Tenet Makes Only $20 Million in Three Day Holiday Weekend Opening with Zero Competition;
Wonder Woman 1984 Blinks and Delays Release Again

Wonder Woman 1984 looked at the would-be blockbuster Tenet's anemic box office and said, "Nah, brah."

So they're postponing their release date again.

But: Will crowds ever return to theaters?

Mostly young people were going to theaters theaters for 25 years. And yet young people are unlikely to be affected by Covid.

But they're not showing up to see a blockbuster, either.

Some commenters haven't heard of Tenet.

You probably have seen the trailer -- it's the movie where people can control the flow of time locally, and they keep making things move backwards, like making bullets fly backwards into the guns that fired them.

This might be the end of theatrical exhibition in America.

People are forming new habits, and deciding whether or not they really need the things they've given up for seven months.

Sports, take notice.

Thanks to MarcusT.

Disney knew it had a stinker on its hands with the Feminism Empowerment Propaganda Film Mulan (see sidebar), and so they dumped it to streaming. I don't know how much money it's making on streaming, but it's not making a lot in the various territories in which it's playing in theaters.

It opens in China today. It's a film made entirely to please China's communist censors.

Disney even thanks the government officials of Xinjiang province -- where the Uighers are being held in concentration camps -- in the credits!

(I wonder if Sonny Bunch thinks I need to see Mulan to opine about whether it is appropriate to use an "American" movie's credits as a platform to thank the communist government officials putting people in literal concentration camps. I mean, how can I tell until I've evaluated the film's overall message?)

But even though Disney made this movie for the Chinese Communist Party censors, the Chinese Communist Party censors have forbidden the Chinese media to even mention the film in the media.

Why? Well, because Mulan filmed in Xinjiang, the place where they have all the concentration camps, and this has sparked an international backlash, and China is forbidding the press from talking about Mulan as a poorly-thought-out way to stop the people from talking about China's concentration camps.

Am I dreaming?

Is it possible the Mouse could actually die?

China bars media coverage of Disney' 'Mulan' after Xinjiang backlash

Chinese authorities have told major media outlets not to cover Walt Disney Co's release of "Mulan", in an order issued after controversy erupted overseas over the film's links with the Xinjiang region, four people familiar with matter told Reuters.

No reason was given in the notice, but the sources said they believed it was because of the overseas backlash over the film's links to Xinjiang.

Starring big-name Chinese-born actors - Jet Li, Gong Li, Donnie Yen and Liu Yifei - and based on a Chinese folk story, Mulan was tailored to appeal to audiences in China, the world's second-largest movie market.

LOL.

They turned a beloved folk tale into a bargain-basement Captain Marvel femprop rip-off.

This movie wasn't going to make money anyway.

Disney controversy heats up as protesters call for a Mulan boycott

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Set to open in local theatres on Friday, Disney had high hopes for Mulan in China, but starving it of publicity in the country's strictly censored media would be another blow to the $200 million production.

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Partly shot in Xinjiang, Mulan's credits included thanks to the authorities there, which prompted calls overseas for a boycott of the movie.

Former Disney employees (or contractors) Clownfish TV talk about this catastrophe below.

Oh, and do see the sidebar. Wow, this looks like complete garbage.

posted by Ace at 02:56 PM

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