Posted on 05/09/2018 11:01:02 AM PDT by ethom
Walt Disney, the studio that, on top of its own stellar brands, owns the Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel franchises, is a money-printing hit machine, but it is not a flawless one. Despite the presence of the some of the biggest stars in the world (Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine), despite coming from a children’s novel beloved for decades, despite the second-to-none marketing machine that is the Magic Kingdom, the movie was an economic catastrophe.
Globally, not just here in North America, but worldwide, Wrinkle grossed just $127 million. After tanking out at $96 million domestically, a Disney movie starring Oprah Winfrey was only able to gross an additional $31 million in 20-plus other countries.
With a production and advertising budget that reports peg at somewhere between $150 million and $250 million, that means the red ink landed somewhere between $86 million and $186 million, according to Yahoo News.
As Breitbart News reported at the time, the crucial mistake the filmmakers and Disney made was removing the Christianity from what is essentially a Christian children’s book.
Writing at Insider, Kim Renfro said the “movie really suffers” from the decision to “ditch the book’s explicit Christian references.” As a result she found the movie “incomplete” and says that the “biblical inspirations could have (and should have) been replaced with a more cohesive plot that carried the film to its final climax.”
Even the far-left Vox admitted that the book was “deeply informed by its author’s Episcopal Christianity” which “the new Disney movie has excised.”
Hollywood’s hatred of Christianity comes with a price, but one the studios seem to be willing to pay. Unfortunately for shareholders, Disney satisfying their own prejudices is more important than profits and the telling of a decent story.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
They got a pat on the head from their master, which makes them so happy.
Disney will just write it off on taxes...
Sin has a price, many are willing to pay
“Disney Strips Oprah’s Wrinkle!!”
What?.....Oh.
Well, losses on movies which lose money, will be netted against profits on others which made money. Still hurts to lose money on a movie project.
Um. It was my favorite book in third grade and I didn’t know it was Christian at all. I’ve read it since then and still loved it. I never knew it was Christian.
seems like Disney could make a fortune embracing values and selling mass ticket packages to church groups...
The left wants to eliminate Christianity. I said it, and I’ll never stop saying it.
Glad to see it tank. Disney’s kowtow to the anti-Christian bigotry so en vogue with Hollywood’s diabolically inspired, scum-sucking deviants.
It’s going to have to win big awards anyway:
“DuVernay became the first black woman to direct a live-action film with a budget of over $100 million.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wrinkle_in_Time_(2018_film)
It’s not just the left.
Disney has already cast their lot with the LGBTQ crowd, I guess they figure the church groups wont come...
“Despite the presence of the some of the biggest stars in the world”
Biggest stars in the world? Chris Pine? Who is that?
How old are you? One of hottest young actors on the planet. Try Wonder Woman and Star Trek for starters. You might also try your browser’s search feature before you embarrass yourself again.
They like the feel of their master’s pitchfork in the backside. They don’t understand that what is now just a little masochistic thrill of pain is going to be the real thing in eternity, with no “safe word” to make it stop.
He’s Capt. Kirk in the new Star Trek reboot
You just loves you some actors don’t you? I never heard of the guy either.
The left wants to eliminate Christianity.
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