Disney's 'woke' priorities in casting for live action remakes are turning off customers, while the company is already suffering losses in streaming subscribers, a column argued.
‘MediaBuzz’ host Howard Kurtz weighs in on Disney’s controversial casting for the ‘Snow White’ remake on ‘The Story with Martha MacCallum.’
"There’s nothing wrong with casting a diverse crew, but Disney is refashioning a classic fairy tale merely to virtue signal," Finley wrote. and"Strange World," both of which have performed poorly at the box office. Instead, the company has chosen to browbeat parents with woke messages to"curry favor with the cultural left."
An indigenous actress starring in Disney's new"Peter Pan" reboot claims the film is respectful of Native American culture."Thanks for the trigger warning, but most parents don’t need to be hit over the head with things they already know," Finley said."Yet that’s what Disney’s newer films, along with most Hollywood productions, do: They hit you over the head with left-wing cultural mores—over and over again.
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