Disney tried to re-release their latest woke flop ahead of Mother’s Day weekend, and America’s moms decided to skip the movies and stick with breakfast in bed.
The live-action remake of “Snow White” has floundered in theaters this year.
Among the many other missteps that accompanied the film, Rachel Zegler, the actress who played the titular character, spent several years making sure the public knew that the movie would be a woke nightmare.
When Disney re-released “Snow White” in the week leading up to Mother’s Day, the movie brought in a dwarf-sized $252 per screen across 1,000 cinemas in the United States, per a report from The Telegraph.
The British outlet noted that Disney has burned $115 million on the remake so far.
“Snow White” has brought in $86.2 million in North America and $116.3 million worldwide, a total of $202.5 million.
That falls far short of the $269.4 million production budget even before print and advertising expenses, according to another report from Forbes.
The Telegraph noted that some moviegoers could be fatigued by re-releases, but they were forced to admit that “Revenge of the Sith,” the third movie in the “Star Wars” prequel series that first hit the silver screen in 2005, has been attracting respectable crowds.
The more likely explanation is indeed the toxic wokeness which has been rotting the Disney brand like poison from an enchanted apple for the past several years.
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As noted by Spiked last year, over $1 billion in losses from woke flicks recently set Disney behind Universal Pictures at the box office.
The company had previously been forced to admit before investors that there existed a “misalignment” between Disney offerings and “public and consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment.”
Spiked aptly observed, “Audiences are growing sick of the woke slop that Disney has been serving them.”
“They are tired with scripts that are weighed down by clunky political messaging,” the outlet added. “They are fed up with storylines being mangled to fit ‘progressive’ narratives.”
But Disney is still desperately trying to siphon money toward from the wokest movie of them all.
“Snow White” is bound for yet another re-release on streaming, per a report from Forbes.
On Tuesday, users of Amazon Prime will be able to pay a substantial $29.99 for the movie, or a slightly more generous $24.99 to rent the film.
There will also be availability on AppleTV and YouTube.
But as moms across America showed this past weekend, there’s little interest from families, once Disney’s core demographic, to watch a woke film that will make them Grumpy, Sleepy, or perhaps a combination of the two.
“Disney hates Mothers,” one viral post about the flop noted.
“Turns out, the feeling is mutual.”
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