{"id":1945108,"date":"2023-06-06T10:13:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mind-behind-woke-disney-failure-gets-the-ax-but-the-bad-news-doesnt-stop-there\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:16:41","slug":"mind-behind-woke-disney-failure-gets-the-ax-but-the-bad-news-doesnt-stop-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mind-behind-woke-disney-failure-gets-the-ax-but-the-bad-news-doesnt-stop-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney executive responsible for woke failures fired, more bad news follows."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmind-behind-woke-disney-failure-gets-the-ax-but-the-bad-news-doesnt-stop-there%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945108&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Woke Disney Failure: Mind Behind It Gets the Ax, But the Bad News Doesn&#8217;t Stop There<\/h2>\n<p>Dear Galyn Susman and Angus MacLane, two members of the senior team behind the woke Pixar flop \u201cLightyear,\u201d let me put my feelings about your current employment situation \u2014 as well as that of 73 of your colleagues \u2014 in Disneyspeak:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu! \/ Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, when a company loses over a quarter of a billion dollars on two movies deliberately positioned as propaganda in the culture war, Gen. Mickey Mouse has to make some troop cutbacks. Thus, 75 positions at the company\u2019s Pixar computer animation division, which was behind \u201cLightyear,\u201d were terminated in May, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/walt-disneys-pixar-animation-eliminates-75-positions-2023-06-03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the firing of 75 people doesn\u2019t exactly seem like a big deal, it represents the first major job cuts at the studio in over a decade. MacLane had co-written and directed \u201cLightyear\u201d and had worked at Pixar since 1997. Susman is arguably the biggest departure; not only did she produce \u201cLightyear,\u201d but she also had been with the studio since its first movie, \u201cToy Story,\u201d was released in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Susman did exactly the opposite of what Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom did in Mel Brooks\u2019 \u201cThe Producers\u201d: She took a surefire hit and turned it into a flop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLightyear\u201d was the easiest possible sell ever; it was supposed to be the movie that inspired Andy, the boy in the original \u201cToy Story,\u201d to want a Buzz Lightyear toy in the first place. It was a prequel to the most beloved and well-known franchise in the studio\u2019s history. It was, in effect, Pixar\u2019s origin story. How do you screw that up?<\/p>\n<p>Well, first, you get all worked up about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill \u2014 which didn\u2019t say \u201cgay\u201d but instead merely prohibited instruction in sexual or gender identity for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/solution-found-behar-on-school-students-just-have-everyone-repeat-the-year\/\" title=\"SOLUTION FOUND: Behar On School Students: \u2018Just Have Everyone Repeat The Year\u2019\">public school kids<\/a> in third grade and under \u2014 and reinsert footage of a lesbian kiss that had little to do with the plotline into the movie to shove it conservatives\u2019 faces.<\/p>\n<p>You then send the voice actor behind the titular character in \u201cLightyear,\u201d Chris Evans, on a media tour in which he calls parents who objected to the LGBT agitprop \u201cdinosaurs\u201d and \u201cidiots.\u201d That\u2019ll do, pig. <\/p>\n<p>The film had a disappointing opening weekend at the box office, which the media blamed on anything but that lesbian kiss. Some said the reviews weren\u2019t as great as other Pixar movies. This didn\u2019t hold true because 1) critics still liked it, they just found it pleasant if slight, 2) the film that beat it at the box office, \u201cJurassic World Dominion,\u201d was already out for two weeks and had garnered reviews that made \u201cIshtar\u201d and \u201cDeuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo\u201d look like Oscar contenders, and 3) this is Pixar, a studio that made nearly half a billion dollars in box office off of a movie about anthropomorphic talking cars that got roughly the same kinds of reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Some blamed it on people being used to streaming movies at home now, as if the wizards who set box office estimates hadn\u2019t factored that in. Others blamed it on people not being able to figure out where \u201cLightyear\u201d sat in the wider \u201cToy Story\u201d universe, absurdly entertaining the concept that a prequel is just too difficult for audiences to contemplate.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the bad returns from the first weekend continued apace, with \u201cLightyear\u201d taking home $226.7 million in worldwide ticket sales versus $1.2 billion for \u201cThe Incredibles 2,\u201d another Pixar film with a similar budget, released in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Further evidence that this wasn\u2019t just the fault of streaming or reviews came when the Disney film \u201cStrange World\u201d \u2014 an even woker beast, advertised as featuring the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-broke-america-says-no-thanks-to-disney-cartoon-with-gay-teenage-hero\/\" title=\"Woke = Broke: America Says \u2018No Thanks\u2019 To Disney Cartoon With Gay Teenage Hero\">queer teen character<\/a> in a Disney picture \u2014 was an even bigger flop than \u201cLightyear\u201d was.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Susman and MacLane, Pixar\u2019s vice president of worldwide publicity Michael Agulnek, who had been in that job since 2015, was also laid off.<\/p>\n<p>While the cuts were first reported Saturday, the layoffs were originally made May 23 as part of new Disney CEO Bob Iger\u2019s plan to cut $5.5 billion in costs.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just woke movie types getting the ax from Iger. In April, Nate Silver \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mind-behind-woke-disney-failure-gets-the-ax-but-the-bad-news-doesnt-stop-there\/\" title=\"Disney executive responsible for woke failures fired, more bad news follows.\">left-leaning elections stat nerd<\/a> best known as the impresario of FiveThirtyEight, now a property of Disney \u2014 announced his website\u2019s staff would be on the chopping block, as well, and that he expected to leave the site he\u2019s been most prominently identified with when his contract is up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Disney layoffs have substantially impacted FiveThirtyEight. I am sad and disappointed to a degree that\u2019s kind of hard to express right now. We\u2019ve been at Disney almost 10 years. My contract is up soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>your crew! 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