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Why Did 'Lightyear' Bomb?
Why Did 'Lightyear' Bomb?
Plus: The gang reviews Disney/Pixar’s latest.
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) try to figure out why Lightyear dramatically underperformed projections. Is this a function of new customer behavior, the burgeoning culture war Disney finds itself embroiled in, or both? And then the gang reviews Lightyear, which is at…
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