Marvel’s surrender to wokeness has all but ruined the franchise. Longtime comic book fans have fled for hills when their favorite MCU characters have been gender-bent, race-bent, or altered to be more socially acceptable.

However, Disney+ will soon debut a new series called “Agatha All Along,” which follows Agatha Harkness, the villain from Marvel Studios’ "WandaVision.”

Could “Agatha” reverse Marvel’s downward spiral?

Lauren Chen, Blaze Media’s cinema critic, discusses the upcoming series.

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Although the series won’t drop until September, the trailer alone has Lauren fearing that the show will be yet another money pit.

First, she doesn’t think the series will generate enough interest.

“It's not like this was a particularly popular character in the comics and even in ‘WandaVision,’ the show that introduced her,” she says.

Further, according to rumors Lauren is privy to, “the reason they're giving Agatha her own series is not just because she's potentially another girlboss character they can exploit, but also because they are hoping to resurrect Scarlet Witch in the MCU.”

Even the show's producers seem wary about the series, given that it was announced in 2021 but is premiering three years later.

“It definitely seems like the prolonged production period was due, at least in part, to uncertainty on behalf of the show's creators,” says Lauren, adding that the series “has had four different names at different points in time” – names that “had already been announced to the public,” further solidifying the theory that there’s an air of doubt surrounding the show.

MCU fans are also skeptical about the series appearing to be “more horror-centric” than other MCU shows, but Lauren would enjoy a darker series “if Disney could pull it off.”

As for the series’ wokeness meter, rumors have suggested that “they may make Agatha herself gay or at the very least bisexual,” says Lauren, referencing a Bounding into Comics article.

“I think we should expect this show to be completely lockstep in line with the M-She-U as of late,” she predicts. “I personally cannot wait to see how much of a flop [‘Agatha All Along’] ends up being.”

For all its faults, Lauren does see a couple of bright spots for the show.

“It doesn’t look cheap,” she says.

And Aubrey Plaza stars in it, but Lauren doubts that “she's going to be enough to save this series.”

To hear more about “Agatha All Along,” watch the clip above.

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Disney VP caught on hidden camera EXPOSING woke DEI by James O’Keefe

James O’Keefe has done it again.

The investigative journalist confirmed suspicions that Disney has “gone woke” in his latest undercover expose with his organization, the O’Keefe Media Group.

The group captured a Disney executive on camera admitting that Disney prioritizes skin color rather than merit when it comes to hiring employees.

The executive, senior vice president and team lead over at 20th Television Michael Giordano told one of OMG’s investigators that there have certainly “been times where, you know, there’s no way we’re hiring a white male for this.”

“Just kind of unspoken?” the undercover journalist says to Giordano.

“There are times when it’s spoken,” Giordano confirms, before explaining the way it’s been phrased is, “There’s no way we’re hiring a white male for this role.”

Giordano had also told the undercover journalist that a promotion was likely not in the cards for him because he is seen as a white male.

“As far as Disney is concerned I’m a white male. That’s not who they’re looking to promote at the moment,” he said.

Once the report was released, Giordano was let go from his position.

Lauren Chen is not shocked that Disney has been caught.

“For a long time, people like me have looked at Disney and wondered, okay, if they care about diversity and woke so much, why don’t they still have diverse characters but at least have a well-written, you know, well-made show?” Chen says.

“I think it’s pretty clear here that the reason why they don’t have that at least quality with the wokeness is because they’re also prioritizing skin color when it comes to the people who are making their shows, writing their films, managing their company,” she adds.

While there are obviously talented writers of color, population-wise there are not enough to hire only those of color.

“They’re having to boost up people who probably aren’t as good at their jobs as they should be, simply because they like the way they look,” Chen comments.

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Check out what the man-hating director of new 'Star Wars' film said 8 years ago

"Star Wars" used to be about epic space battles, galactic creatures, fearless jedi warriors, and good conquering evil, but like many Disney franchises, "Star Wars" is now heading down the path of wokeness.

Pakistani activist and director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who the liberal-run media is celebrating as the first woman and person of color to direct a "Star Wars" film, has made it crystal clear that she intends to make the next film radically feminist and anti-male.

The backlash from critics and fans has been anything but subtle.

However, Obaid-Chinoy’s intentions shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering Disney’s insistence on shoving a progressive agenda down our throats and the fact that Obaid-Chinoy has long had a radical feminist agenda.

Dave Rubin plays a clip of her at the Women in the World conference eight years ago telling Jon Stewart how she directs her films.

“I enjoy making men uncomfortable,” she said. “I am working to bring something that makes you uncomfortable, and it should make you uncomfortable because you need to change your attitude, and it's only when you're uncomfortable, when you're shifty, when you have to have difficult conversations that you will perhaps look at yourself in the mirror and not like the reflection.”

“I remember when I was 5 years old, the first time I saw ‘Star Wars,’ and I went into the bathroom after, and I stared in the mirror for like an hour, and I said, ‘you're a horrible person, Dave,”’ mocks Dave.

“She's been handed this legacy of this film franchise that has taken decades and decades to build [and] has millions of fans around the world,” adds Andy Ngo. “People should be concerned that somebody who has this history of saying these things — of having a political [and] philosophical agenda in her work — has now been handed this huge franchise ... it's really hugely disrespectful to the fans.”

Dave agrees, adding that alienating its original fans has really been Disney’s aim all along.

“Disney announced a few years ago when they got both ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Marvel’ that they were going to push ‘Star Wars’ to be more for young girls and the Marvel Universe to be more for young boys, so this is a type of social engineering, isn't it?” he asks.

“Absolutely,” says Colin Wright. “This is all part of a bigger pattern that you see happening in so many different institutions where they take an institution that has this legacy, this history, this earned prestige, and then the activists just at the eleventh hour hop in the driver's seat [and] commandeer the whole thing just to use as a megaphone to spout their own ideologies and ... undermine the entire legacy.”

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New woke ‘Star Wars’ movie announcement is the final nail in the coffin for fans

Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy may have just made a fatal error.

Kennedy is doubling down on making "Star Wars" more woke by hiring Pakistani activist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to direct the new Rey movie, starring Daisy Ridley.

The liberal-run media is ecstatic to announce that Obaid-Chinoy is the first woman and the first person of color to direct a “Star Wars” film.

Obaid-Chinoy is as well, telling CNN that because “we’re in 2024 now,” she thinks “it’s about time that we had a woman come forward to shape the story in a galaxy far, far away.”

Others are not so excited.

“‘Star Wars’ has handed its $67 billion empire, whatever is left of its empire, to a feminist,” Dave Rubin laughs, noting that Kathleen Kennedy herself, who has been running “Star Wars” for the past 10 years, “has basically completely destroyed it.”

Evolutionary biologist Colin Wright is in total agreement.

“They’re just injecting the activism directly into the films,” he tells Rubin, adding that the problem with “woke ideologues” is that “they can’t just make movies that embody their vision. They have to make the movie overtly about the activism itself.”

“If you want to challenge norms, just write your strong female characters. This has been done in ways that doesn’t center activism,” Wright continues, citing Jennifer Lawrence in “The Hunger Games” as an example.

“The last thing that 'Star Wars' needs is to continue down this activist path. Just write the good characters and the good stories,” he adds.

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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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Disney's 'Lightyear' FLOPS at box office and the left can't figure out WHY

Disney-owned Pixar's latest animated film "Lightyear" was expected to blast off last weekend, but ended up falling way short of box office expectations.

Box office analysts expected the "Toy Story" spin-off to gross $70 million and $85 million domestically and $50-60 million in offshore markets, despite having been barred in at least 14 countries over a controversial same-sex kissing scene, but the film's total haul worldwide wound up at $85.6 million.

Earlier this year, the controversial kissing scene was apparently cut from the film, but the Disney corporation made a show of reinstating it in March amid outrage over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' (R) Parental Rights in Education bill.

Now, why would such a woke movie flop at the box office on its opening weekend?

"Blame the fact that it doesn’t appeal to girls, blame Disney+ for stealing family moviegoers, blame the lack of an ensemble Toy Story cast, heck, blame everything as Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear didn’t do its magic by internal studio or industry standards this weekend with $51M, close to a third below its lowest $70M pre-release projection," said Deadline.com.

"Variety" lamented that the film's lofty "ambitions were thwarted by heightened competition from Universal’s behemoth 'Jurassic World: Dominion' and Paramount’s high-flying 'Top Gun: Maverick,' as well as little intrigue to watch a slightly esoteric origin story about Buzz Lightyear."

AV Club guessed that maybe "longtime fans have simply grown up and moved on and/or gotten tougher to please."

Both Vanity Fair and Movie Web seemed to think the problem was with the movie's "high concept premise" of making a film based on a film that was supposed to have inspired the Buzz Lightyear toy in "Toy Story."

On the radio program Monday, Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Pat Gray weren't afraid to call out the obvious reason Disney's latest film fell flat: Parents are just tired of woke politics in their children's movies. It's really not that hard to figure out, Disney.

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'It was a HUGE mistake': Disney learns the hard way what NOT to try with Ron DeSantis

During a live event in Orlando, Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis told BlazeTV host Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" how he fought back against the media's “don't say gay” narrative, and why he won't cave in to pressure from woke corporations such as the Walt Disney Company.

"Did you choose this fight, or do you feel like they just brought it to you and you just punched back?" Rubin, who hosted the event as part of his book tour for "Don't Burn This Country," asked DeSantis.

"The media start[ed] badgering me with these slogans about 'gay'," DeSantis recalled. "And I was thinking to myself, okay, this isn't my first rodeo. I know what they're doing. They create narratives and then they try to run with these narratives. So, I know they're lying ... and so even though it was not necessarily legislation that I had authored initially, I started fighting back against them because they were just lying to people and it's offensive when they're lying."

DeSantis told the audience that he initially pushed back by simply asking reporters to point out where in the bill it says "don't say gay" or to explain what the bill does say, and was usually met with silence. The smear campaign didn't end there, however, and the next phase was to involve corporations, namely the Walt Disney Company.

"I don't know why [Disney] got involved in this. It was a huge mistake for them, I think they've lost 60 billion in market cap since they got involved. But what the left is doing it's honestly smart. They know that ... running for election on gender ideology for kindergarten [and] first graders would not fly with the voters," the governor explained.

"They know they can't win elections on that. So, I think what they try to do, which again is smart, they say 'okay, if we could subcontract out our leftism to a corporation, pressure the corporation to come on our side, then maybe they can get these elected officials to cave.' And, you know, it's not a dumb strategy because there have been a lot of Republican governors that have caved to corporate pressure," he added.

DeSantis went on to offer the example of how the corporate media stirred up "massive hysteria" over Georgia's Election Integrity Act in 2021.

"You had Delta Airlines, you had Coca-Cola demagogue the bill. They equated it to Jim Crow [laws]. You had Major League Baseball move the all-star game out of Atlanta. And so we've now had our first election in Georgia last month under the new law, record voter turnout," he said. "They were lying about the Georgia bill. Anyone who read it would know. So I think when they're accepting these false narratives, especially if it's about people in my state ... we have a responsibility to fight back."

He continued, "I took an oath to support the laws and Constitution of the U.S and the state of Florida. I did not take an oath to subcontract out my leadership to a corporation based in Burbank, California. They don't run this state ..."

In April, DeSantis revoked Disney’s special tax district privileges and its ability to self-govern in the Walt Disney World Resort location, ending an exemption that the corporation enjoyed for more than 50 years.

"They are not free to force all of us to subsidize their activism. And that's what they were doing," he added.

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