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Disney had one of its worst theatrical releases ever with its latest animated movie Strange World,<\/em> which brought in just $18.6 million over the five-day holiday weekend despite being heralded as the first Disney movie to include an openly gay main character.<\/p>\n

Strange World<\/em> had Disney’s second-worst opening weekend ever, behind only the pandemic-era release of West Side Story<\/em> directed by Steven Spielberg, variety<\/em> reported Sunday. Ultimately, Strange World<\/em> only garnered about half of its projected long weekend revenue.<\/p>\n

The movie featured a star-studded cast including voice acting from Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Lucy Liu, and Gabrielle Union, and sported a massive budget between $120 and $130 million, the Daily Mail<\/em> writes.<\/p>\n

Expectations were initially high for Strange World<\/em> with Disney projecting the film to earn between $30 and $40 million dollars over the long weekend. However, those figures were rapidly, and significantly, revised downwards when it was understood how poorly the movie was performing with audiences.<\/p>\n

As with other recent Disney animated movies including lightyear<\/em> (another disappointing box office flop), Strange World<\/em> sought to crowbar progressive causes into the film, including for the first time in Disney’s history an openly gay main character. However, one liberal movie reviewer said Disney would likely use homophobia to shield it from the film’s obvious shortcomings.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisney is 100% going to blame STRANGE WORLD’s inevitable bad box office on the fact that there’s an openly gay character in the movie when in reality, it’s going to flop because they didn’t market it at all. They’ll use this as an excuse to not have queer rep ever again,\u201d film critic Jordan Woodson tweeted<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

Aside from the progressive emphasis, for some, the movie simply failed to entertain. \u201cTook the kids to the movies today to watch a Disney cartoon called Strange World. Within 10 minutes of the movie, my 10-year-old son said ‘Dad, I have no desire to watch this movie. Can we leave?’ We left. The leaders at Disney have forgotten who the PAYING customer is,\u201d the popular podcaster Patrick Bet-David<\/a> tweeted.<\/p>\n