“Hidden Figures” is over-performing for the second weekend in a row as it had been forecast to finish the MLK frame with about $20 million at 3,286 sites. “Hidden Figures” topped Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” last weekend by about $700,000 with $22.8 million at 2,471 sites, then the studio added more than 800 screens for this weekend."
“Hidden Figures” is the last film where Hollywood fictionizes history to fit their PC agenda. It’s about three black women who worked at NASA in the late 40s. It was before the days of real computers so they needed people to crunch the numbers so the engineers didn’t have to do it. Three of the human “computers” just happened to be black women. There was also white women doing the same work. NASA hired them not for the color of their skin but because of their ability. These women were all highly educated and highly competent mathematicians. They were not plucked out of some cotton field. Anyone who knows the history of NASA is familiar with the workers there from the early days, both black and white. The lead character in the film was a female mathmatician with a PHD. Who happened to be black. So what.