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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/schedule/?view=&release=&date=2018-09-07&showweeks=4&p=.htm According to Box Office Mojo, God Bless The Broken Road is now releasing on September 7th instead of September 21st. The news comes a week or two after Unbroken: Path to Redemption's shift from October 6th to September 14th; in other words, God Bless The Broken Road is no longer releasing one week after Unbroken: Path to Redemption, but is now releasing one week before Unbroken: Path to Redemption. This is a very intriguing development... just what is Freestyle Releasing doing?

I'm pretty sure I'm the only one on the forum that would want to take one for the team in this regard.

As for me, I don't really know what to think. I definitely think there's too many other movies that are catching my eye in this summer season for me to watch this one in theaters.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/schedule/ Perhaps they've been inspired by the recent string of successful documentary films over the summer season, or perhaps they're obliged to release this wide because the other ones were released wide, but Dinesh D'Souza's lastest feature film, Death of a Nation, is officially getting released wide, according to Box Office Mojo. D'Souza's films have been steadily grossing less and less since the first one, so it'll be interesting to see if this one follows suit. It is currently scheduled to release against The Darkest Minds, Disney's Christopher Robin, Searching, and The Spy Who Dumped Me.

Why not both, though? Let's condemn hate groups such as the KKK and the bad-apple-portion of Black Lives Matter, and let's also strive for unification at the same time. I don't see how a film that states how healing can happen between the two races is a surefire bomb. Just look at Hidden Figures! In that film, the Caucasian boss of NASA destroys a discriminatory 'for whites only' bathroom sign with a baseball bat, making an effort to alleviate racism in a way that doesn't hurt anyone. And that film made $169,607,287 in the domestic market alone! It even beat Rogue One on its third week to reach #1 at the box office, that's how much of a talk of the town it was! Of course, Hidden Figures doesn't deal with the KKK, a group that should absolutely be portrayed in a negative light. But to downplay the core philosophy that normal people agree with - that differences should be celebrated and that everyone should be treated equally regardless of race - would be a mistake. Love and empathy needs to be the core, because love and empathy is what I feel America needs to be reminded of right now. You talk about yearning for a great, truthful movie, and you'd be hard-pressed to find something more great and more truthful than love and empathy - two things that can stand much, much taller than the KKK if we let it! Just read this excerpt from the WikiPedia page of Ann Atwater, the activist on which this film is based: "She is best known for co-leading a charrette in 1971 to reduce school violence and ensure peaceful school desegregation, which met for ten sessions. She showed that it was possible for whites and blacks, even with contradictory views, to negotiate and collaborate by establishing some common ground." Yes, the film should put the KKK in a negative light. But there are fellow human beings under the white cloth, and to say that the people should be eradicated is wrong. The organization should be eradicated, but the people should be convinced to seek redemption from the childish, outdated, racist antics they're up to. And the promotion of unification should not be halted, because if we scream for such unification loud enough - and maybe I'm being naive, but I absolutely do not care - they will listen to reason, they will consider unification as a beautiful prospect, and they will tear the white cloth from their bodies with vigor. I do not believe in "once a racist, always a racist", not even in these times. I believe that people on both political sides can possibly be liberated from their racism - we just need to keep screaming for the senseless hatred to stop for good, and what better place to do that than the silver screen? Sorry that I ended up ranting but I do feel like the topic is pretty important. If you have a response to any part of my rant, I'd love to here it.

Well, I'm definitely getting a 0 for Sorry To Bother You, but yeah. $9M. What. In. The. World. Was. I. Thinking.

I hope this is a film that focuses on the unification of people, because I feel like a film such as that is what many people need at the moment.

Timothee Chalamet's casting is an exciting one because it'll be his first big-budget Hollywood project. He's got really good acting range (that I've seen from Lady Bird and the trailers/snippets from his other movies), and he's already making girls swoon for him, as they would for Justin Beiber or Harry Styles, so he's got the makings of a real star. Here's hoping this doesn't turn out like Emile Hirsch's transition from Into The Wild to Speed Racer, because I believe we've only seen the tip of the iceberg from the guy.

For me, it's largely hit and miss.

I'm interested in seeing how this does.

I'll be honest; I, in hindsight, foolishly predicted $9M for Sorry To Bother You. So unless it has a $250,000 increase with actuals, that's a 0% for me. Applying Get Out's PTA was a bad idea after all.

God bless him. Best of luck to him!

That film is ineligible but you can always choose something else!

I'll be interested to see how this does. I'm glad James Wan is handling another horror film that isn't part of a franchise like Conjuring or Insidious. From his comment, it actually sounds like a bit of a passion project. Nice!

Skyscraper July 13th, 7:20 pm, 25% full Pointe Theater 14, Wilmington, NC Trailers (we were late and missed a few) The Equalizer 2 (murmurs) The Meg The Predator Serenity Laughs at appropriate moments. Don't know about the audience, but I reacted a lot. The crowd seemed happy when the film was over.

Not a single one of the multiplexes in my city got Sorry To Bother You this weekend. I guess whether we get it next weekend depends on this weekend's gross.

1. Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! 2. Eighth Grade 3. Mission: Impossible - Fallout 4. Blindspotting 5. Searching 6. Disney's Christopher Robin 7. Alpha 8. Mile 22 9. BlacKkKlansmen 10. Kin

So are there any Summer 2018 anime you're interested in? The first episode of Banana Fish is pretty good imo.

I'm really happy that this isn't a Cloverfield film, because a film about Nazi zombies makes no sense as a Cloverfield film. People would have been confused.

This is definitely a bold choice for Pure Flix. I don't believe that the main goal here is to be exploitative; I really do think they see this as a story of wonderful, real-world acts of heroism, and they want to tell that story the way they know how. This can be the film that digs Pure Flix out of the laughingstock pit if they put their hearts in production. Edit: reading the source is how I got the news that all of them were rescued! Praise be to God! That is excellent!

The Russos must care about original film to finance one! Fiege was right to believe in them!

Well, I submitted actual PTAs for my Flash Fight predictions (unlike last time 😅), so that's a big step for me already.

This definitely looks like an epic. I wonder how this will end up fairing against The Favourite. Now that I think about, they could be going against each other, at least a little bit.

@Ethan Hunt @Arlborn @Keanu @MovieGuyKyle17 @AsyulusSo I'm probably not gonna be the best player but I'll still give it my all! It's gonna be a lot of fun predicting with you guys! Go Darkest Minds!

How much does it really matter at this point.