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The people with young children now are milennials and even some older Gen Zers. I really, really dont think that has anything to do with it, especially taking into account the many family films with LGBT characters that succeeded. The Beauty and the Beast remake had a whole controversy about a blink and you miss it gay scene yet made $1.3 billion dollars. And again, older audiences are actually the ones that turned up to Strange World! The fact is you really dont have a shred of evidence.

And yes, ascribing somethings failure to the presence of minorities without evidence is in fact -phobic, as it feeds into hateful narratives. Take In the Heights for instance, a movie that came out mid-pandemic and outperformed other musicals released at the same time. Yet you were like well I guess people dont want movies about inner city hispanic characters. That is bad actually, yes. People do in fact go to see movies about people that arent them. That is part of the whole point of film.

The fact is except for the very highest level cinema is in dire straights financially, having still not recovered from the pandemic with the cost of living crisis also not helping. The fact is despite a full reopening the industry is still going to end up about 30% behind 2019 in terms of box office with barely more films released than 2020 and 2021. Its very bad in general right now.