{"id":1986401,"date":"2023-07-30T19:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T23:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-gets-nuked-by-barbie-oppenheimer-setting-up-woke-giant-for-another-flop\/"},"modified":"2023-07-30T19:17:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T23:17:10","slug":"disney-gets-nuked-by-barbie-oppenheimer-setting-up-woke-giant-for-another-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-gets-nuked-by-barbie-oppenheimer-setting-up-woke-giant-for-another-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney faces a setback as &#8216;Barbie&#8217; and &#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217; strike, setting up another flop for the woke giant."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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-gets-nuked-by-barbie-oppenheimer-setting-up-woke-giant-for-another-flop%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=1986401&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>Is the magic officially gone?<\/h2>\n<p>Fans, employees, executives, and shareholders of\u2064 the Walt Disney Company alike may be asking themselves\u2064 that \u200dquestion after \u2062yet \u200danother \u200cDisney \u2062movie has come and gone with little fanfare and perhaps even less than &#8220;little&#8221; to show at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Haunted Mansion&#8221; (a reboot of 2003&#8217;s &#8220;The Haunted Mansion,&#8221; which\u200d is based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disneylands-pirates-caribbean-ride-reopens-one-detail-inside-amber-heard-isnt-going-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney parks attraction<\/a> of the same name) was always facing an uphill battle &#8211; this\u2062 IP isn&#8217;t exactly Star Wars or Marvel or even Indiana Jones\u2063 when it comes to relevance or notoriety &#8211; and that\u200d was\u2062 the case before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/comedy-star-andrew-schulz-reveals-strike-may-expose-streaming-companies-backfire-actors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ongoing \u2064writer&#8217;s and\u200b actor&#8217;s strikes<\/a> that leave the \u2063movie&#8217;s stars unable to promote it.<\/p>\n<p>And if any movie could&#8217;ve \u200dused a jolt of positive PR and promotion, it was probably this one.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/two-hour-dud-disneys-newest-dumpster-fire-shredded-critics-cast-boycotts-premiere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movie&#8217;s premiere<\/a> \u2064 in Anaheim, California, coincided with a bevy of negative-to-okay reviews.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the blockbuster hit it needed to be in \u200cterms of critical reception,\u200d and several reports from Variety now suggest the movie&#8217;s commercial reception reflects those \u2064lukewarm reviews.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Juxtaposed against its peers particularly highlights the cavernous \u200bgulf between flicks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Per Variety<\/strong>, during Thursday previews, &#8220;Haunted Mansion&#8221;\u200b debuted to $3.1 million at the box office. The current cultural \u200bjuggernauts, &#8220;Barbie&#8221; and &#8220;Oppenheimer,&#8221; clocked\u200b in at $21.1 million and $10 \u2064million, respectively, on \u200cThursday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, in fairness, that is not a one-to-one-to-one comparison. &#8220;Thursday previews,&#8221; as <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/film\/news\/box-office-thursday-previews-dark-knight-rises-1202918501\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a> describes, are effectively an extension of the more \u200btraditional midnight releases. \u200b&#8221;Haunted Mansion&#8221; and\u2063 its Thursday box \u2063office\u2064 total, effectively, only had a few hours at the end of Thursday to make revenue, \u200cwhile the \u2062other two films had the whole day.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about \u200bas much good\u200b news as \u2064the\u200b House \u200cof Mouse could get after the underwhelming <em>total<\/em> \u2063 debut of \u200c&#8221;Haunted \u200dMansion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s \u200dhow <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/box-office\/barbie-box-office-oppenheimer-second-weekend-records-1235681039\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a> opens its newest report about this weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-says-its-anti-us-war-film-breaks-box-office-records\/\" title=\"China Says Its Anti-US War Film Breaks Box Office Records\">box office totals<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s a &#8216;Barbenheimer&#8217; world and we&#8217;re just living in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And &#8220;we&#8221; clearly includes Disney, now, because the rest of the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/before-the-flood\/\" title=\"Before the Flood\">box office receipts<\/a> were not particularly kind to the beleaguered\u200d studio.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Haunted Mansion&#8221; opened this weekend (and, in fairness, did finish third\u2063 in the box office) \u2062to the tune of $24.6 million\u200b across\u200b 3,700 North American theaters.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 film reportedly added\u2062 another $9.1 million\u2064 in the international markets.<\/p>\n<p>That $33 million total, however,\u2063 would need to\u2063 be replicated several times over for the movie to be \u200dprofitable, which is a tall \u200btask given that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-gets-nuked-by-barbie-oppenheimer-setting-up-woke-giant-for-another-flop\/\" title=\"Disney faces a setback as 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' strike, setting up another flop for the woke giant.\">box office returns generally diminish week-<\/a>to-week.<\/p>\n<p>Variety reports that Disney had \u200dto \u200bspend \u2062$150 million to\u200d produce the film \u2064and &#8220;tens of millions&#8221; more on promoting \u200dit. Even the \u200bmost generous interpretation of that would put the film&#8217;s \u200dprice tag at about $170 million.<\/p>\n<p>This box office disaster is hitting Disney at\u2063 a\u2064 particularly poor time, as the\u2064 IMAX\u2062 CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/imax-ceo-relegates-disney-backup-wont-show-marvel-film-unless-dune-2-gets-delayed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently \u2064revealed<\/a> that his\u200d theaters would not be carrying the \u2063latest blockbuster Marvel film, &#8220;The Marvels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that news comes on the heels of the aforementioned Indiana Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-projected-worst-flop-year-faith-based-film-zooming-past-expectations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flopping<\/a> in the \u200dbox office, and Pixar&#8217;s &#8220;Elemental&#8221; coming and going with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-never-learns-another-expensive-woke-animated-film-studio-flops-hard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fizzle<\/a> (an increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disneys-woke-lightyear-tanks-us-box-office-mainstream-media-cant-seem-figure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">common trend<\/a> at\u200c the\u200b once-venerable animation studio.)<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-gets-nuked-barbie-oppenheimer-setting-woke-giant-another-flop\/\">Disney Gets\u200b Nuked by &#8216;Barbie&#8217; &#038; &#8216;Oppenheimer,&#8217; \u200dSetting Up Woke Giant for Another\u200b Flop<\/a> \u200d appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the magic gone? Fans, employees, and shareholders of Disney may wonder as another movie, &#8220;Haunted Mansion,&#8221; fails to make an impact at the box office. This reboot of 2003&#8217;s &#8220;The Haunted Mansion&#8221; leaves little to celebrate, raising concerns about Disney&#8217;s recent releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":1986402,"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-1986401","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\/1986401","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\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}