Posted on 01/13/2015 3:55:38 PM PST by Altura Ct.
Don’t buy the hype you might be reading at places like Grantland about “Selma’s” wide release debut at the box office this weekend. The news was not good. Far from it. Especially when compared to other apples, like “The Butler,” “J. Edgar,” and “W.”
Box Office Mojo:
In a distant second place, Selma expanded to nearly 2,200 locations and earned an estimated $11.2 million. Compare that to Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which dealt with similar issues during a similar time period in U.S. history and earned over twice as much in its first weekend ($24.6 million). Selma instead wound up opening in line with disappointing political dramas J. Edgar ($11.2 million) and W. ($10.5 million).
“W.” went on to gross a measly $30 million. “J. Edgar” topped out at $37 million domestic.
Both are considered costly flops.
If there’s a perfect storm during Oscar Season, Box Office Mojo sees “Selma’s” best case box office scenario as $50 million. Yet, with an estimated $40 million budget, “Selma” will have to at least crack $80 to $90 million just to break even.
“Selma” is undoubtedly suffering a backlash created by its own historically inaccurate smearing of Lyndon Johnson combined with a country that’s been thoroughly exhausted by race-race-race-race and lies-lies-lies-lies over the last couple of years.
...The filmmakers behind “Selma” made a huge moral and public relations error by promoting the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” lie fabricated around the self-defense shooting of strong-arm robber Brown.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Glenn Beck was really pimping this. Its race-baiting crapola, a little like the Butler.
It’ll still get the Academy Award for best picture.
How can a movie smear a slimeball?
If it flops, it’ll be blamed on racism.
Cuz we didn't run down to our local theater?
Don't worry...February is Black month...and I'll bet Obama will make it mandatory in all our scools...from Kindergarten and up.
I expect Oprah at the state of the union....
119. Selma; Gross => $14,390,136
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/past365.htm
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For comparison, Guardians of the Galaxy is #1 at $333 million.
Right, anything that makes America looks bad gets the Golden Globe or Oscar nomination.
Has anyone figured out how to cash in on The Gentle Giant?
I think Trayvon may be ahead in posthumous "box office" receipts, although no one really knows.
Phony thug heroes and the amount of moolah made on them might be a new entertainment sector for Variety or Cash Box to look into.
Beck said every conservative needs to see this. He said he was amazed at the fact that an Oprah movie actually got it right with LBJ. His assessment shocked me. I can’t see Oprah playing a role in anything but revisionist history BS.
I wouldn’t waste my time watching this dreck even if it were free. I’d rather go scrub my kitchen floor.
“Smearing LBJ’’? Old “I don’t trust a man unless I’ve got his pecker in my pocket’’ LBJ? The guy was a bum.
No thanks... Beck can go F himself. He is pathetic. He wants every white man to roll around in wretched self-hatred. Maybe he can go have a good cry with Boehner
I figure that it is another white liberal guilt trip movie. I’ll pass.
Have the race pimps finally jumped the shark?? We shall see..........
WTF is an apple?
Yes, it is pretty difficult to slander LBJ. I am sure that the movie is full of historical inaccuracies. It is true that ML King’s real opponents were John and Robert Kennedy, not LBJ, but it is not politically correct to criticize the Kennedy’s.
I wonder if in 80 years there will be a movie about the pain and hardship caused by Obama that will make blacks feel guilty. Unlikely.
Huh
Not real interested here
I watched the prequel about 50 years ago, was pretty awful then
Scared the crap outta me as a kid, seeing the hoses and the dogs and all the angry black people
Few years later they fire bombed some subsidized housing where my aunt and cousins lived, they were the only pale people there - no black people got fire bombed in the complex, just them
Decided Selma was better left behind
One movie review of “Selma” in the Wash. Post said that the film was going to tell the truth about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
NO FILM will ever be made by Hollywood, BET, Oprah, etc. that tells the WHOLE TRUTH about MLK.
Why?
Because there were significant parts of Dr. King’s life that involved knowingly or unknowingly hiring/working with at least two Soviet KG operatives (the congressional outted Stanley Levison, King’s financial, legal and political advisor and Jack O’Dell, his personal secretary and CPUSA/Soviet organizer in the South (HCUA hearings, 1956).
There were some foreign aspects of King being a security risk (re blackmail) that have only peripherally been mentioned.
Nobody has the balls to tell the whole truth.
However, this does not diminish the good deeds and ideas that King put forth.
The problem is telling the “whole” story at one time.
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