'Freaky Friday' sequel coming to theaters in 2025, Walt Disney Company announces



The Walt Disney Company announced that production has begun on the sequel to the 2003 film "Freaky Friday," which starred Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

"Production on the sequel to Freaky Friday — the studio’s hit comedy from 2003 starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan — began today in Los Angeles. The film will be released in theaters nationwide in 2025," according to the Disney.

'Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice.'

"Curtis and Lohan reprise their roles as Tess and Anna Coleman. Other returning cast members from the original film include Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Rosalind Chao. They are joined by Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan," the announcement notes.

In the original movie, the Curtis and Lohan played a mother and daughter who awoke one day to the shocking discovery that they had switched bodies, though by the conclusion of the film, they go back to normal.

"A sequel to the beloved 2003 film with a multigenerational twist, the film picks up years after Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) endured an identity crisis. Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice," the Walt Disney Company noted.

The announcement indicated that Curtis is a producer and Lohan is an executive producer.

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De-transitioner warns shareholders that Disney will pay a price for 'stealing the voices of thousands of little Ariels'



A victim of so-called "gender-affirming care" informed Disney shareholders Wednesday that the company may soon face lawsuits over its support of employees' genital mutilations. Chloe Cole, a woman left permanently scarred by gender ideology, further stressed the importance of the company looking into providing benefits for those who seek to "detransition."

The woke company

The Walt Disney Company has worked hard to earn the admiration of LGBT radicals, securing for itself a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index since 2007.

The corporate behemoth has signaled its ideological compliance in various ways.

Besides throwing around its weight in an effort to dissuade lawmakers from executing the will of voters and upholding parental rights, Disney also covers travels expenses for its employees to kill their unborn children. For those children ultimately permitted to live, Disney offers "gender affirmation benefits."

Accordingly, Disney helps employees, their spouses, and their children get sex-change mutilations, elective mastectomies, and ruinous hormone therapies.

The company does so even though:

  • the so-called experts at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health — the organization that wrote the go-to guide on "gender-affirming care" — have been outed admitting in private both that children cannot provide informed consent and sex-change surgeries can have nightmarish consequences;
  • England's National Health Service has highlighted there is little to no evidence showing an upside to the use of puberty blockers in minors;
  • Finland's leading child psychiatrist Riittakerttu Kaltiala has underscored that most kids will grow out of the delusion that their gender and sex are misaligned; and
  • the core claim used by gender ideologues to justify sex-change mutilations has been utterly debunked.

The scarred patient

Chloe Cole, 19, knows firsthand just how devastating the treatments that Disney's employee benefits cover can be.

Cole told the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine Joint Rules/Legislative Committee in 2022, "At 13, I started taking puberty blockers and testosterone. At 15, I underwent a double mastectomy in which my breasts were removed and my nipples were grafted. And yet, at 16, after years of medically transitioning, I came to realize I severely regretted my transition."

"I want to be a mother someday, and yet I can never naturally feed ... my future children. My breasts were beautiful and now they have been incinerated for nothing. Thank you, modern medicine," said Cole.

The gender ideology victim, who noted at the time that her chest remained scarred and her nipples continued to bleed, has become a patient advocate for Do No Harm. DNH represents medical professionals, patients, and policymakers keen on ridding the medical establishment of identity politics and gender ideology.

In addition to raising awareness about the fallout of "gender-affirming care," Cole has also taken legal action against Kaiser Permanente, accusing the institution and her former doctors of performing experimental and mutilating treatment.

The shareholder meeting

Cole called into Disney's annual shareholders meeting Wednesday, underscoring the consequence of the procedures they cover and the possibility there may be legal consequences on the horizon.

"Disney pays for gender transition interventions, but not de-transitioning care. Therefore, the Company discriminates based on gender identity under EEOC regulations," said Cole. "I speak from personal experience as someone who was deceived and physically harmed at a young age by gender ideology, validated by the medical industry, and pushed to the masses by corporations like Disney."

Cole detailed how, as a minor, she was given irreversible puberty blockers and a double mastectomy.

"My body has been irreversibly damaged, and years later, my chest is still in bandages," continued Cole. "My doctors have abandoned me. Now doctors look and shrug."

Cole further noted that she has filed suit against "those professionals who steered me into taking these destructive steps that have permanently scarred me."

"But Disney, in its arrogance, has responded to our proposal by stating that I am only trying to 'generate attention' for a 'limited agenda.' Mr. Iger, Disney under your watch is pushing the 'limited agenda' of gender ideology," continued Cole. "Disney has become the Ursula that is stealing the voices of thousands of little Ariels across the world by telling us we can be something that we can never become."

"The lawsuits are coming, sir. It’s only a matter of time before current or past employees, whose bodies and lives have been irreversibly harmed, will show up at your door looking for justice and restitution," added Cole.

Just got off the phone from the @Disney annual shareholders meeting.\n\nI needed to call out Bob Iger and the rest of the board\u2019s hypocrisy and the dangerous lies they feed to us through the media. \n\nHere is what I said:
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The proposal

Cole concluded her call by requesting that shareholders consider the "Gender-Based Compensation Gaps and Associated Risks" proposal presented by the National Legal and Policy Center.

The proposal asks that Disney investigate its benefits policies to determine whether they are discriminatory against de-transitioners.

It specifically requests that the board of directors issue a report by Dec. 31 "about compensation and health benefit gaps, which should include how they address dysphoria and de-transitioning care across gender classifications, including associated reputational, competitive, operational and litigative risks, and risks related to recruiting and retaining diverse talent."

The NLPC indicated that the company's board of directors has opposed the proposal because it "intended to serve the particular interest of the proponent."

The board unsuccessfully sought permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year to exclude the proposal from consideration at the annual meeting.

The NLPC noted in its response, filed with the SEC, that "besides the inherent discriminatory infrastructure established by Disney within its compensation policies and programs, the Company has opened the door wide to reputational and legal risk due to gender ideology and the affirmation of sex transitioning medical coverage. The de-transitioners' litigiousness may be at a trickle now, but the diversity-obsessed Company should prepare for an eventual flood of lawsuits from angry, mutilated current and former employees."

While Cole was able to put the proposal before the shareholders, the Huffington Post indicated they ultimately rejected it.

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Disney agrees to settle lawsuit against DeSantis over revoked self-governing special tax district



The Walt Disney Co. reached a settlement agreement on Wednesday with Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and his Central Florida Tourism Oversight District over the company's revoked self-governing special tax district, the New York Post reported.

In April, Disney lodged a complaint against the governor for revoking the theme park's company-selected board and special tax district, the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Disney governed the district for decades. In 2022, the dismantled RCID board was taken over by DeSantis' new five-member oversight panel, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.

Disney accused the governor and several Florida officials of launching a "relentless campaign to weaponize government power" against the company. The lawsuit noted that DeSantis previously expressed a desire to "void" Disney's development agreement with the state, examine taxes on the theme park's hotels, and "tolls on the roads."

Disney's court filings read, "Today's action is the latest strike: At the Governor's bidding, the State's oversight board has purported to 'void' publicly noticed and duly agreed development contracts, which had laid the foundation for billions of Disney's investment dollars and thousands of jobs."

The company claimed that the governor's actions ultimately "jeopardize[d]" Disney's "economic future in the region," while also "violat[ing] its constitutional rights."

An investigation conducted by the CFTOD found evidence that the former RCID board used millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase resort passes, merchandise, and other perks from Disney.

"For decades, the former Disney-run RCID used taxpayer funds to provide season passes and amusement experiences to its employees and their family members, cover the cost of discounts on hotels, merchandise, food, and beverages, and give its own board members VIP Main Entrance passes," the CFTOD claimed. "In 2022 alone, it cost taxpayers over $2.5 million."

On Wednesday, Disney dropped the lawsuit against DeSantis, agreeing to concede its self-governing powers over the theme park's district and abandoning a separate lawsuit regarding access to public records. Instead, the two parties have decided to work together to form a new development agreement for the theme park.

Walt Disney World President Jeff Vahle stated, "This agreement opens a new chapter of constructive engagement with the new leadership of the district," the Post reported.

DeSantis declared that his administration was "vindicated" by Disney's settlement.

"A year ago people were trying to act like all these legal maneuvers were all going to succeed, and the reality is here we are a year later, not one of them has succeeded," he said. "Every action that we've taken has been upheld in full, and the state is better off for it."

As part of the settlement, DeSantis appointed board members to the CFTOD who are more "sympathetic" to Disney, the Post noted. Earlier this week, the governor's office reported that Craig Mateer, the founder of CCM Capital Group, was appointed to the board.

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'Poor Things': Disney's feminist Frankenstein movie says 'whoring' is liberating and brave

'Poor Things': Disney's feminist Frankenstein movie says 'whoring' is liberating and brave



The latest film from Disney studio Searchlight Pictures depicts a feminist's literary dream, where a female lead is lauded for promiscuity and her defiance of societal norms in a time when both are most unbecoming.

"Poor Things," starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and outspoken progressive Mark Ruffalo, has received a litany of reviews praising its celebration of feminist doctrine. Stone stars as Bella Baxter, a reanimated corpse with the brain of an unborn child.

The plot very obviously pulls from the original "Frankenstein" book, which is made even more apparent by the depiction of the mad scientist character, played by Dafoe.

The film focuses on the male characters' inability to control their female creation as intended. Instead, what was supposed to be an easily manipulated woman develops into what the Hollywood Reporter described as "a fiercely spirited, independent woman."

The outlet further noted that the character simply throws off the constraints of polite society and takes control of her body and identity while refusing to be controlled by men.

Rolling Stone praised the movie for the character spreading her wings on her own "sexed-up, pro-science terms."

With multiple sex scenes, the character is meant to display female empowerment. In one scene, the she-Frankenstein describes how Wedderburn (Ruffalo) "became much weepy and sweary when he discovered my whoring."

In response, the character Max McCandles, who is hired to document the female experiment's progress, explains that it is not his place to judge such actions.

"I find myself merely jealous of the men's time with you, rather than any moral aspersion against you. It is your body, Bella Baxter, yours to give freely," he explained.

"I generally charge 30 francs," Stone's character replies.

While the entire plot drips with feminism, the attempted humor is quite certainly secondary to the core messaging.

Stone explained her thoughts on the character in a pre-release featurette for the movie, when she noted that "the more autonomous [the character] becomes, the more challenged these men seem to be by it."

"I wanted to play Bella because it felt like acceptance of what it is to be a woman: to be free, to be scared and brave," she added.

There is little room for misinterpretation. The film and the book it was based on are entirely a portrayal of a feminist who is supposed to be ahead of her time but is oppressed by the men around her.

The "Poor Things" book, published in 1992, is described as a woman pursuing her sexual appetite across the globe. A review from 1992 explained how the character became a "famous campaigner for health education and women’s rights" but is "defeated by public mockery and interference orchestrated by profiteering English newspapers."

Even in the early 1990s, this character was painted as a "feminist doctor with a burning commitment to social justice" who is unfairly silenced.

The author, Alasdair Gray, was very politically active. A Scottish nationalist and separatist, Gray interestingly called English immigrants to Scotland "settlers" and "colonists."

However, he felt settlers of any background were good, whereas he determined colonists to be any immigrant who exploits the arts or business sector of Scotland, only to return home for promotion or retirement.

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Disney CEO Bob Iger blames abysmal box office for 'The Marvels' on COVID, addresses major gripe of comic book fans



Disney CEO Bob Iger said the abysmal box office figures for "The Marvels" were a result of COVID.

The Walt Disney Company spent $274.8 million to make "The Marvels," but then received a $55 million subsidy from the government of the United Kingdom, according to Forbes.

However, "The Marvels" has been an absolute box office bust.

Variety reported on Sunday that "The Marvels" is "officially the lowest-grossing installment in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe."

Since its release date on Nov. 10, "The Marvels" has made an extremely disappointing $80 million in North America and $197 million globally.

Disney appeared to wave the white flag in its statement released on Sunday, "With ‘The Marvels’ box office now winding down, we will stop weekend reporting of international/global grosses on this title."

Bob Iger gave his reasons why he believed that "The Marvels" was a disaster at the box office during an appearance at The New York Times Dealbook Summit last week.

"'The Marvels' was shot during COVID," Iger began. "There wasn’t as much supervision on the set, so to speak, where we have executives [that are] really looking over what’s being done day after day after day."

Iger also blamed streaming services for Disney movies flopping at the box office.

“The experience of accessing [the films] and watching them in the home is better than it ever was,” he said. “And [it’s] a bargain when you think about it. Streaming Disney+ you can get for $7 a month. That’s a lot cheaper than taking your whole family to a film. So, I think the bar is now raised in terms of quality about what gets people out of their homes, into movie theaters.”

Iger also addressed a major gripe that comic book fans have – making sequels just for the sake of making a safe sequel.

“I don’t want to apologize for making sequels,” Iger prefaced. “Some of them have done extraordinarily well, and they’ve been good films, too."

The Disney CEO specified, "I think there has to be a reason to make them. You have to have a good story. And often the story doesn’t hold up to — is not as strong as the original story. That can be a problem.”

Iger continued, "We’re making a number of them now right, as a matter of fact. But we will only greenlight a sequel if we believe the story that the creators want to tell is worth telling.”

"Quality needs attention to deliver quality; it doesn't happen by accident," Iger confessed. "Quantity, in our case, diluted quality, and Marvel has suffered greatly from that."

However, the Walt Disney Company admitted last month that wokeness and culture wars have had significnt impacts across the board on the multinational entertainment and media conglomerate.

As Blaze News previously reported, Disney warned investors that the company's wokeness presents risks to its "reputation and brands" in its annual financial report with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Disney admits culture wars inflicted major impacts across the board, warns investors that company's wokeness presents risks



The Walt Disney Company recently admitted that wokeness and culture wars have had major impacts across the board on the multinational entertainment and media conglomerate. Disney also warned investors that the company's wokeness presents risks to its "reputation and brands."

Last week, the Walt Disney Company filed its annual financial report with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30. The report detailed the performance of the variety of its properties for the last fiscal year as well as potential future risks for the worldwide entertainment company.

The SEC filing revealed that Disney employs roughly 225,000 workers worldwide. The company notes that it has a "key human capital management objective" of "making the workplace more engaging and inclusive" and creating a more "diverse workforce."

Disney's "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" objectives include "building teams that reflect the life experiences of our audiences, while employing and supporting a diverse array of voices in our creative and production teams."

The Walt Disney Company also plans on "amplifying underrepresented voices" under its DE&I initiatives.

Disney said the company's revenues for fiscal 2023 were $88.9 billion – an increase of 7% versus 2022.

However, Disney slashed spending on content and staff.

In the past year, Disney cut spending on film and TV content from $29.8 billion to $27.2. Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger said earlier this month that he aims to cut total spending on content to $25 billion next year, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Deadline reported, "Efforts to rein in content costs have been accompanied by broader cuts of staff and other expenses, with some $7.5 billion in cost savings already recorded."

The entertainment behemoth said it had taken in more revenue from streaming services than from traditional broadcast TV for the first time ever.

Disney suffered a 14% decrease in domestic advertising revenue due to fewer impressions.

Disney revealed that ESPN subscribers decreased by 7% from the previous year.

The company noted that costs of products have increased by 11% – in part due to inflation.

Walt Disney Company admitted that engaging in culture wars has inflicted major impacts across the board.

"We face risks relating to misalignment with public and consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment, travel and consumer products, which impact demand for our entertainment offerings and products and the profitability of any of our businesses," the SEC filing stated. "Our businesses create entertainment, travel and consumer products whose success depends substantially on consumer tastes and preferences that change in often unpredictable ways."

Disney said the "misalignment" with its consumers has impacted "broadcast, cable, theaters, internet or mobile technology, and used in theme park attractions, hotels and other resort facilities and travel experiences and consumer products."

Disney said its products are sometimes "introduced into a significantly different market or economic or social climate from the one we anticipated at the time of the investment decisions."

The entertainment conglomerate confessed that its environmental and social goals present "risks."

"Further, consumers’ perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals, often differ widely and present risks to our reputation and brands," Disney admitted. "Consumer tastes and preferences impact, among other items, revenue from advertising sales (which are based in part on ratings for the programs in which advertisements air), affiliate fees, subscription fees, theatrical film receipts, the license of rights to other distributors, theme park admissions, hotel room charges and merchandise, food and beverage sales, sales of licensed consumer products or sales of our other consumer products and services."

Disney said its leisure business is affected by various factors, including health concerns and the political environment.

In March, Disney inserted itself into the debate over Florida's Parental Rights in Education bill on March 28.

Jumping into the political arena proved costly for the House of Mouse as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fired back, and revoked the Walt Disney Company’s special district status in the state.

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'Snow White' actress calls Prince Charming a 'stalker,' says it's 'wonderful' that Disney's remake is not a love story at all



Rachel Zegler – the star actress in the live-action remake of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" – has once again made eye-raising comments about the upcoming Disney remake of the classic animated film.

In an attempt to promote the "Snow White" remake that is set to be released in March 2024, Zegler called Prince Charming a "stalker."

"The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so," Zegler said. "There's a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird. Weird. So we didn't do that this time."

"We have a different approach to what I'm sure a lot of people will assume is a love story just because we like cast a guy in the movie," the 22-year-old actress added.

"It's one of those things that I think that everyone is gonna have their assumptions about what it's actually gonna be," she continued. "It's really not about the love story at all, which is really, really wonderful."

Zegler suggested that all of her male co-star's scenes could be completely cut from the film. Andrew Burnap plays Prince Charming in the new "Snow White."

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This is not the first time that Zegler has made off-putting remarks when trying to promote the remake of the Disney classic.

"I just mean that it's no longer 1937," Zegler said in a previous interview while laughing. "And we absolutely wrote a 'Snow White,' that is, she's not going to be saved by the prince and she's not going to be dreaming about true love."

"She's dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave, and true," Zegler said of her character. "So it's just a really incredible story for young people everywhere to see themselves in."

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Regarding accusations of turning the remake into a woke version, Zegler said in October 2022, "People are making these jokes about ours being the PC 'Snow White,' where it’s like, yeah, it is — because it needed that. It’s an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond 'Someday My Prince Will Come.'"

Zegler declared in another interview, "The cartoon was made 85 years ago, and therefore it's extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman is fit for in the world."

"And so when we came to reimagining the actual role of Snow White, it came about that the fairest of them all, meaning who is the most just, and who can become a fantastic leader," Zegler added.

Gal Gadot – who plays the Evil Queen in the new "Snow White" movie – chimed in by saying, "Also the fact that she's not going to be saved by the prince, and she's the proactive one, and she's the one who sets the terms, is what makes it so relevant to where we are today."

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Despite being months away from being released, Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" has been hampered by controversies.

The Walt Disney Company was caught in a controversy regarding actual photos of the dwarfs from the production of the movie leaked, which Disney officials initially described images as "fake" after outrage.

Disney was also criticized for casting a Hispanic actress in the role of Snow White from the German fairy tale.

In June, an analysis found that Disney has lost nearly $900 million at the box office in recent movies.

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$2 billion American Heartland theme park bigger than Disney’s Magic Kingdom revealed: 'There is so much to celebrate about our country'



Plans for a massive $2 billion theme park – that is bigger than Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom – were revealed this week. The enormous American Heartland Theme Park and Resort won't be located in Florida or California, but in Oklahoma.

Plans for the American Heartland theme park have been proposed for a 1,000-acre property in the heart of northeast Oklahoma, just west of Grand Lake on Route 66. The tourist attraction will boast a 125-acre theme park and a 300-room hotel with an indoor water park. The new attraction will boast a "nostalgic charm of a traditional amusement park."

The new park features six "distinctly American" lands: Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village, and Electropolis.

The first phase of the project – the 320-acre Three Ponies RV Park and Campground – is scheduled to open in spring 2025. The campground will be the largest campground in the central United States and will accommodate 750 RV spaces and 300 cabins with amenities.

The American Heartland Theme Park and Resort is expected to open in 2026.

The amusement park's design team is composed of more than 20 former Disney Parks builders and Walt Disney Imagineers.

The theme park is being developed by THG, an "independent creative agency specializing in creating awe-inspiring attractions for theme parks, museums, and leading brands." The project is funded by the Mansion Entertainment Group LLC – the leading performing arts, animation, and studio brand in Branson, Missouri.

"The 1,000-acre development will feature the 125-acre American Heartland theme park, which is comparable to the size of Magic Kingdom Theme Park and Disneyland Park," the press release reads. "The park will feature an Americana-themed environment with a variety of entertaining rides, live shows, family attractions, waterways as well as restaurant-quality food and beverage offerings. The theme park and resort are scheduled to open in fall of 2026."

Erik Neergaard, chief creative officer at THG, said, "I am so excited to embark on this extraordinary project, joining forces with this talented collection of teams. Our collaboration brings together decades of expertise and creativity. We are honored that Mansion Entertainment Group is leading the development of this captivating and unforgettable destination. This is one of the first independent theme parks of this scale to be built in the US in many years."

"American Heartland will be a place families can come together to create lasting memories, experience joy, laughter, imagination and wonder," American Heartland founder and chief creative officer Gene Bicknell said. "There is so much to celebrate about our country: its landscapes, its cultures and most importantly, its people. No matter where you’re from, you’ll feel right at home at American Heartland."

American Heartland CEO Larry Wilhite said, "At the crossroads of the heartland, Oklahoma is an attractive location for a family entertainment destination. The state’s business-friendly approach and innovative partnership efforts have helped make this possible. We look forward to bringing unforgettable generational experiences to Oklahoma."

American Heartland is estimated to bring in 5 million guests annually, including 2 million out-of-state visitors. Oklahoma State Senator Micheal Bergstrom said the theme park would create more than 4,000 jobs.

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Staggering Disney box office losses total nearly $900 million for recent movies, according to analysis



The Walt Disney Company lost nearly $900 million on recent movies, according to Hollywood analysis.

The Walt Disney Company suffered losses nearing $900 million on its last eight studio releases, according to box office analyst Valliant Renegade.

Disney struggled with staggering losses despite numerous notable movie releases. The financial losses of nearly $1 billion were encountered during the release of the following movies: "Lightyear," "Thor: Love and Thunder," "Strange World," "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania," "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," "The Little Mermaid," and "Elemental."

According to Valliant Renegade, the eight movies cost $2.75 billion, but only brought in $1.86 billion for Disney, totaling a loss of $890 million.

"Strange World" lost $197 million and "Lightyear" lost $106 million, according to Deadline.

Recent Disney movies have embraced "woke" storylines.

"Strange World" featured a gay romance.

The animated children's "Lightyear" has a lesbian kiss in it.

"Elemental" talks about the evils of xenophobia, and boasts the entertainment company's first non-binary character.

"One of the things that we always talk about here, that is the perfect time to remind everybody, is that Disney consumes all of its own content post-theatrical," Valliant Renegade stated. "Meaning that Disney that used to license their big content out like the entire MCU [Marvel Cinematic Universe] to places like Netflix for years, those were billions of dollars' worth of third-party contracts that have now been taken off the table."

"So not only do we need to consider how much money Disney has lost at the box office, we also need to consider how much money Disney has lost in economic-opportunity costs," the Hollywood analyst said in a YouTube video. "You see, that's how much money they could have made had they actually taken these films and licensed them to Netflix, or Amazon Prime, or even similar to what Universal does with a split Pay 1 window."

Valliant Renegade added, "If Disney had just taken the Universal-type deal with those two major streamers, Disney would have a lot more money in its pocket. But they've chosen to keep it all home to support Disney+."

Bob Iger returned as Disney's CEO last November, replacing Bob Chapek.

In February, Disney announced that the company was undergoing a "strategic restructuring."

Last month, Disney said that it had cut 7,000 jobs.

Variety reported, "The 7,000 layoffs — which represent 3.2% of Disney’s total headcount of about 220,000 worldwide as of Oct. 1, 2022 — are part of Disney’s efforts to achieve about $5.5 billion in cost savings. Of that, $2.5 billion represents 'non-content costs' (including labor costs) and $1 billion of those targeted cost-reductions were already underway in February, Iger said. Disney is aiming for an annualized reduction of $3 billion in non-sports content costs, expected to be realized over the next several years."

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ESPN ‘Celebrates’ Women By Denying Their Existence

Instead of celebrating the hard work and skill of female athletes, ESPN is dead set on erasing them and replacing them with men.