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Elizabeth Banks suggests her 'Charlie's Angels' box office bomb is because men 'don't go see'...
Fox ^ | 11/18/2019

Posted on 11/18/2019 6:48:28 PM PST by BenLurkin

Charlie's Angels" lost its wings over the weekend, earning just $8.6 million while the racing drama "Ford v Ferarri" topped the box office with a $31 million debut and the war film "Midway" came in second earning $8.75 million, according to Box Office Mojo.

Banks -- who wrote, produced, directed, and starred as Bosley in the reboot -- hinted to the Herald Sun prior to the film's release that a form of sexism from a male-dominated audience may be to blame for its current lack of financial success.

“Look, people have to buy tickets to this movie too. This movie has to make money,” Banks told the Sun. “If this movie doesn’t make money it reinforces a stereotype in Hollywood that men don’t go see women do action movies.”

The "Hunger Games" actress seemed to dismiss the box office success of "Captain Marvel," the Brie Larson-led Marvel film that earned $1.1 billion worldwide earlier this year, as well as "Wonder Woman," which grossed $821 million in 2017, because they belonged to a "male genre."

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boxofficepoison; brielarson; captainmarvel; charliesangels; elizabethbanks; fakenews; hungergames; insulttheaudience; marvel; wonderwoman
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To: kaehurowing

They probably all are.


121 posted on 11/19/2019 4:55:37 AM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: chris37

They cannot compare to the originals. They look like dykes.


122 posted on 11/19/2019 4:57:52 AM PST by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: Poison Pill
So you would rather watch shapely racecars snarling around a track than 90 lb women with bad attitudes manhandling 250 lb men? Same here. 😁
123 posted on 11/19/2019 6:17:25 AM PST by Disambiguator ("Progressives" want government in action. Conservatives want government inaction.)
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To: BenLurkin

Hahahahaha!! But of course. Nothing a liberal does is EVER their fault.


124 posted on 11/19/2019 8:22:52 AM PST by simpson96
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To: BenLurkin

Elizabeth, honey, it was: James Comey, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Putin, Sexism, Self Hating Women, Their Husbands, Voter Suppression, Low Information Voters, Russia, The DNC, Anthony Weiner, The Electoral College, Wikileaks, Misogyny, Facebook, Twitter, Deplorables....


125 posted on 11/19/2019 8:38:08 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Chode

When it does come out, you might like it.

No PC...:)


126 posted on 11/19/2019 9:02:24 AM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: rlmorel

i’m sure, but right now things are, complicated... or i surely would have gone to see it


127 posted on 11/19/2019 11:33:33 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: chris37

128 posted on 11/19/2019 11:39:00 AM PST by shotgun
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To: BenLurkin

So, sexism... huh...

Seems to me, I recall a movie about women getting back a man who had treated them poorly that was a huge hit, still I believe is the top 20th highest grossing comedy of all time adjusted for inflation, and was released in 1980 when we were all oh, just so much more sexist and unwoke....

That film was 9 to 5.

Maybe it has nothing to do with having a vagina, and more about, being preachy, rather than entertaining???? Just a thought.


129 posted on 11/19/2019 11:43:40 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: shotgun

She has about the same range as Jennifer Lawrence...


130 posted on 11/19/2019 11:44:47 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: shotgun

That’s about it.

Oh and she looks like a junkie now.

And of course, her mouth is hanging open.


131 posted on 11/19/2019 11:45:37 AM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: BenLurkin
We're going to kick your butts!


132 posted on 11/19/2019 11:54:47 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

133 posted on 11/19/2019 11:56:17 AM PST by CJ Wolf (Freedom, if you can keep it)
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To: RightGeek

Or in Kristin’s case she’s gonna lick your p——y!


134 posted on 11/19/2019 11:58:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RightGeek

Justin Bieber looks right at home in short shorts.


135 posted on 11/19/2019 12:05:50 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: RightGeek

The three finalists at this year’s “Air Clarinet Competition”.


136 posted on 11/19/2019 12:10:22 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Lurker

I don’t go to movies to be covertly lectured on some SJW bs. And I suspect that’s what this and many new movies are doing.


137 posted on 11/19/2019 2:13:53 PM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and ho few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: BenLurkin

Miss that guy. Hardly any side-splitting humor anymore. I remember my dad splitting his side watching Red Skelton.


138 posted on 11/19/2019 2:17:42 PM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and ho few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: CJ Wolf

Wilhemena’s got a squeezebox!


139 posted on 11/19/2019 2:22:11 PM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and ho few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: albie

Seems more like hard fact than stereotype.


140 posted on 11/19/2019 2:28:08 PM PST by Rebelbase
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