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    Death of a Nation | Quality Flix | August 3rd, 2018 | right-wing documentary to release in over 1,000 theaters

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    Posted · Edited by Slambros

     

     

    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.

    The Best of Enemies | STX | April 5, 2019 | Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell

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    2 hours ago, PenguinHyphy said:

    They need to focus on having a great, truthful movie. A movie treating the KKK with a Disney-esque approach in order to appease whatever insecure people is going to be bomb terribly and actually have the opposite effect. There is not any movie that is about to unite a country that has been having the same issues for centuries, and the pusillanimous approach to the KKK and other terrorist groups by the media is why the bullshit is still happening to be honest.                                                 

     

    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.

    ⊃∪∩⪽ | Legendary | October 22 2021 | Denis Villeneuve | Returns to IMAX on December 3

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    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.

    Crowd Reports Thread

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    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.

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    Thai Cave Rescue Miniseries | Netflix | Jon M. Chu and SK Global to develop

    in Streaming, TV Series, & VOD Movies

    Posted · Edited by Slambros

    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!

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