{"id":92586,"date":"2022-04-07T18:08:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/newsies-star-says-disney-sent-her-mean-reviews-after-movie-bombed\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T18:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:38:55","slug":"newsies-star-says-disney-sent-her-mean-reviews-after-movie-bombed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/newsies-star-says-disney-sent-her-mean-reviews-after-movie-bombed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Newsies&#8217; Star Says Disney Sent Her Mean Reviews After Movie Bombed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul class=\"summary-list summary-list-variant\">\n<li>&#8220;Newsies&#8221; star Ele Keats told Insider that Disney sent her negative reviews after the movie bombed.<\/li>\n<li>She said the reviews were &#8220;horrible&#8221; and some felt like a personal attack.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Newsies&#8221; debuted in 1992 and was a box-office flop that later become a cult classic.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-signup \n                        headline-regular loading\" id=\"formContainer\" data-component-type=\"inline-newsletter-module\" data-event-label=\"morning_brew\" data-list=\"Morning Brew\" data-acq-source=\"morningbrew\" data-origin=\"MorningBrew\" data-campaign=\"entertainment\"><\/p>\n<section class=\"inline-newsletter-content\">\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>Before it became a cult classic, &#8220;Newsies&#8221; was one of Disney&#8217;s biggest box-office flops, receiving an onslaught of negative reviews immediately upon its release. Actress Ele Keats, who was 20 at the time, said Disney sent her &#8220;painfully mean&#8221; reviews in the mail after the film&#8217;s debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got mailed this, like, phone book of horrible reviews, including some personal-attack type of reviews,&#8221; Keats told Insider in a recent interview ahead of the movie&#8217;s 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The actress said she received &#8220;all of the horrific reviews for &#8216;Newsies&#8217; in the mail&#8221; from &#8220;someone from Disney.&#8221; Keats, who played Sarah Jacobs in the 1992 movie, said it was &#8220;really hard&#8221; for her to read the critiques, which she received while on the set of the Disney-Paramount movie &#8220;Alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that someone in the press department thought maybe I would enjoy reading them. I don&#8217;t know why,&#8221; she said, explaining that it may have been because she was already &#8220;working on another Disney movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her costar Arvie Lowe Jr, who played the newsie Boots, also told Insider he, too, received copies of &#8220;Newsies&#8221; reviews in the mail from Disney, and was sent them nearly every week.<\/p>\n<p>He said reviews included how the movie was &#8220;terrible&#8221; and &#8220;wrong&#8221; and the acting was &#8220;subpar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Newsies&#8217; is famous for being a box-office flop, but Keats believes it was just ahead of its time\u00a0<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"figure image-figure-image  \" data-type=\"img\" data-e2e-name=\"image-figure-image\" data-media-container=\"image\">\n<div class=\"lazy-holder \" style=\"padding-top: calc(100% * 600 \/ 1200)\">\n<p>                          <img class=\"lazy-image \" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" data-content-type=\"image\/png\" srcs='{\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/624c7cffbb219a00181bc8e7\":{\"contentType\":\"image\/png\",\"aspectRatioW\":2,\"aspectRatioH\":1}}' alt=\"Ele Keats in 2015 next to still of her in Newsies with David Moscow and Les\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <noscript><br \/>\n                              <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Newsies-Star-Says-Disney-Sent-Her-Mean-Reviews-After-Movie.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n                          <\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                          <span class=\"image-source-caption \"><figcaption class=\"image-caption headline-bold\" data-e2e-name=\"image-caption\">\n                              Ele Keats in 2015 next to a still of her and her costars in &#8220;Newsies.&#8221;<br \/>\n                            <\/figcaption><span class=\"image-source headline-regular\" data-e2e-name=\"image-source\"><br \/>\n                                Jason LaVeris\/FilmMagic\/Getty Images; Walt Disney Pictures<br \/>\n                              <\/span><br \/>\n                          <\/span><br \/>\n                      <\/figure>\n<p>The Kenny Ortega-directed movie musical famously bombed at the box office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl3261367809\/weekend\/\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"60\" data-uri=\"380d3345cfc3e98c876513f74781e770\" rel=\"noopener\">grossing<\/a> $1.2 million against a $15 million budget. Still, it&#8217;s since become a cult classic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the stars and creators of the film were optimistic that the film would be successful, and some believe it was just ahead of its time.<\/p>\n<p>Keats said she thinks the movie&#8217;s failure comes down to &#8220;timing&#8221; and that it would be &#8220;a smash hit&#8221; if it was released today because of how much the world has evolved.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just before its time. If it could have come out even eight years later, it would be wildly successful \u2014 10 or 12 years later, it would&#8217;ve been a smash hit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Disney didn&#8217;t immediately respond to Insider&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Insider&#8217;s 30th-anniversary retrospective on &#8220;Newsies&#8221; here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Newsies&#8221; star Ele Keats told Insider that Disney sent her negative reviews after the movie bombed. She said the reviews were &#8220;horrible&#8221; and some felt like a personal attack.\u00a0 &#8220;Newsies&#8221; debuted in 1992 and was a box-office flop that later become a cult classic.\u00a0 Before it became a cult classic, &#8220;Newsies&#8221; was one of Disney&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":92587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1649335137_Newsies-Star-Says-Disney-Sent-Her-Mean-Reviews-After-Movie.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}