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Warner Bros “Overestimated” Weekend Numbers for ‘The Color Purple’ — $11 million 3-Day Total
World of Reel ^ | 2 January | Jordan Ruimy

Posted on 01/03/2024 6:21:06 PM PST by PghBaldy

So, Warner Bros, in one of these sketchy incidents, that keep happening of late, “overestimated” the weekend numbers for “The Color Purple” by over $2 million.

Warners had originally stated that ‘Color Purple’ made $13.8 million, but the actual number is said to be around $11.7 million

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To: frank ballenger

and prolly the pickup truck too


21 posted on 01/03/2024 7:01:01 PM PST by SteveH
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To: al baby
We watch Roots about once a year ,play it backwards so it has a happy ending

You need help, buddy :)
22 posted on 01/03/2024 7:01:05 PM PST by mjustice (Apparently common sense isn't so common.)
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To: SteveH

That ain’t no lie.


23 posted on 01/03/2024 7:02:54 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: al baby
Roots is half plagiarized1 and half "a work of the imagination rather than strict historical scholarship."2

-PJ

1 See Harold Courlander § Roots and plagiarism.

2 Henry Louis Gates, quoted by Beam, Alex (October 30, 1998). "The Prize Fight Over Alex Haley's Tangled 'Roots'". The Boston Globe.

24 posted on 01/03/2024 7:05:01 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: SteveH

The nice thing about vinyl records and a turn table , was you could start the song where you wanted and get your dog , your job, and the pickup and end the song on a happy note 😛


25 posted on 01/03/2024 7:08:43 PM PST by Equine1952
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To: Jonty30
Movies are so over. I’d be surprised if movies ever made a comeback like they used to be, even if they dumped all the wokeism.

Perhaps one reason they are so bad is that it's almost impossible to come up with an original story idea.

There are so many good movies from the past, there isn't really too much need for new ones.

Unless, of course, someone somehow starts coming out with frankly non-PC, non-woke movies.

Movies about things that we just can't talk about.

Like honor killings of daughters in certain "protected communities," for instance.

Or an honest look at the problems of inner-city schools.

Such movies would have to be distributed in channels similar to the way pornographic films were handled, sixty years ago.

26 posted on 01/03/2024 7:12:03 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Tijeras_Slim

27 posted on 01/03/2024 7:13:22 PM PST by Bratch
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To: PghBaldy
Was this the movie about Harold and his purple crayon?

Oh wait a second, I mentioned a monkey in the same context as people in a novel by Alice Walker.

I guess that makes me a raaaacisss.

28 posted on 01/03/2024 7:32:55 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: Steely Tom

There are a lot of good movies to be made, that people will pay for, but Hollywood is trapped.
They want theater receipts or crap Netflix porn.
I give an example; Dune. I read the book in one weekend.
the first major Dune movie did about 10% of the story.
The second recent movie cut it in half expecting you will pay to see the second part.
Film the entire story do an intermission such as Ben Hur
did.
Dune is a long story! and sell it online screw the movie theaters.You can’t even drink a beer in them and 10$ day old popcorn is a joke. Only idiots go there anymore.
for content;
Why not try the Foundation series? or the full Moby dick?
there are lots of good wholesome stories out there.
quit pushing political unwanted crap down peoples throats!
PS we all have flat screen TV’s with good sound, can sit in clean recliners, drink beer, and enjoy a good movie, at home.


29 posted on 01/03/2024 7:52:39 PM PST by rellic
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To: rellic

But it’s getting cheaper and cheaper to make movies.

High-quality video and audio equipment is readily available.


30 posted on 01/03/2024 8:09:36 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: frank ballenger

You also get out of jail.


31 posted on 01/03/2024 8:58:46 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

...And sober up! :-D


32 posted on 01/03/2024 9:01:00 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: All

The Color Purple bombed? Too bad.

I, myself, just cant wait til Disney’s Snow Woke and the Seven Ding-a-lings hits the screens.

And here’s another “Claudine Gay goes to Hollywood” Disney bomb.

dailymail.com-—Disney’s next biggest flop unfolds. Star Wars feminist director say her goal ‘is to make men uncomfortable’ Two-time Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has declared ‘I like to make men uncomfortable. I enjoy making men uncomfortable,’ she said after winning the Oscar for a documentary about acid attacks against Pakistani women.’

Disney’s Claudine Gay clone, LucasFilm CEO Kathleen Kennedy, has been called by one movie fan, ‘legitimately the worst entertainment executive of my lifetime.’


33 posted on 01/03/2024 10:08:47 PM PST by Liz (Albert Schweitzer: “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.")
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Disney’s "Star Wars" feminist director say her goal ‘is to make men uncomfortable’

Two-time Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has declared ‘I like to make men uncomfortable. I enjoy making men uncomfortable,’ she said after winning the Oscar for a documentary about acid attacks against Pakistani women.’

34 posted on 01/03/2024 10:37:40 PM PST by Liz (Albert Schweitzer: “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.")
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To: Jonty30

Movies made over $9 billion in 2023 at the box office. I mean it’s not like they’ve disappeared. There are new movies every week - some make money and some don’t and that has always been the case.

Even if they bomb at the box office, they go to VOD, then streaming, then physical sales plus soundtracks, etc. Many movies do make back their money, but sometimes it takes years in the marketplace to do so.


35 posted on 01/03/2024 10:38:16 PM PST by Dave W
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To: Dave W

I’m happy to have them make money years later. :).


36 posted on 01/03/2024 10:40:58 PM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: Dave W

This one will more than make up for initial losses in streaming royalties from high school kids who are supposed to read the book.


37 posted on 01/03/2024 11:18:02 PM PST by nicollo ("This is FR!")
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To: PghBaldy

I remember a Saturday Night Live skit featuring Billy Crystal as Fernando remarking how “fabulous “ oprah was in “The Colored People”


38 posted on 01/04/2024 2:32:00 AM PST by daku
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To: PghBaldy

I was dragged to see this on Broadway (don’t ask) and was mystified why they decided to make a movie of it and thought it would make money.


39 posted on 01/04/2024 3:47:29 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Chickensoup
Is this a new release?

Yes, a musical version of the 1980s film.

40 posted on 01/04/2024 3:48:17 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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