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| Nolte: ‘Sound of Freedom' Soars to $83 Million as ‘Dead Reckoning' Slips |
| 2023-07-17 |
| [Breitbart] Sound of Freedom is no flash in the pan. In its second weekend, the Angel Studios’ phenomenon grossed another $24.7 million, which is an astonishing 26 percent increase over its debut weekend. Currently, THE MOVIE DISNEY DUMPED sits at $83.2 million. Never forget that the Disney Grooming Syndicate owned Sound of Freedom and then tried to disappear it. Because Jim Caviezel doesn’t age, it’s hard to tell, but Sound of Freedom wrapped in 2018, more than five years ago. When Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019, Disney acquired Sound of Freedom, a movie that is about to become one of the most profitable independent movies of all time. Obviously, a demonic company like Disney, a company dedicated to grooming kids by sexualizing children’s content with homosexuality, transsexuals, drag queens, and transvestites, does not want anything to do with a movie that depicts the sex trafficking of children as a bad thing. Disney is determined to normalize sex with children, not reinforce the idea that a child’s innocence must be protected. So Disney shelved Sound of Freedom and sat on it. It took five years for the producers to get it back. Well, because the arc of history bends toward justice, the fetishists at Disney are about to lose a couple hundred million dollars on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Cucking Indiana Jones with a Sexless Co-Star No One Finds Appealing. At the same time, Sound of Freedom has become a money-printing machine. Everything after about $35 million is pure profit for Sound of Money — er, I mean Sound of Freedom. Already, the people behind this blockbuster have split about $50 million with theaters. That’s $25 million clear and counting. With its theatrical run far from over, Sound of Freedom’s domestic haul has already topped all but 24 of last year’s biggest-grossing films, including Scream (2022), Morbius, the Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Woman King, Death on the Nile, etc. Elsewhere at this weekend’s box office, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One came in below its $90 to $100 million projection with an $80 million haul over an extended five-day opening. If you do not adjust for inflation, that’s a franchise record. Twenty-three years ago, Mission: Impossible II opened to $79 million. Adjusted for inflation, that would be $140 million today. The good news for Dead Reckoning is the overseas box office. After just five days, by Monday, it should have a worldwide haul of around $240 million. For context, that $240 million nearly ties the worldwide gross of Dial of Kathleen Kennedy’s Latest Franchise-Killing Dud, after 16 days and two full weekends of release. The bad news for Dead Reckoning is that its production budget is a reported $290 million. Add another $100 million or so for promotion, and you’re pretty close to the reported $430 million the Disney Grooming Syndicate spent on Dial of Dud. In its third weekend, Dial of Watch Us Emasculate Your Childhood Hero grossed just $11 million for a domestic total of a pathetic $145 million. Kathleen Kennedy’s latest failure won’t come close to $200 million domestic or $500 million worldwide. Break-even is over $800 million. This is what happens to a studio when it becomes a slave to identity politics, fetishes, and perversions. Dead Reckoning’s fate will be revealed next weekend. The reviews and word of mouth are about as good as it gets. Oppenheimer and Barbie open next weekend, which is serious competition but not direct competition in the action arena. Everyone was expecting Top Gun: Maverick numbers for Dead Reckoning, but Maverick was something entirely different. No one had seen a Top Gun movie in 35 years. Moviegoers were curious about what had happened to “Maverick” and “Iceman.” Who are they now? How has their world changed? There’s a big difference between that and another one of those Mission: Impossible movies. Hollywood has franchised me out. I have full faith Dead Reckoning is non-woke and entertaining. That has nothing to do with my lack of excitement. My enthusiasm gap comes from the fact that I feel like I’ve already seen Dead Reckoning two or three times already, back when it was called Fallout, Rogue Nation, and Ghost Protocol. Sound of Freedom is the way forward. A modest budget attached to an original story about a topic (be it falling in love or sex trafficking) normal people care about. All you have to do is execute the story well and not undermine it with off-putting gay sex, lectures, shaming, or any other type of woketardery. Related: Sound of Freedom: 2023-07-16 Tim Ballard Shares How Mel Gibson Helped Him Save Children In Ukraine from Sex Trafficking Rings, Exposes Ukrainian Pedophile Sound of Freedom: 2023-07-15 Trump to host screening of anti-child-trafficking film 'Sound of Freedom' at his resort Sound of Freedom: 2023-07-13 Journalists Stop By Shelter To Inform Trafficked Children They Are A QAnon Conspiracy |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 I J and Dial of Destiny probably had a cost of $350M to $500M including promotions. It obviously takes more box office than that to achieve breakeven because theaters get some of the box office so $800 is a possible break even but I suspect the point is lower, say $650M. Of course the new Snow White Movie may end up being a bigger loss than Dial of Destiny |
| Posted by: lord garth 2023-07-17 20:31 |
| #11 "It takes a very special kind of managerial incompetence to screw up a legendary franchise like Disney." Why you say this. From perspective of Disney runners, Disney is not screwed. It is doing its propaganda job. |
| Posted by: Spomonter Speaking for Boskone8031 2023-07-17 20:24 |
| #10 Yeah, first they said the pictures of the "non-dwarves" were fake, then they said they were just not "official." They have another stinker on their hands, they know it, but they can't help themselves. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-17 19:28 |
| #9 I saw a picture of what they have done to SnowWhite in the live action reboot. It looks like the worst production that I have ever seen. This ranks below anything starring Ernest or Larry The Cable Guy. I would have to watch it to compare it to Pat The Movie and a movie I once watched starring Joe Piscapoe and Treat Williams as undead cops. I suppressed the title. I won’t be watching it. Too much trauma in my past already. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-07-17 19:06 |
| #8 It takes a very special kind of managerial incompetence to screw up a legendary franchise like Disney. What's saving them now, more or less, is that about two thirds of Disney's shares are owned by "institutional investors" (think Blackrock) who wouldn't invest a penny in a movie like "The Sound of Freedom" if there were a mathematical certainty of a 100% return. |
| Posted by: Matt 2023-07-17 18:32 |
| #7 "403 Forbidden" Link works now, NN2N1. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-07-17 13:03 |
| #6 ^ Ask IBM shareholders. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-17 12:00 |
| #5 Don't the Disney shareholders ever get tired of dismal quarterly reports? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-07-17 11:52 |
| #4 It's said sui@ide is a very impulsive act. Dizney seems to be a determined exception. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-17 07:59 |
| #3 breitbart.com/entertainment/ Link is Dead on the their website, as of 07:29am EST "403 Forbidden" |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-07-17 07:30 |
| #2 Disney backtracks claim that photos of new 'politically correct' Snow White movie were 'fake' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-07-17 06:59 |
| #1 To think that Disney owned and sold the movie. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-07-17 06:37 |