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Stonewall: Brutal 10% RT (62 Critics), BOMBS w/ $112K Open
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To put it nicely, Roland Emmerich's "Stonewall" didn't fare well at the box office. The film opened at No. 25 over the weekend, grossing just $112,414 in 129 theaters, a per-theater average of just $871, according to research firm Rentrak. By comparison the Mandarin-language “Lost in Hong Kong” grossed an estimated $558,900 on 27 screens in the U.S. and Canada, a per-theater average of $20,700.
The low turnout for "Stonewall" does not come as a surprise to some. Backlash over the film, which dramatizes the 1969 gay-rights riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York, began when the trailer surfaced in August.
Some complained that the film does not accurately portray the real heroes of history but rather paints a fictional, white male character -- Danny Winters (played by Jeremy Irvine) -- as the LGBT community's hero.
One commenter on the trailer wrote: "This 'Danny' is fictional. The first people to pick up a brick and riot were transwomen of color and other queers of color, not some small town corn fed white boy." [...]
The New York Times review said "except for its identification of actual police officers, 'Stonewall' doesn’t bother to distinguish among facts, fiction and urban legend."
And the Los Angeles Times said that "the proceedings can seem less like a fresh retelling of a seminal story and more like, despite stabs at grit and terror, a theatricalized, dewy-eyed version of days past." [...]
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