Valuetainment - March 27, 2025


“Disney's Down $200 Billion” – Snow White's Rachel Zegler DESTROYED Over Disney's DISASTROUS Flop


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10 minutes

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2,047

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215

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Misogyny

4

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Toxicity

6

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A 20-year-old Disney employee is reprimanded for using her personal politics to promote a movie, and her father's son calls her out for it. Plus, Rob and Adam discuss the latest in the "Disney vs. Hollywood" debate.

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00:00:00.120 All right, so let me get to this next story here.
00:00:02.160 Next story is the Snow White, what do you call it, producer's son.
00:00:06.420 Good.
00:00:06.880 Says Rachel Zegler hurt the film's box office with her actions and since deleted comment.
00:00:14.900 This is the exchange.
00:00:16.480 Somebody at the top says, by the way, who's the first comment, Rob?
00:00:19.440 I couldn't see it.
00:00:20.480 It's cut off, so I'm not sure.
00:00:21.880 Your dad flew to New York City to reprimand a young actress.
00:00:25.980 Any word on this?
00:00:27.320 Because that's creepy as hell and uncalled for.
00:00:30.380 People have the right to free speech.
00:00:32.580 No, shame on your father, so the guy responds.
00:00:36.980 You really want to do this?
00:00:38.660 Yeah, my dad, the producer of enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line,
00:00:43.320 had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20-year-old employee for dragging her personal politics
00:00:49.440 into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multimillion-dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for.
00:00:54.880 This is called adult responsibility and accountability, and her actions clearly hurt the film's box office.
00:01:01.600 Free speech does not mean you're allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions.
00:01:06.700 Tens of thousands of people worked on that film, and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires. 0.94
00:01:12.120 At the risk of all the colleagues and crew, blue-collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful,
00:01:18.780 narcissism is not something to be coddled and encouraged.
00:01:22.680 Tom.
00:01:23.240 Thank you, Jonah Platt.
00:01:27.500 Oh, my gosh.
00:01:28.520 He's absolutely right.
00:01:29.600 You know, the first person, your dad flew to New York to reprimand a young actress.
00:01:34.780 No, he flew to New York to reprimand an employee or a contractor who was employed on the film.
00:01:42.760 And, oh, she's exercising freedom of speech.
00:01:45.960 Well, guess what? 1.00
00:01:46.800 If somebody walks into Pat's office and says, I think you're a piece of crap and you don't run the company very well, 0.98
00:01:54.740 and says, okay, well, look, I'm sorry you don't want to work here anymore, and we've set that up right now. 0.98
00:01:59.780 Goodbye.
00:02:00.400 You get your wish.
00:02:01.540 Go take it somewhere.
00:02:02.500 You don't have freedom of speech.
00:02:04.360 Like, that freedom of speech is Pat respecting or any leader respecting, hey, I like the Yankees.
00:02:11.420 I like Boston, and, you know, I disagree with this, I disagree with that, I'll be voting this way.
00:02:16.120 And you can have that in your persona.
00:02:18.240 But when you come out and the freedom of speech was to condemn the very thing that you're paid to build,
00:02:25.120 are you kidding me?
00:02:26.660 That someone, I'm more shocked by the post that came before than the one that came after.
00:02:33.620 Because the one that came before is someone who obviously has no clue, literally no clue, to conclude that.
00:02:42.240 And I love Platt's first thing.
00:02:44.160 You really want to do this?
00:02:45.640 I love his first thing.
00:02:46.760 You really want to do this?
00:02:48.300 I love that.
00:02:49.080 Rob, do me a favor.
00:02:49.800 Go to IMDb.
00:02:51.760 It just happens Snow White IMDb.
00:02:53.840 Okay?
00:02:54.160 Watch this here, folks.
00:02:55.800 Go to Snow White.
00:02:58.200 Look at the reviews.
00:03:00.620 1.6?
00:03:01.520 You know, look at how many reviews there is.
00:03:03.860 Zoom in if you could, Rob.
00:03:04.740 Does it show you or no?
00:03:06.840 562 user reviews.
00:03:07.960 No, that's not the one, Rob.
00:03:09.660 It's if you go, there's 163,000 reviews, Rob.
00:03:15.540 163,000 reviews.
00:03:16.680 I just texted it to you.
00:03:17.580 Up to the top right, maybe, Rob?
00:03:19.160 Yeah, right there.
00:03:19.980 Right there, right there.
00:03:20.580 Zoom in right there.
00:03:21.360 Zoom in right there.
00:03:21.920 That's it.
00:03:23.560 163,000 rating, of which it got 1.6, not out of 5.
00:03:28.700 Like, you know, sometimes you go to McDonald's, it's 1.6 out of 5.
00:03:31.220 Yeah.
00:03:32.060 1.6 out of 10.
00:03:34.180 Vinny, you know what that is?
00:03:34.880 How bad is that?
00:03:35.780 You took a test.
00:03:38.740 You got a 16 on it.
00:03:41.740 It's like, how do you get a 16?
00:03:45.200 Yeah.
00:03:45.360 What are the most rated movies on IMDb?
00:03:49.120 What are the worst rated movies on IMDb?
00:03:53.720 Probably Ishtar or something like that, going back.
00:03:58.260 What is it?
00:03:59.300 I mean, I'm going through some of these lists here.
00:04:05.440 160-something thousand reviews.
00:04:08.040 Maybe it hasn't updated yet.
00:04:09.960 With a 1.6 stars.
00:04:12.020 Absolutely embarrassing for somebody.
00:04:14.020 Did you see the clip of her at the theater watching it by herself?
00:04:17.520 Have you seen that one or no?
00:04:18.900 I don't know if you saw that or not.
00:04:19.960 I thought of a brief little.
00:04:21.960 Yeah.
00:04:22.240 Adam, what are your thoughts on this?
00:04:23.380 Well, I think there's a common theme here.
00:04:25.580 I think the Democratic Party and Disney are attached at the hip.
00:04:30.600 So I think there's a common thread with approval ratings and the stock price of what's happened with the Democratic Party and with Disney.
00:04:38.340 You know the famous phrase, go woke, go broke?
00:04:40.560 Right now, Disney, their big blockbuster movie has plummeted, much like the Democratic approval ratings that reached, I think, an all-time low at, what, 27 percent?
00:04:51.380 So, you know, they say that numbers talk, BS walks, words talk, numbers scream.
00:04:57.700 People are screaming, Disney, get it together.
00:05:01.660 Who is the Disney's customer?
00:05:03.200 You talk about this all the time, Pat.
00:05:05.120 It's families and it's parents who are paying for their kids to go to movies or go to theme parks or buy products.
00:05:11.740 And you have parents looking at Disney being like, what are you doing, guys?
00:05:15.920 This is supposed to be a place where magic happens.
00:05:18.760 And all you're doing is indoctrinating kids and you're having this person be the poster child of the Democratic Party.
00:05:25.260 She is basically the AOC of Disney or the Jasmine Crockett of Disney.
00:05:31.620 I know we want to talk about her today.
00:05:32.820 But if you want to look at why the Democratic Party has reached all-time lows, look no further than what Disney is doing with their woke DEI feminist agenda. 0.97
00:05:43.360 I want you to watch this here.
00:05:44.160 Rob, play that clip that you had real quick.
00:05:45.700 And then I'm going to show you what Bob Iger said about the movie.
00:05:49.180 Go for it.
00:05:56.980 That's her friend screaming. 0.99
00:05:59.180 Wow.
00:05:59.720 And it's probably nobody was in there.
00:06:01.260 Can you go to the, yeah, that's very, so this is Bob Iger.
00:06:04.980 Disney's Bob Iger says,
00:06:06.240 Their mission is to entertain, not send messaging as Snow White sales compete for worst-performing live-action Disney adaptation ever.
00:06:17.580 Go a little bit lower to see if there's any other quotes by him.
00:06:20.360 Is it just the data that we've already read?
00:06:22.180 The 40, okay, go back up.
00:06:23.480 What was it, 67 million?
00:06:25.300 So go a little bit lower, Rob, if you could.
00:06:27.800 Oh, right there, right there.
00:06:28.460 There you go.
00:06:29.220 This is remaining members of the guy's done with 46, 67 million.
00:06:32.440 56 million Snow White's a Huntsman.
00:06:33.860 Go a little bit lower to see what are the numbers we see.
00:06:36.420 Critics have been kind, giving the film a dismal, 44% on Rotten Tomatoes.
00:06:40.200 When the audience scores a million, we're forgiven, 74%.
00:06:42.420 Ron Zwinga, Mustafa, Lion King, go a little bit lower.
00:06:45.900 Bob Iger, we need to be entertaining.
00:06:49.560 Hyperwatcher holder.
00:06:50.360 This isn't the first time Disney has scrutiny.
00:06:53.160 I'm a billionaire.
00:06:55.680 Infusing messaging is not what we're up to, Iger said.
00:06:58.840 We need to be entertaining.
00:06:59.760 His comments were likely aimed at critics like Peltz, who accused Disney of leaning too far into woke storytelling at the expense of financial performance.
00:07:10.820 And by the way, do you know what Disney's stock was, what number it reached?
00:07:15.740 Yes.
00:07:15.880 If you go to Disney's stock.
00:07:16.360 It was almost at, I think, 190 in 2020.
00:07:19.100 You just go to five years.
00:07:20.940 Just go to five years.
00:07:22.360 So right there, go to 197.
00:07:24.160 The market cap at that time was roughly a $400 billion company, give or take a $380 billion company, $370 billion company.
00:07:36.960 You know what it is today?
00:07:37.780 A $181 billion company.
00:07:39.600 They've lost $200 billion in the last four years, Vinny.
00:07:42.500 $200 billion in the last four years.
00:07:45.560 I'm not surprised.
00:07:46.320 $200 billion.
00:07:47.040 And by the way, $200 billion.
00:07:48.540 Yeah.
00:07:48.820 And they have solid P.E. ratios, 32.
00:07:51.120 Tom, how good of a P.E. ratio is 32.66?
00:07:53.420 That's still pretty strong for media.
00:07:54.500 That's still pretty strong.
00:07:55.620 So meaning they could for media.
00:07:58.240 There's room to fall.
00:07:59.100 A lot of room to fall.
00:08:00.400 Really?
00:08:00.580 So if this was a 20x P.E. ratio, you're looking at a $100 billion company.
00:08:08.040 So I don't know.
00:08:09.020 I don't know what's going to happen here.
00:08:10.260 But sometimes when you're trying to make a move and, you know, make changes in an organization, the way Trump does it, Trump came in and he took the biggest company in the world and he made immediate changes in 60 days.
00:08:27.700 Iger needs to be inspired a little bit by Trump to come in and make immediate changes.
00:08:34.500 Step down, bring somebody else to make immediate changes.
00:08:37.140 Because they're using the five-year method.
00:08:39.520 Well, in the movie business, it takes a long time to do that.
00:08:42.440 Nothing takes longer than government.
00:08:44.860 Nothing.
00:08:45.740 So if a president can come in and move things within 60 days, Bob, you can come and move things as well.
00:08:51.960 But you're moving super slow and one guy's making you look bad and it's a different executive of the biggest company in the world.
00:08:58.220 That's Trump.
00:08:58.960 Tom?
00:08:59.520 Well, if this keeps up, they're going to have to start cutting talent at ESPN.
00:09:03.120 They're going to possibly put ESPN up for sale.
00:09:05.340 They're going to cut programming it to – oh, wait a minute.
00:09:08.080 They already did the –
00:09:09.060 Checking notes.
00:09:10.720 Yeah, they're already doing that.
00:09:11.800 All right, let's go to the next one.
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