<p>Movies from both Disney and Apple had lackluster showings over the Thanksgiving holiday, capping another rough week for Hollywood at the box office.</p>
<p>Despite strong showings from Barbie and Oppenheimer over the summer, movies released in theaters have continued to pull in weak numbers compared to pre-pandemic levels. Other factors have hurt the media industry more generally, such as the lengthy SAG-AFTRA strike and the lean toward content criticized as &#8220;woke&#8221; or pandering.</p>
<p>Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Wish,&#8221; which had a massive budget of $200 million, brought in $8.3 million on Wednesday, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/thanksgiving-eve-box-office-disney-wish-bombing-apple-napoleon-1235806537/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Variety, and is expected to hit around $37 million over the five-day period.</p>
<p>Apple Original Productions’ &#8220;Napoleon,&#8221; which also cost a stunning $200 million to produce, earned $7.7 million on Wednesday. The Joaquin Phoenix-starring film is expected to generate around $30 million in the five-day period.</p>
<p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m ">In the case with &#8220;Napoleon,&#8221; the film is holding a low 62% favorability rating with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and 61% with the general audience. As for &#8220;Wish,&#8221; the animated film has received some criticism for its concept.</p>
<p>Daily Wire co-founder and Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, for example, said the film&#8217;s central idea is a metaphor for God being &#8220;bad,&#8221; until an &#8220;empowered female character&#8221; steps in to save everyone.</p>
<p>&#8220;It seems that the plot is, essentially, about how God is bad. So, what it is is a king [who] grants people&#8217;s wishes, but he has an apprentice &#8230; and this apprentice finds out that the king is only <em>selectively</em> granting people&#8217;s wishes, and is picking and choosing,&#8221; Shapiro recapped the movie&#8217;s preview.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a terrible, terrible thing — she will grant everyone&#8217;s wishes!&#8221; he added sarcastically. &#8220;Which, you don&#8217;t have to go far afield to understand that what that kind of is is, &#8216;God is bad because he said no to you sometimes.&#8217; So it would be better if there were an empowered female character to get up and make sure that <em>all</em> wishes be granted across the board.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The Daily Wire announced in October the coming release of its own live-action adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairytale &#8220;Snow White,&#8221; while, notably, Disney struggles with its &#8220;Snow White&#8221; adaptation starring Rachel Zegler. The actress has publicly disparaged the classic story, which has contributed to already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-disneys-favorability-plummets-with-conservatives-after-snow-white-controversy">plummeting favorability ratings</a> for the once-iconic company.</p>
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<p>The Daily Wire&#8217;s film, which stars actress and YouTube superstar host of “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@TheCommentsSection">The Comments Section</a>” Brett Cooper, is set for release in 2024. Meanwhile, Disney has had to push back the release date of their adaptation for another year.</p>
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