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Stephen King Stands Up for ‘Doctor Sleep’ Amid Box Office Flop, Possible $30 Million Loss
Indiewire ^ | November 11, 2019 | Zack Sharf

Posted on 11/11/2019 11:06:24 AM PST by EdnaMode

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To: ozaukeemom

Mine too!
It really shows how easily people can be manipulated by power and things and totally forget about what is important in life.


41 posted on 11/11/2019 11:53:53 AM PST by Zathras
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To: EdnaMode

I read Doctor Sleep and enjoyed it.

The problem is that it’s not playing anywhere near me!


42 posted on 11/11/2019 11:56:14 AM PST by golux (In Memory of 2ndDivisionVet)
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To: Gena Bukin

Midway only made 3 million more dollars than Doctor Sleep, and cost 14 million more to make. So no, it’s not a hit, and will also loose fat cash. It’s #1, but that’s a curve to grade on.


43 posted on 11/11/2019 11:56:35 AM PST by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: All

The TV Show Castle Rock on Hulu is pretty good. At least I think season 2 is better than season 1. Season 2 is loosely based on a modernization of the Kathy Bates character from “Misery”.

I also liked Misery btw.


44 posted on 11/11/2019 11:56:40 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: Gena Bukin

While the pro-America Midway is a box office hit.
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Supply and demand. We have been done to death with “liberal propaganda disguised as “art”. We are thirsty for reality based content because our eyes have been opened. We now understand that “liberal art” is really just advancing their political agenda to people they feel are nothing but useful idiots. Get woke go broke!


45 posted on 11/11/2019 11:58:47 AM PST by photodawg
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To: EdnaMode

He’ll now have to reduce his cocaine intake.


46 posted on 11/11/2019 12:04:30 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: EdnaMode

He either suffers from TDS or he’s been blackmailed to act like one.


47 posted on 11/11/2019 12:04:38 PM PST by Professional
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To: USAF1985

King wrote “The Body” which was made into “Stand By Me”. The movie was better than the book.

I agree that “The Stand” was outstanding. The made for TV movie was pretty good too.

I read “The Shining”...meh.


48 posted on 11/11/2019 12:05:54 PM PST by kidd
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To: EdnaMode

I saw this weekend.
Thought it was pretty good.
Not as scary as the Shining.


49 posted on 11/11/2019 12:06:02 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: EdnaMode

Hollyweird ought to give me 15 bucks to go to a movie to see the crap they produce. They get jack from me.


50 posted on 11/11/2019 12:10:03 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: eyeamok

He got paid, he doesn’t care.


51 posted on 11/11/2019 12:14:38 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (When you think about what the left is doing to America, think no further than Cloward-Piven)
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To: Zathras

I have always enjoyed “The Stand”.

As far as apocalyptic dystopian movies go, I enjoyed it.

The entire opening credits with Blue Oyster Cult “Don’t Fear The Reaper” playing is damn good, with all the lab workers dead by some biological agent they were developing.

I liked it. Loved “The Shining”.

The last thing of his I read was “11/22/63”. I won’t touch his work with a ten foot pole now.


52 posted on 11/11/2019 12:18:14 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: EdnaMode

Screw King. Go see the new MIDWAY. It was amazing on several levels. One, being so male centric in this age of the Strutting Rooster Girl. There was no compensating BadAssGirl ANYWHERE in the film. People did their jobs as what they were as they wished that the conflict didnt have to be.

My 9 yr old son kept turning to me,and saying THAT didn’t REALLY happen!? I said “THAT and a hell of a lot worse happened every day for 4 years” He was gob smacked.


53 posted on 11/11/2019 12:18:31 PM PST by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitc)
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To: kidd

The Stand was a spectacular mini-series. Spine chilling. The best of King by far. The Shining and Pet Sematary (the first) were the only King movies that I thought very entertaining.


54 posted on 11/11/2019 12:21:17 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: mmichaels1970
The TV Show Castle Rock on Hulu is pretty good.

I saw that and have no memory of what it was about.

But it was the same with Mr. Mercedes and it didn't take me too long to get caught up in the second season.

I remember what Under the Dome was about - it's all there in the title - but wish I didn't and can't believe I wasted so much time watching it.

One failure isn't going to kill Stephen King. I will probably watch the new one on video.

Also, The Goldfinch (not by him). "Failure" at the box office doesn't necessarily mean a picture wasn't worth making or seeing.

55 posted on 11/11/2019 12:25:47 PM PST by x
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To: EdnaMode
Let your championship be meaningful that way.

lol - oh yes - everybody climb aboard and tell us about your "amazing" "journey"...soft-boiled girly claptrap.

56 posted on 11/11/2019 12:29:33 PM PST by TomServo
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To: glorgau
Well worth a couple hours of popcorn and diet Pepsi.

Don't drink diet soda. More scary than IT

57 posted on 11/11/2019 12:30:20 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Gena Bukin
Too bad the producers don't release the new movies directly for streaming. But of course, that would cut out the middleman theaters.

Also, apparently the movie theaters don't make any money from the ticket sales and their main source of revenue is from concessions so maybe the ticket prices don't have a lot of margin and cannot be discounted and made affordable for lower cost streaming.

58 posted on 11/11/2019 12:39:09 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

I haven’t been to a theater OR streamed (or purchased, rented, borrowed) a film in more like 25 years. But might actually go to ‘Ford vs. Ferrari’ or whatever it is.


59 posted on 11/11/2019 12:39:20 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Not King. The movie-makers. And no, I don’t think they are going broke because of one stinker. But a whole string of them? Not exactly a career-enhancer.


60 posted on 11/11/2019 12:48:11 PM PST by IronJack
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