Posted on 04/08/2018 1:42:48 AM PDT by zeestephen
"Chappaquiddick" did an estimated $1.9 million in ticket sales in 1,560 USA theaters. I can't find how much the movie cost, but if it's more than $20 million, it will have a very hard time breaking even.
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I will guess that the producers expected large numbers of Conservatives to come out to see the movie.
Wrong!
Teddy who(As in the son of an Irish Al Capone)
It should have come out 35 years ago.
If a movie doesn’t earn a 100% return on its cost on the first night...its a failure
What Hollywood studio do you work for?
Figured it took a few weeks for the promising films to break even.
Or while the fat bastard was still in the Senate
Biggest problem is who under 60 is going to care and be interested in seeing it?
If you ask me a more modern and bigger public interest story is how does a 75 year old alcoholic with liver failure get a liver transplant?
I saw the movie last night. Some in the theatre didn’t like it - based upon the conversations overheard on the way out. I thought it was OK. But I love history and politics and hate the Kennedy’s. It was a fair portrayal but still dishon3stly perpetuated a false support of Kennedy’s version of events.
In my mind there has always been an obvious and unanswered question. If Kennedy was in the car - how did he get out? If presumably had to open the car door or break or roll down a window with the car fully submerged - yet she was unable to escape the car even though potentially alive for an extended period of time. I don’t think he was in the car.
But the movie portrays the Kennedys just as we’ve known them - power and privilege. It’s very tellling that many of the local officials who were democrats Went easy on the scumbag.
They could have done research to know how conservatives would feel about this film.
But there are a lot movies that do not do well which you would think research would predict failure.
I think the new measure is; how well will it do on Netflix?
I suspect most will wait until it’s on Netflix to see it. It’s not the “big screen” type of movie.
48. He should’ve been obliterated in the 1970 election and sentenced to prison.
Sounds like a terrible number.
I have no desire to see it; I think I would need a barf bag even though it’s not protective of Teddy the Land Whale.
That's news to me.
The producers only get 50% of ticket sales in the USA, so that's a pretty high bar to jump over.
Also, most films open on Friday. Saturday night, and often Sunday generate higher sales than Friday, especially if the word-of-mouth is good.
Foreign revenue on this is hard to estimate.
If it's strictly about Teddy, foreign revenue will be low, but if it focuses on the Kennedy family, it might surprise to the upside.
Will they increase theater count later on?
I read it will do $5 million for the weekend, not bad
Who was it?
Cowards all. The poor POS is dead. He should have been taken to task when he was still alive.
I saw the movie Sat afternoon. Only one theater showing it in a seven theater multiplex out of the three greater-town-wide multiplexes. Crowd was definitely older white-haired Whites. Theater was about 25-33% full though. The movie pretty much tells the story that we always knew. But it portrays Teddy as a kid-at-heart simply seeking his father’s love who just made a bad mistake because he was still upset about his three brothers’ deaths, especially Bobby’s just 13 months before. Huge emphasis on the line at the funeral for Ms. Kopechne, “Look at Mary Jo’s parents. THEY don’t blame you [Teddy]. Why should the American people blame you?” I am sure LIEbruls are sighing with a massive amount of relief this morning over this movie, which in telling mostly the truth, still seems to show Teddy in a sympathetic light.
Let’s say that at a party, Donald Trump took a much younger female assistant in his car and drove it off a bridge killing her:
who doubts that within a year or so that film would be in every movie theater..?
yet in the case of the Kennedys the movie is not only made after the perp dies, but over maybe TEN YEARS after the perp’s death..?!
I find that ridiculous and disgusting
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