Hollywood Bombs At Box Office Over Thanksgiving Weekend; Worst Non-Covid Since 1994

Hollywood, which has determinedly stuck to its guns in forwarding its woke agenda, crashed and burned over the Thanksgiving weekend, as box office receipts plunged to their lowest Thanksgiving weekend total since 1994.

The total from the three-day weekend amounted to $95 million, as IndieWire reported; the two years prior to the 2020 COVID pandemic, in 2018 and 2019, the box office gathered $216 million and $181 million.

“A weekend garnering under $100 million is rare in and of itself; in 2019, only four weekends wore the heavy crown,” AV Club noted.

Although “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” took in $45.9 million, Disney’s woke “Strange World,” the children’s animated film which finished second at the box office and features an openly gay character, gathered a mere $11.9 million.

“Sources estimate that ‘Strange World’ will lose at least $100 million in its theatrical run,” Variety reported, explaining that the film cost $180 million to produce and tens of millions of dollars to market and distribute around the world. Sources told Variety that the film would have to gross roughly $360 million just to make its money back.

Deadline reported that “Strange World” would lose $147 million.

In third place, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” grossed $9.4 million over the weekend while “Devotion,” in fourth place, only collected $5.96 million. “The Menu” grossed $5.2 million, “Black Adam” grossed $3.4 million, and Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” grossed $2.2 million, as did “Bones and All.”

After “Bros,” Hollywood‘s first LGBTQ romantic comedy, bombed at the box office in October, its writer blamed “homophobic weirdos” for the film’s dismal opening weekend box office performance.

Billy Eichner, who co-starred in the film as well as co-wrote it with director Nicholas Stoller, lashed out as the movie pulled in a mere $4.8 million, leaving it in fourth place behind “Smile” ($22 million), “Don’t Worry Darling,” ($7.3 million) and “The Woman King” ($7 million). The disappointing ticket take couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the movie’s quality, he insisted.

“Last night I snuck in and sat in the back of a sold out theater playing BROS in LA,” he tweeted. “The audience howled with laughter start to finish, burst into applause at the end, and some were wiping away tears as they walked out. It was truly magical. Really. I am VERY proud of this movie.”

“Rolling Stone already has BROS on the list of the best comedies of the 21st century,” he said.

Then he posited his theory that his movie was struggling because heterosexual people didn’t want to see it.

“Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore etc, straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for Bros,” he wrote. “And that’s disappointing but it is what it is.”

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Children’s Hospital Slammed For Hiring Transgender Activist As A Chaplain

Children’s Wisconsin hospital, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has engendered anger after hiring as a chaplain an activist who has shared a poem titled “Jesus at the Gay Bar” and started a GoFund me page for her partner to have her breasts removed.

Fliers were posted reading “Meet Your New Chaplain: Kate Newendorp” with her pronouns listed as “she/her/hers” and her partner’s listed as “they/he.”

“Working in a pediatric hospital is a dream come true!!” Newendorp states on the flier, as The Federalist reported. “I am so excited to be working alongside everyone and am pumped to be part of the team. Think of me as your friendly next-door neighbor!”

“We have already seen that Children’s holds little value for respecting deeply held religious beliefs, given their recent COVID Religious Waiver Committee. But this feels like a step too far. This feels like they have actively recruited activists into this field to further their progressive agenda,” a former Children’s Wisconsin employee told The Federalist. “I think this situation really calls into question who do we want guiding the spiritual development of our children — especially children who are stuck in a hospital, isolated, sometimes alone, and extremely vulnerable and easily impressionable.”

The reference to Children’s past history vis-à-vis religious beliefs revolves around fellow chaplain Ian Butts, who interviewed Children’s staff members who had submitted religious exemption requests to avoid getting the COVID vaccine.

“The questions included the specifics of the employees’ personal religious convictions and their vaccination record, with Butts pressing on what he considered to be contradictions,” Kylee Griswold of The Federalist noted in February 2022. “Two particularly leading questions regarded the specifics of how the employees would keep their patients safe without being vaccinated, implying a moral implication of refusing a vaccine, as well as how they could square working for a hospital that mandated something so contrary to their personal convictions as a condition of employment.”

Last June, Newendorp enthused on Facebook, “Love Jesus. Be gay. Get ordained. What better way to celebrate Pride than being ordained?! Many thanks to my church and classes for being willing to stand for queer folks being included in ministry and for allowing me to follow God’s call.”

In October, she wrote, “Also your casual reminder that my validity as an ordained minister is currently under review by my denomination because of the love I feel for my fiancé. Do better Church, because I’m not going anywhere. I was called.”

Children’s also issued a flier presenting a “Spiritual Care Intern” named Meg Trimm. The Federalist noted:

Trimm has shared numerous TikToks of herself “deconstructing my white supremacy,” explaining that “gender is infinite,” proclaiming, “God is TRANSGENDER!!!” and saying, “God has a purpose for your life, and it might be fricken queer!”

The former Children’s employee told The Federalist:

I am deeply concerned with this new infiltration of trans activists into our chaplain and faith-based services. We have already witnessed the erosion and lost of public trust in fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work and general mental health counselors due to the rise of activists in these areas. Now parents have to worry about this as well?

We have many parents and families at Children’s who are deeply religious and hold traditional Judeo-Christian values. Will these new chaplains be able to serve the need of these families objectively? How will they properly support a grieving parent who is dealing with a child’s traumatic injury? How will they properly counsel a child who may be alone in the hospital due to a single parent working to make ends meet and maintain insurance?