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To: otness_e
I'm not going to defend theme park Gay Days, as I oppose the idea. Solo was a bomb, but Last Jedi was highly profitable. Critics and many fans trashed it but it did gangbusters box office. See:
Box Office: Why 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Is Still A Big Win For Disney https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/01/28/why-star-wars-the-last-jedi-with-just-1-3b-worldwide-is-still-a-win-for-disney/#290afcf6f2d3

In any case, Disney had 6 of the Top 10 grossing movies last year. By any metric, that's incredible. They look to repeat that this year with the usual stable of animated, Star Wars and superhero flicks. As I said, they're not my cup of tea, but they're what the public wants.
13 posted on 01/13/2019 5:00:36 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: irishjuggler

Actually, Last Jedi DID bomb at the box office, bombed big enough that China was repulsed by it (and believe me, considering Hollywood considers China to be more valuable in terms of marketshare than even its own country of America, that’s saying something), and apparently did very badly enough that JJ Abrams apparently decided to just insinuate that the audience was “afraid of women”, do the exact same crap that the 2016 Ghostbusters Remake stars tried to do. https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/02/18/j-j-abrams-last-jedi-critics-felt-threatened-women/

And don’t get me started on how Star Wars Resistance was outright hated by most people, getting a LOT of downvotes for its teaser on YouTube alone. Or, for that matter, the bomb that was A Wrinkle in Time. And having ABC basically tie with the CW when originally it competed with CBS and NBC, to say little about FOX, isn’t what I would call a success, especially not when that was single-handedly caused by “When We Rise”, a far-left gay propaganda schlockumentary. Or, heck, how people reacted to Roseanne being cancelled, or how people reacted to ESPN basically not firing Jemele Hill.


18 posted on 01/13/2019 5:47:24 PM PST by otness_e
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