What Caused The Fall of Disney?

From The Other McCain we get the following: How Trump Derangement Syndrome, #MeToo and Tumblrinas Ruined Disney

And make no mistake, The Other McCain is correct; Disney is ruined. They burned nearly $1.5 billion at the box office last year. They have had a string of Disney+ shows with dismal ratings. I could go on.

Ace of Spades on Friday linked and excerpted a lengthy recounting of this history by Alan Ng, editor-in-chief of the website Film Threat. “The D-Files, Part 3: Disney the Killer of Dreams.”

Because Ng’s story is such a long one, and because Ace’s excerpts do not provide the necessary backstory for those who haven’t followed the twists and turns of Disney’s trajectory, I feel obligated to give readers a thumbnail history. Under the leadership of Michael Eisner, Disney in the late 1980s became the most successful studio in Hollywood and, beginning with 1989’s The Little Mermaid — which won two Academy Awards; Best Original Score and Best Original Song for “Under the Sea” — launched a string of animated features that became known as “The Disney Renaissance.”

Click thru for the rise, and purchase by Disney, of Pixar. This was followed by the purchase of both Lucasfilm and Marvel. Other box office successes, like Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. The rise of #MeToo, and Hillary, and Trump. And TDS.

While I have covered/linked to the 3 parts of Alan Ng's Disney Files, I realize that they are long, but Film Threat takes cinema seriously, and Alan Ng was a life-long fan of Disney, before they self-destructed. This is a pretty good overview of the subject and I can recommend. Though if you are interested in cinema, and want to see how the Woke scolds are destroying Hollywood in General, and Disney in particular I can recommend the D-Files, by Alan Ng, and a few associated articles.

• The D-Files Part 1: Disney and the Downfall of John Lasseter
• The D-Files Part 2: The Great Mouse Reset
• The D-Files, Part 3: Disney the Killer of Dreams
• Disney Opens New Animation Studio in Vancouver BC – Film Threat Prophecy Fulfilled
• A Veteran Screenwriter’s Plot Twist on Hollywood’s DEI Cultural Shift
• Male and Pale is Stale: Responses to an Open Letter to the WGA

John Lasseter, mentioned in the "D-Files Part 1" above, was a driving force at Pixar. He directed Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Cars (2006), and Cars 2 (2011). He was executive producer on everything that came out of Pixar thru 2018.