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'Moonlight' Is Among the Lowest-Grossing Oscar Best Picture Winners Ever
Fortune ^ | 2/27/17 | Tom Huddelston Jr

Posted on 03/02/2017 8:42:29 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

....Moonlight won the top prize at Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony—after some initial envelope confusion created a bizarre scene—and, despite the fact that the independent drama never made much of a splash at the box office. The movie, about a young, gay black man growing up in an impoverished Miami neighborhood, has only made a little more than $22.2 million in domestic movie ticket sales so far, according to Box Office Mojo. That made Moonlight the lowest-grossing Best Picture nominee at this year’s Academy Awards—and among the lowest ever for a Best Picture winner—even after generating months of Oscars buzz.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; corporateliberalism; culturewars; film; homofascism; homosexualagenda; hype; inyourface; lavendermafia; media; moviereview; trashtv
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To: BlueLancer

Several times.


101 posted on 03/02/2017 12:58:23 PM PST by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: jmaroneps37
It will end up being the lowest grosser watch it work.

It will probably be pushed in the artsy movie houses for a few years, especially during the "gay" film festivals extant in the larger cities, and maybe gross a few more million.

102 posted on 03/02/2017 1:01:54 PM PST by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Thanks for the tip.
I was looking forward to seeing that movie on Netflix.
103 posted on 03/02/2017 1:11:00 PM PST by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: fwdude

lol

I had a VERY STRAIGHT dog of a guy friend who worked in the city with me. He was an actor but a tough Irish kid. No fruit.

Got gorgeous girls and good in a bar brawl we had.

He saw Brokeback Mountain.

I was like “why?”

He said I wanted to see the acting. The kissing scenes were tough to watch, but it was good.

I don’t get it.

No way he’s gay. Dating a Gorgeous gal now and i’ve been out with him plenty of times.

I COULDN’T DO IT!

I TRIED with Spartacus on TV. I loved the show but I cracked.

Closing my eyes for those scenes wasn’t enough.

But I tell ya what, they put it on enough shows and often enough, anyone can get used to anything.

That’s why 20 something guys today don’t think it’s such a big deal.

God help us.


104 posted on 03/02/2017 1:21:14 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

Couldn’t drag me to BM (how appropriate) with a heard of horses.

But I take it back: I DID see The Crying Game, inadvertently. That same girlfriend wanted me to see it blind, without my knowing anything about it. She just wanted to see my reaction to the “female” lead in the story. She kept nudging me, “do you think she’s attractive? Huh? What do you think of her?”

Needless to say, she wasn’t my GF for much longer after that.


105 posted on 03/02/2017 1:28:58 PM PST by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

http://www.clipd.com/awards/1892/15-actors-who-won-the-most-oscars#page=1


106 posted on 03/02/2017 4:48:39 PM PST by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (------->VMFA 235 '69-'72 KMCAS <------- "Death Angels")
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To: dp0622

:)

Thanks!

Have a great day!

Julie


107 posted on 03/03/2017 7:01:47 AM PST by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear these slings and arrows for you, the American people)o)
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