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Legendary Disney filmmaker John Musker called out The Walt Disney Company for putting political messages ahead of story in its recent films. Musker, who co-directed some of the studio’s most popular films in recent decades, like “The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin” and “Moana,” commented on the state of Disney in a recent interview, saying the company needs to steer away from pushing a woke message and focus on characters and story above all. “I think they need to do a course correction a bit in terms of putting the message secondary, behind entertainment and compelling story and engaging characters,” Musker told...

Chief diversity officer and senior vice president of Disney, Latondra Newton, has quit her role after more than six years following a devastating box office bombs from recent ‘woke’ films. In an internal memo from Disney chief human resources officer Sonia Coleman announcing Newton’s departure on Tuesday: Newton “decided to leave The Walt Disney Company to pursue other endeavors.” Newton plans to join the corporate board of another company while focusing on the creative company she owns, according to Deadline. Since 2017, Newton led Disney’s diversity and inclusion initiatives to produce entertainment “that reflects a global audience and sustains a...

Latondra Newton, who has served as Disney’s chief diversity officer since 2017, is leaving the company. An internal memo from Disney chief human resources officer Sonia Coleman announcing Newton’s departure was circulated to staff Tuesday. Coleman wrote that Newton “decided to leave The Walt Disney Company to pursue other endeavors.” We hear that she plans to join a corporate board and focus on a creative company she owns. Disney said Newton’s direct reports will now report to Julie Merges, SVP Talent Acquisition, who will run the DEI operations on an interim basis while the search for Newton’s replacement is underway....

Disney’s The Little Mermaid star Melissa McCarthy had a starring role at Sunday’s West Hollywood Pride Parade where some participants engaged in explicit BDSM sex acts in full view of the public. One report claimed that children were present on the parade route where the BDSM activity took place. On Sunday, Melissa McCarthy wore a headpiece with the words “Say Gay” as she rode her own float during the parade, which took over a large section of Santa Monica Boulevard running through the heart of West Hollywood. Her headpiece was apparently a reference to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law,...

Ariel the Little Mermaid is part of your…historically inaccurate…world. “The Little Mermaid” is being criticized by a prominent diversity advocate for its erasure of slavery in the Caribbean. Marcus Ryder, an influential British campaigner and chair of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, applauded the casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel — but took issue with how the movie showcased racial harmony.

**SNIP** This feels lousy to say, because I was rooting for a huge success to follow the noxious backlash to the trailer last year: Some people apparently couldn’t handle the audacity of reinventing a cartoon character as a Black actress. But star Halle Bailey, in the role of Ariel, has nothing to apologize for: She’s the best thing about this movie. Unfortunately, that’s faint praise. A lot of ink and pixels have testified to the value of Black children and their moms being able to see themselves in a Disney heroine, and that’s a powerfully admirable goal – as well...

A New York Times reviewer criticized Disney's new children's movie, The Little Mermaid, because it lacked — are you ready? — "kink."According to BizPacReview:Disney's live-action remake of "The Little Mermaid" is a dud, according to one woke critic.It's "everything nobody should want in a movie," wrote Wesley Morris for The New York Times, "dutiful and defensive, yet desperate for approval. It reeks of obligation and noble intentions."What the film, starring singer Halle Bailey, needed, according to Morris, is more "kink.""Joy, fun, mystery, risk, flavor, kink — they're missing," he stated.How'd that get past the editors?And what, exactly, did this guy...

The woke ‘Little Mermaid’ reboot completely bombed in reviews this weekend. Disney’s live-action take on The Little Mermaid reportedly brought in $95.5 million globally in its three-day opening, according to Deadline. However, the woke movie completely bombed in reviews – the bulk of the negative reviews were from overseas movie goers. Critics blamed murky lighting and woke lyrics. IMBD, Rotten Tomatoes and other online review-aggregation websites claimed online trolls are driving the bad reviews. The bad reviews were actually tossed out in order to raise the final audience scores! For example, IMBD said it published the “weighted vote averages” because...

Disney is under fire for 'wokery' slipped into its live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, which is projected to bring in $100 million for the company despite mixed reviews this Memorial Day weekend. Critics and audiences have given the reboot of the 1989 animated classic 'average' and 'unfavorable' reviews on ratings site Metacritic. Some bash the makers' efforts to update the film to contemporary social mores. Naysayers have focussed on tweaks to the plot and lyrics that play around with sex, ethnicity and cultural values to make the 125-minute remake fit with Disney's progressive politics.

One upset fan was able to find a way to bring the movie more in line with the classics. An upset Chinese Disney fan photoshopped the black Ariel from the new “Little Mermaid” into a white one.

It will be incidents like this that will eventually do in Black Lives Matter and the mob witc- hunters looking to sniff out “racism” wherever it hides — or anyone thinks it. The “Little Mermaid” statue in Copenhagen, depicting Hans Christian Anderson’s beloved little girl sitting on a rock, fins and all, was vandalized with the epithet “racist fish,” according to Danish authorities. Famous Little Mermaid statue in Denmark is vandalised with 'Racist Fish' graffiti https://t.co/Lmt2YErZWj pic.twitter.com/5LcbeVJnRy— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) July 3, 2020 A million people visit the statue every year and Anderson’s story has been immortalized in two...

The statue of the Little Mermaid in the entrance to Copenhagen harbour has been daubed with the words “racist fish”. The 107-year-old statue has often been vandalised by protesters, ranging from pro-democracy activists to anti-whaling campaigners. As recently as January, “Free Hong Kong” was scrawled on the rock on which the 1.65-metre bronze sits. Protesters have variously knocked the mermaid off her perch, beheaded her, lopped off an arm and poured paint over her. Copenhagen police said no one had claimed responsibility for the latest assault. “We consider it vandalism and have started an investigation,” a spokesman said.

Disney will temporarily 'pause production' on a slew of its live-action films as a result of the growing coronavirus threat. 'We have made the decision to pause production on some of our live-action films for a short time,' announced a Disney representative in a statement released Friday. Although 'there have been no confirmed cases of COVID-19' on Disney sets, the halt comes as a result of the company 'considering the current environment and the best interests' of cast and crew. Projects currently suspended include the live-action The Little Mermaid. cording to The Hollywood Reporter, Peter Pan & Wendy and Shrunk,...

Disney’s forthcoming live-action Little Mermaid is set to star actress and singer Halle Bailey, of the R&B duo Chloe x Halle, as Ariel, Variety reports. That means that one of Disney’s most iconic princesses is going to look quite different. This Ariel will be black. That’s a giant deal, and not just because Ariel is a popular Disney princess with arguably the best “I Want” song in the Disney canon. Ariel is also the princess whose character design set the mold for the astonishingly homogenous run of giant-eyed, small-nosed Disney princesses we’ve met since The Little Mermaid debuted in 1989....

As the debate for the veil shows up again in Denmark, the "little Mermaid", a famous statue of Copenhagen, has been veiled during the night of Saturday to Sunday. The mermaid was found dessed up with a chador. A walker found her Sunday morning at 5h30. Photograph linked. Sounds like the "statue banning" in Tony Blankley's "The West Last Chance".

Activists clashed with police for a second night in Copenhagen The street protests Police in Denmark have arrested about 100 people during a second night of protests over the eviction of squatters from a youth centre in the capital.Officers in riot gear used tear gas to disperse demonstrators, as cars were set alight and petrol bombs thrown. The clashes have centred on the Youth House (Ungdomshuset) building in the Noerrebro district of Copenhagen. Left-wing activists have occupied the building since 1982 but it was sold by the city in 2000 to a Christian group. The fundamentalist group, called Faderhuset,...