Disney Film Featurg Gay Ma Character Bombs at Box Office

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• DO ‘OUT,’ NEW PIXAR SHORT WH FIRST DISNEY GAY PROTAGONIST, ANSWER LGBTQ CLN LL?
• DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
• PIXAR FDS ITS FIRST GAY LEAD OUTTHE SHORT FILM, STREAMG ON DISNEY+, IS A WARM AND EMOTNAL TALE FOR THE WHOLE FAY.BY JORDAN HOFFMANMAY 24, 2020DISNEY+SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN JT NE MUT, PIXAR AND DISNEY+ TAKE A STEP FORWARD REPRENTATN WH THE LNCH OF OUT, AN ANIMATED, FUN-FOR-ALL-AG SHORT FILM FEATURG A GAY PROTAGONIST. THE SHORT, RELEASED FRIDAY, MARKS THE FIRST TIME THE GIANT HAS CENTERED A STORY OF ANY LENGTH ON AN LGBT CHARACTER.THIS IS NOT A SE WHICH A CHARACTER JT HAPPENS TO BE GAY, OR MIGHT BE IF YOU SCTIZE A SCREENSHOT WH A MAGNIFYG GLASS. OUT’S STORY NCERNS THE STGGL OF A MAN NAMED GREG, WHO IS CLOSETED OM HIS LOVG PARENTS. THE PICTN IS TENR, EMPATHETIC AND HONT, BUT THERE ARE ALSO FANTASY HIJKS VOLVG A FREAKY FRIDAY-ISH BODY-SWAP WH A SCRAPPY DOG. (THIS IS A RTOON AIMED AT KIDS, AFTER ALL.)GREG IS PREPARG TO MOVE (OUT! IT WORKS ON TWO LEVELS!) OM HIS SUBURBAN HOME TO “THE CY” WH HIS PARTNER MANUEL. WHEN GREG’S PARENTS (MOM LOOKG FAIRLY JUNE SQUIBB-ISH, DAD MORE PL BUNYAN) SHOW UP UNANNOUNCED TO HELP HIM PACK, HE SHOOS MANUEL AWAY AND STASH A PICTURE OF THE TWO. COSMIC WACKS ENSU WHEN GREG SWCH NSCNS WH HIS DOG JIM.AFTER SOME PRATFALLS AND SLAPSTICK, THE STORY NCLUS WH FAIAL LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE; ’S VERY SWEET. IT’S ALSO GOT AT LEAST ONE SOLID GAG VOLVG A HOT FIRE FIGHTER LENDAR, PL A BOOKENDG STCTURE VOLVG A DOG AND T THAT SCEND OM THE HEAVENS ON A RABOW BRIDGE. ALSO, THE SHORT NTAS PIXAR'S FIRST SAME-SEX SMOOCH.OUT MARKS THE WRG AND DIRECTG BUT OF STEVEN CLAY HUNTER, AN ANIMATOR WHO HAS WORKED WH PIXAR FOR OVER 20 YEARS, AND IS PART OF THE PANY’S SPARKSHORTS SERI. IT IS ONE OF SEVEN TL, ALL AVAILABLE ON DISNEY+, THAT, AS PIXAR PRINT JIM MORRIS PUTS “DISVER NEW STORYTELLERS, EXPLORE NEW STORYTELLG TECHNIQU, AND EXPERIMENT WH NEW PRODUCTN WORKFLOWS.” OTHERS CLU SMASH AND GRAB, ABOUT OVERWORKED ROBOTS; LOOP, ABOUT A NON-VERBAL GIRL AND A CHATTY BOY LEARNG TO WORK TOGETHER; AND PURL, NCERNG AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC BALL OF YARN FACG DISCRIMATN WHEN SHE GO TO WORK FOR THE B.R.O. RPORATN. ADDNAL SPARKSHORTS ARE THE WORKS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— THE WEEK THE CAMERAS STOPPED: TV THE COVID-19 ERA— WHY NATALIE WOOD’S DGHTER IS CONONTG ROBERT WAGNER ABOUT WOOD’S DEATH— INSI ROCK HUDSON’S REAL-LIFE RELATNSHIP WH AGENT HENRY WILSON— HOW THE MANDALORIAN FOUGHT TO KEEP BABY YODA FROM BEG TOO CUTE— A FIRST LOOK AT CHARLIZE THERON’S IMMORTAL WARRR THE OLD GUARD— BACK TO THE FUTURE, UNCUT GEMS, AND MORE NEW TL ON NETFLIX THIS MONTH— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW ROCK HUDSON AND DORIS DAY HELPED DEFE THE ROMANTIC COMEDYLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOJORDAN HOFFMAN
• ‘STRANGE WORLD’ IS DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD. WHY IS IT BEG BURIED?
• DISNEY'S FIRST FILM FEATURG OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE

DO ‘OUT,’ NEW PIXAR SHORT WH FIRST DISNEY GAY PROTAGONIST, ANSWER LGBTQ CLN LL?

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. In jt ne mut, Pixar and Disney+ take a step forward reprentatn wh the lnch of Out, an animated, fun-for-all-ag short film featurg a gay protagonist. The short, released Friday, marks the first time the giant has centered a story of any length on an LGBT is not a se which a character jt happens to be gay, or might be if you sctize a screenshot wh a magnifyg glass.

The dispirg explanatn uld be that Disney, fearg uproar om all matters of the right, has chewed any big promo s more homogeno films receive. Strange World was never sted to be a hot button issue wh anti-gay, racist, fossil fuel-lovg punds. Disney’s latt major animatn fally livers on those reprentatn promis the pany’s been makg for years (Picture: Disney)Disney has fally done – after years of quick referenc, teasg and plenty of queer dg, the stud has s first gay lead character an animatn wh new film, Strange World.

DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE

Dpe s stumble earlier this year when Disney had to be phed to speak out publicly agast Florida’s highly ntroversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, as one of the world’s most powerful media pani has been an advote for LGBTQ+ rights and cln for many years via s msagg, polici and – of urse – merchandise.

Everyone remembers the ial excement when was revealed Disney was gog to feature s first ‘openly gay’ character wh LeFou (Josh Gad) the 2017 live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast, before turned out was all to do wh Gad’s performance one scene and never tentnally baked to the script. Sce 2020, feels like we’ve been chg towards this evable moment wh Strange World, after Onward featured a lbian character, live-actn film Jungle Cise ma explic reference to Jack Whehall’s character McGregor beg gay and Toy Story adjacent film Lightyear showed Disney’s first animated same-sex kiss 2022 (aga, sadly cut some untri, as well as almost the US). Fans were prevly upset to see Shang cut om the live-actn Mulan remake (Picture: Disney)However, is Strange World that is the Disney rtoon that is first to make one of s lead characters gay, balancg a way where is repeatedly referenced, forms part of a sub-plot and – ccially – allows for some lovely bondg moments between s supportive onscreen fay.

Openly gay edian Jaboie Young-Whe stars as Ethan Cla, the grandson of legendary explorer Jaeger Cla (Dennis Quaid) and son of the more rerved explorer-turned-farmer Searcher Cla (Jake Gyllenhaal).

PIXAR FDS ITS FIRST GAY LEAD OUTTHE SHORT FILM, STREAMG ON DISNEY+, IS A WARM AND EMOTNAL TALE FOR THE WHOLE FAY.BY JORDAN HOFFMANMAY 24, 2020DISNEY+SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN JT NE MUT, PIXAR AND DISNEY+ TAKE A STEP FORWARD REPRENTATN WH THE LNCH OF OUT, AN ANIMATED, FUN-FOR-ALL-AG SHORT FILM FEATURG A GAY PROTAGONIST. THE SHORT, RELEASED FRIDAY, MARKS THE FIRST TIME THE GIANT HAS CENTERED A STORY OF ANY LENGTH ON AN LGBT CHARACTER.THIS IS NOT A SE WHICH A CHARACTER JT HAPPENS TO BE GAY, OR MIGHT BE IF YOU SCTIZE A SCREENSHOT WH A MAGNIFYG GLASS. OUT’S STORY NCERNS THE STGGL OF A MAN NAMED GREG, WHO IS CLOSETED OM HIS LOVG PARENTS. THE PICTN IS TENR, EMPATHETIC AND HONT, BUT THERE ARE ALSO FANTASY HIJKS VOLVG A FREAKY FRIDAY-ISH BODY-SWAP WH A SCRAPPY DOG. (THIS IS A RTOON AIMED AT KIDS, AFTER ALL.)GREG IS PREPARG TO MOVE (OUT! IT WORKS ON TWO LEVELS!) OM HIS SUBURBAN HOME TO “THE CY” WH HIS PARTNER MANUEL. WHEN GREG’S PARENTS (MOM LOOKG FAIRLY JUNE SQUIBB-ISH, DAD MORE PL BUNYAN) SHOW UP UNANNOUNCED TO HELP HIM PACK, HE SHOOS MANUEL AWAY AND STASH A PICTURE OF THE TWO. COSMIC WACKS ENSU WHEN GREG SWCH NSCNS WH HIS DOG JIM.AFTER SOME PRATFALLS AND SLAPSTICK, THE STORY NCLUS WH FAIAL LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE; ’S VERY SWEET. IT’S ALSO GOT AT LEAST ONE SOLID GAG VOLVG A HOT FIRE FIGHTER LENDAR, PL A BOOKENDG STCTURE VOLVG A DOG AND T THAT SCEND OM THE HEAVENS ON A RABOW BRIDGE. ALSO, THE SHORT NTAS PIXAR'S FIRST SAME-SEX SMOOCH.OUT MARKS THE WRG AND DIRECTG BUT OF STEVEN CLAY HUNTER, AN ANIMATOR WHO HAS WORKED WH PIXAR FOR OVER 20 YEARS, AND IS PART OF THE PANY’S SPARKSHORTS SERI. IT IS ONE OF SEVEN TL, ALL AVAILABLE ON DISNEY+, THAT, AS PIXAR PRINT JIM MORRIS PUTS “DISVER NEW STORYTELLERS, EXPLORE NEW STORYTELLG TECHNIQU, AND EXPERIMENT WH NEW PRODUCTN WORKFLOWS.” OTHERS CLU SMASH AND GRAB, ABOUT OVERWORKED ROBOTS; LOOP, ABOUT A NON-VERBAL GIRL AND A CHATTY BOY LEARNG TO WORK TOGETHER; AND PURL, NCERNG AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC BALL OF YARN FACG DISCRIMATN WHEN SHE GO TO WORK FOR THE B.R.O. RPORATN. ADDNAL SPARKSHORTS ARE THE WORKS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— THE WEEK THE CAMERAS STOPPED: TV THE COVID-19 ERA— WHY NATALIE WOOD’S DGHTER IS CONONTG ROBERT WAGNER ABOUT WOOD’S DEATH— INSI ROCK HUDSON’S REAL-LIFE RELATNSHIP WH AGENT HENRY WILSON— HOW THE MANDALORIAN FOUGHT TO KEEP BABY YODA FROM BEG TOO CUTE— A FIRST LOOK AT CHARLIZE THERON’S IMMORTAL WARRR THE OLD GUARD— BACK TO THE FUTURE, UNCUT GEMS, AND MORE NEW TL ON NETFLIX THIS MONTH— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW ROCK HUDSON AND DORIS DAY HELPED DEFE THE ROMANTIC COMEDYLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOJORDAN HOFFMAN

Ethan also mak an awome new iend Splat, FYI (Picture: Disney)Durg their geoly animated adventure, which ow a bt of gratu to pulp magaz, Jul Verne, Terry Pratchett and mythology, is ma clear early on that Ethan is gay and nursg a csh on one of his male iends. Strange World manag to balance a sual ‘not a big al’ approach to Ethan as Disney’s first gay lead character while also makg tegral to who he is and an element of his personaly that’s never bshed unr the rpet. The entertament juggernt recently released a big fay special lled “Strange World, ” which featur Disney’s “first openly gay teen star, ” acrdg to Yahoo.

The last Thor flick, scribed by s director as “super gay, ” stumbled s send weekend. One exec was even ught boastg about her “not-at-all-secret gay agenda.

‘STRANGE WORLD’ IS DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD. WHY IS IT BEG BURIED?

Not ntent to merely ject homosexualy to “fay” films, Disney has also attacked Florida’s new law limg the LGBT agenda schools. Sure, legally Disney n ny that Mulan's Li Shang is a bisexual in, but the gays know the tth. Strange World: Disney Film Featurg Gay Ma Character Bombs at Box Office | Natnal Review.

Some fans and film crics attributed the poor showg of the animated Disney picture “Strange World” to poor marketg and producers not aquately promotg the children’s film wh the gay lead character named Ethan, acrdg to PkNews. Some of y’all still don’t know that Disney’s Strange world is out now theaters and I don’t blame you — Wilst Moments on Cartoon shows and Movi (@toonsgowild) November 26, 2022 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. (RELATED: ‘Gay Agenda’: Disney Employe Reportedly Reveal Effort To Inject ‘Queerns’ Into Children’s Shows) The poor figur th far uld have been prevented, some film crics argued.

DISNEY'S FIRST FILM FEATURG OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE

(RELATED: REPORT: Disney CEO Bob Chapek Steps Down In The Middle Of The Night) The movie is about a fay, cludg a gay teen protagonist, that are forced to “navigate an uncharted, treachero land alongsi a motley crew that clus a mischievo blob, a three-legged dog and a slew of raveno creatur, ” acrdg to Together, they explore and dodge the challeng of the “Strange World.