{"id":1967576,"date":"2023-07-08T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-quietly-deletes-50m-project-from-existence-less-than-2-months-after-release\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T20:03:32","slug":"disney-quietly-deletes-50m-project-from-existence-less-than-2-months-after-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-quietly-deletes-50m-project-from-existence-less-than-2-months-after-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney silently erases $50M project from existence within 2 months of release."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdisney-quietly-deletes-50m-project-from-existence-less-than-2-months-after-release%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=1967576&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>Disney&#8217;s Summer Slump: $890 Million in Losses and Counting<\/h2>\n<p>Disney is not having a great summer. The House of Mouse is facing massive losses of over $890 million on its last eight studio releases, not including its most recent film, \u201cIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,\u201d which is destined to lose upwards of $260 million.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the slump is starting to affect the company\u2019s streaming service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cCrater,\u201d<\/strong> a $53 million sci-fi adventure movie that premiered exclusively on Disney+ on May 12, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prageru-a-fathers-questions-for-black-lives-matter\/\" title=\"PragerU: A Father\u2019s Questions For Black Lives Matter\">quietly removed<\/a> from the platform exactly seven weeks after its release, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/films\/news\/disney-plus-movies-crater-removed-b2371136.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet reported that Disney scrapped the film to cut its losses by saving on licensing deals, though no official comment from the entertainment giant has been provided.<\/p>\n<p>Before the plug was pulled, \u201cCrater\u201d followed a group of friends who travel to a legendary crater on the moon. The Disney+ original had a 63 percent audience score on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/crater_2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Underneath the plot lay sociological themes of inequality and anti-capitalist and pro-union messaging \u2014 the reason why Breitbart\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2023\/07\/03\/nolte-another-disney-fail-50m-woke-crater-removed-after-7-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Nolte<\/a> called the movie a \u201cwoke sci-fi failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Do you watch Disney movies?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The news comes after CFO Christine McCarthy revealed during the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chipotle-says-menu-prices-could-increase-if-minimum-wage-hike-imposed\/\" title=\"Chipotle Says Menu Prices Could Increase If Minimum Wage Hike Imposed\">quarterly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-testing-a-number-of-approaches-to-limiting-political-content\/\" title=\"Facebook Testing \u2018A Number Of Approaches\u2019 To Limiting Political Content\">earnings call<\/a><\/a> in May that Disney+ and Hulu, also owned by Disney, would lose some content in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/digital\/disney-creators-hulu-shows-disappear-remove-1235508084\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, more than 70 movies and TV shows got the axe between the two streaming services, including \u201cWillow,\u201d \u201cMighty Ducks,\u201d \u201cThe Mysterious Benedict Society,\u201d \u201cEarth to Ned\u201d and \u201cY: The Last Man.\u201d \u201cCrater\u201d was pulled from Disney+ on June 30.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the mass content removal, Disney took a $1.5 billion write-down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/not-safe-kids-upcoming-disney-show-actor-brags-much-sex-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney+<\/a> faced a loss of 4 million subscribers in the first three months of 2023, as also revealed during the May earnings call, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/5\/19\/23729642\/disney-plus-hulu-remove-pull-shows-willow-streaming-bob-iger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Verge<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-best-picture-nominees-are-all-box-office-flops-and-tv-movies\/\" title=\"Nolte: Best Picture Nominees Are All Box Office Flops and TV Movies\">box office flops<\/a> in the last year, most of which fell under the Pixar or Marvel banners, included \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disneys-woke-lightyear-tanks-us-box-office-mainstream-media-cant-seem-figure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lightyear<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThor: Love and Thunder,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/days-woke-disney-releases-lgbt-led-kids-movie-company-gets-horrible-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strange World<\/a>,\u201d \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever,\u201d \u201cAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,\u201d \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,\u201d \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d and \u201cElemental.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the $300 million \u201cIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny\u201d underwhelmed at the box office on its opening weekend with a domestic gross of $60 million.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise sequel even fell behind Angel Studios\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sound-freedom-dethrones-disney-beats-indy-5-opening-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sound of Freedom<\/a>\u201d on the Fourth of July, the latter unexpectedly becoming the No. 1 movie in America.<\/p>\n<p>If Disney can\u2019t reverse course, it will sink under the weight of its financial losses \u2014 ironic considering the iconic studio turned 100 this year.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-quietly-deletes-50m-project-existence-less-2-months-release\/\">Disney Quietly Deletes $50M Project from Existence Less Than 2 Months After Release<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney&#8217;s summer has been far from ideal, with losses exceeding $890 million on their last eight studio releases. The latest film, &#8220;Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,&#8221; is predicted to add another $260 million to the already staggering losses. The company&#8217;s downward trend is now impacting its overall performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":1967577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}