The folks upset about women and minorities in pop culture won't shut up, but we don't have to keep listening to them.
in advance of its Fri-Sun opening frame. That's the fifth-best performance for any superhero title in China , behind only . For the record, Civil War ended up making around 3% of their opening weekend totals via midnight previews, while earned 2.3% of its $107m debut at midnight.Captain Marvel heading into the weekend but a lower midnight gross than merely shows that you can't use pre-sales as a specific barometer for opening weekend success.
Namely, that we could take a handful of mean tweets from anonymous people and frame it into a trend story, either about the initial offense or about how celebrities or fans were responding or fighting back. Such was the case when the Alamo Drafthouse announced their intent to hold women-only screenings of which naturally caused a negative online response from the sort of folks who were naturally opposed to a movie in the first place.
of what should have been a giant"Oh, neat, that sounds like fun" issue of a theater holding women-only screenings for a female-led superhero movie. Oh, and Okay, but what about Ghostbusters reboot became a canary in the coal mine for Gamergate politics playing a role in more mainstream discourse, one which had adult men losing their minds online over the notion of a movie featuring ladies. And the end result was that the merely okay comedy earned a just okay $126 million domestic. It cost way too much , didn't play in China due to their prohibition of supernatural content and was mostly ignored overseas for a mere $229m worldwide cume.
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