Spiked Reports: "Hollywood has long tended to promote a largely ‘liberal-left’ worldview. But its recent embrace of wokeness is on another level entirely. Today, it’s as if most major studios are more interested in promoting ‘diversity’, #MeToo or BLM-style posturing than they are in getting bums on to cinema seats. This year, it became all too clear that audiences are no longer buying the woke fare that Hollywood is serving."

"An obsession with diverse casting shaped the output of both Hollywood’s original content and its endless remakes and spin-offs this year. The ever-expanding Marvel universe has now managed to tick off nearly every diversity box going. This year, it offered up a teen Muslim superhero in Disney+’s flop, Ms Marvel."

Diversity is also at the heart of this year’s many live-action remakes of beloved hand-animated children’s movies. Released this year was Netflix’s Pinocchio – praised by critics for featuring a black fairy godmother. Similarly, all of the media discussion around next year’s The Little Mermaid has so far focused on the fact that Ariel will be black. Audiences don’t object to these casting choices, of course. But when Hollywood is clearly using them to make a moral or political point, this gets people’s backs up. Plus, when the diverse cast seems to be all these films have to offer, we shouldn’t be surprised that audiences aren’t too excited to see them.