<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Hugh Grant</a> is once again sharing his unfiltered thoughts with the public, this time telling the world how much he “hated” his role of an Oompa Loompa in the new “Wonka” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/movies">movie</a>.
The 63-year-old British <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">actor</a> made his feelings known while speaking at a press conference for the movie, per <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/29/hugh-grant-loathed-playing-oompa-loompa-wonka-this-reason-19902111/?ico=mosaic_entertainment">Metro UK</a>.
&#8220;Drivel,&#8221; Grant said of the project. &#8220;It was like a crown of thorns, very uncomfortable.&#8221; He specifically mentioned how he didn’t care to have multiple cameras focused on him all at once to help animators capture his movements, the outlet noted. 
“I made a big fuss about it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t have hated the whole thing more.&#8221;
Grant also said he didn’t know if he was supposed to act with just his face or his whole body, a problem he claims was never resolved.
&#8220;I never received a satisfactory answer,&#8221; the “Notting Hill” star said. &#8220;And frankly, what I did with my body was terrible, and it&#8217;s all been replaced with an animator.&#8221;
He continued, &#8220;It&#8217;s very confusing, with CGI now — you can&#8217;t tell what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;
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This isn’t the first time Grant has disparaged his own work. In 2014, he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/31/entertainment/hugh-grant-movie-regret/index.html">told</a> late night host James Corden he would “happily shred my IMDb page, my CV, because I specialized in being bad for decades.&#8221;
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&#8220;Wonka&#8221; is a prequel to Roald Dahl&#8217;s children&#8217;s book, &#8220;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,&#8221; and follows chocolatier Willy Wonka as a young man before he becomes the eccentric character in the story. The original book was previously adapted into the popular movie &#8220;Willy Wonka &amp; the Chocolate Factory&#8221; (1971) and a Johnny Depp-led remake, &#8220;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,&#8221; in 2005. 
“Wonka” stars Timothée Chalamet as the titular character, and critics are already praising him for his performance. Film director Paul King told the Metro in July that he envisioned Grant was an Oompa Loompa because of his cantankerous demeanor. 
&#8220;So I was really just thinking about that character; somebody who could be a real s***, and then — ah! Hugh,&#8221; King said. &#8220;Because he&#8217;s the funniest, most sarcastic s*** I&#8217;ve ever met.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/disney">Disney</a> CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bob-iger">Bob Iger</a> shared his thoughts on why he believes the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) installment, “The Marvels,” was such a disappointment at the box office.
“The Marvels” earned just $47 million domestically over opening weekend, making it the lowest-ever opening for a Marvel movie. The low numbers have been blamed on general superhero fatigue and fallout from the recent actors and writers strikes, which affected promotional plans. Iger said prioritizing quantity over quality was also a major factor.
&#8220;Quality needs attention. &#8230; It doesn&#8217;t happen by accident. Quantity, in our case, diluted quality,&#8221; the media exec said on Wednesday at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit in New York, per <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/disney-ceo-reveals-thinks-marvels-bombed-box-office-rcna127254">NBC News</a>. He also mentioned how “The Marvels” was filmed during the COVID pandemic, which meant less oversight. 
&#8220;There wasn&#8217;t as much supervision on the set &#8230; where we have executives there really looking over what&#8217;s being done,&#8221; Iger said.
Iger was formerly the CEO of Disney from 2005 until 2020. He was replaced by Bob Chapek and then reinstated to his position in November 2022 when Chapek got fired. Iger says he’ll “definitely” leave the role in 2026 when his contract is up.
“I was disappointed in what I was seeing in the transition period and while I was out,” he said of Chapek’s performance, per <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/bob-iger-criticizes-chapek-disappointed-in-what-i-was-seeing-1235813338/">Variety</a>. “I worked hard at distancing myself from it.”
Iger said he’s been “fixing a lot of problems that the company has had, and dealing with a lot of challenges,” which he claims “were brought on by decisions that were made by my predecessor.” The exec also said some of Disney’s issues “are just basically the result of a tremendous amount of disruption in the world and in our business.”
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The exec said Disney needs to be more “realistic” about movie earning potential amid the changing habits of viewers and the domination of streaming services. 
Iger also addressed a question about sequels when it was mentioned how much the company’s founder despised them. 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to apologize for making sequels,&#8221; he said, admitting that &#8220;we&#8217;ve made too many&#8221; and &#8220;we have to have a reason to make it beyond commerce.&#8221;
&#8220;We will only greenlight a sequel if we believe the story the creators want to tell is worth telling,” Iger said while confirming a fifth installment of &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; is currently in the works.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) praised The Daily Wire&#8217;s first-ever feature-length comedy “Lady Ballers” on Tuesday after the initial release of the film&#8217;s trailer garnered tens of millions of views on social media.
“Lady Ballers,” a DailyWire+ original, is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dailywire-drops-trailer-for-the-most-triggering-comedy-of-the-year-mocking-men-in-womens-sports">directed</a> by the company’s co-founder Jeremy Boreing, who also stars in the film alongside Daily Wire sports show “Crain &amp; Co.” hosts. The movie tells the story of one down-on-his-luck former high school basketball coach, Rob, who will do anything to win — which in this case means teaching his team of men radical modern gender theory and leading them to identify as women in order to brutally dominate multiple women’s sports.
Cruz appears in the movie alongside other notable conservatives, including The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and others.
&#8220;Today, Cultural Marxists enforce their ideology through not only the government, but also through education, journalism, Big Tech, Big Business, sports, music, and Hollywood,&#8221; Cruz said in a statement to The Daily Wire. &#8220;I just wrote a bestselling book, &#8216;Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America&#8217;, to establish the game plan for taking our country back. I am proud to join the Daily Wire and support their effort to break through Hollywood’s woke toxicity and expose the comedic irony of Leftist ideology.&#8221;
Cruz said that &#8220;leftist radicals are trying to permanently destroy women’s sports,&#8221; adding that it is &#8220;so outrageous it&#8217;s almost comedic that the radical left is allowing men to dress as women and then dominate women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
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&#8220;They&#8217;re so out of control, the regular news headlines are starting to read as if they were written by the Babylon Bee,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I was proud to appear in the Daily Wire&#8217;s new comedy that will call out the leftists destroying women&#8217;s sports and taking opportunities away from female athletes. Oh yeah, and the movie is funny as hell too!&#8221;
Though largely kept under wraps until now, the movie already had its fair share of controversy during filming in Nashville, with protestors rallying on location, bullying and harassing cast and crew as they arrived on set, and successfully pressuring one contracted filming location to cancel. But the cast and crew were undeterred and successfully wrapped filming in early July, and the movie will premiere Wednesday, November 29, at a red carpet event in Nashville. “Lady Ballers” will be available to DailyWire+ members beginning Friday, December 1, at 8 p.m. ET.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/disney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disney</a>’s new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/animation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">animated</a> film, “Wish,” failed to perform well at the box office over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. This is especially tough for the studio following the massive flop of “The Marvels” earlier this month.
“Wish” debuted in third place at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">box office</a>, grossing just $19.5 million in its three-day opening weekend and $31.7 million over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. This was significantly less than forecasted and doesn’t come close to recouping the $200 million production budget.
The fantasy musical stars Ariana DeBose as the main character, Asha, and Chris Pine as the villain, King Magnifico. 
The synopsis says: “Young Asha makes a wish so powerful that it&#8217;s answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. With Star&#8217;s help, Asha must save her kingdom from King Magnifico and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.”
“Wish” currently has a 49% critics review on Rotten Tomatoes, one of the lowest of any Disney movie. Critics call it boring, uninspired, and forgettable, plus accuse the film’s creators of borrowing heavily from other more popular Disney movies to create the storyline.
“Just like The Marvels, Wish is an emotionally inert and personality-free movie that appears to have been assembled from the outside in,” Times U.K. reviewer Kevin Maher <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wish-review-disneys-latest-turkey-is-a-dreadful-fairytale-without-a-plot-8cd9l8pt8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. 
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“It follows the studio’s fairytale formula: plucky heroine, villainous magician, talking animals, and big songs. Yet the story brings no new life to the parade,” the Sunday Times reviewer <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/best-films-movies-2023-vz7zdln5q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. 
“The movie is so busy referencing the classics, it makes itself an afterthought,” a third reviewer <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4faa5967-b0a8-4130-a692-425a39b783aa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a>.
“Wish” has an 81% audience score, but this higher number hasn’t helped the bottom line much so far.
This latest poor performance comes on the heels of “The Marvels” absolutely bombing for Disney. The newest Marvel film failed to meet expectations on its opening weekend, earning just $47 million at the box office and being called the worst debut in MCU history, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-marvels-continues-to-flail-at-box-office-earns-worst-second-weekend-drop-of-all-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
The female-led sequel to 2019’s “Captain Marvel” also represents a financial failure for Disney. This was blamed on a general sense of superhero movie fatigue and the writers and actors strikes in Hollywood, forcing the studio to adapt their promotional plans.

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Disney’s ‘Wish’ Is Another Critical And Commercial Disappointment After ‘The Marvels’ Flop Earlier This Month

Disney's 'Wish' Is Another Critical And Commercial Disappointment After 'The Marvels' Flop Earlier This Month

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Movies from both Disney and Apple had lackluster showings over the Thanksgiving holiday, capping another rough week for Hollywood at the box office.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
&#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 selectively granting people&#8217;s wishes, and is picking and choosing,&#8221; Shapiro recapped the movie&#8217;s preview.
&#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 all wishes be granted across the board.&#8221;
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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.
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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.
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Julia Michaels, Ariana DeBose and Rochelle Humes attend the “Wish” UK Premiere at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on November 20, 2023 in London, England.

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Spyglass Media Group has dropped actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melissa Barrera</a> from the cast of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scream 7</a>” due to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitic</a> content she posted on Instagram.
“Spyglass’ stance is unequivocally clear: We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech,” a Spyglass spokesperson told <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/scream-producers-explain-melissa-barrera-fired-antisemitism-1235804914/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> in a statement.
Barrera has been posting on her Instagram about the ongoing conflict in Gaza following the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas</a> terrorist attack on October 7 and resulting response by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a>. The 33-year-old actress re-shared a post that accused Israel of “genocide and ethnic cleansing.” She also posted something from Jewish Currents magazine that mentioned distorting “the Holocaust to boost the Israeli arms industry.”
Spyglass quietly cut ties with Barrera after she shared these post but did not clarify the reasoning immediately. Their new statement confirms that it was the anti-Semitic content that led to her termination.  
The “In the Heights” star was supposed to star in the newest “Scream” after heading up the fifth and sixth installments in 2022 and 2023, per the outlet. 
Berrera&#8217;s &#8220;Scream&#8221; co-star, Jenna Ortega, has also made pro-Palestinian posts on social media.
“We must never give up on the people of Ukraine, Yemen, Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq, Syria… the list goes on unfortunately. For anyone who is willing &amp; wanting to contribute any way they can, I want to form a thread with information. Does anyone have resources/ linked they could add?&#8221; she tweeted in 2022, sharing links for fundraisers for Iraq, Syria, and Palestine.
“Decolonize Palestine,” the “Wednesday” actress wrote in another post. 
These posts have since been deleted as Ortega got rid of her X account earlier this year due to unrelated drama. She has not addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Instagram, but her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jennaortega/">profile</a> does have a link to Save the Children, an organization which provides aid to children in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Spyglass Media Group has not commented on Ortega’s involvement in any upcoming “Scream” projects.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Robin Williams</a> did so much improv while filming the 1993 comedy “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Mrs. Doubtfire</a>” that the production team ended up with 2 million feet of film. 
Director Chris Columbus spoke with <a href="https://www.insider.com/mrs-doubtfire-robin-williams-30th-anniversary-director-chris-columbus-interview-2023-11">Business Insider</a> about the movie&#8217;s 30th anniversary. He fondly recalled working with the late Williams, saying he brought the titular main character to life with his unparalleled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">talent</a>.
“Early on in the process, he went to me: &#8216;Hey boss, the way I like to work, if you&#8217;re up for it, is I&#8217;ll give you three or four scripted takes, and then let&#8217;s play,&#8221;&#8216; Columbus told the outlet.
“By saying that, what he meant was he wanted to improvise. And that&#8217;s exactly how we shot every scene. We would have exactly what was scripted, and then Robin would go off and it was something to behold.”
The director said he felt sorry for the script director, Margaret de Jesus, who had to record all the changes by hand.
“Remember, this is the early 1990s, she wasn&#8217;t typing what he was saying. She was handwriting it and Robin would change every take,” Columbus continued. 
“So Robin would go to a place where he couldn&#8217;t remember much of what he said. We would go to the script supervisor and ask her and sometimes she didn&#8217;t even get it all. Often, he would literally give us a completely different take than what we did doing the written takes.”
He added, “If it were today, we would never end. But back then, we were shooting film so once we were out of film in the camera, we would say to Robin: &#8216;We&#8217;re out of film.&#8217; That happened on several occasions.”
“It got to the point that I had to shoot the entire movie with four cameras to keep up with him. None of us knew what he was going to say when he got going and so I wanted a camera on the other actors to get their reactions,” Columbus said.
The film also starred Sally Field as Williams’ ex-wife and Pierce Brosnan as her new love interest. The director said it was “quite difficult for them not to break character” when Williams was in full improv mode.
The movie was based on the 1987 Anne Fine novel &#8220;Madame Doubtfire.&#8221; The story follows a divorced man (Williams) who dresses up as a British nanny to stay close to his three kids. It came out at the height of Williams’ popularity in the mid-90s and became a box office hit, earning more than $440 million worldwide. It remains popular to this day.
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Columbus hinted that a documentary about the film could be a future possibility. 
“There are roughly 972 boxes of footage from Doubtfire &#8211; footage we used in the movie, outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage &#8211; in a warehouse somewhere and we would like to hire an editor to go in and look at all of that footage,” he told BI. 
“We want to show Robin&#8217;s process. There is something special and magical about how he went about his work and I think it would be fun to delve into it.”
Williams died by suicide at the age of 63 in 2014 after years of battling depression. After his death, he was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia.

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‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Director Said Robin Williams Did So Much Improv They Have 2 Million Feet Of Film, Had 4 Cameras Running To ‘Keep Up’

'Mrs. Doubtfire' Director Said Robin Williams Did So Much Improv They Have 2 Million Feet Of Film, Had 4 Cameras Running To 'Keep Up'

Disney&#8217;s latest superhero movie &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-led-the-marvels-has-worst-ever-opening-weekend-in-mcu-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Marvels</a>&#8221; continues to be a box office disaster as the female-led film suffered the worst second-weekend drop of all time for Marvel Studios.
The Brie Larson-led Marvel Cinematic Universe film fell 78 percent in box office performance for its second weekend out and is currently tracking as the worst second-week showing for any modern day Hollywood superhero film, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hunger-games-prequel-box-office-opening-1235663158/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.
&#8220;The Marvels&#8221; is a sequel to the 2019 film &#8220;Captain Marvel&#8221; and has managed to beat out the previous holder of the worst dropoff from opening weekend held by the third film in the &#8220;Ant Man&#8221; franchise, &#8220;Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,&#8221; which experienced a 69 percent drop.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheMarvels?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheMarvels</a> is shaping up to be the first MCU movie to fall short of $100 million at the domestic box office. <a href="https://t.co/Fu8UdlJGzM">https://t.co/Fu8UdlJGzM</a> <a href="https://t.co/Pm4wi68Pmz">pic.twitter.com/Pm4wi68Pmz</a>
— Variety (@Variety) <a href="https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1726512703441707011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
The new Marvel film failed to meet expectations its opening weekend with the box office estimates lowered before the release from $75-$80 million in projected ticket sales to just $60-$65 million, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-led-film-the-marvels-lowers-box-office-expectations-to-60m-ahead-of-premiere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Opening weekend proved worse, with the movie earning just $47 million, and the showing is officially being called the worst debut in MCU history, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/box-office/box-office-the-marvels-bombs-worst-marvel-cinematic-universe-opening-weekend-1235788513/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> reported.
The second weekend out, the new Marvel film continued to struggle, earning $10.2 million, — for a total after two weeks of just $65 million — THR noted. And overseas the movie did just about as well, adding $19.5 million from 52 markets for a total of $96.3 million internationally and $161.3 million globally, <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt10676048/?ref_=bo_se_r_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BoxOfficeMojo</a> noted.
&#8220;The Marvels&#8221; is led by three females and was directed by black female director, Nia DaCosta, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-marvels-box-office-marvel-1235639482/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">THR</a> noted.
&#8220;Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence,&#8221; a description about the film read, per THR. &#8220;However, unintended consequences see her shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with two other superheroes to form the Marvels.&#8221;
Only two other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe have opened to lower than $60 million: &#8220;The Incredible Hulk&#8221; in 2008, which brought in $55.4 million, not adjusted for inflation, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-led-film-the-marvels-lowers-box-office-expectations-to-60m-ahead-of-premiere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported,</a> and &#8220;Ant-Man&#8221; in 2015, which earned $57.2 million domestically, not adjusted for inflation.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-led-film-the-marvels-lowers-box-office-expectations-to-60m-ahead-of-premiere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Female-Led Film &#8216;The Marvels&#8217; Lowers Box Office Expectations To $60M Ahead Of Premiere</a>

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‘The Marvels’ Continues To Flail At Box Office, Earns Worst Second-Weekend Drop Of All Time

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-thanks-fans-after-faith-based-tv-network-sees-monster-ratings-jump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Candace Cameron Bure</a> talked about making faith-based films for the Great American Family Network, saying that their goal was to honor &#8220;faith, family, and country&#8221; in film — something she said was often missing.
During an interview with the 47-year-old actress and GAF CEO Bill Abbott, the two talked to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/candace-cameron-bure-focusing-faith-based-content-cultural-desert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> about making Christmas movies that honor those who serve our country and celebrates family.
&#8220;I think we want to create an oasis in a cultural desert,&#8221; Bure told the outlet.
Abbott added, &#8220;I think that the culture overall needs it. And there is just so little content out there that serves family and faith and is done in a quality way. And so that is a very big part of what our mission is and what we do, and the demand is huge.&#8221;
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Candace Cameron Bure focusing on faith-based content &#8216;in a cultural desert&#8217; <a href="https://t.co/osEDuSSQTM">https://t.co/osEDuSSQTM</a>
— Fox News Entertainment (@FoxNewsEnt) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsEnt/status/1726543213312307678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youre-going-to-be-a-disciple-for-me-candace-cameron-bure-thanks-god-for-taking-her-out-of-acting-for-10-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bure,</a> who develops, produces and stars in movies on the network, will appear in &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-shares-details-about-upcoming-film-that-honors-u-s-veterans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">My Christmas Hero</a>&#8221; when her latest film for GAF — which honors U.S. military veterans — drops the day after Thanksgiving. In the film, Bure plays a U.S. Army Reserve doctor &#8220;who&#8217;s on a mission to honor a fallen soldier,&#8221; the outlet noted.
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&#8220;They [service members] really are appreciative that we honor faith, family and country and that we are pro-country and we love America and we&#8217;re grateful for their service,&#8221; Bure said.
&#8220;So I know it means a lot to them that we honor them and we want to in really big ways because we know that we wouldn&#8217;t be here in peace without them,&#8221; she added. &#8220;So this is just a small gesture of appreciation on our end.&#8221;
The &#8220;Full House&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-thanks-fans-after-gaf-becomes-fastest-growing-network-in-all-of-cable-tv" target="_blank" rel="noopener">star</a> and Abbott provided a special screening of the movie recently in Washington state at Joint Army and Air Force Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), the outlet noted.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a joy to be here,&#8221; Bure said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve met many people, [with] huge smiles on their faces, which are bringing us so much joy. But I know that they&#8217;re really happy that we&#8217;re here.&#8221;
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&#8220;And it&#8217;s a place where their whole family can come to watch the movie tonight,&#8221; she added of the screening. &#8220;And that&#8217;s special for us because that&#8217;s who our movies are for, the whole family together.&#8221;
Speaking to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/candace-cameron-bure-great-american-family-11668205295" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a>, the &#8220;Fuller House&#8221; star previously talked about her decision to leave Hallmark and join GAF, after Hallmark&#8217;s programming and advertising started involving LGBTQ-themed stories.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/great-american-family-announces-great-american-christmas-2023-with-20-new-originals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great American Family Announces &#8216;Great American Christmas 2023&#8217; With 20 New Originals</a>

Today – Season 68

‘We Honor Faith, Family And Country’: Candace Cameron Bure On Making Faith-Based Films

'We Honor Faith, Family And Country': Candace Cameron Bure On Making Faith-Based Films

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Famed director Ridley Scott recently had some strong words for French critics who panned his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/history">historical biopic</a>, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Napoleon</a>.”
The “Alien” director spoke frankly while reacting to negative reviews, including one that described the new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">film</a> as “deeply clumsy, unnatural and unintentionally funny.” One French critic, who also wrote a biography of Napoleon, said it was &#8220;very anti-French and very pro-British.&#8221; Some critics said the film was historically inaccurate. Scott discussed those claims in general during a recently published interview with <a href="https://go.skimresources.com/?id=38395X987171&amp;xs=1&amp;xcust=655b045ae4b05723e4bdc001&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Fridley-scott-i-didnt-listen-to-historians-to-make-my-napoleon-epic-snq5f7x68">The Times</a>.
“Like all history, it’s been reported. Napoleon dies, then, 10 years later, someone writes a book. Then someone takes that book and writes another book and so, 400 years later there’s a lot of imagination [in history books],” Scott told the outlet.
“When I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate were you there? No? Well, shut the f*** up then,’” he added.
“Napoleon” will debut in theaters nationwide on Wednesday, just in time for Thanksgiving weekend. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as Joséphine, his wife. 
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The description says the historical drama will take a look at “the military commander&#8217;s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Joséphine.”
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Scott <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67419876">told</a> the BBC that it was a no-brainer to do a movie about Napoleon. &#8220;He&#8217;s so fascinating. Revered, hated, loved… more famous than any man or leader or politician in history. How could you not want to go there?&#8221; he said.
But the British director acknowledged that even though there was so much to explore, he kept the movie under three hours intentionally to avoid the &#8220;bum ache factor&#8221; of extra-long movies. 
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&#8220;When you start to go &#8216;oh my God&#8217; and then you say &#8216;Christ, we can&#8217;t eat for another hour&#8217;, it&#8217;s too long,&#8221; Scott said.

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Ridley Scott Responds To French Critics Slamming ‘Napoleon’: ‘Shut The F*** Up’

Ridley Scott Responds To French Critics Slamming 'Napoleon:' 'Shut The F*** Up'

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Executives at Disney are deeply puzzled over why yet another of their big budget franchise films has flopped at the box office. No one has yet been able to discover the reason for last weekend’s utter failure of “Girl-Boss Marvels Two: This Time, We’re in Your Face, Penis Man,” starring much-in-demand actress Shrilly Crowcall and some black girl and a Hispanic girl, no one really cares which, least of all the people who hired them.
Made at a cost of over $200 million, the movie had an opening weekend reminiscent of a bad day in Nagasaki, earning approximately seventeen dollars and 35 cents, but only after studio heads collected and redeemed the soda cans that had been thrown at the screen by people on their way to see something more entertaining like bread mold or that crazy guy outside the theater who is catatonic for half an hour at a time and then suddenly starts shrieking incomprehensible nonsense and then drops his pants and plants crap in front of everyone, so is kind of like a Disney film except you can watch it for free. Until Disney execs can figure out what is going wrong, they’ve decided to suspend the release of other big budget Marvel pictures starring promising new superheroes like Captain Groomer and Ironpants.
Even a live action remake of a beloved cartoon classic — &#8220;Snow Brown and The Seven Ambiguously Handicapped and Excluded Persons of Color&#8221; — originally scheduled for Christmas Release, was sent back into production after the star, Rachel Harridan, gave a promotional interview that was not as well received as the studio had hoped. Miss Harridan told reporters, “This is not going to be a film for people who like snow whiteness or think singing dwarves are somehow charming or who want to see some creep sneak up and kiss a sleeping girl without first getting her consent. If that’s your idea of fun, we are going to shove this remake down your throat until you choke on it, and if you&#8217;re not willing to pay twenty dollars a ticket for that experience we will publicly call you out for your bigotry.” Studio PR executives are still wondering whether perhaps they should have tweaked that message to reach a wider audience.
In an interview with Show Biz Trade Paper Variety, the formerly male Disney Studio Head now identifying as Melissa WingWang — whose pronouns are Zee, Zur, Splorg and Would you like to see my puppy little boy — told reporters, “We simply can’t understand why these movies aren’t working. We’ve done everything we can to take the beloved Christian and patriotic Disney brand and turn it into a tool for queering your children into a life of sexual deviance and moral degradation, and yet for some reason the audiences still don’t respond. Hopefully, our Thanksgiving Release of a live action Sleeping Beauty done entirely in drag will turn things around.”
Disney is not alone in facing baffling rejections from customers. Anheuser Busch is still puzzling out why their Bud Light Brand has taken a nosedive at the market and are hoping to make a comeback with a new slogan, “Bud, the uncloseted queen of beers.” Gillette is also rejiggering ITS slogan with new ads declaring, “Gillette, the sleekest, shapeliest legs a man can get.”
Gillette Spokes-something-or-other Willie Wontee — whose pronouns are a high pitched whine and something that sounds like a raspberry but smells bad — announced the change at a company Zoom meeting, saying, “Our strategy is to take a product that might appeal to fifty percent of the public and target it instead to a minuscule but voluble group of sexually anomalous cranks who won’t buy it under any circumstances. We don’t see what can go wrong.”
Although the reasons for the setbacks at these companies remain a mystery for now, one observer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Daily Wire “The fact is, these companies are doing exactly what they should be doing and if they stick with it, it’s sure to result in billions of dollars in profits. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to work. After all, I am the god-king.”
Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is an award-winning novelist, Hollywood screenwriter, and popular satirist. Klavan is the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Habit-Mind-Cameron-Mysteries/dp/1613163517/ref=pd_bxgy_sccl_1/132-9473875-2662038?pd_rd_w=lnVGk&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&amp;pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&amp;pf_rd_r=13RV0285EXYKN2D57RST&amp;pd_rd_wg=jW34u&amp;pd_rd_r=e0bb3c70-62ea-4448-8be5-a7cf1bba3f5e&amp;pd_rd_i=1613163517&amp;psc=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When Christmas Comes</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Habit-Mind-Cameron-Mysteries/dp/1613163517/ref=pd_bxgy_sccl_1/132-9473875-2662038?pd_rd_w=lnVGk&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&amp;pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&amp;pf_rd_r=13RV0285EXYKN2D57RST&amp;pd_rd_wg=jW34u&amp;pd_rd_r=e0bb3c70-62ea-4448-8be5-a7cf1bba3f5e&amp;pd_rd_i=1613163517&amp;psc=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When Christmas Comes</a>” the first two novels in the USA Today best-selling Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” is now available! Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1157-the-china-syndrome">The Andrew Klavan Show.</a>”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Movie Executives With Strange Pronouns Can’t Understand Why Movies Flop

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Outspoken leftist author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stephen-king">Stephen King</a> blamed the box office failure of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">The Marvels</a>” on woman-hating fanboys. But his social media followers aren’t letting him get away with it.
“Some of the rejection of THE MARVELS may be adolescent fanboy hate. You know, ‘Yuck! GIRLS!’” the 76-year-old author shared on X November 12, in a post that has since racked up more than 2 million views.
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Some of the rejection of THE MARVELS may be adolescent fanboy hate. You know, &quot;Yuck! GIRLS!&quot;
&mdash; Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1723875366907834660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“The Marvels” was a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-led-the-marvels-has-worst-ever-opening-weekend-in-mcu-history">massive disappointment</a> for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marvel">MCU</a>, pulling in just $47 million during its opening weekend — the lowest in the franchise&#8217;s history. The poor showing is partly blamed on multiple factors, including the actors’ strike in Hollywood and general superhero movie fatigue. 
Social media users objected to King&#8217;s implication that the female-led film starring Brie Larson, which was also touted for having the franchise’s first black female director, crashed and burned because would-be moviegoers hate women.
“I am a woman. I saw the movie. It was bad,” BlazeTV host Lauren Chen <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1724063900448981237">replied</a>.
“Or maybe the movie just sucks?” another person <a href="https://twitter.com/ocajjoni/status/1723875608524922904">suggested</a>.
“Given that most of the people who go see these kinds of superhero movies are adolescent boys, absolutely yes, which should immediately tell you something about how fantastically Disney is failing their core audience right now,” a third person observed.
“It&#8217;s fine though. Adolescent boys will simply take their money somewhere else where their audienceship is appreciated and welcomed.”
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A few of King’s followers called him out for not patronizing the movie himself and then complaining about poor numbers.
“Since you don&#8217;t go to MCU movies and don&#8217;t care for them, that means you rejected The Marvels, right? Does that mean you hate women?” one person wrote with a screenshot of the horror book writer’s previous tweet. 
King had <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1723754733024780549">tweeted</a> earlier the same day, writing, “I don’t go to MCU movies, don’t care for them, but I find this barely masked gloating over the low box office for THE MARVELS very unpleasant. Why gloat over failure?”
Marvel Studios recently <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/the-marvels-bombs-box-office-whats-next-marvel-cinematic-universe-1235788706/">postponed</a> three projects originally slated for 2024. 
“Captain America: A Brave New World,” “Thunderbolts,” and “Blade” are being pushed to 2025 because of strike-related production delays. That means the only Marvel release scheduled for 2024 is “Deadpool 3.” 
Though these actions aren’t necessarily due to “The Marvels” being a flop, it does give the studio time to regroup and come up with a new strategy.

Stephen King

Stephen King Roasted For Blaming ‘The Marvels’ Failure On ‘Adolescent Fanboy Hate’: ‘Maybe The Movie Just Sucks?’

Stephen King Roasted For Blaming 'The Marvels' Failure On 'Adolescent Fanboy Hate': 'Maybe The Movie Just Sucks?'

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