Ben/Bee Kahn: Pixar forcing queer and POC stories to go straight to streaming, then using the lack of theatrical success as an excuse to kill queer and POC stories is the entire entertainment industry in a nut shell.

Pixar forcing queer and POC stories to go straight to streaming, then using the lack of theatrical success as an excuse to kill queer and POC stories is the entire entertainment industry in a nut shell.

Real homophobic to announce this during pride too

They learned nothing from Nimona, queer stories can do well! The movie was Oscar nominated and everything. I’m sure if Nimona was in theaters for more than a few special previews in NYC and Los Angeles it woulda done really well too

I would personally love to own a physical copy of Nimona. I wonder what kind of sales a physical release would garner. And I wonder if the desire to hide that market may be part of the reason we haven’t seen one yet.

We call this the Catwoman Effect. “Why would we make a female superhero movie? We tried it once with the worst faith take imaginable and everyone hated it!”

It really makes me wonder why they even bothered with their special theater engagements earlier this year. Like, was it all a game?

They were announced only after the opening weekend of Disney’s in-house Wish ate dirt. Disney expected that movie to play into spring but once it was clear it wouldn’t they needed something to offer presumably angry exhibitors, and fast.

(It’s a theory, mind, but a plausible one, especially given they also moved a ton of new films - including Pixar’s Elio - to 2025 by ‘23’s end.)

I remember the bananas had Wish stickers till Late-February.

Disney theme park visitors have reported whole shops becoming clearing houses for all the merchandise.

Movies need a minimum theater irl run in order to be nominated for academy awards

I believe those rules were more complicated at the time, but I could be wrong. They were also originally released in different qualifying years and the re-release was this year.

They're happy to use us as cheap labor, though.

or no religion

Or don't use religion as an excuse to be evil

Nah. Homophobes are ABSOLUTELY scared of us. It's like how people afraid of spiders are always the fastest to kill a spider.

what's queer version of the glass cliff?

more like PiKKKxar

Unfortunate but true 😥😥😥 Also, F—- Pete Docter. His statements recently were gross & I think it’s time for Pixar to clean house, starting w/ him

Pixar is kind of dead isn't it?It's basically just Disney now

They've always been manipulative, self-aggrandizing, game-playing little shits.

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What movies?

I think they mean: Soul Luca Turning Red

Lightyear had a same-sex kiss and wasn’t straight to streaming. And the streaming decisions were at least partially due to there being a pandemic that kept people away from theaters and signing up for Disney+

You spelled propaganda "entertainment."

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