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Box Office: 'Beauty and the Beast' Waltzing to Huge $165M-$170M Bow
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | March 17, 2017 | Pamela McClintock and Rebecca Ford

Posted on 03/18/2017 5:57:37 AM PDT by C19fan

Disney's live-action adaptation of the classic animated musical could clear $60 million on Friday alone on its way to landing one of the top 10 openings of all time, not accounting for inflation.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; disney; homosexualagenda; lgbt; moviereview
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To: silverleaf

Back in a more innocent time, I saw THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS. The local newspaper considered it “safe” for kids as it even had a “sissy” vampire.

But that was then.

Gives new meaning to all those old cartoons in which some character was called “You big SISSY!”


41 posted on 03/18/2017 8:01:43 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: silverleaf

I saw the movie DEATHTRAP not long ago on TCM. That is I watched it up until they sprang the queer kiss on us and off the TV went.
What has been seen cannot be unseen. EYE BLEACH! EYE BLEACH!


42 posted on 03/18/2017 8:04:24 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: silverleaf

“Gayness was a minor character making a few subtle allusions and glances scattered throught a 2 hour movie”

I get your point, however, this is how it gets started with subtle and sneaky references. In the near future though they’ll be in your face shaking it, and, if you disapprove the “problem” is with you.


43 posted on 03/18/2017 8:05:03 AM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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To: poinq

You can tell romance books are popular by looking at how big the section for them is in used book stores. We have a lot of Mennonites in the area and they seem to particularly like them, as many don’t get their female romance fix by electronic media.

My only point was that the popularity of a live action musical love story isn’t going to be driven by men. No matter the amount of gayness, a tiny unimportant amount or abject homo-erotic plot points, a normal male isn’t going to be pumped for love story musicals.

Freegards


44 posted on 03/18/2017 8:05:18 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Ransomed

Adding a gay character to a Disney movie or a bunch of black characters in odd places does not increase the audience. Disney knows that gay and black audiences will not rush out to see the movie. The purpose of these two additions to the movie is for the critics. Disney wants to get past the lily white conservative branding. So they can be accepted in California public schools and have the New York Times give a more favorable rating. Disney knows their bread and butter are the young white girls and their mothers looking for some predictable teenage no core (not hard core, not even soft core) romance.


45 posted on 03/18/2017 8:24:28 AM PDT by poinq
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To: silverleaf

Thank you silverleaf, from some of the previews posted on line, I gathered as much. Thanks for the confirmation. I still wont go see it, but thats because its not my kind of movie, but I am not going to be hysterical about it either.


46 posted on 03/18/2017 8:30:56 AM PDT by Paradox ("Donald Trump", the biggest Strawman ever created.)
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To: DennisR
Walt Disney didn't start big.

I visit Utah often to ski. I have noticed over the years that they have a thriving cottage industry in Mormon films. They are filled with inside humor that pokes good natured fun at the Utah Mormon culture. They seem to be very popular.

This is a model that I believe other parts of the country or communities, with their specific idiosyncrasies could follow.

In time, these small movie production companies could grow to the point that they are able to produce films like Beauty and the Beast and put on massive Broadway shows without the political correctness.

47 posted on 03/18/2017 8:41:22 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: C19fan
Would someone explain to me why this nod to bestiality ever became so popular!!!
48 posted on 03/18/2017 8:43:02 AM PDT by ontap
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To: cableguymn

Probably more than half of the tickets were bought before the show opened. I could see Soros buying tickets for all of his Human Rights Commission homonazis comrades...


49 posted on 03/18/2017 8:43:49 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: C19fan

I kinda figured it was some form of created buzz to draw in the patrons.

But i might add this observation, i looked at many reviews of Passengers and they were very critical of it, hated it with a pasdion, i bought the movie and found it very very good,it had real hetero love in it, so no wonder it was hated by the Hollywood queers.


50 posted on 03/18/2017 8:58:53 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best!)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

Reminds me of the “Leo DiCaprio gets raped by a bear” buzz before Revenant came out.


51 posted on 03/18/2017 9:03:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: wintertime

So when are you beginning production? :)


52 posted on 03/18/2017 9:28:12 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: DennisR
Actually, when I retired I decided to study art as seriously as I did my former profession. I've been shown in my state's leading museum. One of my portraits hangs in the halls of our city's community college, and have won some very nice awards.

So....I suppose I am doing my part to contribute conservative principles to The Arts in my medium.

53 posted on 03/18/2017 9:46:26 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: silverleaf

Really? I told my kids under no circumstances are we seeing that movie and I am now the ogre. I got the information from Free Republic that there was a gay kiss. Have I screwed over my kids?????


54 posted on 03/18/2017 10:29:38 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: C19fan

Because the millennial and gen X parents don’t know what’s in it

Typically lefties wouldn’t see it but since its politicized


55 posted on 03/18/2017 10:35:16 AM PDT by wardaddy (this is war....)
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To: silverleaf

I like you you’re a fine poster but this is where the problem starts

This is a child oriented film

Inserting homosexuality is propaganda

I do not like that

I don’t like gratuitous queerdom inserting for its own sake period

Game of Thrones or Spartacus which was just eaten up with it

And so forth

A movie about Kim Philby like Another Country

Fine


56 posted on 03/18/2017 10:39:10 AM PDT by wardaddy (this is war....)
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To: poinq

My mom after my dad died read those western soft erotic romance novels

But purposeful insertion of homosexuality into a children’s film is a whole nother matter

And no offense to you

But the fact that on a conservative forum several folks don’t seem to care and gave Disney their cash anyhow is the most troubling aspect of all

It all started quit harnessing fags or sissies nearly 50 years ago

Now look where we are now with trans crap and bathrooms and abolition of religious and assembly freedom and where homosexuals are now afforded victomhood privilege same as any other non white non Christian group

I would not have gone to see that movie or taken my family simply on principle

You watch it’s the nose in the tent

It’ll explode now


57 posted on 03/18/2017 10:48:03 AM PDT by wardaddy (this is war....)
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To: napscoordinator

“Have I screwed over my kids?????”

Of course not.

Just tell them you were given some incorrect information and let them see the movie.

.


58 posted on 03/18/2017 10:48:34 AM PDT by Mears
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To: napscoordinator
I got the information from Free Republic that there was a gay kiss.

That was your first mistake.

59 posted on 03/18/2017 10:52:05 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: napscoordinator

Yeah you screwed your kids if you didn’t let them go because of misinformation about a “gay kiss”

No gay sex, and hardly any hetero kissing either

But the movie will be around for a few weeks

Unless your kids are likely to turn gay because Gaston’s buddy acts like a weak parody of Paul Lind, they should be fine

Opening night at BowTie at the mall was jammed!


60 posted on 03/18/2017 1:08:04 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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