Dec 1, 2022
A Disney animated film released over the Thanksgiving weekend ended up being a total bomb at the box office. The film, Strange World, brought in an anemic $18.6 million during its five-day opening, the second-worst Disney opening in history. Only the pandemic-era release of West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg, performed worse, according to Variety. Disney was expecting a $30-$40 million opening. Strange World was billed as the first Disney movie to include an openly gay main character. Why the woke folk at Disney thought this was a selling point for a "family movie" is beyond me. Nevertheless, Disney assembled an all-star voice cast including Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Lucy Liu, and Gabrielle Union and gave the film a budget of $180 million. Variety reports that the film is now expected to lose $120 million. "Normally this time of year, a Disney family film is the big draw," Paul Dergarabedian, a senior Comscore analyst, told Variety. "It shows we