Movie Exhibitors Worried After AMC Feels the Burden of Disney’s Latest Flop

Published on December 1, 2023

The Walt Disney Company’s latest animated feature, “Wish,” badly misfired over the traditionally strong movie-going Thanksgiving weekend, extending the studio’s already bleak box-office returns. While some analysts are noting a combination of factors behind the Disney’s latest poor showing, others equate the studio’s continued inclusion of sexualized and other inappropriate themes in its content for younger viewers to much lower ticket sales. Regardless, the drop in movie ticket revenue has rippled down to film distributors. “Wish” was expected to bring in an estimated $35 million over the popular holiday while industry experts anticipated the movie would rack up $45–50 million in its first five days. Instead, it opened to a weak $19.5 million over the weekend and $31.7 million over the five-day span....

Continue reading on website
Other news

Jan. 6 Committee Tapes Have Disappeared, Says House Republican

December 1, 2023
The disappearance of videotapes of witness interviews conducted by the Democratic-led House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack has alarmed the chairman of the House panel that replaced it.Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who chairs the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee that is currently investigating security lapses connected to the Capitol riot and potential ramifications for upcomi

Democrats Unveil What NRA Calls ‘Most Sweeping Gun Prohibition Bill of the 21st Century’

December 1, 2023
The latest push to curb Second Amendment rights comes in the form of a Democrat-led bill that seeks to impose a sweeping firearms ban with exceptions that gun rights groups say are so fuzzy that the prohibition could prohibit nearly all semi-automatic handguns.The bill, dubbed the Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion Act (GOSAFE) that a gun rights group panned as “perhaps the most sweepi