Posted on 12/30/2019 6:39:06 AM PST by ConservativeMind
The weekend box office numbers are in, and one particular film flopped after facing controversy ahead of its debut. Clint Eastwood's "Richard Jewell" raked in only $5 million its opening weekend, about half of what was expected, according to IMDB's Box Office Mojo. The film faced criticism over its depiction of a real-life female reporter, Kathy Scruggs, who is played by actress Olivia Wilde.
"Richard Jewell" follows the story of the titular character, a security guard who was initially hailed as a hero but then suspected of planting a bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Jewell was later exonerated. The movie depicts Scruggs, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper reporter, offering sex for confidential information from an FBI source about the case.
It’s a great movie about a “salt-of-the-earth” guy. We loved the movie because it describes the kind of earnest, sometimes bumbling guy everyone has known, who seeks to do good while others push him down.
Please get yourself and others out to see this. We really enjoyed it.
You will be among like-minded friends in your theater.
Current box office: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2903213569/
So the film puts this female reporter in a bad light. Is the controversy about something real or the casting of a modern female in a bad light?
“”””The film faced criticism over its depiction of a real-life female reporter, Kathy Scruggs, who is played by actress Olivia Wilde. “””””””””””
Yeah, we wouldn’t want any exaggerations in movies since it has never happened before. /sheldon
Should have been an HBO Feature, rather than playing in Cinemas.
Maybe it’s just a crappy movie.
I’m a big fan of Clint Eastwood. But it’s hard for me to get excited about a movie when I know ahead of time exactly how it will play out.
She actually represents the BAD media.
It is a great movie and very realistic.
I would give it a two thumbs up.
Saw it, 5 Freeper stars.
That's 37.5% of the cost, which seems not bad.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_opening_weekend/
Typically, it looks like movies make around 25% to 35% of their total on opening weekend. I doubt Clint Eastwood will lose money on this.
The movie sounds good, but I am an old codger who can’t remember the last time I went to a movie—seriously, I can’t remember when it was...it was a long time ago for sure.
I saw it with my wife. There is a scene in it that shows the lying FBI did the same thing to General Flynn in 2017 that they tried to do to Jewell in 1996. This movie’s problems show us and remind us that the media still has some power and our fight to crush them once and for all is still on. They smothered this movie; okay they win this round, but the fight goes on. BTW 7800 of these media maggots lost their job in just 2019 alone so we are making progress.
it was only showing once a day at our local theater. 950 Pm!
No. It is a very good movie. If we don’t patronize good movies like this, they will not make them anymore.
This is how the left thinks. The reason for the small revenue is that the events took place in 1996, and have been largely forgotten. Plus, the left did all it could (illustrated here) to trash or ignore the movie.
If you haven't seen it, go and then tell us what you think.
Like Titanic? The Longest Day? The Ten Commandments?
It only made 12%.
End of the year release for Oscar consideration.
If it manages some Oscar nominations and or awards, the boxoffice can uptick rather quickly.
Lol. I’m still waiting for the Ten Commandments to play out
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