Posted on 12/30/2019 6:39:06 AM PST by ConservativeMind
The weekend box office numbers are in, and one particular film flopped after facing controversy ahead of its debut. Clint Eastwood's "Richard Jewell" raked in only $5 million its opening weekend, about half of what was expected, according to IMDB's Box Office Mojo. The film faced criticism over its depiction of a real-life female reporter, Kathy Scruggs, who is played by actress Olivia Wilde.
"Richard Jewell" follows the story of the titular character, a security guard who was initially hailed as a hero but then suspected of planting a bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Jewell was later exonerated. The movie depicts Scruggs, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper reporter, offering sex for confidential information from an FBI source about the case.
“...It has to make $80 million to break even, if it cost $40 million...”
How so??? That would be $40 million profit, would it not?
It’s hard to spend any time in the presence of a woman no matter what she looks like if she smells like a cat box.
The most significant accomplishment of the last 4 years is that the FBI has pissed of the half of the country that once respected them. Good luck with that!
“...It has now made about $15 million, but had a cost of over $40 million...”
This is what I was referring to...From post #1...
Will see it. I love to see true stories of the FBIs incompetence
Will see it. I love to see true stories of the FBIs incompetence
Was the best movie of 2019 in my opinion.
We good folk like that to lead this country, instead of elitists.
When have you seen an Eastwood production be a “bad movie”?
The Left hates him for his “empty chair” remarks for Obama and because he has Conservative values - he puts the MSM in it’s proper place with this movie and they have gone on a crusade to try to keep folks from supporting it - because it has too many truths about them and one of theirs.
They claim the female reporter never traded sex for anything but she ain’t around to clarify and any attempts to validate his claims will be called a “horrifying attack on the dead”.
Be a good FReeper and hit the donate button ... and stop carrying the Left’s stagnant water for them
Best thing to do is read about the ACJ reporter, Kathy Scruggs. She was a real individual who somehow got the tip that the FBI were looking into Richard Jewell. Kathy was known to be an aggressive reporter and fairly chummy with law enforcement. Some folks think that to get a tip like that, she may have compromised her integrity.
The movie shows the Scruggs character offering sex(?) to an FBI agent (but not using those words to put the point across) in exchange for the tip. He whispers the tip to her and they leave the bar together. We’re supposed to guess what happens next. The FBI agent in the movie that gave the tip is a composite character and represents several agents involved in the case. So the movie strongly insinuates what Scruggs did to get the tip without saying who she got it from.
Later in the movie, Scruggs tries to make contact with Jewell’s lawyer (maybe to help Jewell, maybe to add wood to the kindling) but is so aggressive in her tactics that he wants nothing to do with her. I don’t know if that really happened. She also figures out how Jewell could not have planted the bomb, but sits on the discovery. (It’s okay, Team Jewell and the FBI reached the same conclusion independently.) And that’s where the movie pretty much drops her character.
I thought the movie was great.... Eastwood’s direction and all the actors (especially Jewell and his mother) were excellent. Based on what I recall about the event when it happened, I think that it can be said to be a very accurate depiction as well.... the other night I was watching a tv review of it and as part of the review, the original footage of the speech by Jewell’s mother (when she went before the press to plead for her son’s good name to be returned to him) was played back to back with the movie’s version of the same speech.... the dialogue and the complete setting was totally spot on. In fact, when I think about movies based on real life events, this one stands way higher than any I can think of as far as accuracy.
There are quite a few reviews you can find of the movie but I rather liked this one.... https://stream.org/want-to-understand-the-impeachment-dont-watch-the-hearings-watch-richard-jewell/
As with all movies these days, I’ll wait until they’re on tv.
“This is what I was referring to...From post #1...”
Then why post to me!
You will not regret seeing it. It is not a feel-good movie, but it is a very important movie that illustrates the dangers of tunnel vision by investigators and mass speculation and hysteria by the media.
Sadly, the lessons of this story and tragedy have still not been learned as we have seen it repeated over and over since on a whole host of stories.
I did wish the film would have spent more time on the internal deliberation by law enforcement. The FBI had too much faith in their profiler despite a lack of other evidence, despite not doing simple gum-shoe investigation that did show he did not do it, and over the objections of other agencies in the investigation who were excluded and pushed out by the FBI as the investigation floundered (all they ever had was the profile).
The arrogance was sickening.
All this crap about the female reporter in the negative reviews misses the real point for me as I did not know her or know her story. An innocent man was not afforded his rights because someone criminally leaked the fact that he was a suspect to the media generating a truly sickening frenzy.
One poster said it had earned about 37.5% which is what $15 million is to $40 million...
You posted this guy, Sooth2222, back and said it was 12%...
He was referring to the same post #1 as I....
Sounds like I movie I will really want to watch on DVD.
I tried to see if anyone else gave a good explanation... but the gross receipts at the box office only tell how much money was received from tickets sold, not how much money was made. I do not know what percentage of the gross that the film company gets from ticket sales in this case. That can vary and is not what is being measured.
‘But you scream bloody murder when the shoe is on the other foot. You are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.”
simply human nature; just look at disappointed OSU fans...if Clemson had made the same scoop and score as OSU they’d be screaming that the pass was incomplete...
That’s a good evaluation. Thank you for your comment and link.
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