Just for giggles I checked my local theater yesterday afternoon. There were 6 seats purchased for the 6:30 show, and, as of 9:15 none for the 9:30 showing. On a Saturday night.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Unfortunately, boomer women have made it a box office hit.
Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 1 day ago
Skua@kbin.earth 1 day ago
Its official budget was $40 million (presumably before marketing), so I'm not sure that this can be called a hit on an $8 million box office
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I wonder it’s like book sales, where a publisher or other entity buys a ton of copies to make it a “Best-seller”. Are the seats being filled, or are the tickets just bought out to make it appear more successful?
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes. Conservative groups are buying out whole theatres that then show the movie to empty seats.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
There’s Craigslist ads paying people to go see it
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
This has to be propaganda
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I have zero doubts that MAGA money is being spent on buying out showings and that the propaganda machine is running at 110%. I also do not doubt that a lot of boomer and older Gen-X/Jones MAGA women in are going to see it. These are not.mutually exclusive things.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 day ago
You’d like to think so, but my hardcore maga step mom and sister are all over fb singing it’s praises on high. Some people are so invested in this shit, that they cannot admit the truth.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s like those religious movies where people buy up tickets en masse but no one actually goes to the movie. Or those political books where the party buys up boxes and boxes of them to get the book on the best seller list, but no one actually reads it.