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Friday Box Office: 'Dumbo' Disappoints, 'Unplanned' Surprises And 'Beach Bum' Bombs
Forbes ^ | March 30, 2019 | Scott Mendelson

Posted on 03/30/2019 9:07:40 AM PDT by EdnaMode

Walt Disney's Dumbo (review) flew to the top of the box office on Friday, with "just" $15.318 million counting $2.6 million in Thursday previews. This may turn out to be a classic "rank doesn't matter" scenario, and not in a good way. 30 years ago, Tim Burton's Batman broke the opening weekend box office record with a then-unthinkable $43 million Fri-Sun debut, just one week after Ghostbusters II had broken that same record with $29 million. And now, in 2019, we're discussing whether a likely over/under $48 million launch for Dumbo is good enough. Yes, inflation is a thing and Dumbo cost $170 million to produce, but it's still interesting how standards have changed over the last three decades.

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Pure Flix's anti-abortion drama Unplanned (review) overperformed this weekend. Written and directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, the $6 million-budgeted flick, about a former Planned Parenthood clinic director turned anti-abortion activist, earned $2.72 million on Friday, setting the stage for a likely $7.25 million debut weekend. If that holds up, then it'll be PureFlix's second-biggest opening weekend behind the $7.6 million launch of God's Not Dead 2 three years ago this weekend. That sequel earned $20 million domestic so we could see a similar result for the Abby Johnson biopic. That would be a big win, since most of the faith-based biggies still come from Sony and Lionsgate as opposed to the various small-scale distributors.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abbyjohnson; abortion; boxoffice; burton; disney; dumbo; hollywood; johnson; prolife; timburton; unplanned
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To: Notthereyet
The Pro-Murder folks HATE this movie.

Spoiler alert: "Unplanned" tells the truth.

21 posted on 03/30/2019 12:17:32 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Jim Noble
Dumbo OK for kids?

Sounds like it is. Check it out...
REVIEW

22 posted on 03/30/2019 12:20:03 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Jim Noble

Just had my 10 yr old see it. No problems.


23 posted on 03/30/2019 12:25:28 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: cornfedcowboy

Thanks. My 9YO has a b’day party tomorrow, they’re going to see it.


24 posted on 03/30/2019 12:31:21 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: NorthMountain

Objective reviews have this as a good showing of what PP is all about.

The rabid reviews are really out there.

P.S. Thanks for the Spoiler Alert.

:) LOL


25 posted on 03/30/2019 1:45:54 PM PDT by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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To: EdnaMode
MPAA slapped an 'R' rating on Unplanned because it showed an abortion.

But I thought abortions were just normal medical procedures, you know, like a tonsillectomy?

26 posted on 03/31/2019 10:28:57 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: NorthMountain

Well, technically, it was palefaced bureaucrats who committed industrial scale mass murder in the 1970s. Planned Parenthood would NEVER have gotten as far as it did had Roe v. Wade not been legalized by the Supreme Court. We would have had it revoked earlier had that idiot Kennedy not swung the vote in favor of keeping it back during the 1990s.

And nice to see Unplanned’s doing very well in the box office. The movie definitely deserves it, in order to spread the message. We shouldn’t just repeal Roe v. Wade, we should go even further, to create a Constitutional amendment outright banning abortion, just like with slavery. Of course, then again, we tried something similar with alcohol, and that just led to the rise of organized crime. It’s not going to be an enjoyable film, but it’s definitely necessary thanks to abortion having a huge chokehold.

And funny you should make that comparison between the Holocaust and Roe v. Wade, because in France, Simone Veil was instrumental in getting France’s own version of Roe v. Wade passed, and had the audacity of actually using her status as a Holocaust survivor to get it passed. Morbidly cynical and sick, that’s all I can say about that...


27 posted on 04/01/2019 3:57:10 AM PDT by otness_e
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To: Jim Noble

Well, the original animated film most certainly was suitable for children (heck, the Crows arguably were a positive depiction of blacks since if it weren’t for them, Dumbo wouldn’t have gotten the confidence to fly). Bear in mind, this was BEFORE Disney started turning left during the 1990s and back when Disney was a truly wholesome family company, and espoused truly conservative views.

Don’t know about the remake, though.


28 posted on 04/01/2019 3:59:20 AM PDT by otness_e
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To: EdnaMode

Dunno would have been aborted in today’s progressive world.


29 posted on 04/01/2019 4:04:33 AM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: EdnaMode

DUMBO would have been aborted in today’s progressive world.


30 posted on 04/01/2019 4:08:25 AM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: EdnaMode
Trailer for Unplanned
31 posted on 04/01/2019 4:18:27 AM PDT by jpsb
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