Signaling a quick rise and fall in theaters, Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation plummeted 60 percent at the box office in its second weekend, a sharp decline for a film expected to play throughout awards season. The question now is how much Fox Searchlight will lose after paying a record $17.5 million for worldwide rights to the slave-rebellion drama at the Sundance Film Festival and an estimated $18 million more on marketing. Birth had earned just $12.3 million as of Oct. 17.
No, he is not. One or two people on IMDB don't represent all black people.
Its quite obvious, by traditional financial calculations, its going to lose money or as the article states, get to single digit losses which for Fox is easily written off. Forbes, Fortune, etc are all shaking their head. The next time a film looks hot at Sundance, the calculations will take a sharper pen for risk.
There are fans who don't want the film to be labeled a flop, because it would signal this genre can't make money. So, they're looking for other ways to measure success. Its like a mom trying to make her kid feel better after they don't make the football team, at least it was a learning experience. You'll get them next time.
While your taking that break Mommy? Take an opportunity to educate yourself about how people are manipulated by marketing, targeting, segmenting, and other forms of propoganda into making bad choices in the products, services, leaders, music, and every damn things else they "consume" as "consumers" by the Racists who invented and promoted the science of "Public Relations" eg Propoganda into the monster it has become...
Then you'll understand why more Black Folks will see "A Madea Halloween" than this amazing film...
It will also help you understand how a dim witted, 'Fortunate-Son", demagogue like Donald Trump would be turned by this same machine into a valid candidate for the highest public office in this nation...
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"Its like a mom trying to make her kid feel better after they don't make the football team, at least it was a learning experience. You'll get them next time."
No a better analogy is this. I listed 8 of the top selling cereals in America. All processed and not a one of them as good for you as plain Oatmeal.
It's like a Mom feeding her children that crap most mornings and pretending it takes the place of a nutritious breakfast...
This is what happens when you overpay for movies you think will be guarantee smashes. Look at The Spitfire Grill, Happy, Texas and Me, Earl and the Dying Girl and let's not forget Hamlet 2. Little Miss Sunshine and Napoleon Dynamite might be the few recent Sundance successes. You can chalk up BOAN as yet another Sundance bust.
Sundance award winners (and Sundance films in general), more often than not, do not reflect the public's tastes. Those films you mention are good examples, especially Happy, Texas, which Miramax reportedly paid 10 million for, and it barely made any money at the box office.
“If you don't understand white supremacy/racism ,everything that you do understand will only confuse you..” ― Neely Fuller, Jr., The United Independent Compensatory Code System Concept a textbook/workbook for Thought, Speech and/or Action for Victims of Racism
An Overview of Racism (White Supremacy), Counter-Racism (Counter-White Supremacy), and the Nine Major Areas of [People] Activity
According to Compensatory Logic, there is reason to believe that what each person does, or says, each and every day, has an effect that is either constructive, or non-constructive.
Also, according to Compensatory Logic, there is reason to believe that what each person does, or says, each and every day, has the effect of helping to produce justice (balance between people), or helping to maintain and expand the practice of non-justice (non-balance between people).
Also, according to Compensatory Logic, there is reason to believe that what each person does, or says, each and every day, has a direct, or indirect, effect, on what happens to all the people in the known universe in what could be called “The Nine Major Areas of [People] Activity”:
1. Economics 2. Education 3. Entertainment 4. Labor 5. Law 6. Politics 7. Religion 8. Sex 9. War/Counter-War
For the intellectually challenged? This would fall under number 3...