You Might Like
Stonewall is officially a major flop at the box office
So it turns out that centering your true history LGBTI biopic around a fictional cis white dude is probably not the greatest idea in the world.
Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall, the film attacked for whitewashing the real life trans heroes out of existence, tanked at the weekend box office.
The Hollywood Reporter has said the film has grossed only $112,414 from 127 theaters. That’s an average of $871.
This is a bomb for the openly gay director, who said he wanted to make a LGBTI film for ‘straight people’.
He previously told Buzzfeed: ‘You have to understand one thing: I didn’t make this movie only for gay people, I made it also for straight people.
‘I kind of found out, in the testing process, that actually, for straight people, [Danny] is a very easy in. Danny’s very straight-acting. He gets mistreated because of that. [Straight audiences] can feel for him.’
Other films had better opening weekends. Animated film Hotel Transylvania 2 won with $47.5 million, with Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway comedy The Intern coming in second with $18.2 million.
The post Stonewall is officially a major flop at the box office appeared first on Gay Star News.
Joe Morgan
www.gaystarnews.com/article/stonewall-is-officially-a-major-flop-at-the-box-office/
You Might Like
