Posted on 09/15/2024 7:42:46 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
The Daily Wire’s “Am I Racist?” starring Matt Walsh was the third-highest-grossing film on Friday, out-earning a major studio release showing in more than 2,500 theaters.
“Am I Racist?” which premiered Friday, outgrossed Lionsgate’s “The Killer’s Game,” and was the second-biggest new release of the day. “Am I Racist?,” one of only 15 documentaries ever to open in over 1,500 theaters, also had the third-highest opening day gross for a documentary in the last decade.
Audiences are raving about the film, in which Walsh goes deep undercover to expose the inner workings of the diversity, equity, and inclusion industry. The film has a 99% Rotten Tomatoes audience score, and earned an “A” rating from CinemaScore, which grades movies based on audience response. No other new release received an A.
By the end of its second day in theaters, “Am I Racist?” will already be the biggest documentary of the year.
Ninety-five percent of audience members said “Am I Racist?” met or exceeded their expectations, according to PostTrak exit polling. Nearly 70% of viewers said the film was “excellent,” and 57% said they would tell their friends to see it in a theater.
Just over 40% of opening day viewers were under 35. And nearly 40% of the opening day audience was non-white, a fact that may come as a shock to anti-racist activist Saira Rao, who has privately slammed “Am I Racist?” as a “Nazi White Supremacy Film.”
Rao is one of several anti-racist activists featured in the film. Another, “White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo, told followers that she got played by the “Borat-style mockumentary.” In the film, Walsh convinces DiAngelo to pay his black producer $30 out of her purse as reparations for slavery.
DiAngelo says that “Am I Racist?” is “designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.” Walsh responded to her critique on X, saying, “She couldn’t be more correct in that assessment.”
The Daily Wire entered the entertainment space in 2021 with a mission to disrupt Hollywood. The company has since released six films, including the acclaimed “What Is A Woman?” starring Walsh, one of the most-viewed documentaries of all time. “Am I Racist?” is The Daily Wire’s first theatrical release and is already defying industry expectations with its box office performance.
“Am I Racist?” is now playing in over 1,500 theaters.
Looking forward to this one. The trailer is hilarious.
As is the movie. Probably only in your local theater for one week, so don’t miss it
Already massive efforts underway to block this movie
since the early 2000s, robin deangelo is one of the central figures of the critical theory based grievance industry movement that is now known as DEI. she has an (allegedly) intellectually fraudulent doctorate in education and published many articles on anti-racism that are widely cited in ed school circles.
skewering robin deangelo is a MAJOR coup.
robin deangelo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_DiAngelo
whiteness theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_theory
blackness theory
(surprise! no wiki entry)
I saw the movie yesterday. It was a hoot! Amazing what race hustlers like Robin di Angelo got themselves roped into. And those customers in a biker bar that Matt Walsh interviewed were real, not actors.
Go out and see the movie before it gets banned.
robin dangelo was paid 15k for her appearance
they knew her achilles heel
The attacks by the left will begin. They will picket theaters which will then cancel all showings. They will create false narratives. They will attack Walsh.
Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday called out the far-Left’s “love” of “censorship” after a California theater caved to activists’ pressure to cancel showings of Daily Wire film “Am I Racist?”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-reacts-to-theater-pulling-am-i-racist-far-left-fascists-love-censorship
Saw it Friday morning up here. Definitely worth seeing. Some laugh-out-loud moments throughout the film. Plays very well on the “big screen”. Cheers!
Actually, it was a net $14,965 which will make sense when you see that truly hilarious segment of the movie ...
Nearest theater to me is almost 40 miles away :-(
In a reply to me, SCMT referred to efforts to suppress the film. I see the article from Daily Wire. Almost all of the Sierra Foothills counties are majority or plurality GOP. The theater referred to in the article is a non-chain theater in Grass Valley in Nevada County. That county was infested by hippies back in the day and they and their descendants are still active today; it’s the most liberal county in the area. I’ve not heard of any efforts other than this isolated example. It’s playing strongly here in neighboring Placer County. I want it to succeed so, before it opened, I went and counted the sold seats for its week-long run. It was over 600, which strikes me as a lot for presale
Around 2 million
Not bad considering I suppose
2 million whats? The Hollywood Reporter, no conservative bastion, is projecting $4.8 million ticket sales this weekend
Sorry forgot the link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-box-office-speak-no-evil-killers-game-1236001769/
Loved the guys at “99 bottles” biker bar in the movie. They are stars.
I think from a photo I saw online that it’s located in Tennessee.
My wife and I loved the movie.
Those guys were great, but my favorite scene was the libs willing to pile on old Uncle Frank. Leftism really is a mental disorder
“In the film, Walsh convinces DiAngelo to pay his black producer $30 out of her purse as reparations for slavery.”
Omg—that is classic Alinsky.
“Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules.”
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