Posted on 05/14/2018 3:02:07 PM PDT by EdnaMode
While “Avengers: Infinity War” has dominated the box office in recent weeks, a new documentary about a different kind of hero has still managed to draw crowds.
“RBG,” a look at the life and career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (the glass-ceiling shattering jurist who became a meme), secured the 10th slot at the domestic box office this weekend with $1.16 million. That’s a major feat considering that the non-fiction film, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, was showing in just 180 screens. Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media’s collaboration launched in limited release on May 4, with $560,000 in 34 locations for an impressive per screen average of $16,471.
“It’s a gutsy move on paper,” box office analyst at comScore Paul Dergarbedian said of “RBG’s” summer release. In comparison, Magnolia’s highest-grossing documentary to date, “I am Not Your Negro” ($7 million), bowed in February during the height of awards season.
The top-grossing movies of 2018 so far — Black Panther ($696.2 million), “Avengers: Infinity War” ($547.8 million), and “A Quiet Place (169.6 million) — have become cultural touchstones. It’s rare, but not impossible, for a documentary to become a conversation point. Politically charged pics such as “Fahrenheit 911” and “An Inconvenient Truth” have proved just that.
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“Ruth Bader Ginsburg was awesome as Smeagol in Lord of the Rings.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was awesome as smegma.
How would you like that as a grandmother? “Would you mind getting into my oven
?”
Since both my Grandmothers have passed away I'd be happy to have RBG be like them.
hasn’t she died yet? She was on life support last week.
Carolyn Graglia was a classmate of hers and gives a very different perspective of her in the book DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY
“glass-ceiling shattering jurist “ uh, Sandra Day O’Connor?
she should have resigned or been removed when she felt the need to interject her political opinion into the election.
Something in the kool-aid?
As long as she keeps writing MINORITY opinions.
Ruth the pixel?
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