Disney Film Featurg Gay Ma Character Bombs at Box Office

Contents:

• DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
• DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
• COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
• DC'S GAY SUPERHERO FILM BOMBS AT THE BOX OFFICE, IS HOLLYWOOD RUNNG OUT OF EXC?
• STAR OF 'HISTORIC' GAY MOVIE GETS BACKLASH AFTER BLAMG 'STRAIGHT PEOPLE' FOR OPENG WEEKEND BOX OFFICE FLOP

DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE

Elsewhere, the unlikely box office h “Sound of Freedom” climbed to send place s sophomore outg wh $25 ln om 3, 265 theaters, up 25% om last weekend.

DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE

6 ln over the five-day holiday weekend spe beg herald as the first Disney movie to clu an openly gay ma character.

However, those figur were rapidly, and signifintly, revised downwards when was unrstood how poorly the movie was performg wh wh other recent Disney animated movi cludg Lightyear (another disappotg box office flop), Strange World sought to crowbar progrsive to the film, cludg for the first time Disney’s history an openly gay ma character. However, one liberal movie reviewer said Disney would likely e homophobia to shield om the film’s obv shortgs. “Disney is 100% gog to blame STRANGE WORLD’s evable bad box office on the fact that there’s an openly gay character the movie when realy, ’s gog to flop bee they didn’t market at all.

I didn’t want to dimish “the first major stud movie wrten by and starrg a gay man” or spoil s Rotten Tomato sre or dance on the grave of s box-office prospects. I certaly didn’t want to attack the star of “Billy on the Street” and “Difficult People, ” two of the most succsful screen adaptatns of the gay sensibily recent memory. ”Do that make too the “homophobic weirdos” of Eichner’s nfoundg post-bomb tweet spiral or simply the silent Benedict Arnolds of his self-proclaimed march to the history books?

COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB

It is emently ldable that Eichner has ma a sexually ank stud edy featurg two gay men, and that he sisted, as wgman/-star/-producer Guy Branum not, on an all-LGBTQ st. Its laceratg send-ups of token reprentatn Hallmark Christmas movi; the “hnted hoe of gay trma” that pop culture pass off as queer history; even Eichner’s own public persona are all a potent, knowg nod to the ongog challeng of tellg LGBTQ stori — of livg LGBTQ liv — whout simply repurposg a tired, old, straight the culmatg ame of s fal act, that is, when the image of two nventnally attractive gay men kissg is posned, lerally, as the ldatory bookend to “5, 000 years of gay love stori erased om the history books.

DC'S GAY SUPERHERO FILM BOMBS AT THE BOX OFFICE, IS HOLLYWOOD RUNNG OUT OF EXC?

And yet, spe the affi Eichner and I share on paper — no, bee of the affi we share on paper — I reil at “Bros’” squanred privilege, bristle at s star’s attempt to hi s shortgs behd the veil of homophobia. It is the eedom to fight over, cricize, even ignore the artworks that claim to reprent — and, on the flip si, the eedom to keep makg and nsumg gay art whether straight people show up for or, when I saw the film a send time this week, at a half-full weeknight screeng at the Sunset 5, what stck me most were the loust lghs and cheers, all directed at the gayt material — the slap fight-turned-sex scene, the Bowen Yang meo, Nile Kidman’s pre-roll ad for AMC.

STAR OF 'HISTORIC' GAY MOVIE GETS BACKLASH AFTER BLAMG 'STRAIGHT PEOPLE' FOR OPENG WEEKEND BOX OFFICE FLOP

” (Universal Pictur) To say “let gay art bomb” is not to say “let gay art languish. It’s simply a remr that — not only for gay art but for art, full stop — mercial failure has often been a sign of creative succs. It is through the ph and pull of the popular and the avant-gar, the acclaimed and reviled, the celebrated and the spect, that we arrived at the place where “Bros” uld sk or the next quarter century brg still bigger swgs, still more revolutnary cursns to the mastream, still more films and TV seri “too gay, too niche” for straight dienc and not gay enough — never gay enough — for .

The cln of a gay superhero.