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The_h0bb1t OP t1_iy7jhyt wrote

Reply to comment by SuchSense in Official Box Office Discussion for the weekend of 25 - 27 November 2022 (Glass Onion & Strange World edition) by The_h0bb1t

I honestly hadn't heard of Strange World until the recent headlines. I haven't even seen a trailer, which is the opposite of most DreamWorks films, which I hear about so far in advance that I forget they exist when they release.

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MulciberTenebras t1_iy7wbvj wrote

Odds are Chapek decided to cut costs by not spending on any advertising for the film (rather than bloat the budget even more for this when it bombed). On top of that it's been speculated that the inclusion of a gay main character gave Chapek even more cause to want to bury the film (so as not to add more ammo to the anti-LGBT conservatives already mad at him after the Disney employees forced the company to speak out against the Florida bill).

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TheMadLurker17 t1_iy9bz04 wrote

For awhile, I regularly saw trailers for this, then all of a sudden nothing. Cutting back on trailers as you near a films release date speaks volumes.

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