Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly recently called out the Walt Disney Company following reports that the entertainment giant is hemorrhaging money over its latest woke film titles. Some of Disney’s recently released movies, such as “Elemental,” “Lightyear,” and “The Little Mermaid” have all flopped at the box office.
According to recent news, Disney is facing a nearly $900 million loss on the company’s last eight theatrical releases. Kelly pointed out that many of these films have pushed an overtly woke agenda through many of their characters.
“Apparently, there’s an analysis out there showing that films like Lightyear, in which they decided to make Buzz Lightyear gay. The Little Mermaid, which is now woke…elemental, that’s one of the ones that includes a non-binary character which has one of the worst openings ever. Worst opening weekend in company history. We could go down the list,” Kelly said.
The host pointed out that consumers are simply turning away from this kind of content, as demonstrated by the abysmal performance of these films at the box office. “The people are not buying this content. They don’t want this content,” she said.
In light of this substandard financial performance, Kelly claimed that companies are waking up to the reality that “wokeness” is not a viable aspect of their respective business models. Subsequently, they are slashing DEI positions.
“Bit by bit. All these media companies are eliminating and big, big tech companies are eliminating their heads of diversity because it’s just a wasted position where somebody just glorifies their wokeness and tries to lecture, so it’s failing,” according to Kelly.
Charlie Kirk, a guest of the segment, weighed in on the matter, suggesting content streaming is about to face a correction in light of the substandard content. “It is failing. So a couple of thoughts number one streaming itself is there’s two big bubbles that I think are going to pop the commercial real estate bubble and the streaming bubble is the amount of money that the streaming wars generated or just that they plowed into crappy content, Megan, it’s like 99% of it is is garbage,” he said.
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Kirk slammed the type of content that seems pervasive no streaming platforms such as Netflix, stating, “And about you I mean, I haven’t gone to Netflix, on Netflix in a couple of months. It was like every other show is like some black lesbian in a wheelchair, like protesting some injustice. I’m like, I don’t like it’s it’s it’s not very interesting to me, right?”
However, Kirk brought up a crucial point proving that consumers are still interested in quality entertainment, just not the current woke offerings. The conservative commentator pointed out that “Sound of Freedom,” a low-budget film calling attention to human trafficking, far outperformed Hollywood blockbuster titles such as Indiana Jones.
“Do we have things that lift us up where it tries to make us become better humans and, you know, talk about what is good and virtuous and beautiful and what is heroic and courageous and that really is what art at its best should be. And so you look at the box office this week, with almost no promotion total word of mouth. The number one movie in America right now is Sound of Freedom, which is an amazing story about anti-child sex trafficking beat Indiana Jones beat, all of this, and so Disney’s $900 million bloodbath, I think is only beginning,” he said.