Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Disney’s live-action Moana has just made it through it's first weekend at the box office—and the numbers are shockingly bad for a remake of one of the studio’s most popular movies of the "modern era."
Moana's opened with only about $43 million, putting it dangerously close to the disastrous opening of Disney’s Snow White.
Somehow, "The Rock" in a skirt antagonizing a teenage girl for 1.5 hours didn't hit home, because audiences did NOT show up.
Let's figure out why.
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