‘Butler’ Box Office Sales Plummets by One-Third

Newsmax ^ | Monday, 26 Aug 2013 09:56 AM | Jennifer G. Hickey

[baddog 219]

[tumblindice]

“Who played President Reagan?”
Alan Rickman, a fine actor who plays (for those of you w/o children) ‘Severus Snapes’ in the ‘Harry Potter’s series. He is a rather sinister, frightening character, much as I imagine Ronald Reagan was to lefties.
I expect they tried to get Ralph Fiennes—the archvillain ‘Voldemort’ from the same shows—but he declined.
I wouldn’t watch this piece of agitprop if they paid me.

[onedoug]

Now THAT I believe.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Who played President Reagan...

Would you believe Professor Severus Snape? (i.e. Alan Rickman)

[4rcane]

can’t find racism from real republicans, so must role play some racist republicans

[ChildOfThe60s]

Wishful thinking does not a failure make.

Agreed

[onedoug]

I really like Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson in “The Song Of Lunch” based on the poem of the same name (Christopher Reid).

[tumblindice]

He was good in ‘Sense and Sensibility’ as well.
He may have played a terrorist in one of the ‘Die Hard’ movies too.

[leapfrog0202]

Good! Now for them to drop to $0!

[sten]

they can only buy out so many theaters ... eventually is has to stop.

they did the same thing in the 90s to boost movie sales figures

[PapaBear3625]

I’m not a fan of biased reporting no matter who does it. The Butler was number one on the week. The ‘plummet’ of 30% on it’s second weekend is actually quite a good hold.

Right. EVERY movie goes down the second week. Wolverine's second weekend gross was less than half the first week's, but it still made good money. The Avenger's 2nd weekend was just 57% of their first weekend, and they made phenomenal money.

So far they grossed $52M on a film they made for $30M. The film WILL be profitable.

[petro45acp]

Right there withya! Belive (no stats on hand to prove), that is within normal for non-blockbuster solid movie.

He11, Serenity barely scratched 26M for the whole time it was in theaters, and watching it again is orders of magnitude better than anything o and f have anything to do with....

JM.02
KYPD

[discostu]

That’s called the standard week to week drop for non-nerd boy movies (nerd boy movies drop by at least half).

[rockabyebaby]

The Butler has been number one at box office 9 of the past 10 days. Someone will construe this as me supporting the movie or endorsing it but what i am doing is condemning poor journalism.

I agree, I heard this morning that The Butler took the number one spot for the second weekend in a row.

[petro45acp]

Hans in the first Die Hard movie....

[wiggen]

Thank all of you for agreeing. I truly get upset when i see whats supposed to be ‘our side’ resorting to the very tactics we justly condemn.
Plummeted my tush.

[wardaddy]

People who love this tripe also loved The Help

it makes them feel smug about race...and moral superiority...it’s the new Church lady

will we ever run out of black victimhood sagas?

lord...Roots...literally a fairy tale was enough

Harper Lee....I fart in your general direction*

*not really...poor old spinster ...I hear she’s in bad shape..bless her heart...but she sure started all this crap

[pabianice]

>>So far they grossed $52M on a film they made for $30M. The film WILL be profitable.

A film costs three times its "production costs" to break even because of marketing costs.

[tumblindice]

Yeah that’s right. ‘Hans’?
Ever noticed that if the villain is evil, he has an English accent? But if he’s diabolically evil, he sounds like a Cherman.
I wonder if they had ‘Reagan’ talk like Col. Klink.

[jimfree]

Newsmax should be ashamed of itself...a 30% drop at the box office in a movie’s second weekend actually isn’t that bad.

Seems rather normal to me.