What’s ACTUALLY killing Disney? Film producer weighs in



For many, many years, Disney was America’s favorite family entertainment conglomerate. But the tides seem to be turning. More and more people across the country are abandoning Disney, leaving the company in a massive revenue deficit.

What exactly is causing Disney to decline? Is it progressive films (aka box office flops), the threat of AI, or a combination of the two?

American actor and film producer Matthew Marsden joins James Poulos on "Zero Hour" to discuss what’s going on.

Disney has “absolutely destroyed what made that brand brilliant,” says Marsden. “You’re seeing it now with the woke ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.”’

For those who don’t know, this progressive "Snow White" remake will feature no prince and no dwarves because apparently those two things are offensive, and a Latina actress will star in the role of Snow White because whiteness, as we’ve been told, needs to be done away with.

“If you have an established IP … even though it's made millions of dollars [and] it's been hugely successful, some screenwriter comes along and he goes, ‘Do you know what, I can improve that,’ and they change it,” says Marsden.

Which is exactly what they’re doing with "Snow White." Despite the fact that the original is a beloved classic, the screenwriters and producers are turning the script upside down to create what will inevitably become yet another woke disaster.

“Just make the movie of the book,” pleads Marsden. “It's sold X amount of a million copies; people want to see it up on screen … it's really simple.”

“When you see that happen, they're always successful for the most part,” he continues.

“Tech is part of the problem here too,” adds James, because many screenwriters wrongly assume that putting “CGI in every scene” means “people will get it and they'll watch it because it's got technology in it … and that doesn’t work.”

“So if that doesn’t work, and woke-ifying things doesn’t work, then you’ve got stagnation,” he continues.

Based on Disney’s profit margins, it certainly seems like the company is in a state of stagnation.

To hear the full conversation, watch the video below.


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Check out how woke Snow White actress plans to 'correct' original film's offenses in upcoming remake



Disney might be running out of ideas for movies, but that doesn’t mean the company won’t keep making them.

One of its latest films is an upcoming live-action remake of “Snow White,” which is pretty plainly another disaster in the making.

The remake will star Rachel Zegler as Snow White. She has stressed that the cartoon is completely unacceptable by today’s standards and her version will correct the original’s “issues.”

“It’s extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman is fit for,” Zegler told cameras in a recent interview about the upcoming film.

Lauren Chen is fairly certain that with an attitude like that, this movie is going to be a “huge box office flop.”

Not only is her attitude surrounding the original poor, but Chen notes that Zegler playing Snow White is “essentially brownwashing a traditionally European character who is basically known for having fair skin.”

In addition, the beloved Seven Dwarves were written out of the script, “because apparently it’s considered politically incorrect to give little people acting jobs,” Chen adds.

While promoting her new film on the red carpet, Zegler also told reporters that the original story featured a man who “literally stalks” Snow White, so they “didn’t do that this time.”

While there is no “stalker” in the film, there is a man who plays her love interest. However, according to the actress, it’s still not a love story.

“I think everyone’s going to have their assumptions about what it’s actually going to be, but it’s really not about the love story at all, which is really, really wonderful,” Zegler said.

Basically, the film won’t resemble the original at all.

“Even if you are a huge Snow White fan out there and you’re willing to overlook all of these other things, you’re still probably not going to like this movie because they are essentially stripping it of anything that would have made it quintessentially Snow White,” Chen comments.


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