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Why ‘Black Panther’ Saved the 1st Quarter Box Office From Disaster
Variety ^ | March 23, 2018 | Brent Lang

Posted on 03/23/2018 2:11:36 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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It seems likely that in the future only major blockbusters will play in movie theaters and the rest will go directly to streaming/DVD.
1 posted on 03/23/2018 2:11:36 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

People still go to the movies?? I quit when they got rid of drive ins.


2 posted on 03/23/2018 2:15:46 PM PDT by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: EdnaMode

Did anyone who’s never chanted “hands up,don’t shoot” go to see Black Panther?


3 posted on 03/23/2018 2:17:24 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: EdnaMode

Went to 1 movie last year. Blew my monthly entertainment budget. :)

But seriously, $7.95 for a small coke? About the same for a hotdog. Yeh, you can do without the food, but that was a big part of why we used to love to go.


4 posted on 03/23/2018 2:22:39 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: EdnaMode
I don't go to the movies any more. Until about three years ago, I went two or three times a month. Then, the theater had very few grown-up choices and their website got gunked up with Fandango trying to sell me tickets, so I stopped looking for movies on a regular basis. When I did look, it was mostly garbage. Next step, the complex put in pre-choice of seating and soft reclining seats. I don't like assigned seating, the seats put me to sleep, and with flu concerns this year, both seem to be the wrong direction to go for one who wants to stay healthy. Add to that Cleveland, upholstered seats, bed bug epidemic proportions, no thanks.

Maybe someone would let me know if there's a movie worth the hassle.

5 posted on 03/23/2018 2:24:21 PM PDT by grania (Deplorable and ProMy ud of It!)
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To: EdnaMode

They wuz kangs, you know! And without whitey in their country any more, they had “access” to technology and got space ships! And vibranium!


6 posted on 03/23/2018 2:24:47 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: eyeamok

The last movie I watched in the theater was American Sniper because I wanted to help Clint and to help give the middle finger to the lefties..


7 posted on 03/23/2018 2:25:02 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: EdnaMode

Why? Prolly because a lot of people paid to see it.
But that’s just a guess. I’m not an economist.


8 posted on 03/23/2018 2:25:58 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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Wrinkle In Time isn’t packing then in??? People aren’t swarming in to hear oprah spew new age pablum as she leads the girl in that movie on her journey? I’m shocked......

Maybe they should have given the role to Whoopi Goldberg.......


9 posted on 03/23/2018 2:27:41 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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The smart move is to tighten the budget belt. Wrinkle has made 75 million globally, that CAN be a profitable movie. They’re trying to hard to make everything a blockbuster, they’ve forgotten how to spend 6 million to make 30.


10 posted on 03/23/2018 2:30:51 PM PDT by discostu (It's been so long, welcome back my friend, to the show, that never ends.)
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To: EdnaMode

That disgusting flick is one of the many things now stampeding large numbers of the very young to lean away from our failed baby boomer experiment in universal “melting pot” bunk. There’s no melting pot. People of northwestern European descent are hated by most others to the east and south.

Do you see, now, the target countries (northwestern Europe, USA, Canada) of the nations being ushered out of their own trashed countries (look south)? Do you really believe that it’s all an accident?

Now it’s “multiculturalism,” and they are beginning to see what the horrible plan is for us all. The young are awakening, are absolutely opposed to their teachers (and smarter than them, too), and nearly no one in the political/regulator class sees it coming.

Every effort to terrorize those young folks into complying is only intensifying their stubborn rebellion against the un-American tyrants.


11 posted on 03/23/2018 2:36:42 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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I went to see it on the first day. Liked it even though there were a couple of scenes that seemed anti-white. Minor, but still there. It’s a good comic-book inspired movie IMHO.


12 posted on 03/23/2018 2:43:17 PM PDT by Imnidiot (This space for Rent)
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To: familyop

Tomorrow will prove your theory. Students out in droves.


13 posted on 03/23/2018 3:16:20 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: EdnaMode

Is that even typically a blockbuster quarter?

Big fish in a small pond


14 posted on 03/23/2018 3:25:06 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I’m not iinto the whole black supremacy thing.


15 posted on 03/23/2018 3:46:03 PM PDT by atc23
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The movie has nothing to do with black supremacy.

It didn't make over $600 million dollars on the backs of Snap benefit recipients. Obviously, whitey has been seeing the movie too.

16 posted on 03/23/2018 4:25:20 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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“Hollywood doesn’t seem to know what audiences want.”

False. Producers in Hollywood know exactly what the audience wants, such as G-rated family Christian films, and continues to ignore the audience.

I remember when David Putnam produced Chariots of Fire in 1981 and cleaned up. Then he said that Hollywood ignored him and refuses to make numerous profitable Christian family films, like Chariots of Fire.

Mel Gibson made a Christian family film in 2004 and was ignored by all awards shows.

Hollywood is now funded by Disney and it is all boring fiction.


17 posted on 03/23/2018 4:30:54 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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I believe they make some movies to throw gas on the fire of racial division.

This would be for the deep state.


18 posted on 03/23/2018 4:36:19 PM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: a fool in paradise

Usually Oscar nominated films dominate the box office in January-February. Deadpool did really well in February a couple of years ago.


19 posted on 03/23/2018 5:08:32 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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If you’re going to the movies, go see the Christian film “I Can Only Imagine”.
It actually hit second place last weekend.
“Let There Be Light” with Kevin Sorbo and produced by Sean Hanity hit number 3 when it came out, and it is on Amazon Instant Video now for those that want to watch it.
It is interesting that the Christian movies are now hitting the top spots because Hollywood’s quality is declining so much.


20 posted on 03/23/2018 5:52:18 PM PDT by tbw2
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