{"id":1991154,"date":"2023-08-04T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-black-as-possible-disney-reboot-quietly-on-track-to-continue-string-of-disastrous-string-of-big-money-losses\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T20:02:21","slug":"as-black-as-possible-disney-reboot-quietly-on-track-to-continue-string-of-disastrous-string-of-big-money-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-black-as-possible-disney-reboot-quietly-on-track-to-continue-string-of-disastrous-string-of-big-money-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney&#8217;s Black reboot quietly continues disastrous streak of big money losses."},"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\">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%2Fas-black-as-possible-disney-reboot-quietly-on-track-to-continue-string-of-disastrous-string-of-big-money-losses%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=1991154&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\u2063 Director&#8217;s Vision for Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Haunted Mansion&#8221; Remake<\/h2>\n<p>The director \u2064of Disney\u2019s new film \u201cHaunted Mansion,\u201d stated he wanted to make the film \u201cas black as possible,\u201d in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>Director Justin Simien sat down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/haunted-mansion-remake-black-cast-justin-simien-interview-150037862.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo! Entertainment<\/a> to explain his inspiration\u2062 for the film and cited the \u200ccity of New Orleans (where the film\u2063 is set) as a big \u200dreason behind it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted \u200dto make [the movie] as black as I can because that\u2019s New Orleans,\u201d he told Yahoo! Entertainment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Director Justin Simien\u2019s says \u2018Haunted Mansion\u2019 is the longest movie he\u2019s ever worked on, consisting of 100+ days of shooting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uqXxFayyF6\">https:\/\/t.co\/uqXxFayyF6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yahoo Entertainment (@YahooEnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooEnt\/status\/1685100283532132352?\">July 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a filmmaker, I have an incredible desire to\u200b bring the history of New Orleans and specifically black culture [to the movie].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is \u2062the birthplace of jazz and the best\u200c food \u2062in the country. And all of our popular\u2062 cultures come out of this\u2064 time in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ex-ufc-superstar-chokes-famous-tiktoker-cold-viral-new-orleans-brawl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Orleans<\/a> where black \u200bpeople and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-choice-to-lead-dojs-civil-rights-division-melanin-endows-blacks-with-greater-mental-physical-and-spiritual-abilities-video\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Choice to Lead DOJ\u2019s Civil Rights Division: \u201cMelanin Endows Blacks with Greater Mental, Physical and Spiritual Abilities\u201d (VIDEO)\">white people<\/a>\u2062 and indigenous people and the Spanish and all \u200cthese people were free,\u201d\u200b he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it was \u2064short-lived, but\u200c it was long enough to produce this amazing, unique culture. And that was literally [number one] \u2064 on my bucket list of things to bring to life and film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simien added, \u201cAnd luckily, \u200dDisney\u2063 agreed. That\u2019s why it\u2019s here. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-gets-nuked-barbie-oppenheimer-setting-woke-giant-another-flop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney<\/a> previously released a\u200b PG\u200b version of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0338094\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Haunted Mansion<\/a>\u201d in 2003, which starred comedian Eddie Murphy \u200cin the lead and told a similar story of a\u2062 family moving into a spooky Louisiana home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>But\u2063 that version did \u2062not speak to Simien, as he cited he was already an adult when it was released.<\/p>\n<p>Simien\u2019s version is PG-13 and sports an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1695843\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-star cast<\/a> including LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito, Owen\u2064 Wilson, Tiffany \u2062Haddish, and Jamie Lee Curtis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>While the director has previously been credited with \u201cDear White People\u201d and \u201cBad Hair,\u201d his \u2063foray into the reimagination of the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-dethroned-theme-park-competitor-hits-record-revenue-house-mouse-slumps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House of \u2064Mouse<\/a> ride, hasn\u2019t had the warmest reception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaunted Mansion\u201d currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/haunted_mansion_2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">holds<\/a> a 39 percent splat \u200cwith critics on film site Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>And possibly even \u2064worse, the film has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/two-hour-dud-disneys-newest-dumpster-fire-shredded-critics-cast-boycotts-premiere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed<\/a> to spook up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-black-as-possible-disney-reboot-quietly-on-track-to-continue-string-of-disastrous-string-of-big-money-losses\/\" title=\"Disney's Black reboot quietly continues disastrous streak of big money losses.\">box office \u2063sales<\/a>.\u2064 Costing over a\u200c whopping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/30\/business\/media\/haunted-mansion-disney-box-office.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$200 million<\/a>, the film has so far only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt1695843\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earned<\/a> roughly $30 million domestically.<\/p>\n<p>There\u200d is a very real possibility\u200b that this \u2062latest \u2062Disney movie will result in financial loss.\u2063 If \u201cHaunted Mansion\u201d is able to turn a profit, it would reverse a string of disastrous Disney\u200b films lately, all of which have helped contribute to the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-bleeding-big-time-much-money-company-lost-last-year-financial-analyst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massive woes<\/a> of late.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, a \u2062pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scarlett-johansson-highest-earning-woman-in-hollywood-says-female-stars-are-underpaid\/\" title=\"Scarlett Johansson, Highest-Earning Woman In Hollywood, Says Female Stars Are Underpaid\">recent films<\/a>, \u201cLightyear\u201d and \u201cStrange World\u201d have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/report-disney-lost-quarter-billion-dollars-two-woke-failures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">particularly disastrous<\/a> animated films for Disney \u200bthat\u2063 lost the \u200bcompany over a quarter of \u2064a billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/black-possible-disney-reboot-quietly-track-continue-string-disastrous-string-big-money-losses\/\">&#8216;As \u200bBlack&#8217; as Possible Disney Reboot\u200d Quietly on \u2062Track to Continue String of Disastrous String of Big Money Losses<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview, the director of Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Haunted Mansion&#8221; expressed his aim to create a film with a dark atmosphere. Justin Simien, the director, discussed his inspiration for the movie and highlighted New Orleans as a significant influence due to its setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":1991155,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/1991154","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\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}