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Fifty Shades Of Grey breaks box office records as it rakes in $266 million in ticket sales
AP and UK Daily Mail ^ | February 18, 2015 | Staff and Yanna Kay

Posted on 02/18/2015 7:17:13 AM PST by C19fan

Fifty Shades of Grey certainly lived up to expectations as moviegoers flocked to see the erotic film over Valentine's weekend. The unconventional romance raked in $93 million in ticket sales in the US alone - the biggest February opening ever. But the tale of billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and his sadomasochistic relationship with college graduate Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) did more than that by scoring over a quarter of a billion dollars internationally.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: fifty; porn; shades
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The movie only cost $40 MM to produce not sure marketing budget. I guess filth sells around the world.
1 posted on 02/18/2015 7:17:13 AM PST by C19fan
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And millennial "Christians" were probably a big part of that haul.

The great apostasy is in full implementation.

2 posted on 02/18/2015 7:21:16 AM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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A billionaire with handcuffs for his ladies. Who could possibly resist that? 50 shades of $&M.


3 posted on 02/18/2015 7:24:08 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Another benchmark in the degradation of our culture. I don’t understand why ANYONE would want to watch this!


4 posted on 02/18/2015 7:25:45 AM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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Not a peep from feminists.


5 posted on 02/18/2015 7:27:41 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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Good point!

“Violence Against Women” has been a huge “project’ of Feminism for at least half a century.

Yet, not a peep from those hags over this move, or for islamic honor killings, FGM, and Burkhas for that matter either.


6 posted on 02/18/2015 7:31:15 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fifty_shades_of_grey/


7 posted on 02/18/2015 7:34:04 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Proves one thing , Movie goers Love Crap ,LOL


8 posted on 02/18/2015 7:34:20 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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Funny. It broke records, but from some of the comments they made, it did not meet expectations.


9 posted on 02/18/2015 7:42:32 AM PST by Ingtar (Is this the Ebola and rumors of Ebola mentioned in the Bible?)
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Funny. It broke records, but from some of the comments they made, it did not meet expectations.

That's the sense I'm getting... watch its number dive now that the curiosity seekers have seen it.

10 posted on 02/18/2015 7:44:31 AM PST by alancarp
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I meant they projected it making more money than it has.


11 posted on 02/18/2015 7:49:58 AM PST by Ingtar (Is this the Ebola and rumors of Ebola mentioned in the Bible?)
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I guess filth sells around the world.

Always has. Playboy. Hustler. Vegas was built on filth.

12 posted on 02/18/2015 7:52:56 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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Someone here mentioned the book, The Marketing of Evil, which definitely is what this is.


13 posted on 02/18/2015 7:57:25 AM PST by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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Fascinating, in its weird way.....the reviews for this film were pretty much universally sub-tepid. But it caught that vibe “I/we have to see this”.


14 posted on 02/18/2015 7:57:41 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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“Funny. It broke records, but from some of the comments they made, it did not meet expectations.”

I believe the calculus is more along the lines of 100 MM women saying to themselves “I am not willing to say/admit I did not see it”. So it doesn’t matter what a piece of glud it is. It is that issue of Cosmo/People/Us in the supermarket checkout line that infallibly extracts dollars from the curious when the more detached mind thinks “and you would pay money for that?”


15 posted on 02/18/2015 8:01:36 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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Girls sure have changed from the 50’s and 60’s. I’m trying to imagine my grandmother going on a date with her beau to see a sadomasochist bondage movie . . . nope . . . just does not compute. Even my mother for that matter.


16 posted on 02/18/2015 8:02:55 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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Because it is a film about a rich simp that showers money and gifts on a female. A “bad boy” with a bank account makes most women idiots.


17 posted on 02/18/2015 8:04:29 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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Not at all surprising it didn’t cost much to make. I read somewhere that a full 20 minutes of the movie was sex scenes. Those are virtually ‘free’. lol

Can’t comment further, because I haven’t seen it, though my wife has read the books.


18 posted on 02/18/2015 8:07:47 AM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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Not a peep from feminists.

Feminists destroyed their credibility back in the 1990s when they lined up to fellate Bill Clinton in spirit while they trashed the women who accused him of sexual harassment and rape.

19 posted on 02/18/2015 8:10:55 AM PST by Maceman
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Pop culture pablum.
It sells!


20 posted on 02/18/2015 8:11:29 AM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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