Posted on 07/11/2023 5:31:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
f there is any substance to a campaign to suppress the box office, the film’s distributors have the potential for a humongous lawsuit, probably involving triple damages.
We have received multiple emails from people saying that theaters are telling patrons that air-conditioning is broken in the auditoriums showing the hit movie Sound of Freedom, and offering another movie or a refund. Many people fear a campaign is underway to suppress the box office totals for the film, which exposes the sex trafficking of children. The box office success of SoF is particularly embarrassing for Disney, whose ridiculously expensive Indiana Jones movie is performing poorly and unlikely to earn a profit, because Disney reportedly sat on the rights to distribute Sound of Freedom for five years, only to relinquish the rights and see it become a smash hit. Unhappy shareholders may well question the wisdom of retaining current management if SoF becomes a mega-hit based on word of mouth.
I was skeptical that theater managers would deliberately turn away business, especially with a potential blockbuster on their hands. Summer blockbusters are how most theatres are able to stay in business. And theatre managers’ jobs depend on filling seats and staying out of the red.
As one emailer wrote, this is not necessarily a conspiracy:
FYI, I don’t habitually wear a tinfoil hat. Maybe (I dunno) a/c failures are random and common; so managers rationally put the expected-low-boxoffice film in the crippled room.
But reports continue to proliferate of mysterious outages of air-conditioning in just one screen at multiplexes. The video below purports to compile stories of this happening all across the country: [video at link, make sure you watch after the video ends to see comments made by dozens of people in different places had no AC either]
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@ChayaRaichik10
Very interesting. When I saw it, the fire alarm went off about 10 minutes into the movie. We evacuated and about 15 minutes later it was cleared up and the movie resumed but with less than half the original audience. Anyone else had weird things happen while watching #SOFMovie?
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· Jul 9 Replying to @libsoftiktok Also pay attention to all the “technical difficulties” surrounding this movie and the showings. People reporting unexpected refunds, theaters malfunctioning, and turned off Air Conditioning….
Assuming your numbers are correct, add 20 out of 2852 theaters, had issues. That’s not a conspiracy.
The per theater average of the film so far has been a few thousand dollars per theater, so even if 20 theaters were down an entire day, on its business per theater average day (which was July 4th), this would have equated to 5407 (theater average) x 20 which equates to 108k or so of lost revenue.
That’s not enough to have any major effect on a movies overall revenue.
As I said, this is more likely the folks who went to see this movie were more prone to report the fact they had issues on social media, and claiming conspiracy and the right wing media sights were more than happy to run with it to get eyeballs.
I am sure that this was hardly the only movie that had issues in theaters with HVAC that day.
Could there have been an individual rogue employee here and there playing games, sure that’s possible.. but the idea that AMC corporate ordered this across their 547 theaters in the US is laughably absurd.
Don’t have to take my word for it, here are the returns:
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4254237441/?ref_=bo_hm_rd
The movie opened in 2600+ theaters and is currently playing in 2852 theaters.
If the fire alarm went off, they evacuated the entire building, not just your theater no?
The revenue was already in, unless you saw half the audience that didn’t return lined up at the ticket booth asking for a refund.
Folks need to relax.
Could a rogue individual or employee do something here or there, sure, but the idea there is some grand coordinated conspiracy at the corporate level? Not a chance in hell.
Good question. I don’t know. On top of your question, there are so many conspiracy theories on top of more conspiracy theories about this movie that it does make your head spin.
The latest is that this film was financed by Carlos Slim a known WEF/Clinton backer. Then there’s a Rothschild reporter trying to discredit it. Of all people, anyone even remotely associated with a Rothschild, let alone one with the last name shouldn’t be attacking this film given their history.
I think the demonic left is scared and is doing everything they can will not going too far and making martyrs of the right. The WEF is pushing countries to clamp down on freedom of speech.
Absolutely.
This story is BS just due to the logistics.
No one is is saying there weren’t AC problems at some theatres, but it’s just not possible for this to be a grand corporate/top done plan to suppress turn out.
Calling people Pedo supporters because the don’t buy this story is way out of line.
You need to chill the hell out.
Please explain how turning off the AC AFTER that person has bought the tickets is supposed to suppress turn out.
No. I think it’s a bunch of cultists. There’s a crowd of idiots in this world who only feel good about themselves if they are among “the anointed”. And one of the favorite ways to feel “anointed” is to declare yourself persecuted by some grand conspiracy, that in actuality if it did exist wouldn’t give a damn about them cause they just don’t rate.
The fact is if “the powers” wanted to suppress this movie it would never have been made or been released. There’s no need for “them” to play around with the AC to drive people away from it. It just wouldn’t be. Plenty of movies get canceled, or sit on the shelf for years. Is Batgirl being suppressed? Was Paul Blart suppressed? This is movie is no different than dozens of other movies that had their release complicated by distributor BS. And any broken ACs is just bad luck. Same as with any other movie in a screen with a broken AC. Happens all the time.
Stop being a cultist. Use your head.
No. I think it’s a bunch of cultists.
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So,,,, a cult conspiracy ?
Quit digging bro /-).
Oh, and remember
Jesus loves you .
The 20 number is the approximate number of comments saying the same thing happened as the Tic Toc poster that put up the video explaining what happened to her. I don’t know if any are true. Did a search and found lots of other reports of issues like fire alarms going off, lights not being turned off, sound not being turned on, a different movie being played. Maybe it is just normal problems and nothing more. The movie is very controversial though. How a movie portraying pedophiles and child traffickers in a bad light can be controversial is still another question.
No conspiracy. That’s YOUR pathetic addiction. Just idiots finding voice on the internet.
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No. I think it’s a bunch of cultists.
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Sounds conspiracy-ish .
Look, I’m trying to be a nicer poster cuz Jim spanked us
( well, me at least , cuz I felt he was on target and I had been getting a little too hostile lately )
the other day about this kind of stuff, so let’s drop it ,
Ok ?
NO.
Sick!
Not a conspiracy, just silly noise.
Cause the thing all you guys miss is if “they” wanted it suppressed then why did Fox bankroll it? Why did Disney sell it to a distributor? Why did theaters even sign on to show it? That’s where you suppress a movie. Not turning off the AC in a couple screens. All that does is give the idiots something to hang their persecution complex on.
Use your head. Like most conspiracies if this was deliberate whole thing is grossly over complicated, and completely ineffective.
You keep saying silly crap I’ll keep pointing out it’s silly crap. Don’t like it, stop spouting conspiracy nonsense.
I am not doubting the validity of the movie. I just can’t see how companies that are trying to stay in business would do anything to not make money in a very tough market now.
Right now Disney is probably mad they passed on that film for distribution 4 years ago. It’s making money, Indy 5 isn’t along with many others they have made in the last 2 years. You can bleed money and losses only so long.
Doubt it. My theater was fine. But also, they already BOUGHT THE TICKETS so the money is already in, and most people who take a refund will return.
I think this is an overhyped issue.
It’s just not possible for this to be a corporate/widespread effort without it being exposed all over the internet.
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Bwa ha ha ha.
What do you call this and other articles and this and other fr threads and all the YouTube vids and confirming comments ?
Just another day in upside down world !
( nice try though , patheticly transparent, but still a nice try /-)
One particular truck stop chain controls the thermostats remotely from headquarters.
Source? TIA
No. Most wouldn’t.
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