Animated Gay Teen Romance Film Is Woke Disney’s Latest Box-Office Bomb

Disney’s latest agenda-pushing project is off to a brutal start at the box office.

“Strange World,” an animated film featuring a gay teen romance, opened Wednesday with a poor $4.2 million in ticket sales and is projected to bring in as little as $21 million over what should be a strong holiday weekend, according to Bloomberg. The film, which pushes sexual orientation and climate agendas, is on track to be Disney’s latest over-woke nightmare.

“That’s a terrible result for the $180 million-budgeted animated adventure,” wrote Variety’s Brent Lang, noting that last Thanksgiving’s Disney animated film, “Encanto,” was deemed a disappointment after taking in $40.3 million over the long weekend.

Disney alienated many fans earlier this year when it featured a lesbian kiss in “Lightyear,” the latest installment in its “Toy Story” franchise. The company also didn’t feature conservative actor Tim Allen as the voice of Buzz Lightyear in the film, which bombed at the box office.

As Disney begins pushing "Strange World" for next week's release, here's the reminder that their "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" to target kids is ongoing. It's a part of the plot of this movie, just as it was with "Lightyear." Your kids, your choice. https://t.co/lMjsaDF8Lp

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 15, 2022

“Strange World” tells the story of gay teen Ethan, voiced by Jaboukie Young-White, who has the support of his loving, biracial parents, Searcher (Jake Gyllenhaal), and Meridian (Gabrielle Union). The family rejects its fabled heritage as explorers to farm, but ends up pulled back into the family business to hunt for Searcher’s father, Jaeger (Dennis Quaid), who went missing when he was a child. Their search, aided by their disabled dog, takes them to Avalonia, a strange world with a fragile ecosystem. Ethan struggles to get past his shyness around his love interest, a boy named Diazo.

Seattle Times critic Soren Andersen wrote that the film features an “uneasy marriage of clunky psychodrama and overwrought special effects” that made it “a chore to sit through.”

In addition to flopping at the box office, “Strange World” is not upholding Disney’s tradition of animated success. It earned a CinemaScore rating of B, the lowest rating ever for a Disney animated feature. Every Disney animated film since “Beauty and the Beast” has received some form of an A, from A+ to A-. The film also had very mediocre scores from audiences, including 59% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Disney/Pixar's new leftwing propaganda film "Strange World" is bombing at the box office.

– Main character is gay
– Biracial couple
– No white People
– Climate Change metaphor
– Even the dog is disabled pic.twitter.com/hi9FUBJjmn

— Rosie's Online Safety (@DarnelSugarfoo) November 25, 2022

Disney stock has fallen over 33% over the last year amid an ailing economy. It’s woes have been blamed on a series of decisions that have alienated its family-minded and in many cases, conservative, customer base. The company clashed bitterly with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over a law that prohibits public schools from teaching kids below the fourth grade about sexual orientation and radical gender theory.

Disney has also ticked off conservatives by showing a transgender man purchasing tampons in a TV series, and emphatically embracing the trend of Environmental, Social, and Governance, a strategy that courts investors by promoting a host of woke values within the corporate structure. The entertainment giant fired CEO Bob Chapek earlier this week and brought back his predecessor, Bob Iger.

(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has announced plans for kids entertainment content.)

U.S. Makes Historic Move To Block Certain Chinese Tech After National Security Concerns

The U.S. announced on Friday that it is banning the sale and import of certain technology from several Chinese companies after national security concerns. 

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finalized a rule that would block Huawei, ZTE, Hikvision, and Dahua from importing and selling certain technology that the board viewed as posing a potential threat to national security. 

“The FCC is committed to protecting our national security by ensuring that untrustworthy communications equipment is not authorized for use within our borders, and we are continuing that work here,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement. 

The rule affects new authorizations of equipment from the companies and does not necessarily apply to anything that had previously been authorized. Brendan Carr, one of the Republicans on the FCC, said on Twitter that he hoped the board would look at revoking previous authorizations. 

Huawei, a Chinese multinational telecommunications company, has long been under scrutiny as a possible arm of the Chinese Communist Party. Earlier this year, it was reported that the Biden administration was investigating Huawei for allegedly harvesting data from U.S. military bases and missile silos. 

The rule means that no new tech from ZTE or Huawei can be approved and surveillance equipment from Dahua and Hikvision won’t be used for government or public safety purposes. 

Carr also said that the decision was the first time the panel had banned a product because of national security fears. 

“Our unanimous decision represents the first time in FCC history that we have voted to prohibit the authorization of new equipment based on national security concerns,” Carr tweeted. 

He noted that “no new Huawei or ZTE equipment can be approved. And no new Dahua, Hikvision, or Hytera gear can be approved unless they assure the FCC that their gear won’t be used for public safety, security of government facilities, & other national security purposes.”

Hikvision, a Chinese-state owned surveillance company, denied that any of its products endanger national security. 

“This decision by the FCC will do nothing to protect U.S. national security, but will do a great deal to make it more harmful and more expensive for U.S. small businesses, local authorities, school districts, and individual consumers to protect themselves, their homes, businesses and property,” the company said. 

Concern about Huawei was first brought to the forefront during the Trump administration, which took several steps to limit the reach of the company, which has also faced opposition across the world. In 2020, the U.K. took steps to ban Huawei from being linked to the country’s 5G networks.