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Total Film
Entertainment
Bradley Russell

Disney CEO admits The Mandalorian and Grogu didn't "meet our box office expectations", but there's a good reason why it wasn't a total disaster

Grogu uses the Force in The Mandalorian and Grogu.

These days, it's easy to look at a movie's box office number and declare it a success or, in the case of both live-action remake Moana and Star Wars feature The Mandalorian and Grogu, a dismal failure.

New Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro clearly doesn't subscribe to such binary thinking, declaring on the company's earnings call (via Variety), "Even when our franchise films don’t meet our box office expectations, as with The Mandalorian and Grogu and the live-action Moana, our investments in these core properties fuel other parts of our company."

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