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Box Office: 'Birth of a Nation' Falters With $7M
Hollywood Reporter ^ | October 9, 2016 | Pamela McClintock

Posted on 10/09/2016 9:50:54 AM PDT by C19fan

Embattled filmmaker Nate Parker's slave-rebellion drama had hoped to cross $10 million in its debut; 'Girl on the Train,' starring Emily Blunt, easily places No. 1. Two years after Gone Girl gripped audiences, Tate Taylor's female-fueled The Girl on the Train opened to a solid $24.7 million from 3,133 theaters at the North American box office, easily winning the race ahead of Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation.

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


TOPICS: History; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: movies; slavery; whoops
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/src on/White people unable to face their privilege and guilt./src off/ Parker made serious coin on this low budget movies because Fox purchased it for $17 MM. It will be Fox that takes the financial hit.
1 posted on 10/09/2016 9:50:54 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

You mean ANOTHER movie about slavery just in time for the election?


2 posted on 10/09/2016 9:52:01 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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Me gusto Emily Blunt mucho!
3 posted on 10/09/2016 9:54:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan

Note how both movies called Birth of a Nation have been made as Democrat Party propaganda.


4 posted on 10/09/2016 9:54:25 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: C19fan

They could make never another poor oppressed minorities of any stripe race creed or religion movie ever again and it wouldn’t be long enough for me to be spared the steady onslaught of the past 50 years whereby some aspect of my being is always blamed for what afflicts the poor oppressed

The people who civilized the world are being destroyed by those we civilized by self hating agents


5 posted on 10/09/2016 9:55:34 AM PDT by wardaddy (the traitorous GOPe deserves Third of May 1808 if ever a party did....)
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To: C19fan

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

6 posted on 10/09/2016 9:55:59 AM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: BenLurkin

I get first dibs on these English actresses as I see them in period dramas before they become big stars, for example, Felicity Jones, Haley Atwell, and Carey Mulligan.


7 posted on 10/09/2016 9:56:41 AM PDT by C19fan
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....directed,produced,written and stars. A man who beat a rape charge. Victim later committed suicide


8 posted on 10/09/2016 9:57:41 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: C19fan

The lesson here is that if you are going to be a rapist, your last name better be Clinton.


9 posted on 10/09/2016 10:02:12 AM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: C19fan

Emily Blunt’s Kids Are Picking Up Their Dad’s American Accent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFAAfYOYYtc


10 posted on 10/09/2016 10:02:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ifinnegan

Interesting

Birth of a Nation was the first movie screened at the White house by Woodrow Wilson (D)

The original was a KKK propaganda film


11 posted on 10/09/2016 10:03:11 AM PDT by arl295
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Yep.

Both films were Democrat Party propaganda films.

Funny, huh.


12 posted on 10/09/2016 10:07:31 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: arl295

Wilson gushed about the film thus, “Like writing history with lightning!’’.


13 posted on 10/09/2016 10:20:42 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: C19fan

Why go to the theater and pay big bucks to see blacks rioting, when you can just turn on your TV news, and watch them do it for free.


14 posted on 10/09/2016 10:22:29 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Nailed It !

15 posted on 10/09/2016 10:34:23 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: mass55th

LOL! No sh#t!


16 posted on 10/09/2016 10:34:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: C19fan

I saw the trailer for “Birth of a Nation” - it seemed extremely racist and very much anti-white.


17 posted on 10/09/2016 10:44:39 AM PDT by PGR88
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Liberals are really excited about this film.

They are ignoring the rape accusation against the writer/director.

The thing about Nat Turner, as far as I understand, is that his activity wasn’t really a slave revolt but more like a psychopathic killing spree.

Maybe a movie about Harpers Ferry might do well.


18 posted on 10/09/2016 10:59:19 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: C19fan

If I want to hear about what a piece of garbage I am because I’m white, I’ll turn on the news.

Don’t need to pay 20 bucks to hear that when I can get it for free.


19 posted on 10/09/2016 11:04:56 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Why do I need to see this film? I’m not black.


20 posted on 10/09/2016 11:52:07 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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