{"id":355565,"date":"2018-04-06T23:54:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chappaquiddick-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-04-06T23:54:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:54:56","slug":"chappaquiddick-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chappaquiddick-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Chappaquiddick – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forty-nine years ago, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car into a pond on an island off Martha\u2019s Vineyard, killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne. The story of what really happened that night has been the subject of much speculation and debate for nearly five decades, and is now the subject of the film\u00a0Chappaquiddick<\/em>, opening this weekend.<\/p>\n

While the release is considered wide,\u00a0Chappaquiddick<\/em>\u00a0is only positioned in less than half as many theaters as other new competitors at the box office \u2014\u00a0A Quiet Place<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Blockers<\/em>, both releasing this weekend, have north of 3,300 screens apiece, compared to\u00a0Chappaquiddick\u2019s<\/em>\u00a01,500+.\u00a0With several heavy-hitting holdovers like Ready Player One<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Black Panther<\/em>\u00a0still enjoying solid play with audiences and the two newcomers expected to appeal to viewers seeking new offerings this weekend, there isn\u2019t much room for\u00a0Chappaquiddick<\/em>\u00a0to break out.<\/p>\n

Most estimates peg\u00a0Chappaquiddick<\/em>\u00a0at roughly $3 million for its domestic bow, but looking at the competition it seems like it\u2019ll be a rough fight to even get to that figure. $2+ million is my prediction, unless it can pick up some serious mainstream public buzz after opening day and draw in more viewers through the rest of the weekend.<\/p>\n


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I\u2019m surprised Entertainment Studios didn\u2019t decide to hold the film until next year and release it on the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, along with plenty of marketing about the history behind the story, including having some researchers doing interviews and Q&As at advance press screenings to discuss\u00a0various theories and rumors revolving around the events.<\/p>\n

With the right approach and timing, I think there was…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Forty-nine years ago, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car into a pond on an island off Martha\u2019s Vineyard, killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne. The story of what really happened that night has been the subject of much speculation and debate for nearly five decades, and is now the subject of the film\u00a0Chappaquiddick, opening this weekend. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}