Indiana Jones Director Lashes Out at His Customer Base

How dare you not like my movie. [In your best Gretta T. voice] "How dare you!" James Mangold Derides Fans As "Divisive" For Not Liking His Deconstruction Of Indiana Jones In 'Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny' - Bounding Into Comics

James Mangold is the director behind the travesty that is Indiana Jones and the Insufferable Feminist. He is upset that no one likes his movie, and that no one is going to see his movie. Of course it doesn't occur to him that he actually needs customers, because that is how divorced Hollywood has become from reality.

It's not "Show friends." It's "Show Business." [Quote is from the movie Jerry Maguire.]

James Mangold: Why won't you come see my movie where I burn another of your childhood heroes to the ground and piss on the ashes you illiterate, deplorable cretins from Flyover country?

The film-going public: You need us more than we need you. Go pound sand you barking moonbat.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director James Mangold decided to deride fans for not liking his deconstruction of Indiana Jones.

You can read the rest, but that pretty much sums the whole thing up.

Hollywood may be waking up to the fact that they actually need paying customers. Though it isn't really noticeable. Disney Park attendance if down. Disney+ is shedding subscribers, and losing money at the same time. Disney animation and/or Pixar has had a string of failures. Whether or not the Little Mermaid remake will be profitable depends on the actual budget/marketing spend for the movie. Or I should say, how much it will lose. I suppose there is some mathematical chance that it could break even, but no one believes that it will.

Do we need to talk about the disaster that is Disney/Marvel? I didn't think so.

Lucasfilm has destroyed the Star Wars franchise, and now it seems the Indiana Jones franchise. The current Indiana Jones movie needs to make about $800 million at the box office to break even. It might make half that much, and it might not reach $400 million. (Budget = $300 million, plus $100 million marketing, and they get about ½ of the worldwide box office. Though really, they likely spent more on the movie. (Disney is famous for not releasing the actual cost of the movie until filing taxes.)

Oh, and Bob Iger, the architect of all the problems at Disney, just had his contract renewed. Why? Because people are in denial about the state of Disney.

If you doubt that Star Wars is dead, watch this in-theater reaction to the ending of The Rise of Skywalker. That is the film they are planning to use as the basis for a sequel. What could possibly go wrong?