Sony’s Screen Gems micro-budget horror thriller Don’t Breathe finally unseated Suicide Squad for a first-place finish at the box office this weekend as Obama first date biopic Southside With You failed to set hearts aflutter in limited release and Roberto Duran boxing drama Hands of Stone fared decently ahead of its Labor Day weekend expansion.
MGM/Paramount’s pricey Ben-Hur update failed to gain any traction at the box office this weekend, taking in $4.1 million Friday on its way to an estimated $11 million three-day total from 3,084 locations while Warners’ Suicide Squad and Sony/Annapurna’s Sausage Party looked to retain the top two spots for the second straight weekend.
Autostraddle, a leftist, feminist blog with an audience of “kickass lesbian, bisexual & otherwise inclined ladies,” has just been forced to issue an apology by their readership for publishing a positive review about the new Seth Rogen movie, Sausage Party, because apparently the lesbian, hispanic taco in the film was a racist stereotype.
Animators for Seth Rogen’s raunchy R-rated animated comedy Sausage Party have accused the film’s production company, Nitrogen Studios, of using “unfair pressure tactics” to force staff to work overtime for free and of leaving half of their names out of the film’s credits.
Warner Bros./DC’s Suicide Squad took a deep nosedive in its second weekend of release while Seth Rogen and Sony’s raunchy Sausage Party became the highest-grossing animated release ever for August and Disney’s reboot of Pete’s Dragon stumbled out of the gate at the box office this weekend.
Seth Rogen’s raunchy R-rated animated comedy about a hot dog and his grocery store food friends’ journey to discover the meaning of life is being panned on social media by left-wing social justice warriors for what they claim is its “generally gross” racism and sexism.
California moviegoers were livid after the Brenden Theatre showed a trailer for an an R-rated animated movie, Sausage Party, before the start of the children’s film Finding Dory.
