Box Office: Gay Romance "Weekend" Sr Big Numbers Limed Debut (Updated)
Contents:
- COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
- COLUMN: THE MOVIE ‘BROS’ FLOPPED BUT SUCCEED JT BY BEG A GAY ROM
- BOX OFFICE: GAY ROMANCE “WEEKEND” SR BIG NUMBERS LIMED DEBUT (UPDATED)
- SPECIALTY BOX OFFICE: GAY MARRIAGE DRAMA ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’ OPENS STRONG
COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
At the box office, this gay wtern love story grossed $178 ln around the world acrdg to BoxOfficeMojo. Given how racist and homophobic certa dienc n be, this number is nsired a pretty big succs for a g-of-age film about a man who is both Black and gay. However, one mt take to nsiratn the very aggrsive nservative phback that surround this film due to the fact that featured a gay leadg character.
COLUMN: THE MOVIE ‘BROS’ FLOPPED BUT SUCCEED JT BY BEG A GAY ROM
Here, we prent the 10 hight-grossg films history that have clear LGBTQ narrativ or characters – we’ve exclud films such as Interview wh the Vampire and The Talented Mr Ripley, both of which only have ‘homoerotic’ them.
BOX OFFICE: GAY ROMANCE “WEEKEND” SR BIG NUMBERS LIMED DEBUT (UPDATED)
Sacha Baron Cohen’s third mockumentary edy follows the star’s polilly rrect character, Bno, a gay Atrian fashn reporter who travels to the Uned Stat to bee “the biggt Atrian superstar sce Hler”. Although received mixed reviews om LGBTQ groups for perpetuatg gay stereotyp, was a box office succs, openg the top spot the US and grossg over $130 ln worldwi. The late Rob Williams stars as Armand Goldman, the openly gay owner of a drag club lled The Birdge.
It historilly beme the first major Hollywood productn to clu a gay male sex scene, and missed the $200, 000, 000 mark by jt five ln dollars.
SPECIALTY BOX OFFICE: GAY MARRIAGE DRAMA ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’ OPENS STRONG
Tom Hanks earned his first of two Amy Awards for his performance Philalphia as Andrew “Andy” Beckett, a closeted gay man who his his AIDS stat om his -workers at a prtig rporate law firm. The film is noted for beg one of the first mastream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexualy, and homophobia. Although was praised for brgg Turg’s legacy to a wir dience, the film was heavily cricised for downplayg his homosexualy.