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 legends 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 Eastwoods 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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Saw movie tonight. Great film. Sunday nite only 6 people at showing.
It’s ironic, or at least a stilted “box office standard” when music “sales” are now tracked by free streams (for artists who don’t even have digital downloads or physical albums for sale).
The numbers of “sales” are inflated because those who listen to an album again and again online count as continued sales but if you buy the album that only counts once no matter how often you listen to the album. Additionally all used LPs and CDs you listen to do not count towards those “repeated listenings” as well.
So Drake and Ed Sheeran are considered to be far bigger “sellers” than the Beatles or Elvis ever were. Not buying it.
If “box office” for movies were ticking up those online streams (from all services, not just itunes, hulu, and amazon prime) numbers would grow (and not just for current release movies).
Back in the day top vhs rentals were tracked but I don’t think those numbers are tabulated anymore and they certainly never counted as “sales”.
So all charts are weird.
He also made it because Hollywood was boycotting Georgia over some gay law that they disagreed with. So Eastwood announced that he was retired from filming making but he will make one last film and it will be in Georgia.
I saw it with my wife this weekend. Very well done. Strongly recommended.
The movie outs the media as dishonest, no wonder they won’t advertise it.
There was already an effort by lib media to tell people not to see it; much like The Joker, Dave Chappelle, and Bill Burr.
My significant other would not take care of herself. I begged her to no avail. She became insulin dependent. She would come home from work on Friday with a couple cakes from the bakery and donuts. She would eat them all, shoot herself up with insulin and pass out for the whole weekend. I would not see her till late Sunday afternoon.
I don't see how that is any different than coming home on a Friday with a bottle of whiskey and drinking yourself into a stupor.
I have seen it. A great movie. I will be getting it when it comes out on BlueRay.
Its a very good movie, very well done.
But the true villains are the FBI and the fake news media, so Im sure leftist Hollywierd WANTS this movie to fail.
Saw this movie in a deep deep blue neighborhood.
I was one of six viewers that late afternoon-viewing. Most viewers were 50 or older.
Satisfied comments heard after credits rolled.
I get the idea that even in such neighborhoods the sleeping giant is there, too big to be seen. Look at the contours of the distant hills and you can see his shoulders. Wait.
Ditto.
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