Hollywood Hits Peak Woke/Broke as Captain America Projected to See Huge 70% Second-Weekend Dropoff After Flop Opening

Before that: All the wokies infesting Disney are angry at Bob Iger for making some very small walkbacks of illegal DEI practices, and for "capitulating" to Trump.

Walt Disney insiders are furious with CEO Bob Iger over his perceived "capitulation" on DEI initiatives as well as its recent settlement of a lawsuit involving ABC News host George Stephanopoulos brought by President Trump, according to a report.

"This is not what I expected from Bob -- I thought he had our back," a company insider told Deadline, adding: "What's next? Where do we go from here? What do we stand for now, keeping MAGA happy?"

Disney is restructuring its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs to focus more on business outcomes, replacing the "Diversity & Inclusion" executive performance factor with a broader "Talent Strategy" and rebranding employee groups to emphasize workplace belonging.

Additionally, the company has removed the autoplay content advisories warning about outdated depictions in older films like "Dumbo" and "Peter Pan" -- moving them to the details section instead.

These changes reflect the pressure that corporations face in adapting to evolving political expectations, particularly under the Trump administration's renewed push against DEI initiatives.

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Some Disney employees were also unhappy over Iger's decision to agree to a $16 million payout to Trump as part of a settlement of a defamation lawsuit that was brought against ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos.

One person described by Deadline as a "well-positioned individual" within the company called the decision to settle an "embarrassment" and "the beginning of the capitulation."

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Disney employees who spoke to Deadline also expressed frustration with a company decision to remove a transgender-themed storyline from its upcoming Pixar series "Win or Lose," altering dialogue and content to align with new internal directives.

The transgender character remains in the show, but references to gender identity were cut, and content disclaimers have also been adjusted.

Adding to the speculation about Disney's direction, Iger's low-profile presence at the Hollywood premiere of "Captain America: Brave New World" raised eyebrows.

Unlike past appearances, the CEO, who normally poses on the red carpet with film stars and the creative team, avoided public interactions.

He might be distancing himself from the movie because he knew it would fail.

Or he might have been trying to protect the movie from his own stink of failure.

The new Captain America movie got a B- score from the post-movie pollsters at Cinemascore. This is the lowest score recorded for any Marvel movie.

Furthermore, it's a bad score overall -- anything lower than a "B" (from people who wanted to see the movie and made the effort to go pay to see it) indicates a bad movie that will have short "legs" as word of mouth gets out.

(Only horror movies can have lower Cinemascores and still wind up making a nice profit.)

Disney shills are claiming this movie made $100 million in its "opening weekend." Well, they count Thursday shows as part of "the weekend," and last weekend was a holiday weekend, so they're counting a full five days of ticket sales as "weekend" box office.

The movie didn't make $100 million over the weekend, it made $87.5 million. And that still includes Thursday as a "weekend" day.

The movie will not make $500 million in total global sales, which means the movie, which probably cost $250 million or more, will be another Marvel failure. (Remember, theaters take about 40% of the gross ticket sales.)

Box office projections call for Captain America to make $30 million this weekend. A drop of 70%.

The legacy media called it a $100 million opening weekend, and despite their sneaky use of five-days to count as a "first weekend", we're holding them to it. As a result, Captain America: Brave New World is on track for one of the steepest second-weekend drops in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Projections indicate that the film will plummet around 70% in domestic earnings, bringing in just over $30 million in its sophomore frame. If this trajectory holds, its worldwide haul for the second weekend will struggle to surpass $50 million, putting its long-term prospects in jeopardy. Should the film fail to reach the crucial $400 million global benchmark as it winds down its theatrical window, it will go down as one of Marvel Studios' biggest misfires and an outright embarrassment for the once-unshakable franchise.

Only The Marvels had a bigger drop, falling 78% in its sophomore weekend.

Now, eagle-eyed DOGE Math Ninjas will notice that I'm using the $100 million four-day opening weekend number, rather than the $87.5 three day figure to calculate the second weekend box office.

But the leftwing Disney-boosting media keeps insisting the movie made $100 million it its opening weekend. They should be allowed to then change that opening weekend box office to make the second weekend box office drop look better.

In more Woke Hollywood news, it's the end of an era for James Bond. The Broccoli family, which produced every singe official EON James Bond film from Dr. No to the last one (whatever it was) has been pushed aside by Jeff Bezos.

Jeff Bezos, who's brought us banger after banger like Rings of Power and Wheel of Time.

I am not optimistic.

It's taking around $1 billion to have 007 stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson cede creative oversight of their family's storied James Bond franchise to Amazon MGM Studios, sources tell us.

Amazon originally overpaid on its purchase of MGM in a deal orchestrated by then-MGM board chair Kevin Ulrich. Though valued between $3.5 billion-$4 billion, the legendary motion picture studio was absorbed by the streamer for $8.5 billion, the hefty sum propped up by the potential access of the 007 franchise. However, Amazon couldn't fully freely develop Bond with Broccoli and Wilson in the mix. Hence, it took another $1 billion to ensure that they could fully steer and exploit the Ian Fleming IP.

Details on what makes up the new $1 billion deal is unknown at this time, and whether it includes Amazon stock options; the deal for Amazon MGM to take full creative command of Bond hasn't closed yet, we're told, while Amazon MGM Studios declined comment for this story. The expectation from sources is that there will be an element of shared economy in the movies going forward.

Now, the Broccoli family has been pushing wokeness in Bond for 20+ years, and has been crapping out very repetitive and subpart entries for a long time now, so maybe this is just a lateral move from "crap" to "poop."

Could Bezos possibly be so stupid to continue the woke messaging with his new ten billion dollar investment?

I think he probably could.

Back to Disney: Does Disney have any other high-profile sure-winner movies coming out after Captain America to save them?

Oh boy, do they! Coming on March 21st, they threatened:

Thanks to Soothsayer.

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Article here.

I don't care. If you went woke, you're dead to me for a thousand generations.

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