Posted on 08/26/2013 8:45:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The movie The Butler saw its weekend box office receipts plummet by nearly a third, from $24.6 million in its opening week to $17 million last week, after a storm of protest from Republican and veterans groups.
The film depicts a White House butler who served eight presidents, and has come under fire for its portrayal of former President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy as being racially insensitive and for casting Jane Fonda as the first lady.
Supporters of President Reagan and veterans groups especially have criticized the film, with some calling for boycotts.
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“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.
Now THAT I believe.
Would you believe Professor Severus Snape? (i.e. Alan Rickman)
can’t find racism from real republicans, so must role play some racist republicans
Agreed
I really like Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson in “The Song Of Lunch” based on the poem of the same name (Christopher Reid).
He was good in ‘Sense and Sensibility’ as well.
He may have played a terrorist in one of the ‘Die Hard’ movies too.
Good! Now for them to drop to $0!
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
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.
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
That’s called the standard week to week drop for non-nerd boy movies (nerd boy movies drop by at least half).
I agree, I heard this morning that The Butler took the number one spot for the second weekend in a row.
Hans in the first Die Hard movie....
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.
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
A film costs three times its "production costs" to break even because of marketing costs.
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.
Seems rather normal to me.
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