Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger was interviewed at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit and gave the establishment media a troubling and laughable explanation for the implosion of ‘The Marvels’ at the box office.
As previously reported by Trending Politics, ‘The Marvels’ was considered a spectacular flop and marked a historic low for Disney’s box office performance. The film opened with an anemic $47 million opening weekend at the US box with international sales only bringing in another $63.3 for a total of approximately $110 million, coming nowhere near cracking a break-even.
According to The Daily Wire, Iger appeared to explain away the flop on the “quantity,” of Marvel films diluting “quality.
“Quality needs attention. … It doesn’t happen by accident. Quantity, in our case, diluted quality,” Iger said. He also pointed to the film’s production occurring during COVID lockdowns saying, “there wasn’t as much supervision on the set … where we have executives there really looking over what’s being done.”
Speaking with CNBC “Squawk Box” co-host and New York Times financial columnist Andrew Sorkin he told him “I would say, right now,…
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