JOHN NOLTE: Add ‘Indiana Jones’ to This List of Kathleen Kennedy’s Stunning Failures.
The Disney Grooming Syndicate spent $400 million on Dial of Destiny, which is one of the most popular and beloved movie franchisse in Hollywood history, a franchise that delivered four previous blockbuster hits, a franchise with so much audience goodwill, a chapter that sucked as hard as Crystal Suck grossed $317 million domestic and $790 million worldwide. If you account for inflation, Crystal Suck made $417 million domestic and $1.15 billion worldwide.
If you account for inflation, Crystal Suck opened to $141 million over three days and $212 million over five days.
If you account for inflation, Crystal Suck grossed $385 million worldwide over its three-day opening weekend.
Compare that to Dial of Destiny’s $65 million domestic opening and $140 million worldwide opening.
So pardon me for not inventing an all-new box office category to excuse the potential box office catastrophe called Dial of Destiny. Excuse me for comparing apples to actual apples, but now that the Supreme Court has outlawed the obscene, un-American racism that is affirmative action, it feels safe to tell some truths about the most destructive affirmative action hire in entertainment history: Mz. Kathleen “Franchise Destroyer” Kennedy.
Let us list her now 100 percent failure rate.
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And: Disney Stock On Track For Worst Year Since 1974.
That last headline is from the end of 2022, before Kennedy killed Indiana Jones.
Disney’s problem isn’t just Kennedy’s tortured tenure as the company’s Lucasfilm division chief. They’ve tarnished the Pixar brand, the Marvel properties are on life support, and the company’s endless reboots of classic animation films as live-action aren’t exactly wowing audiences.
Even the theme parks are struggling, with a billion-dollar Star Wars bet gone wrong and attendance still below pre-pandemic highs.