"Marvels" and "Wish" Continue To Fail At Box Office

• When you've lost Variety... "‘The Marvels’ Ends Box Office Run as Lowest-Grossing MCU Movie in History"--Variety. From the article:

    After four weeks on the big screen, the comic book tentpole is running out of steam with $80 million in North America and $197 million globally. There would typically be optimism that attendance could rebound over the busy holiday season, but Disney apparently doesn’t expect that to be the case because it won’t be reporting the film’s weekend box office results any longer. The studio wrote on Sunday in a note to press, “With ‘The Marvels’ box office now winding down, we will stop weekend reporting of international/global grosses on this title.”

    The film isn’t leaving theaters just yet, and the $220 million-plus budgeted tentpole is expected to play through New Year’s. However, this memo signals that “The Marvels” is not expected to generate notable coinage during the rest of December. Over the weekend, the movie tumbled to 11th place on box office charts with just $2.4 million in its fourth outing.

    “The Marvels” opened on Nov. 10 with $46 million domestically to land the worst debut in the MCU, the franchise’s rare misfire out of the gate. Things only got gloomier. Ticket sales cratered by 78% in its sophomore outing to cement another ignominious record: the biggest second-weekend drop of the series. With an early end to the theatrical run of “The Marvels,” 2008’s “The Incredible Hulk” ($264 million, not adjusted for inflation) is no longer the lowest-grossing entry of the series.

The article suggests the cause was audience "burn out" on Marvel content (noting that there were two other Marvel movies and three streaming series released just this year). Bob Iger is blaming Covid:

Disney’s CEO Bob Iger has addressed the movie’s poor theatrical performance, suggesting that pandemic-related production restrictions ended up plaguing the final result. “‘The Marvels’ was shot during COVID,” Iger recently said. “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.”

In short, "Marvels" will not even make half of what it needs to turn a profit. 

• "Nolte: Disney’s ‘Wish’ Officially a Box Office Catastrophe — LOL"--Breitbart.  John Nolte writes:

    The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s Wish is officially a box office catastrophe. Any hope this $200 million holiday offering would hold through the holidays died in week two. By Monday, after two weekends in release, including the lucrative Thanksgiving weekend, Wish will sit at a pathetic $42 million.

    HAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHA! *cough*cough*cough* HA.

 And, he adds:

In its second weekend, this sucker crashed 61 percent compared to last weekend, and that was a 61 percent drop from an already disastrous opening. The idea that a major Disney animated feature, much less one meant to celebrate the Grooming Syndicate’s 100th anniversary, would gross just $7.6 million during weekend two… That seemed impossible just a few years ago — you know, before Disney launched a crusade to openly queer little kids with homosexuality, transvestites, transsexuals, and drag queens.

 He continues:

    Disney has a real problem on its hands. The entertainment media will lie and blame Wish‘s failure (and all the other failures) on Disney+. Hell, if the suck-up media must, it will find a way to still blame COVID or sexist MAGA supporters or Global Warming or Israel or homeschooling…

    But the bottom line is this. Disney is now a danger to children, a predatory company looking to steal your child’s innocence and sexually confuse them into neurotic, unhappy, easily exploitable sexual objects. Decent parents know this, and decent parents no longer want anything to do with Disney. This company was once one of the most universally beloved brands in the world for this reason: Disney protected your child’s innocence, shielded it, and offered gentle and universal lessons about growing up in a tough world.

    Disgraced Disney Grooming Syndicate CEO Bob Iger says things are going to change. No more propaganda, he said. We got woke, and our movies went broke, he admitted. But we all know he’s lying to hold off an investor revolt that threatens his demonic hold over the board of directors.

    Instead of making children’s movies for normal people, Disney is making children’s movies for wicked parents who believe they are sticking it to us ChristianTards every time they take their child to Drag Queen Story Hour. The truth, though, is that they are disguising the destruction of their own child as virtue just so they can live with it.

    Why do these drag queens always want access to our kids?

    Why would a transvestite want to work at a Disney theme park?

    Why would we never allow a heterosexual exotic dancer to perform in front of small children but allow these male pigs in dresses to perform for small children?

    Why does Disney ignore the obvious answer to those questions and march on with its obscene queering campaign?

    Exposing little kids to adult sexual fetishes is evil.

    Disney is evil.

    No decent parent would let their children near Disney, which is now the equivalent of a guy in a van circling an elementary school, offering candy, and holding a camera.

Nolte, tell us how you really feel!