Posted on 05/16/2023 9:22:23 PM PDT by Morgana
Controversial influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been added to the promotional campaign for Lionsgate's struggling adaptation of Judy Blume's seminal novel 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.'
The film, which stars Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates and tells the story of the title character's dealing with faith and puberty in New Jersey, has struggled to date at the box office, earning just $16million in three weeks.
Despite the films 99 percent critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes - along with an equally impressive 94 percent audience score - the film hasn't come close to making back its $30million budget.
That has led the studio Lionsgate to bring out 'a last-minute paid partnership to draw attention to the film' with Mulvaney - whose advertisement with Bud Light has seen sales drop up to 20 percent a week - posting an interview with the celebrated author Blume on TikTok, according to Hollywood in Toto.
'Are you there God, it's me, Dylan!' Mulvaney excitedly begins the clip, which she captioned by calling Blume - who backtracked after receiving backlash for saying she is '100 per cent' behind Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling - 'one of my heroes.'
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"Then again, Maybe I won't"
Just send that mentally ill disgrace to a mental hospital!
The theory used to be that these corporations simply were woke because they were afraid of losing money but for some reason they’re simply continuing to rush into the controversy even if they don’t have to after its been proven to be a money loser.
Our movie is failing
What to do?
Let’s double down on failure and hire a psychopath tranny to promote it.
Yeah. That will do the trick.
A 99 percent critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes is probably a red flag for any movie, and in this case not a lot of people are going to pay money about a girl’s puberty anywhere — let alone in New Jersey.
Times are bad and the future is in doubt. People want to escape, have fun, and put aside their cares for awhile. Especially as summer approaches. Movies like that with woke promotion won’t bring people out to see them.
It was a good book for its time. Did the studio turn it into trash?
Audience or critic score? Audience scores are the real ones.
Judy, you once mattered.
Now, you are a distant version of the person who everyone could enjoy.
Dumb move!
What’s that definition of insanity attributed to Einstein?
Something about doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results?
Kinda reminds of 1988, and the introduction of ‘Big Top, Pee-Wee’....one of the five worst movies of the year and 80 minutes of zero-plot.
Well over the next 3 weeks it should be down by another 75%, MORONS!!!
mental hospital would say he’s okay.
Do junior high school girls still read this book, or did the producers just try to dig up something that was popular 40 years ago?
“Do junior high school girls still read this book, or did the producers just try to dig up something that was popular 40 years ago?”
As you say, Judy Blume was all the rage among the 10-13 year-old girl-crowd when I was in school 40+ years ago. Aside from the “Fudge” books which were harmless, she was this “edgy” hippy author tantalizing the ‘tweens with more risque content than what they were getting from other authors.
I don’t think she’s popular now. I’ve never heard young family members in that age range talking about her or reading her books. She’s passe at this point.
Yup, they piss off the 99 per centers to appease one per cent. Sadly, you can’t fix stupid.
And the idiots at Lionsgate think the remedy for a failing movie is to hire a nut job like Mulvaney, who thinks it’s a woman, to promote it? That will likely have just the opposite effect that they want.
Junior High? We read this stuff in Grade School!
INSANITY!!
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