All of the headlines suggest The Little Mermaid is a huge hit, but this isn’t remotely true.
The 2019 Lion King remake made $191 million domestic on opening weekend.
The TLM remake made $118 million domestic on opening weekend.
The Lion King finished at $1.6 billion with two thirds of that being international.
The Little Mermaid only took in $68 million international on opening weekend.
Napkin math says Mermaid will make $350ish million total domestic. If international percentage holds, that’s only another $200ish million.
Projected total? $550 million. On a $250 million budget, that’s a gigantic flop.
They're a multibillion dollar conglomerate that is also, as you pointed out, getting ESG money. They can sustain losses for quite a while. Look how long it took for Buzzfeed News and Vice to finally declare bankruptcy, and they're no Disney.
What do you suggest besides a siege? Layoffs and bankruptcies are now, finally, ravaging our original targets (unethical journalist outlets) after years of hard work on our part. The mainstream has absolutely noticed the Bud Light disaster, causing Target to make an (admittedly bullshit, half-hearted) attempt to walk back, despite ESG mandates. DIS stock is now down 20% in the past year, or 11% in the past 5 years, and that doesn't account for inflation. Genuinely, what do you suggest?
Vice got a Golden Parachute from Soros and co.
The real issue in my mind is that essentially, just like the "too big to fail" banks it's ultimately taxpayer money that goes to feed this propaganda. Real change will only come with monetary and tax reform and those need to be primary targets.
Slicing off a hydra head might feel good for a bit, until 3 more grow back. Not to say targets of opportunity like bud light aren't good efforts, but they aren't the heart of the issue.
Hmm, we should stage a takeover of one of the major parties in an attempt to do that. We could call it MAGA or something.
A widespread preference cascade is at the heart of the issue, though. We'll never be able to pass the political reforms we want without it.
I don't think tax or monetary reform was ever on the Maga agenda, or anyone's besides the Paul's.
Auditing the fed is still the best first step, and with inflation soaring it's the perfect time for a renewed push.
I mean, a MAGA rep might have some small possibility of attaching something like that to a bill. RINOs and democrats definitely won't.