Disney CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-ceo-bob-iger-defends-marvel-says-cooglers-work-on-black-panther-not-less-than-what-scorsese-or-coppola-have-done" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob Iger</a> addressed the recent flops at the box office for Marvel movies like &#8220;Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and animated Pixar films such as &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-asked-too-much-of-the-audience-disney-exec-offers-excuse-for-lightyear-flop-makes-no-mention-of-same-sex-kiss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lightyear</a>&#8221; and &#8220;Elemental.&#8221;
During Iger&#8217;s appearance at the Sun Valley Conference, he called the Disney film&#8217;s performance &#8220;disappointing,&#8221; adding that most of the problem was the decision to offer too much content on the Disney+ streaming service, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/marvel-flops-too-many-disney-tv-shows-bob-iger-1235669262/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> reported.
&#8220;There have been some disappointments,&#8221; Iger admitted. &#8220;We would have liked some of our more recent releases to perform better. It&#8217;s reflective not as a problem from a personnel perspective, but I think in our zeal to basically grow our content significantly to serve mostly our streaming offerings, we ended up taxing our people way beyond — in terms of their time and their focus — way beyond where they had been.&#8221;
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Bob Iger has acknowledged that Pixar movies going straight to Disney+ has caused an impact in the demand for seeing new Pixar movies in theaters.
However, he also adds that the studio has had some “creative misses.”
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&#8220;Marvel&#8217;s a great example of that,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They had not been in the TV business at any significant level. Not only did they increase their movie output, but they ended up making a number of television series, and frankly, it diluted focus and attention. That is, I think, more of the cause than anything.&#8221;
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And when it comes to such Pixar flops as &#8220;Elemental,&#8221; Iger said the COVID-influenced decision to skip theaters and go straight to streaming, which was also the strategy for movies like &#8220;Luca&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/my-panda-my-choice-mom-disney-and-pixars-turning-red-has-some-parents-outraged-over-themes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Turning Red,</a>&#8221; was a mistake.
&#8220;That may have created an expectation in the audience that they&#8217;re going to eventually be on streaming and probably quickly, and there wasn’t an urgency,&#8221; said Iger.
&#8220;And then I think there was some, I think you&#8217;d have to agree that there were some creative misses, as well,&#8221; he added, without specifying further.
The &#8220;Ant-Man and the Wasp&#8221; sequel was released in February and, to date, has failed to earn $500 million worldwide.
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Disney has cast a transgender actor, a biological male who identifies as a woman, for the role of Ensign Eurus in the new &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; series on the Disney+ streaming site due out next year.
The 30-year-old British actor is part of the Lucasfilm franchise after being chosen for &#8220;The Acolyte.&#8221; The series is set to take place near the end of the High Republic Era and sets the stage for the collapse of the Jedi, according to <a href="https://screenrant.com/star-wars-the-acolyte-ensign-eurus-abigail-thorn/?taid=649376727bd79800015f9eaa&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem-SR&amp;utm_medium=Social-Distribution&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Screenrant</a>.
<a href="https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/abigail-thorn#books">United Agents</a>, a literary and talent agency, described Abigail Thorn as a British YouTuber and playwright who is best known for producing the Philosophy Tube channel on YouTube. Thorn will be joined on the project by non-binary actor Amanda Steinberg, <a href="https://thedirect.com/article/star-wars-cast-transgender-actor">The Direct</a> noted.
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British actress Abigail Thorn has joined Star Wars, and her character&#39;s name &#8211; Ensign Eurus &#8211; may hint at the plot of a 2024 Star Wars Disney+ TV show <a href="https://t.co/nFrftgeHbw">https://t.co/nFrftgeHbw</a>
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Lucasfilm teased the series at the 2023 Star Wars Celebration, however it is unclear how big of a role Thorn&#8217;s character will play, the outlet noted.
The move to hire a transgender star comes after the casting of transgender and non-binary actor Zoe Terakes for &#8220;Ironheart,&#8221; the next series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is expected to release sometime in the fall on the streaming site.
In 2021, the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; franchise introduced and celebrated two &#8220;trans non-binary&#8221; characters by the names Terec and Ceret in its Marvel and Star Wars comic book &#8220;The High Republic.&#8221;
At the time, the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CNFwI8oFhR-/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> captioned its post, &#8220;In honor of #TransDayOfVisibility we&#8217;re proud to unveil an exclusive cover highlighting Terec and Ceret, trans non-binary Jedi, currently featured in Marvel&#8217;s &#8216;The High Republic comic.'&#8221;
&#8220;We support trans lives and we are passionate and committed to broadening our representation in a galaxy far far way,&#8221; it added.
Disney has faced a backlash at the box office following its push of LGBTQ representation. The latest movie to come out of the Disney Pixar studio, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pixars-elemental-with-non-binary-character-flops-at-box-office-with-2nd-worst-opening-in-studio-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elemental,</a>&#8221; includes a &#8220;non-binary&#8221; character and the movie had one of the worst openings in the studio&#8217;s history, earning $29.5 million at the domestic box office.
&#8220;Strange World&#8221; involved a same-sex teen romance and was a box office flop for the company. It was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disneys-strange-world-on-track-to-lose-100-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">projected</a> to make $30 to $40 million over the long weekend. However, its five-day opening ended with only $18.6 million, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/black-panther-wakanda-forever-box-office-strange-world-1235270031/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced plans</a> for kids&#8217; entertainment content.)
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pixars-elemental-with-non-binary-character-flops-at-box-office-with-2nd-worst-opening-in-studio-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pixar&#8217;s &#8216;Elemental,&#8217; With &#8216;Non-Binary&#8217; Character, Flops At Box Office</a>

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