Hollywood is Dying at the Box Office, and I'm Cool With That

Hollywood is dying at the box office, and that’s a good thing for America. The latest installment of the “Indiana Jones” series of increasingly awful sequels became Disney’s latest bust over the weekend, taking in just $60 million at the box office, well below the expected take. I’m an Indy Jones freak since “Raiders of the Lost Ark” premiered, and I’m totally cool with that.

Hey, maybe the box office disaster of this latest flick has something to do with the fact that Disney, in its infinite efforts to cater to the LGBTQ+abcdefg lobby, decided to set up a very masculine-looking female (I think - don’t cancel me if I’m misgendering him/her they/them here, please, because it really is hard to tell) to succeed Harrison Ford as the globe-trotting archaeologist in future even more awful sequels to the series.

The Hollywood movie industry is dying, at least in terms of income at traditional movie theaters, the main way Americans and film fans across the globe have taken in new releases for more than a century.