Disney’s newest Star Wars movie, ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ just opened in theaters. It cost millions upon millions to make the film and it is absolutely getting its butt kicked by a small, independent horror movie called ‘Obsession’ which was made for a paltry $750,000.
Of course, $750K is a lot of money, but not by the standards of a Hollywood movie. That’s chump change.
Even so, people are flocking to theaters to see ‘Obsession’ instead of Disney’s newest expensive flick.
Star Wars fans have just been burned too many times. Disney basically broke the franchise by using it to push DEI and other woke concepts.
FOX News reports:
Low-budget horror flick ‘Obsession’ shatters box office expectations as new Star Wars film comes up short
A low-budget horror flick is defying gravity at the box office while the latest big-budget “Star Wars” movie had a rough launch compared to its predecessors.
Focus Features’ “Obsession” was made with a microbudget of under $1 million. Initial projections showed it making less than $10 million in its opening weekend. It ended up making over $17 million.
This past weekend, it made roughly $24 million — $30 million when including Memorial Day — a whopping 30% increase from its opening weekend, outpacing much bigger films like “The Devil Wears Prada 2” and the Michael Jackson biopic “Michael.” It even outgrossed “The Mandalorian and Grogu” on Wednesday.
Such a bump for a film in its second weekend is nearly unheard of. It has already grossed over $70 million worldwide and is now projected to make more than $100 million during its theatrical run, making it one of the most profitable films of the year.
What’s remarkable about the success of “Obsession” is that it proves that Hollywood star power isn’t always needed to get butts in seats. The director is a 26-year-old content creator named Curry Barker, who is part of the sketch comedy duo “That’s a Bad Idea,” which has over 1 million followers on YouTube and TikTok. Jason Blum, creator of BlumHouse Productions and producer of horror hits like “Get Out,” “Paranormal Activity” and “M3GAN,” only boarded “Obsession” as an executive producer after the film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last year.
John Nolte of Breitbart News is a longtime critic of Disney. Here’s what he had to say about this:
To be fair, because I don’t want to take anything away from Obsession, that movie is a legitimate phenomenon, the rarest of rarities where word-of-mouth is driving it to increase its box office over time, and is doing so after launching wide. This has only happened a handful of times in the 50-year-old history of wide releases. Obsession is making box office history, and that accomplishment deserves to be recognized and not plowed under as we gloat over the failure of the groomers at Disney.
Nevertheless, Obsession’s astonishing success is its own thing, as is The Mandalorian and Grogu’s deeply satisfying failure.
If the man-hating bigots at Disney hadn’t alienated, insulted, and dismissed Star Wars fans, the piece you are reading right now could’ve been about how both movies are breaking the bank.
Disney just burned too many bridges with movie audiences. They’re reaping what they’ve sown.
Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.
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