (lf83v)

You're a cuck Harry!

Posted by: Hagrid at May 26, 2023 04:36 PM (lc5cP)

184
John Durham Will Testify Before House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, June 21

https://tinyurl.com/2p93fuuw
Posted by: SMH

==========

Two days, first day will be classified.

I honestly wish some Republican congressman would just do the Schiff thing and fucking leak.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2023 04:37 PM (lCaJd)

185 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new antibiotic guidance pertaining to animal drugs containing medically-important antimicrobials for use in companion and food production animals that are currently approved for over-the-counter (OTC) marketing.

This starts in June.

https://tinyurl.com/5a3dkzjf

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 26, 2023 04:37 PM (tWJ78)

186 136 what could possibly be worth $2400 a night at a Disney hotel?

Ahem. Ever been blown by a real princess?
Posted by: Stromboli at May 26, 2023 04:29 PM (guGkK)

You shut up. That was a long time ago.

Posted by: Meghan Markle at May 26, 2023 04:37 PM (PiwSw)

187 The Wonderful World of Disney this is not.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 04:37 PM (LodBx)

188 We went to Tokyo disneyland back in 87. Our son was 8 or 9 and he had a blast, haven't went to our bought a single disney thing since then so I can't really boycott them. More's the pity.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 26, 2023 04:37 PM (ncXxy)

189 They cast, then got rid of an actress for Moana, because while being Hawaiian, she didn't look Hawaiian enough to the critics, or something. My real guess is that she was too pretty, and Hollywood hates pretty now. All the women have to be weirdly androgynous or chunky. The guys are all ripped and tear their shirts off, but the women are de-sexed. Almost as if queers are in charge.

What I want to see is a study of how Hollywood is eliminating redheads. They keep recasting every redhead in anything as another hair color or even another ethnic group. It feels really deliberate at this point.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:37 PM (0hOvj)

190 ...we have an F.M. "conservative" talker in my market, totes conservative, but a complete Disney fan girl. It's weird. She won't shut up about it.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 26, 2023 04:38 PM (7Fj9P)

191 what could possibly be worth $2400 a night at a Disney hotel?

Oh, I can think of something.

Posted by: Ariel, removing clamshell bra at May 26, 2023 04:38 PM (eOEVl)

192 A lot of the Grimm fairy tales are pretty-well, grim. In Cinderella-one of the sisters cuts off her toes to try and fit in the glass slipper, while another one hacks off part of her heel.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 04:38 PM (Keyt1)

193 I'm gonna say it loud. Loud and proud. I never like Harrison Ford. Let the old man cower and ruin his character's rep. He took the money, he can take the shame.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 26, 2023 04:38 PM (Angsy)

194 Now, Drumpf's documents were stolen by Drumpf. Just like Bagpipes Billy said "he had no reason at all to have these 'stolen' documents".

Boxes of them. Walking around with them. Documents. Stolen documents.

Difficult to rate the fiction told by MSNBC hosts and their experts.

Posted by: micky at May 26, 2023 04:38 PM (3byMq)

195 When the accumulated wealth, wisdom and social trust of generations is finally spent and everyone is scrabbling in the dirt hoping to get 1500 calories a day working in "Queerness" will somehow become less important.

Posted by: Zek at May 26, 2023 04:38 PM (lcQJG)

196 I am proud to be GAYE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Nona Gaye, Frankie Gaye and Marvin Gaye III at May 26, 2023 04:38 PM (EnsGU)

197 >>>What I want to see is a study of how Hollywood is eliminating redheads. They keep recasting every redhead in anything as another hair color or even another ethnic group. It feels really deliberate at this point.

The Gingerasure

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:39 PM (KRtlO)

198 Maybe I can sell my life story to Disney? I mean, I'm woke and they're woke and they have a castle and I used to live in a castle, and I have an ugly stepmother. . .

Posted by: Prince Harry at May 26, 2023 04:39 PM (lf83v)

199 BREAKING: New Jersey Has Enacted the Largest Gun Ban in US History

The bill was ostensibly intended to outlaw firearms without serial numbers. It outlawed homemade guns, 3D printed guns, even possession of the files for running a 3D printer or CNC machine for making firearms. It even outlawed slingshots, fer Chrissakes.

https://tinyurl.com/298wvw84

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 26, 2023 04:39 PM (tWJ78)

200 Oh, it probably has already been mentioned, but animated Ursula was based on Divine

Yeah but back then, they wanted her to be scary and ugly, that's why they chose a crossdressing dude.

I really liked the run of Disney stuff from Little Mermaid to Alladin. Princess and the Frog was okay, I never saw Pocahontas. And I liked Mulan okay.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:40 PM (0hOvj)

201 68 Sure, release the Willow TV bomb while ignoring they haven finished getting Darkwing Duck on home video for at least 15 years.

Disney is Weasle Kid.

Posted by: Bete at May 26, 2023 04:40 PM (sKFy+)

202 Not Hawaiian enough?

So Disney is going to go and cast a Tahitian then?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2023 04:41 PM (pyjZt)

203 Fun thing about Willows failure; looks like Disney is not only canceling it, they're going to try to erase any evidence that it ever existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2023 04:41 PM (o1cqU)

204 You don't sell cheap Chevy's in the Cadillac showroom

You rang?

Posted by: Cadillac Cimarron at May 26, 2023 04:41 PM (xttsV)

205 I don't consider The Little Mermaid tragic.

Her every step on land being like walking on knives and her eventually dying and turning into sea foam sort of harshed my mellow as a kid.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 26, 2023 04:41 PM (aD39U)

206 I think to be fair that in the Documentry about Andre' the Giant they should put Danny Devito as the role of Andre'....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at May 26, 2023 04:41 PM (snpvX)

207 >>>I'm gonna say it loud. Loud and proud. I never like Harrison Ford.

I liked him as Han Solo and especially as Indiana but he's bad in everything else. Worst of all is his "Serious Acting," where he just puts on a stone face and growls. He thinks he's doing "internal acting;" I think he's a block of wood without wit or charisma.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:41 PM (KRtlO)

208 Aren't all the princesses supposed to be, like high school age, maybe even younger?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:41 PM (0hOvj)

209 Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 26, 2023 04:41 PM (aD39U)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 04:42 PM (Keyt1)

210 Oliver Twist completely traumatized me as a young child.

Posted by: Zek at May 26, 2023 04:42 PM (lcQJG)

211 BREAKING: New Jersey Has Enacted the Largest Gun Ban in US History
_________

New Jersey Mafia and Street Gangs: Bwaahahahahhaaa!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 26, 2023 04:42 PM (lf83v)

212 I'm reliably told "this is what winning looks like". Huh. Looks to me like Disney has ZERO intention of changing their behavior, regardless of the fight DeSantis is dragging out with them.

Posted by: deadrody at May 26, 2023 04:42 PM (kYmXc)

213 DEAD EYES!

(Alan Covert was talking about a screen test he did. One of the directors or casting agents yelled out "DEAD EYES!" as soon as he walked out.)

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

214 Putin's speech on wokeness killing the west and its similarity to 1917 Russia seems appropriate for this thread.

Yeah, his point that early Soviet Russia went through a period of trying to refashion the basic nature of human beings similar to now was an interesting point that hadn't occurred to me.

OTOH, that speech means that the Deep State will double down on not stopping until Russia is broken into several dozen weak, nominally independent states - risk of nuclear war be damned. Russia is a cultural threat more than a military threat.

Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 04:42 PM (2tUFv)

215 210 Oliver Twist completely traumatized me as a young child.
Posted by: Zek at May 26, 2023 04:42 PM (lcQJG)

=========

Was it the Oom-Pah-Pah?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

216 I think to be fair that in the Documentry about Andre' the Giant they should put Danny Devito as the role of Andre'....
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at May 26, 2023 04:41 PM (snpvX)

TAKE MY MONEY

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 26, 2023 04:43 PM (9UlRk)

217 Goslin will be DW if they reboot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2023 04:43 PM (pyjZt)

218 >>>212 I'm reliably told "this is what winning looks like". Huh. Looks to me like Disney has ZERO intention of changing their behavior, regardless of the fight DeSantis is dragging out with them.

we can't change the products they make. We can, however, change how much money they make.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:43 PM (KRtlO)

219 202 Not Hawaiian enough?

So Disney is going to go and cast a Tahitian then?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2023 04:41 PM (pyjZt)

She looked too white, that's what was said, she needed to be more brown

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 26, 2023 04:43 PM (Vj7LT)

220 I liked him as Han Solo and especially as Indiana but he's bad in everything else.

Not Blade Runner.

Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 04:43 PM (2tUFv)

221 BREAKING: New Jersey Has Enacted the Largest Gun Ban in US History

The bill was ostensibly intended to outlaw firearms without serial numbers. It outlawed homemade guns, 3D printed guns, even possession of the files for running a 3D printer or CNC machine for making firearms. It even outlawed slingshots, fer Chrissakes.
===

I predict a nasty spike in crime and the murder rate in NJ.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 26, 2023 04:44 PM (17s+e)

222 En fuego!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at May 26, 2023 04:44 PM (a3Q+t)

223 I liked Harrison Ford in Witness, that was good. He was pretty solid in The Fugitive and Blade Runner as well. He has had a pretty epic career, sad to see it bomb out like this. Its like Sean Connery finally doing a comic book movie to end his career and its freaking League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:44 PM (0hOvj)

224 It even outlawed slingshots, fer Chrissakes.
====================
When I was in the service, these were called probing moves: kick the hornets nest, see what flies out. They absolutely know these laws will fail on appeal, but in the interim, they get to fuck with guys and gals who have 6" clip knives, and gun stores who are trying to do the right thing. More Cloward/Piven b.s.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 26, 2023 04:44 PM (7Fj9P)

225 "Companies never take responsibility for their own errors. They wouldn't be in the C-suite if they had ever done that. This is universal.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 26, 2023 04:35 PM (b80MX)"

I get it and it was somewhat rhetorical, but I've fired people's golden boys before. It didn't make me popular, but it did in some cases make me feared. Plus they know IDGAF. If they give me a mission, it gets done the right way. So while a lot of people gesticulate, in the end getting the job done wins.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 26, 2023 04:44 PM (ATSTk)

226 > I didn't see the original movie, but the story mentions Ariel getting a soul and eventually going to heaven. That would probably be a no-no?

I guess they could have gone with the actual original story where Ariel fails and becomes seafoam and the moral of the story is to be happy with your lot in life.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 26, 2023 04:44 PM (R38qh)

227 >>>Boxes of them. Walking around with them. Documents. Stolen documents.
Difficult to rate the fiction told by MSNBC hosts and their experts.
Posted by: micky

I'm enjoying the updates.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:45 PM (KRtlO)

228 It even outlawed slingshots, fer Chrissakes.
______

Oh, no.

Mister Wilson!!!!!!!

Posted by: Dennis the Menace at May 26, 2023 04:45 PM (lf83v)

229 218 we can't change the products they make. We can, however, change how much money they make.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:43 PM (KRtlO)

=========

It also takes a minimum of a year for a filmed product to go from script to screen. The scale of big budget stuff is 2-3 years.

Changes in direction take a while to develop, and this powerful punch against Disney is still pretty recent. Throw in the writer's strike, and it's hard to tell what direction Disney is going to be going in 2 years.

Odds on doubling down are not low, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:45 PM (LvTSG)

230 >>>220 I liked him as Han Solo and especially as Indiana but he's bad in everything else.
Not Blade Runner.

he was a lifeless block of wood in that too.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:45 PM (KRtlO)

231 "Something new is in the air."
_____________

Yeah, sorry, that was me. I had a burrito for lunch.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 26, 2023 04:45 PM (YqDXo)

232 I predict a nasty spike in crime and the murder rate in NJ.
========================
You misspelled Philadelphia.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 26, 2023 04:45 PM (7Fj9P)

233 Looks to me like Disney has ZERO intention of changing their behavior, regardless of the fight DeSantis is dragging out with them.

Then they have to be destroyed. Pure and simple.

People still hang onto this hope that, somehow, all this current nonsense can be set right, and things can go back to the way they used to be. Thats not going to happen. If that means Disney, something that means something to some of you going back to your childhood, dies ? I don't care. Kill it with fire.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (4ixcl)

234 I thought he was good in Regarding Henry. His character in Ender's Game wasn't even a major character in the book.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (PiwSw)

235 "Was it the Oom-Pah-Pah?"

I was most scarred by the drunken violence of Bill Sikes. It felt real.

Posted by: Zek at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (lcQJG)

236 It even outlawed slingshots, fer Chrissakes.
_______

Weapons of War.

Posted by: King David at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (lf83v)

237 Harrison Ford's "Serious Acting" looks and sounds a lot like me taking a reluctant shit.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (KRtlO)

238 I liked him as Han Solo and especially as Indiana but he's bad in everything else.

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Apocalypse Now at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (a3Q+t)

239
I was most scarred by the drunken violence of Bill Sikes. It felt real.
Posted by: Zek at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (lcQJG)

Yes... That upset me

Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2023 04:47 PM (bs+z0)

240 "So no, this was not a "win" for Iger. This was a win for Nelson Peltz, who demanded huge cuts."

Also a big win for Nelson Muntz.

"Haw-haw!"

-- Nelson Muntz

Posted by: Chainsaw at May 26, 2023 04:47 PM (p7g/X)

241 235 "Was it the Oom-Pah-Pah?"

I was most scarred by the drunken violence of Bill Sikes. It felt real.
Posted by: Zek at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (lcQJG)

========

Nancy singing about Oom-Pah-Pah is much better.

Bringing it back, when Hollywood remakes Oliver! They will cast a black woman to play Nancy because Nancy is supposed to be a redhead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)

242 106 The Black Cauldron nearly ended Disney's animation department, bit the Liitle Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Lying King saved it and put it back on a pedestal.

Posted by: Bete at May 26, 2023 04:47 PM (OyYV6)

243 I liked him as Han Solo and especially as Indiana but he's bad in everything else.

What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Apocalypse Now at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (a3Q+t)

He was epic in American Graffiti.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 26, 2023 04:47 PM (aD39U)

244 Looks like New Mermaid is to original Mermaid what The Wiz was to original Wizard of Oz.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2023 04:47 PM (o1cqU)

245 Not Blade Runner.
Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 04:43 PM (2tUFv)

Decker worked as an unresponsive, grunting piece of wood. this is not me being snarky, it was in character of someone undergoing massive internal conflicts while carrying out his duties

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2023 04:47 PM (xhaym)

246 >>I liked him as Han Solo and especially as Indiana but he's bad in everything else.

Um, he wasn't bad in Blade Runner, actually. He showed some sort of interest in the script and Ridely Scotts direction there. But yeah, everything else except the original "Jones" and the first SW sucked.

Posted by: Boswell at May 26, 2023 04:48 PM (K+UlC)

247 lol, maybe someone already made the joke, but...

remember the 1989 controversy where some Disney groomer put a big ol' dildie on the cover of The Little Mermaid's VHS cover? Quite a scandal it was.

I guess now that guy would be promoted to head of marketing (if he wasn't white, or male, or straight).

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 26, 2023 04:48 PM (MLrvz)

248 Wait a minute.
There's a right wing pyramid chart and no Jolly Roger?

Be better commie fags, be better.

Posted by: DaveA at May 26, 2023 04:48 PM (FhXTo)

249 Why does disney need a special woke consultant? Their content is all very gay now.

And they couldn't hire a real drag queen to play ursula, they had to have a woman in drag face? What the hell is this world coming to?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 04:48 PM (s88O9)

250 Changes in direction take a while to develop, and this powerful punch against Disney is still pretty recent. Throw in the writer's strike, and it's hard to tell what direction Disney is going to be going in 2 years.

Yeah whatever the market and public are stomping them with right now, won't show up for years. And they have a ton of terrible crap in the pipe already.

Disney is taking it in the shorts with remakes, they've done so many with Indiana Jones 5 and Marvels that its doubtful they CAN make money, no matter how well they do. They can't just shut down stuff and eat the losses, they've spent all that tasty Avengers money. The remakes eat away at profits. So what do they do?

And remember: when you see Indiana Jones 5 or hear the reviews and reactions... this was the best they could do after months of reshoots and rewrites.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:48 PM (0hOvj)

251 242 106 The Black Cauldron nearly ended Disney's animation department, bit the Liitle Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Lying King saved it and put it back on a pedestal.
Posted by: Bete at May 26, 2023 04:47 PM (OyYV6)

========

Fun fact:

Disney pretty much stole Aladdin from a British filmmaker, Dick Williams (who did all the animation for Who Framed Roger Rabbit) by stealing all of his talent and taking all the ideas he had been working on for literally years that he was building into his film The Thief and the Cobbler. Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJry5ReXZVM

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)

252 > What I want to see is a study of how Hollywood is eliminating redheads. They keep recasting every redhead in anything as another hair color or even another ethnic group. It feels really deliberate at this point.

Hollywood has always been weird as hell about redheads. If they wanted a beautiful actress in a slightly quirky, outcast sort of role, where the audience was supposed to understand she was really good looking, but not as good looking as some other girls, they'd go with a redhead.

See Molly Ringwald's entire career as evidence.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 26, 2023 04:49 PM (R38qh)

253 Didn't Disney used to create family entertainment?

Goodness, I'm old.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 26, 2023 04:49 PM (qoGsy)

254 "Harrison Ford's "Serious Acting" looks and sounds a lot like me taking a reluctant shit.
Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (KRtlO)"

I like him in A Clear and Present Danger. Also Force 10. The rest, eh.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 26, 2023 04:49 PM (ATSTk)

255 "EqualPride."

To provide more inequality, based on something you shouldn't be proud of.

Why are all Lefty organizations named like that?

Posted by: mikeski at May 26, 2023 04:50 PM (DgGvY)

256 "If both Indiana Jones and the Little Mermaid disappoint at the box office, the Deathwatch clock for Bob Iger's firing will start running."

/////////

or, according to woke libtard twitter, "RON DESANTIS's MAGA war on Disney continues to cost the state hundreds of dollars in lost tax revenue"

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 26, 2023 04:50 PM (MLrvz)

257 Harrison Ford's "Serious Acting" looks and sounds a lot like me taking a reluctant shit.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (KRtlO)
---
Not buying. He was stellar in Witness and Mosquito Coast.

He may have started costing on box office after that.

Posted by: Axeman at May 26, 2023 04:50 PM (OaZlZ)

258 250 And remember: when you see Indiana Jones 5 or hear the reviews and reactions... this was the best they could do after months of reshoots and rewrites.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 04:48 PM (0hOvj)

========

It's going to be discovered that Kevin Feige was the architect of Disney's new rise as well as its fall.

He brought in the MCU, but he also brought in the messy, executive meddling process that they have increasingly used to make their movies, which Kathleen Kennedy borrowed for Lucasfilm.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:50 PM (LvTSG)

259 Yeah, uplifting.

“Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 26, 2023 04:50 PM (aD39U)

260 253 Didn't Disney used to create family entertainment?

Goodness, I'm old.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 26, 2023 04:49 PM (qoGsy)

Yes... Now Parents have to question whether or not to take their Kids to a Disney film

Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2023 04:50 PM (bs+z0)

261
I realize they have a need to be "woke", but if they didn't have that as their overriding concern apparently, why couldn't they just hire back some older retired writers who hadn't yet gone to meet the Lord who might-you know-have some creativity still there with some fresh ideas?.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

===========

See #167 -- although it still doesn't make sense. Why is Disney deliberately losing money? Someone somewhere suggested that it's not about the consumers anymore; the CEOs are all in a woke club, and they're working to satisfy each other, not the consumers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2023 04:50 PM (lCaJd)

262 Ultimately Disney forgot its customers, THE PARENTS who want to get rid of their filthy rug rats for a few hours or give them some amusement while daddy ogles the hot princesses but not at the expense of Junior coming back wanting to get his dick cut off or meeting some guy named Leroy who taught junior something about his sqeakhole.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 26, 2023 04:50 PM (RNE3g)

263 "Nancy singing about Oom-Pah-Pah is much better."

I don't recall the whole movie very well as it has been decades since I saw it. But I do recall being quite interested in Nancy in a way that made me feel funny in a new way.

Posted by: Zek at May 26, 2023 04:51 PM (lcQJG)

264 >>>Also Force 10.

oh yeah Force 10 was really good.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:51 PM (KRtlO)

265 >>Disney pretty much stole Aladdin from a British filmmaker, Dick Williams

Fun Fact - everyone in the creative industry steals everything that isn't nailed down - from animation to songs. Just saying - not even Shakespeare had an original thought or plot theme.

Posted by: Boswell at May 26, 2023 04:51 PM (K+UlC)

266 A friend writes to me, "They should have just put Harrison Ford in a gimp suite for this movie. At least he could away with some self respect". 😀

Posted by: Marcus T at May 26, 2023 04:52 PM (ATSTk)

267
I like him in A Clear and Present Danger. Also Force 10. The rest, eh.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 26, 2023 04:49 PM (ATSTk)

I liked Barbara Bach in Force 10 better.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2023 04:52 PM (MoZTd)

268 Wait a minute.
There's a right wing pyramid chart and no Jolly Roger?

Also missing the punisher skull, the trojan helmet thing, and the Blackbeard flag that may or may not look like the actual Blackbeard flag.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 26, 2023 04:52 PM (R38qh)

269 Mister Wilson!!!!!!!
Posted by: Dennis the Menace at May 26, 2023 04:45 PM

Glub?

Posted by: zombie Dennis Wilson at May 26, 2023 04:52 PM (a3Q+t)

270 Order your tickets for Disney's Sodomy on Ice, coming in November.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 26, 2023 04:52 PM (aD39U)

271 261 See #167 -- although it still doesn't make sense. Why is Disney deliberately losing money? Someone somewhere suggested that it's not about the consumers anymore; the CEOs are all in a woke club, and they're working to satisfy each other, not the consumers.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2023 04:50 PM (lCaJd)

=======

It seems to be a wide variety of factors from cultural (the C-suite is its own culture) to financial (loan requirements, low interest on debt allowing for increased tolerance for failure, a disconnect between C-suite bonus structures and actual performance of the company, using the stock market as proxy for actual metrics).

Essentially, it feels like a perfect storm of stuff designed to make companies unappealing to their own customers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:52 PM (LvTSG)

272 but in force 10, Robert Shaw and Edward Fox did most of the real acting, while Harrison Ford tried to keep up with Carl Weathers...

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:53 PM (KRtlO)

273
At what point do shareholders say it's not worth bleeding money for social policy?

Posted by: Marcus T

===========

Once again, it's going to come down to the motley host of unwashed proles like you and me to change things. Populism may be the ism that gives this age its name -- if we prevail.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2023 04:53 PM (lCaJd)

274 "Faster, Mickeymouse! Kill! Kill!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist at May 26, 2023 04:53 PM (LDSrz)

275 I Imagine the new Little mermaid and Indiana Jones will be coming to Disney + sooner than thought

Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2023 04:53 PM (bs+z0)

276 265 >>Disney pretty much stole Aladdin from a British filmmaker, Dick Williams

Fun Fact - everyone in the creative industry steals everything that isn't nailed down - from animation to songs. Just saying - not even Shakespeare had an original thought or plot theme.
Posted by: Boswell at May 26, 2023 04:51 PM (K+UlC)

========

Oh, I know that. But the stealing of Aladdin is...blatant. Pulled all of his talent and his ideas before he even finished his film (well...he never did finish it at all, but that's another story).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:53 PM (LvTSG)

277 $250 million on the Mermaid remake. $250 million???? Are they fucking kidding me? Nothing in the movie could possibly cost that much.

Oh: and even in the American poster, it’s hard to tell she’s black (or at least mixed) unless you look close or already know. Hmmmmm . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 26, 2023 04:54 PM (mZRi+)

278
but in force 10, Robert Shaw and Edward Fox did most of the real acting, while Harrison Ford tried to keep up with Carl Weathers...
Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:53 PM (KRtlO)

"Miller! That git!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2023 04:54 PM (MoZTd)

279 The Woke mafia is usually good about shoving this down our throats when they know its still going to do "good enough". Like they won't do an ultra woke movie on an unproven IP because they know that will fail terribly.

Budweiser could have made a new seltzer drink specifically targeting LGBT types, but they know that will crash and burn. So they do it on their most popular, established product instead.

Like the new Indiana Jones Movie, there's no way it doesn't make a gazillion dollars even if its straight up terrible. It wont be Top Gun level of successful, but it will probably do okay.

What conservatives need to start doing is learning how to pirate. That hits them where it hurts.

Posted by: Blago at May 26, 2023 04:54 PM (cOFom)

280 I don't think Ford is a bad Actor, but then again I like Nicholas Cage

Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2023 04:54 PM (bs+z0)

281 man, disney and target really need to start doxxing their bad customers. that's the end goal, right? how dare you not buy our grooming

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 26, 2023 04:54 PM (MLrvz)

282 275 I Imagine the new Little mermaid and Indiana Jones will be coming to Disney + sooner than thought
Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2023 04:53 PM (bs+z0)

=======

Mermaid is probably going to clear $100 million this weekend. Second weekend will be the tell. If it drops hard like Ant-Man 3, it'll vanish quick. If it holds like Guardians 3, it'll be around for a while and probably make enough money to call itself a success.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

283 Disney pretty much stole Aladdin from a British filmmaker, Dick Williams (who did all the animation for Who Framed Roger Rabbit) by stealing all of his talent and taking all the ideas he had been working on for literally years that he was building into his film The Thief and the Cobbler. Here's a trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJry5ReXZVM
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)

I hope you are not offended when I say that looked like Rankin/Bass dropped acid

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2023 04:54 PM (xhaym)

284 Most of Ford's acting follows the old John Wayne acting school of, "Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much." Every once in a while he'll roar some line. When he strays from this formula, things go wrong.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 26, 2023 04:55 PM (R38qh)

285 "Budweiser could have made a new seltzer drink specifically targeting LGBT types..."

I believe this is called "IPA."

Posted by: Zek at May 26, 2023 04:55 PM (lcQJG)

286 283 I hope you are not offended when I say that looked like Rankin/Bass dropped acid
Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2023 04:54 PM (xhaym)

========

It's much, much better than Rankin/Bass.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

287
One more case of "get woke, go broke."

Here's hoping the trend accelerates.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 26, 2023 04:55 PM (KATBx)

288 >>>280 I don't think Ford is a bad Actor, but then again I like Nicholas Cage

I really like Nicholas Cage. I don't think Harrison Ford is anything close to him.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:55 PM (KRtlO)

289 I don't think Ford is a bad Actor, but then again I like Nicholas Cage
Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2023 04:54 PM (bs+z0)

Cage is in a class all his own, like Olivier.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 26, 2023 04:55 PM (aD39U)

290 Disney's remake of Pink Flamingos is going to be lit!!!

Posted by: pawn at May 26, 2023 04:56 PM (kYVzH)

291 but in force 10, Robert Shaw and Edward Fox did most of the real acting, while Harrison Ford tried to keep up with Carl Weathers...
Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:53 PM (KRtlO)

-------

Reboot with the same cast today: "Force 10 From Nursing Home."

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist at May 26, 2023 04:56 PM (LDSrz)

292 Didn't Disney used to create family entertainment?

Goodness, I'm old.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 26, 2023 04:49 PM (qoGsy)
---
True but decades ago, when my son was 6, my wife had to call to complain about a scene between Cruella De Ville and a handyman, where she was trying to pull off his pants, and he said "I don't like you like that".

She hasn't had that much trust in them since they blew her off.

Posted by: Axeman at May 26, 2023 04:57 PM (OaZlZ)

293 Btw, I recommend Renfield.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 26, 2023 04:57 PM (aD39U)

294 *peeks in to see how the gay and trans agendas are faring...*

I don't know, Michelle, doesn't look like they're ready for what you 'bring to the table' yet.

Posted by: Barry O. at May 26, 2023 04:58 PM (amJF4)

295 > I really like Nicholas Cage. I don't think Harrison Ford is anything close to him.

Did you ever see Willy's Wonderland? It's a weird as hell, low budget horror movie. Cage only says a half dozen words in the whole thing. It's kind of fun though.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 26, 2023 04:58 PM (R38qh)

296 I think Ford is great in specific kinds of roles. When he gets out of his lane, like portraying brain damage in Regarding Henry, he can be cringe inducing.

Posted by: Nightowl at May 26, 2023 04:58 PM (xnoj9)

297 oh right...the disney + thing about adding more ghey streaming context.

you know, like in every other streaming service, there's that black hole of woke content that they're seemingly required to put there, like remember equal time requirements in the 80s?

so yeah, netflix+amazon+hulu+peacock already have unwatched, unloved "black voices" and "womens voices" and "pride voices" playlists you already avoid clicking on. I assume DisneyPlus already has this bullshit as well, so what's the point?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 26, 2023 04:58 PM (MLrvz)

298 There probably are enough wokesters to make Little mermaid do well... There has been so much hype about it they would think it's their duty to rave about it

Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2023 04:58 PM (bs+z0)

299 See #167 -- although it still doesn't make sense. Why is Disney deliberately losing money? Someone somewhere suggested that it's not about the consumers anymore; the CEOs are all in a woke club, and they're working to satisfy each other, not the consumers.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2023 04:50 PM (lCaJd)

There comes a time when social clubbing (wokeism) is more important than money. The term "Nouveau Riche" was invented to as an insult to ward off unacceptable $$ out of the club. That's all Woke is - a tech billionaires' moves to keep those unacceptable folks off the club house lawn.

Posted by: Boswell at May 26, 2023 04:58 PM (K+UlC)

300 Well of course he had trouble finding emotions in Blade Runner, he was a replicant. Besides, Rutger Hauer was the real star.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2023 04:59 PM (o1cqU)

301
It seems to be a wide variety of factors from cultural (the C-suite is its own culture) to financial (loan requirements, low interest on debt allowing for increased tolerance for failure, a disconnect between C-suite bonus structures and actual performance of the company, using the stock market as proxy for actual metrics).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman

==========

Disney needs a czar. Walt's genius was his sense of story and this sensibility:

"Everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget, and that maybe our pictures can help recall."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2023 04:59 PM (lCaJd)

302 Force 10 from Navarone also had Barbara Bach as a Jugoslavian partisan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2023 05:00 PM (pyjZt)

303 FART Tubing peeple............ Let' ale dew it to save the planit !!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at May 26, 2023 05:00 PM (R+nZe)

304 Nood. Upstair's y'all.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 26, 2023 05:00 PM (PiwSw)

305 Where does League of Extraordinary Gentlemen fit on the Prometheus scale?

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 26, 2023 05:00 PM (nIRE6)

306 38 17 Reminder: Trump doesn't want Ron to attack Disney any more.
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 26, 2023 04:09 PM (i7Q7S)

OR Bud Light
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
_____

Yeah, why does DeSantis have to be so divisive?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 26, 2023 05:00 PM (fs1hN)

307 There was a young mermaid who swims
Who transgendered herself on a whim
She opened her frock
And then gained a cock
And thus turned a her to a him

Posted by: Disney Magic at May 26, 2023 05:01 PM (VsUo2)

308 Disney needs a czar.

Disney needs Walt's frozen head to be attached to a sixteen foot tall mecha body and allowed to run amok in the corporate offices.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 26, 2023 05:01 PM (aD39U)

309 Sigh.

It is always about the buttfucking, perversions, and deviancy.

By definition, unnatural.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 26, 2023 05:01 PM (ufFY8)

310 He wasn't a Nexus, just a human who had lost his soul. Until he met Sean Penn.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2023 05:01 PM (pyjZt)

311 Budweiser could have made a new seltzer drink specifically targeting LGBT types, but they know that will crash and burn. So they do it on their most popular, established product instead.
[ . . . ]
Posted by: Blago at May 26, 2023 04:54 PM (cOFom)

Since Dylan Mulvwhatsit is a Tiktoker who has mostly a pre-teen girl audience, there is a question that Budweiser was pretending to be woke while surreptitiously advertising to children the way they are forbidden to do under the industry's agreement with the FedGov

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2023 05:01 PM (xhaym)

312
even in the American poster, it’s hard to tell she’s black (or at least mixed) unless you look close or already know. Hmmmmm . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade

===========

That's because of the new, muddy dark look of Hollywood films. Peter Pan was the same. One theory is that it helps to hide lazy CG.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2023 05:02 PM (lCaJd)

313 >>>302 Force 10 from Navarone also had Barbara Bach as a Jugoslavian partisan.

I think she did Sidal Nudity.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 05:02 PM (KRtlO)

314 My cats suggest we remake The Lion King again, only using kitties and not CGI lions. Guaranteed hit.

Posted by: Piper at May 26, 2023 05:02 PM (ZdaMQ)

315 "Instead of getting the girl at the end, what if Indiana Jones gets the dog instead?!"

Sorry, it's been done.

Don Johnson in "A Boy and His Dog"!

Posted by: pawn at May 26, 2023 05:03 PM (kYVzH)

316 A close relative of mine died in his sleep last night. He was healthy and late 30's and vaxxed and boosted (he did it for his family's health). He told his wife he was going to come to bed later and she found him this morning unresponsive and they had to pull the plug after a bit in the hospital. The doctors already said they believe it was a clot but obviously an autopsy must be done. Healthy late 30 year olds don't die in their sleep. He left kids. Still hasn't hit me yet.
Anybody who took the vax, I beg you to get an echo, blood work, and a full body scan.

* Types *
* deletes *

Posted by: Eagle Lips at May 26, 2023 05:04 PM (w8feh)

317 The original live action Oliver Twist is *really* brutal. (Alec Guinness as Fagan) even the dog cries when Sykes beats Nancy to death.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2023 05:07 PM (o1cqU)

318 314 My cats suggest we remake The Lion King again, only using kitties and not CGI lions. Guaranteed hit.
Posted by: Piper

Box Office Bonanza!!

Posted by: Meow Meow Meow!!! at May 26, 2023 05:07 PM (VsUo2)

319 217 Goslin kind of was that as she was like Penny was to Inspector Gadget in helping save DW/occasionally move the plot along when his ego bogged things down.

On another note, which corpse of a IP is Disney going to have to getsome sucker to buy first, a dead Lucasfilm or a diseased Marvel? But hey, Marvel has The Marvel's on deck, so it'll be fine.

Posted by: Bete at May 26, 2023 05:07 PM (8DsjQ)

320 LOL Disney nominated She Hulk for 19 emmies.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 05:08 PM (0hOvj)

321 Well of course he had trouble finding emotions in Blade Runner, he was a replicant. Besides, Rutger Hauer was the real star.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2023 04:59 PM (o1cqU)

retcon all you want, but Decker was a man who realized he was no better and in many ways worse than what he was tasked to hunt.

One of the principal elements of Philip K Dick's work was "once you start f****ing with reality, how can you tell when you stop"
In Electric Sheep, the question is "once you start faking reality how do you tell what is real and what is not" This was carried over in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch which was for all intents and purposes the same universe and Electric Sheep. Dick was borderline schizophrenic of some sort and deeply interested in how to determine reality from illusion.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2023 05:09 PM (xhaym)

322 Who knew that the future of Disney would be a ripoff of that oddkin favorite … Pink Flamingos

Posted by: SMOD at May 26, 2023 05:10 PM (RovqD)

323 Everyone at Disney should be eaten by gay crocodiles. And the crocs should shit out rainbows

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 26, 2023 05:10 PM (O8bOp)

324 Force 10 from Navarone also had Barbara Bach as a Jugoslavian partisan.

Not one of Alistair Maclean's best books, but pretty good anyway.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 05:11 PM (0hOvj)

325 251 Lion King is Osamu Tezuka's Kimba the White Lion. Disney thieving isn't new.

Posted by: Bete at May 26, 2023 05:12 PM (8DsjQ)

326 Harrison Ford's "Serious Acting" looks and sounds a lot like me taking a reluctant shit.
Posted by: ace at May 26, 2023 04:46 PM (KRtlO)

"The Reluctant Shit" was Hans Christian Anderson's least popular fairy tale.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 26, 2023 05:14 PM (RJQ8g)

327 The last time I went to Disney was in the late 1990's. Stayed in Orlando for 2 weeks at a rental in a place called Windsor something. The controversy then was the unofficial Gay Day in Disney. Disney was all nudge-nudge wink-wink about it with blatantly disingenuous PR assuring parents this was not a thing. Residents and local church leaders called their BS and were adamant that this needed to be nipped in the bud or it would spell doom both economically and culturally.

Disney knew over 25 years ago and they were told: don't do this - or you will wreck it and infect the country. Bastards.

Posted by: Java Joe at May 26, 2023 05:17 PM (VsPm9)

328 A great movie star name of Jones
Made his fortune and fame sifting bones
But then he went woke
His producer went broke
When sequels delivered just groans

Posted by: Asps... very dangerous. You go first. at May 26, 2023 05:18 PM (VsUo2)

329 If I drove a Lamborghini into a steel reinforced concrete wall at 200 mph I don't think I could do as much damage to it as Kathleen Kennedy has done to Lucasfilm.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at May 26, 2023 05:20 PM (llxzF)

330 Disney? Who knew they were still in busines?

Posted by: setnaffa at May 26, 2023 05:22 PM (rZVTl)

331 Posted by: Eagle Lips at May 26, 2023 05:04 PM (w8feh)

So sorry; That is terrible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 05:25 PM (Keyt1)

332 If everyone were clamoring for gay content, wouldn't it be a boon to some enterprising light-in-the-loafers exec to start ze/zim OWN channel and sit back to watch the sweet, sweet money train roll in?

But no. As always -- whether it's gayness or antifa or CRT -- they never start their own entity; they insist on infesting the functioning one, enjoyed by hundreds of millions of normal people, and destroy it from within. Everyone loses.

The Boy Scouts are done. Many, many churches are done. Portland is done. No one will write any songs about SF or NYC or Chicago that will live on for decades. The latest victims are Disney and Budweiser. And for what?

Posted by: red speck at May 26, 2023 05:28 PM (Ny/Va)

333 "The new Little Mermaid has new songs in it, too, and at least one is sung by the incomprehensibly employed Akwafina"

The rapper's name is water-themed! It's an obvious tie-in!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 26, 2023 05:31 PM (ou9hh)

334 "a scene between Cruella De Ville and a handyman, where she was trying to pull off his pants, and he said "I don't like you like that".

... to be fair, Cruella was the bad guy.

Complaining when the bad guy in a movie acts like a bad guy seems... pointless?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 26, 2023 05:42 PM (ou9hh)

335 If they had their way, they'd be making gay kiddie porn

Posted by: Bob S. Vagene at May 26, 2023 05:50 PM (cHOHf)

336 I'd bet they're going to find another way to try to monetize it somehow. License it to a place like FreeVee or even just releasing it on Blu-ray.

Release it on Blu-ray. Sell 2,000 copies. It'll make more for them than just letting it languish on the streaming service.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 04:17 PM (LvTSG)

Letting anyone see that they seriously put the Disney brand on this drek would cost them more than they could possibly make back.

My childhood years were in the Disney nadir, after it was a big thing on television and before its revival, so I have a lower view of Disney quality than almost everyone else, but that show was an embarrassment for them.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 26, 2023 05:56 PM (eoQWY)

337 There probably are enough wokesters to make Little mermaid do well... There has been so much hype about it they would think it's their duty to rave about it
Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2023 04:58 PM (bs+z0)

Rave, sure. Go and see it multiple times and buy merch? Hell no. Wokesters are a tiny, tiny minority.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 26, 2023 06:00 PM (eoQWY)

338 I've been watching Murder In . . ., a French detective series (in French with English subtitles) whose schtick is that every episode is shot in a different semi rural, beautiful area of France (and explains the ambiguous title). It is beautifully shot and the plot and characters are much more real than US cozy mysteries like Hallmark Channel, Monk, Psyche! etc. The episodes I'm watching now are apparently from 2017 but so far no trannies, no alternate lifestyles etc. Perhaps surprisingly for a French show, many of the plots concern the multiple generational problems created by sexual impropriety. (I believe they're called "children".)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 06:11 PM (FVME7)

339 Barbara Bach as a Jugoslavian partisan.

-
A Jug-o-slav eh?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 06:13 PM (FVME7)

340 Depravity darkens the mind and impairs the ability to make decisions--prudent business decisions, it would seem.

Posted by: T.S. at May 26, 2023 06:31 PM (jgKpK)

341 So sorry; That is terrible.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Thanks and God Bless you, Fen.
Christ is King.

Posted by: Eagle Lips at May 26, 2023 07:11 PM (w8feh)

342 When are these corporations going to wake up to the fact that the vast majority of people aren’t into their woke bullshit

Posted by: Blue1 at May 26, 2023 09:33 PM (Ix54O)

343 More than $15k can be earned online by performing straightforward tasks from home. In the previous month, I got $18376. Even a young child may do this job and make money because it is so simple to complete and has higher pay than typical office occupations. Everyone needs to try this task by using the information on this page. www.Richepay.com

Posted by: Hannah Poole at May 27, 2023 07:50 AM (tzFw+)

344
I work online, go to school full-time, and have earned $64,000 so far this year. Through an online business opportunity I learned about, I've made a bunch of money. It's really extremely user-friendly, so I'm really delighted I found out about it. I work in this field. BONUS: Good luck.

Click here for the richsalary website. www.richsalary.com

Posted by: Zara at May 27, 2023 07:56 AM (BrM9u)

345
I merely started eight weeks past and that i have gotten four check for an entire of $4,150...this is the foremosteffective decision I created in a {very} very long time! "Thank you for giving American state this extraordinary likelihood to form more cash from home. This more cash has changed my life in such an oversized quantity of how during which, impart you!".

AND GOOD LUCK.

HERE====)> www.apprichs.com

Posted by: Amy Gibson at May 27, 2023 08:54 AM (0Z7AL)

346 #59 cigars are pretty good for about $1.50 or so each.
I like Macanudo regularly but I smoke #59s as well.
Not the sweets, ugh, the regulars are okay, the claros are passable.
Best Cigar Prices (.com) is a decent place.
They often have freebies with their good cigars.
Sometimes they offer 5 or 10 extra cigars and I have a plethora of ashtrays, lighters, a nice humidor and a travel humidor.
I'm waiting on my Punch ashtray, it looks like the Punch guy, and an engine block looking lighter.

Posted by: Veeshir at May 28, 2023 08:42 PM (mpmL+)

347 Crap, wrong thread.

Posted by: Veeshir at May 28, 2023 08:43 PM (mpmL+)

Processing 0.04, elapsed 0.0486 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0172 seconds, 356 records returned.
Page size 199 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.