{"id":1980819,"date":"2023-07-23T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warner-bros-shouldnt-celebrate-barbie-just-yet-their-next-woke-film-is-projected-to-lose-200m\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:58:57","slug":"warner-bros-shouldnt-celebrate-barbie-just-yet-their-next-woke-film-is-projected-to-lose-200m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warner-bros-shouldnt-celebrate-barbie-just-yet-their-next-woke-film-is-projected-to-lose-200m\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. may not rejoice over Barbie yet, as their upcoming woke film is expected to incur a $200M loss."},"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\">40<\/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%2Fwarner-bros-shouldnt-celebrate-barbie-just-yet-their-next-woke-film-is-projected-to-lose-200m%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=1980819&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>Warner Bros. Shouldn&#8217;t Celebrate Barbie Just Yet, Their Next Woke Film\u2064 Is Projected to \u2062Lose $200M<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cBarbenheimer\u201d\u2063 worked \u2014 and\u200d for a\u2064 moment, you might be tempted to think \u2062that wokeness and brokenness didn\u2019t \u200chave to \u200dgo hand-in-hand.<\/p>\n<p>In what\u2019s likely to be the biggest box-office weekend in quite some time, Warner Bros. Entertainment\u2019s \u201cBarbie\u201d had\u2063 the best opening day of the year, grossing $70.5 million total according to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/box-office\/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-opening-day-projections-1235676681\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>. That\u2019s\u200d quite the take for a movie\u200d that, to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1682007241891667970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quote<\/a> the Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Shapiro,\u200b \u201cunironically uses the \u2063word\u2064 \u2018patriarchy\u2019 more than 10 times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Combined\u200b with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/director-speaks-robert-downey-jr-matt-damon-walk-oppenheimer-premiere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Nolan\u2019s<\/a> \u201cOppenheimer\u201d \u200d\u2014 which took home $33 million on \u200bits opening day, \u2064not bad for an R-rated \u200bfilm which deals with the man \u2063behind the Manhattan Project \u2014 and things\u200c are\u200b looking rosy again \u200dfor media conglomerates and the\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sound-of-freedom-star-shares-what-he-wouldve-done-if-biden-put-mouth-on-his-kid\/\" title=\"'Sound of Freedom' Star Reveals His Reaction if Biden Put Mouth on His Child\">box\u2062 office<\/a>. \u2063It\u2019s like \u201cThe \u2064Flash\u201d and \u201cElemental\u201d\u2062 never happened!<\/p>\n<p>Well,\u2062 lest Warner Bros. get smug about the opening to the Greta Gerwig-directed Barbie film and think that it\u2019s all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/transgender-barbie-actor-reveals-role-driving-hidden-agenda-candy-little-poison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smiles, lollipops and wokeness<\/a>, it should consider the $200 million loss it likely has coming down the \u2063pike, thanks in no small part to \u200dyet another DC Comics franchise bust\u200d which emphasizes its identity politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBlue Beetle,\u201d<\/strong> which\u2062 features one of the lesser lights of the DC\u2062 Extended Universe, is expected to \u2063have an opening weekend of $12 million to $17 million, according to Hollywood-centric outlet \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/long-range-box-office-forecast-blue-beetle-and-strays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Box Office Pro<\/a>. The total domestic range \u200bfor the film is projected to come in at $27\u200c million \u200cto $55 million.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet noted \u200bthat \u201c[a]ppeal to Latinx families could\u2062 be notable, particularly with the back \u200chalf of\u200d the summer and early \u200bfall \u200cseeing\u200b a relative lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warner-bros-shouldnt-celebrate-barbie-just-yet-their-next-woke-film-is-projected-to-lose-200m\/\" title=\"Warner Bros. may not rejoice over Barbie yet, as their upcoming woke film is expected to incur a 0M loss.\">youth-friendly\u200b content hitting<\/a> the big screen.\u201d That\u2019s \u200bbecause both the stars and their characters\u2063 are Latino. (I\u2019m choosing, as most Latinos\u200c do, not to use\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wokespeak-fail-3-voters-use-latinx-refer-hispanics-not-worst-part\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that\u2064 dreadful neologism<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Therein\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dcs-woke-disaster-disgraced-non-binary-star-couldnt-even-saved-batman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lies\u200c the problem<\/a>: \u201cWith all the additional\u200d and marketing costs, which are officially unknown, but\u200c assumed, the\u200b movie would need to make at least $250 \u200cmillion, perhaps\u200c even $300 million, just to break\u200b even without any profit,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbasics.com\/blue-beetle-box-office-prediction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comic Basics<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s always the \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lightyear-director-attacks-critics-after-film-gets-embarrassed-by-minions-the-rise-of-gru\/\" title=\"Lightyear Director Attacks Critics after Film Gets Embarrassed by Minions: The Rise of Gru\">international box office<\/a>, but they\u2019re probably not\u200c as interested as a film where part of the appeal\u200b is \u2062identitarian. (As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2023\/07\/22\/nolte-dcs-blue-beetle-projected-to-be-next-affirmative-action-flop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart\u2019s<\/a> John Nolte noted, \u00a0\u201cThe morons\u2062 at Warner Bros. spent $120 million on this movie and then stupidly sold it as an affirmative-action movie.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, even comic \u2062book fans might \u2064want to skip it, given\u200d that the\u2063 trailer managed to \u2063get \u200balmost everyone angry when \u2063one of the characters calls Batman\u200d a \u201cfascist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Director Angel\u2062 Manuel Soto initially\u2062 encountered pushback when he <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2023\/07\/06\/blue-beetle-director-completely-changes-tune-asks-moviegoers-to-give-film-a-chance-after-mocking-them-over-batmans-a-fascist-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>, in response to\u200c fan anger, \u201cMy job here\u2064 is done\u201d with a GIF of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-heaps-praise-librarians-push-porn-kids-criticism-parental-book-bans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> dropping a mic and \u201cWell, my job is done\u201d with a GIF of \u201cHe-Man\u201d character Skeletor, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>He would later\u200d change his tune, telling \u201cpeople who got mad at it, give \u200cus a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to have fun with the characters that we love,\u201d Soto\u200c said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2023\/07\/06\/blue-beetle-director-completely-changes-tune-asks-moviegoers-to-give-film-a-chance-after-mocking-them-over-batmans-a-fascist-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bounding Into Comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd everyone in our movie loves Batman and Superman and Flash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd of course, we have criticisms about all of\u2064 them, as we all should,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2064 hate Batman.\u2063 We love Batman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I don\u2019t think his job is quite done. Add \u2062to that the fact that \u201cBlue Beetle\u201d has a late-summer\u2062 opening date of Aug.\u2064 18, which \u200bseldom augurs well \u200cfor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bustle-op-ed-defends-reboots-and-franchises-hollywood-isnt-out-of-ideas\/\" title=\"Bustle Op-Ed Defends Reboots And Franchises: \u2018Hollywood Isn\u2019t Out Of Ideas\u2019\">box office returns<\/a>,\u2064 and this could end up \u2063being a bigger disaster than \u201cThe Flash\u201d \u2014 which, mind you, was \u2062already\u200d a \u2063pretty big disaster.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/the-flash-movie-box-office-breakdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collider<\/a>, that superhero movie\u2062 \u2014 starring troubled \u201cnonbinary\u201d actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/warner-bros-may-scrapping-another-film-woke-superhero-actor-faces-villainous-allegations-involving-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ezra\u2064 Miller<\/a> \u2014 would\u200d go on to \u2062\u201close the studio almost $200 million.\u201d\u200d Assume that\u200d \u201cBlue Beetle\u201d meets a similar fate, coming in \u200con the low side of estimates for\u200c stateside box office and disappointing\u200b worldwide, as well. Even with a more modest \u200bbudget, it could still be a failure.<\/p>\n<p>And keep \u200bin mind, \u2063\u201cBarbie\u201d still has to\u200c make in the neighborhood of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/pop-culture\/what-barbie-movie-s-budget-much-money-need-break-even\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> $300 million<\/a> just\u200c to\u2062 break even, given its budget and the heavy promotional outlays for it. Then\u200c think about the fact that, added to the woke \u201cFlash\u201d and \u201cBlue Beetle\u201d movies, it\u2019ll have to\u200b make somewhere in the neighborhood of $700 million \u200bto \u200berase those failures \u200coff of the \u2063ledger.<\/p>\n<p>For it \u2062to really\u200c make hay out of a bad summer movie season, therefore,\u2063 Barbie needs to take in $70\u2063 million for every confirmed use of the word \u201cpatriarchy\u201d\u2062 by \u2064Ben Shapiro. Do you \u2063see a rah-rah-feminism movie that seems\u200b to genuinely loathe the toy that \u2064inspired it\u2063 having legs\u2063 like that?<\/p>\n<p>Going woke is \u2063still going broke. \u200cAsk\u200c Disney, which is cutting thousands of jobs and billions in \u200bspending. It\u2019s not just that people \u2064aren\u2019t returning to theaters in the same numbers\u200d after the pandemic, it\u2019s that studios have become insufferable about messaging in \u200btheir films.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody wants to \u200dgo to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-banning-free-movies-china-sends-communist-propaganda-to-hong-kong-theaters\/\" title=\"After Banning Free Movies, China Sends Communist Propaganda to Hong Kong Theaters\">superhero film<\/a> \u2062to get scolded by one of the characters about one of \u2064the most bankable superheroes there is being a fascist. Likewise, nobody \u200dwants to go see \u201cThe Flash\u201d just because they picked a man who \u200dinsists on being addressed as \u201cthey\/them\u201d \u2063(and numerous \u2063judges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/parents-accuse-transgender-actor-grooming-child-starting-age-12-using-cult-like-controlling-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from Hawaii<\/a> to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/warner-bros-may-scrapping-another-film-woke-superhero-actor-faces-villainous-allegations-involving-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Vermont<\/a> \u2062 will\u2064 have had a chance to use those pronouns once Miller is done, \u200bone suspects).<\/p>\n<p>And while the neon-pink \u200bpalette \u2063and \u2063incessant marketing might get \u200bgood results on the\u2062 first weekend, it\u2019s difficult to foresee splendid results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/warning-barbie-not-harmless-nostalgia-agenda-runs-hate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for a film<\/a> that alienates about half of its potential audience with\u200b its\u200c messaging. There\u2019s not going to be a \u201cBarbenheimer\u201d pseudo-event every weekend, after all.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/warner-bros-shouldnt-celebrate-barbie-just-yet-next-woke-film-projected-lose-200m\/\">Warner Bros. Shouldn&#8217;t Celebrate Barbie Just Yet, Their Next Woke Film Is Projected to Lose $200M<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u200b Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBarbenheimer\u201d succeeded, briefly challenging the notion that woke culture and dysfunction were inseparable. Warner Bros. 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