Spike's Box Office
Anyone hear how Spike's "Chi-Raq" did at the box office?
We heard it only lost $10-to-12,000,000.
On the bright side, the Academy is looking for Best Picture nominees shortly.
We heard it only lost $10-to-12,000,000.
On the bright side, the Academy is looking for Best Picture nominees shortly.
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posted by SCC at 12:31 AM
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Spike Lee's Chi-Raq
Domestic Total as of Dec. 13, 2015: $2,110,079
Did the city ever give him the 3 mil in tax breaks he requested?
Best Picture and Best Everything in my opinion
.. SECRET IN THEIR EYES ..
The only thing that will keep this movie from taking Best Picture, all the acting awards, Best Directing, Best Adaptive Screenplay and everything else except the SFX awards is the fact that is a very human cop story.
Too bad Hollywood does not like cop stories even if it have one of the best performances ever of Julia Roberts.
Cops who have seen the real emotional carnage of what murder does and have carried it with them would understand.
Spike lee is a piece of shit, all of his movies end pretty stupid--- especially his one comedy, jungle fever, if anyone can remember the ending, they'd agree it's a comedy
I'll put it in for a merit pick.
It was out?
Never heard about it here in minnesnowta.
When he doesn't win any awards,it will be due to the racist Hollywood establishment.
You know,institutional racism. That's common knowledge,right? Isn't that always the reason?
It couldn't possibly be that it is just garbage.
Its a great film, go see it. Or just wait for the bootleg copy to come out. Madison and Pulaski is one location.
Chuckle. Chuckle. Chuckle.
He had a chance to actually do some good by focusing on inner city black on black violence, and he comes up with a sex strike. What a non-creative, no talent, waste of a so-called black role model. What a joke. But watch... He will be praised by the liberal establishment. Asshats!
Last time I went to the show was to see Saving Private Ryan. I don't feed the liberal left media and so called arts. These are the same fucks that march with BLM and support Obongo.♠️
Best Picture and Best Everything in my opinion
.. SECRET IN THEIR EYES ..
The only thing that will keep this movie from taking Best Picture, all the acting awards, Best Directing, Best Adaptive Screenplay and everything else except the SFX awards is the fact that is a very human cop story.
Too bad Hollywood does not like cop stories even if it have one of the best performances ever of Julia Roberts.
Cops who have seen the real emotional carnage of what murder does and have carried it with them would understand.
Thanks Spike, no go back to New York, and Oh yah, Take McCarthy with you!!!!!
Chiraq lost money? How is that so it Rham emmanuel, was promoting it all year long that means it had to really really suck.
Fu*k Rahm and Spike Lee.
Plus not a big fan of Nick Cannon.
Even with all the free publicity and tax breaks, a crappy movie is a crappy movie. He is insignificant these days. Was he ever significant?
want to see a great movie see creed with slyverster stallone , stallone for mayor
The Govmint bailed out his efforts - Rahm/Rauner silently gave his production company the tax relief he demanded.
It's about jobs and community-opportunity. S'puke Lee wrote the whole production off as a minority business loss...win-win for him. Free govmint money plus a huge govmint write off.
There's a reason why S'puke Lee didn't go to Toronto to film that crap movie, ghetto slums don't exist and to build one would have could cost him over $3mil. Finding enough Canadian extras would be tough too. Movie labor is cheap in Canada, cheaper than any tax relief that can be had in Chicago. But a weak movie, destined to fail with a poor review, a story line that could only be self produced, aided by second rate writing and co-producers, it's apparent that the only way to make money on a film of this caliber is to play the generous equal opportunity Chicago Way®.
S'puke Lee knew what he was doing and Rahm once again folded and opened the City's wallet.
according to IMDB; - nothing on production costs yet
Box Office
Opening Weekend: $1,198,356 (USA) (4 December 2015)
Gross: $2,110,079 (USA) (11 December 2015)
Fuck him
It is a great movie, should get an Oscar. In fact it probably is the best movie/story in the past 50 years. The real nity gritty and truth about Chicago. It will have you laughing and crying all in the same movie.
NO PEACE = NO PIECE (of ass)
Considering the subculture of CPD districts such as 007 and 011, the idea of "snitch boxes" was a brainstorm.
Where can I get one of those "Chiraq" skull caps? Somebody has to have them..
#1) I don't go to the movie theaters any longer. Tickets cost too much, concessions are rancid ripoffs, parking costs too much, traffic sucks, and there's always some schmuck with a cell phone texting or blathering on about nothing during the movie. Heaven forbid you tell them to cut it out - they'll get out the meat thermometer and stick you in the neck with it.
Then there's the weak bladders, loud munchers, jerks with their feet on the seat behind you, tall people sitting in front of you...
Screw it - I've got a 7.2 THX-rated sound system on a 50" screen at home. I can hit PAUSE. I've got better food. Much lower cost on pay-per-view, and even lower if I just stream it from Amazon or play a DVD...
#2) Did you see the trailer for this craptastic cinematic masterpiece? Instead of an in-depth, potentially enlightening documentary about everything that causes Chicago to be called "Chiraq", he turned it into a "Ya'll ain't getting no pussy if ya'll don't put down dem gunz" totally baked, worthless piece of crap.
That's total fiction - never gonna work because... well, crack ho's?
I'm surprised it grossed $2M.
>>>Anonymous Anonymous said...
Best Picture and Best Everything in my opinion
.. SECRET IN THEIR EYES ..
The only thing that will keep this movie from taking Best Picture, all the acting awards, Best Directing, Best Adaptive Screenplay and everything else except the SFX awards is the fact that is a very human cop story.
Too bad Hollywood does not like cop stories even if it have one of the best performances ever of Julia Roberts.
Cops who have seen the real emotional carnage of what murder does and have carried it with them would understand.
>>???Thanks Spike, no go back to New York, and Oh yah, Take McCarthy with you!!!!!<<????
12/18/2015 08:19:00 AM<<<
WTF Bought that poke on since Spike Lee had nothing to do with SECRET IN THEIR EYES.
This movie was written and directed by Billy Ray and is a remake of an Argentine movie that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. You obviously didn't see either one. Anyone who does see it should pay attention there is a hell of a plot twist (SCC please don't post any spoilers on this one).
Check this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1741273/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
You cab bet Jesse and father Pfleger got thier cut already
The only movie that dickhead ever made which was half-way decent was "Do The Right Thing". I fondly recall when the wife & myself went to see it when it came out many years ago @ the Evergreen Plaza movie theater. We were the only white people in the place as far as I could see. There was a lotta "screen-talkin'" that night, believe you me!
Anonymous said...
Best Picture and Best Everything in my opinion
.. SECRET IN THEIR EYES ..
The only thing that will keep this movie from taking Best Picture, all the acting awards, Best Directing, Best Adaptive Screenplay and everything else except the SFX awards is the fact that is a very human cop story.
Too bad Hollywood does not like cop stories even if it have one of the best performances ever of Julia Roberts.
Cops who have seen the real emotional carnage of what murder does and have carried it with them would understand.
Thanks Spike, no go back to New York, and Oh yah, Take McCarthy with you!!!!!
12/18/2015 08:19:00 AM
"Thanks Spike..." had t be written by an anti-cop troll who doesn't ant to see a good cop movie win anything.
Blue Lives Mater pal, on screen and in real life.
"There's a reason why [Spike] Lee didn't go to Toronto to film that crap movie, ghetto slums don't exist..."
12/18/2015 10:20:00 AM
This is a popular illusion. The reality is --
We can’t keep tiptoeing around black-on-black violence
The Toronto Globe and Mail
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013
"Much has been said about the fact that the three youths shot to death in Toronto in the past few weeks were all a mere 15 years old. Quite a bit has been said about the fact that they all died in public housing. Very little has been said about another fact – all three were black.
"Street violence is taking a tragic toll on black men and boys in this city. Both as victims and as perpetrators, they are caught up all too often. If you pick up the paper or turn on the computer after reports of a shooting, stabbing or violent robbery, chances are the face staring out at you will be black.
"Pockets of the city where unemployment and dropout rates are high, where many sons grow up without a father, where gangs and guns are all around, have become dangerous traps for what social workers call at-risk youth. More often than not, they turn on each other. Black-on-black violence is a disfiguring stain on the face of the city’s multicultural success. It is an uncomfortable truth that, as a welcoming and liberal city, we prefer to ignore. The political class won’t talk about it for fear of being labelled racist. The media are almost as cowed.
"In days of coverage after the killing of Jarvis Montaque, the latest of three 15-year-olds to be gunned down, it was almost never mentioned. The first honest reference I heard was on Wednesday’s Metro Morning , the CBC Radio show that has been bolder than most at exploring the roots of this sad phenomenon. “Why are we losing young black men in the city?” asked host Matt Galloway."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/we-cant-keep-tiptoeing-around-black-on-black-violence/article8907404/
Reads exactly like the stories from everywhere else.
Can't blame "racist police in America" for this one, huh?
MAYBE THE POLICE ARE NOT THE PROBLEM.
I never seen him speak before until the other night around 4am when I watched him being interviewed. Illiterate racist is what I got out of the interview. He honestly has a disability that I wasn't aware of. He's one chromosome short of being a normal human. Poor guy.
Is it the shoes?
Spike is a fourth generation graduate of morehouse. He wears funny clothing, but comes from a privileged family. His films are more comedy. Malcolm x was his best. He deserves to lose money on this. He is old now, five minutes ago.
First of all, he should have named it Chenglewood to have it be more accurate and should have cast someone like Steve Buscemi to play Phleger.
I think his best movie was INSIDE MAN with Denzel Washington.
It's only made $2 Million so far at the box office. (That'll cover about a third of Samuel L. Jackson's paycheck) Good thing the tax payers helped poor Spike fund that piece of shit…… Wouldn't want him to lose money on such a fine film.
It was probably subsidized by tax payers, you know, the ones that pay for the other 51%.
More people watched the Laquan video then Spikes halfwit film.
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