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  • Pixar Executive Pete Doctor Blames Moviegoers For ‘Lightyear’s’ Box Office Bomb

    02/23/2023 6:15:10 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 59 replies
    BOUNDINGINTOCOMICS ^ | February 23, 2023 | John F. Trent
    Pixar Chief Operating Officer Pete Doctor recently put the blame on moviegoers, or in this case, people who didn’t go see Lightyear for the film’s box office disaster. Lightyear only grossed $118.3 million at the domestic box office and $100.4 million internationally for a global gross of $218.7 million. The film’s reported production budget was $200 million meaning the film was a financial disaster for Pixar and The Walt Disney Company. Speaking with TheWrap, Doctor explained why he and Pixar believed the film performed terribly at the box office. He said, “We’ve done a lot of soul-searching about that because...
  • Rupert Murdoch rails against 'awful woke orthodoxy' while accepting award

    01/26/2021 1:26:32 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    MSN ^ | 1/26 | Dominick Mastrangelo
    Media mogul Rupert Murdoch blasted so-called cancel culture and a "woke orthodoxy" that he described as "awful" and suggested was a threat to the free exchange of ideas in the U.S. and around the world. "For those of us in the media, there's a real challenge to confront: a wave of censorship that seeks to silence conversation, to stifle debate, to ultimately stop individuals and societies from realizing their potential," Murdoch, the executive chairman of News Corp., said in recorded remarks while receiving an award from the Australia Day Foundation, according to The New York Times. "This rigidly enforced conformity,...