Not even the superheroes of the Marvel universe could shield the Walt Disney Co., which took a surprising blow to its earnings this week as the studio contended with its monster Fox acquisition as well as losses from Fox’s Dark Phoenix, the latest X-Men movie that was a major box-office bomb.
This weekend’s box office was an all-around disappointment for several Hollywood studios as two sequels, and a “woke” comedy all found lower than expected debuts with Men in Black: International, Shaft, and Late Night coming nowhere near expected ticket sales.
Another bomb is Mindy Kaling’s Late Night, which was sold as woke-female-of-color-lecture, because we all go to the movies to get talked down to. Oh, wait — actually we don’t.
After 19 years and a lot of great movies (“X-Men,” “X-Men 2,” “Logan,” “Days of Future Past”) it is a real shame the whole thing had to implode in a toxic, SJW-influenced mess.
The Secret Life of Pets 2 topped the latest superhero flick, Dark Phoenix, at the weekend’s box office. But no one is popping any Champaign corks since both seriously underperformed.
Six years ago, “The Wolverine” opened to $53 million. That is now the second lowest. “Dark Phoenix” — even with the “First Class” cast, even with Jennifer Lawrence, came in $17 million below that.
Dark Phoenix has forever ended the argument over which X-Men sucks the hardest.