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‘Richard Jewell’ Posts Worst Wide Opening for Clint Eastwood With Just $4.7 Million
thewrap.com ^ | 12/15/19 | Jeremy Fuster

Posted on 12/15/2019 11:54:30 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

‘Richard Jewell’ Posts Worst Wide Opening for Clint Eastwood With Just $4.7 Million

“Richard Jewell” was a passion project for Clint Eastwood, but this weekend it became the Hollywood legend’s worst wide opening weekend in his directorial career with just $4.7 million.

Released by Warner Bros. on 2,502 screens, “Richard Jewell” was projected by trackers to earn a $9-10 million opening this weekend — instead, it is opening to half that amount. To find a wide release that low in Eastwood’s career, you have to go all the way back to 1997, when “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” grossed a $5.2 million opening.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; clint; eastwood; hollywood; kickedinjewells; moviereview; worstwideopening
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I wonder if this is fake news in an attempt to kill the picture. I admit I didn't see it yet but I definitely will this week.
1 posted on 12/15/2019 11:54:30 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I liked it.


2 posted on 12/15/2019 11:56:33 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Christmas time. Doesn’t surprise me. It was a great movie.


3 posted on 12/15/2019 11:57:59 AM PST by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

We’re going to see it tonight then.


4 posted on 12/15/2019 11:58:30 AM PST by freedom1st (Build the Wall)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’ll be buying it...4K if available,bluray if not.


5 posted on 12/15/2019 11:58:53 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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I definitely would see it. Poor Richard Jewell lived a fated life. I hope he is in heaven now.
 
6 posted on 12/15/2019 11:59:36 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’ll see it like I see every movie for the last decade . On my 60” tv.

I might consider seeing a high tech special effects movie in the theatre. But nothing I see out There qualifies.


7 posted on 12/15/2019 11:59:41 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I haven’t seen it yet, but planning to see it this week.


8 posted on 12/15/2019 12:00:07 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

As soon as I saw it I figured “Yep. Destroy the messenger.” I wonder what the real figures are and if they matter?


9 posted on 12/15/2019 12:00:13 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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We loved it. We did attend the very first showing on the first day of the movie, and theater was almost empty. But it was the middle of a work day. I expect attendance will pick up this week. I figure this article is meant to encourage people to stay away.

When the FBI asked Jewell if he was a member of any organization, he said he was a Baptist. That got a big laugh here in TN!


10 posted on 12/15/2019 12:00:35 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("I've read the back of The Book, and we win.")
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“I wonder if this is fake news in an attempt to kill the picture”

Numbers dot com which tracks movies is not biased.

Face it, 99% of America really has no interest in this type of movie.


11 posted on 12/15/2019 12:01:51 PM PST by setter
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As soon as I saw it (The headline).


12 posted on 12/15/2019 12:02:11 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Weekend? Are Sunday ticket sales not considered part of Hollywood’s “weekend?”


13 posted on 12/15/2019 12:02:34 PM PST by CedarDave (Public schools are better named "propaganda indoctrination centers." Educate your children at home.)
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To: Baldwin77

Yes, I wonder why they opened so close to Christmas, not exactly a holiday spirit film.


14 posted on 12/15/2019 12:04:07 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing about liberals.)
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Most people only go to the movies when they’re taking their kid to some kiddie movie, that’s how I roll. Hopefully the movie will pick up in video sales, that’s a lot more of a trend these days. I’d rather rent a movie off Amazon Prime for $6 and buy treats for another $10 than spend $50 to sit with a bunch of people, eat the $8 popcorn, and hope people behave.


15 posted on 12/15/2019 12:04:33 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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Weekend? Are Sunday ticket sales not considered part of Hollywood’s “weekend?”

They track Thursday-Saturday sales.


16 posted on 12/15/2019 12:04:39 PM PST by setter
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’ll wait till it comes out on DVD or somewhere else. I hate going to the movies and paying an arm and a leg for admission and snacks. I haven’t been to movie in at least a decade.


17 posted on 12/15/2019 12:04:50 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: CedarDave

#fakenews
we are planning to see it but are in the throes of rennovating a duplex and the heating season.


18 posted on 12/15/2019 12:05:06 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The movie studio did not buy enough TV commercials for the film.


19 posted on 12/15/2019 12:05:17 PM PST by Meatspace
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Great acting and direction. Everyone needs to go see it or movies like this will no longer be produced.


20 posted on 12/15/2019 12:05:20 PM PST by lone star annie
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