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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: SoFloFreeper
Hollywood just doesnt understand that most Americans dont want to be lectured about gay rights. Apparently, the ratings for "When We Rise" have not been very good either.

And note, I say that as someone who is NOT anti-gay, and probably more "pro" gay than most here, but I still cant stand the moralizing and preaching.

61 posted on 03/02/2017 9:32:15 AM PST by Paradox ("Donald Trump", the biggest Strawman ever created.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Not surprising. I wouldn’t see this movie if you paid me to. Who wants to see some gross gay movie? And Hollywood could have made a strong choice like the exceptionally well-made Hacksaw Ridge for best picture but they had to go with the PC pro-homosexual movie. Reminds of 1985 or 1986 when the Oscar should have gone to the Harrison Ford drama the Witness but instead went to the gay-themed Kiss of the Spider Woman. That’s Hollywood for you.


62 posted on 03/02/2017 9:33:48 AM PST by No Dems 2016
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To: JBW1949

It’s just my opinion but I’ve always found that, for the past forty years or so, the best movies don’t win Oscars.


63 posted on 03/02/2017 9:37:43 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: Terry Mross

I saw Dallas Buyers Club. I thought MM did a good job. He really looked like he had AIDS. Plus it was a pretty well documented true story.

Moonlight is supposedly true.... but who knows?


64 posted on 03/02/2017 9:43:03 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Race and gay pandering.


65 posted on 03/02/2017 9:44:43 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SoFloFreeper
Well, I know they're not waiting on my dollar.

I haven't paid to see one of Hollyweirds crap-fests since somewhere around the year 2000...and I was shamed in to that by a daughter whom I love very much and would do anything for...except go see another minute of the Hollyweird crap-fest.

And I sure as hell ain't gonna go see a movie about a young black faggot.

Disgusting.

66 posted on 03/02/2017 9:48:47 AM PST by OldSmaj (The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
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To: Obadiah

TV’s ‘CW’ network is trying to mainstream the homosexual agenda with their stable of super-hero shows. Then they can’t understand why the ratings are tanking. ‘Supergirl’ is the worst...their shows are constructed around the progressive cause of the week ad infinitum.


67 posted on 03/02/2017 9:49:17 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Jyotishi
Oh it succeeded in spades in doing that. The accolades down the side of this poster ad are the evidence and it got plenty more than these.


68 posted on 03/02/2017 9:54:35 AM PST by xp38
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wanna win an Oscar in 2018? Here’s the playbook - write/direct/star in a money-losing film about a young non-white person who happens to be gay/bi/trans/anything other than hetero, struggling to get by in a world filled with contrived and manufactured “hate” from every white person they encounter.

10 months later, you’re standing on the podium for your 15 seconds of fame with a list of people to thank, a platform for your cause du jour, and 98% of Americans watching something else that evening, but everyone on the Island of Misfit Toys applauds you. Congrats.


69 posted on 03/02/2017 9:58:07 AM PST by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Failure


70 posted on 03/02/2017 9:59:36 AM PST by TYVets
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To: zzwhale

“GAY BLACK MUSLIM ..... WHO DOES THAT BRING TO MIND...???”

That’s a very difficult question to answer but I’m guessing that the person may have been born in an African country.


71 posted on 03/02/2017 10:03:04 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

While coincidentally being the most gross film to have won Best Picture.


72 posted on 03/02/2017 10:05:17 AM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: dp0622

At least you didn’t say you were a Brony.


73 posted on 03/02/2017 10:10:46 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Kickass Conservative
Remember the good old days when Black got you 5 points and Gay only got you 3 Points?

I see that you have not been tutored in the mysterious ways of Common Core Math, Grasshopper!

These days there are 57 Varieties of "Gay" whereas for "Black" you have a much narrower spectrum ranging from Idris Elba & Whoopi through Bill Cosby, OJ, Obama and Rachel Dolezal.

Since we aim for Diversity ("Ommmm", "PBUH") these days, the wider the spectrum, the more points!

Simple, really!

/s

74 posted on 03/02/2017 10:12:21 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: SoFloFreeper
only made a little more than $22.2 million

While that is interesting unto itself it would be nice to also include the cost to produce the film with the gross receipts from moviegoers. It might be interesting to compare the ratio to other films like “Marty” or “Casablanca”.

75 posted on 03/02/2017 10:13:13 AM PST by MosesKnows (Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
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To: dp0622

You forgot the sarcasm tag.


76 posted on 03/02/2017 10:15:14 AM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Hat-Trick

young, gay, black, Hispanic, transvestite, Muslim woman growing up in an impoverished Miami neighborhood where she got an abortion after being raped by a white conservative Christian KKK member who is running for the Republican party presidential nomination.


77 posted on 03/02/2017 10:39:11 AM PST by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Affirmative action” > merit


78 posted on 03/02/2017 10:55:48 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Exactly what I was thinking—a form of reparations.

That being said, I haven’t seen the movie. It might be quite good and worthy of the award.


79 posted on 03/02/2017 10:56:20 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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To: Rummyfan

It’s a male homo act like gerbiling.


80 posted on 03/02/2017 10:57:27 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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