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Downton Abbey beats out Ad Astra and Rambo to top the box office with a better than expected $31 million
2019-09-23
[MAIL] It seems audiences long for the kinder, gentler days of Edwardian England, pushing Downton Abbey to the top of the box office with $31 million.

The film version of the beloved costume drama series about the Earl of Grantham and the Crawley family, backed by PBS stateside and ITV in the UK, took in more than the $30 million it was projected to earn at the start of the weekend.

Starring its original cast, including Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville, it also pulled in $30.8 million overseas for a global haul of $61.8 million.

That was more than enough to beat out the more muscular offerings from Brad Pitt's space set sci-fi drama Ad Astra and Sylvester Stallone's actioner Rambo: Last Blood.

They are presently neck and neck with Ad Astra at $19.2 million and Rambo at just a shade over $19 million, although that might change when the full weekend results are tallied, according to Box Office Mojo.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  From those 50,000+ people at Houston, those eligible will vote for whoever their Modi tells them to vote for. Such is the cult of Modi. They won't care if the dems and media tells them they'll lose their jobs, their relatives won't be able to come and so on...
For supporters of Modi, just the gesture of Trump visiting and the projected camaraderie was enough. These are people ruled by sentiment. I don't care what they tell the pollsters and their neighbours to survive there, their vote is Trump's now. The Indian PM's exhortation at the end saying 'abki baar Trump sarkaar' (A Trump Govt this time) was actual a play on his own election campaign tagline from 2014. A clear message that has been accepted by the diaspora.


Fingers crossed. The Indian vote for the GOP doubled from 2016 to 2018. It would be heartening if this trend continued.

https://www.aaldef.org/uploads/pdf/TheAsianAmericanVote2016-AALDEF.pdf
http://aapidata.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-AA-Voter-Survey-report-Oct9.pdf
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2019-09-23 22:26  

#10  It's true some Indians did vote democrat until now. It's also true they humour everybody who'll wear their attire and eat their curry with them, say the right words and all. But at heart, they're alway fiercely loyal to the motherland.

From those 50,000+ people at Houston, those eligible will vote for whoever their Modi tells them to vote for. Such is the cult of Modi. They won't care if the dems and media tells them they'll lose their jobs, their relatives won't be able to come and so on...

For supporters of Modi, just the gesture of Trump visiting and the projected camaraderie was enough. These are people ruled by sentiment. I don't care what they tell the pollsters and their neighbours to survive there, their vote is Trump's now. The Indian PM's exhortation at the end saying 'abki baar Trump sarkaar' (A Trump Govt this time) was actual a play on his own election campaign tagline from 2014. A clear message that has been accepted by the diaspora.

The only Indians you'll still find voting left will be bengalis and south Indians, all commie lovers and conformist sheep. Or muslims.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-23 19:18  

#9  Saw Rambo while conversing here last night, parallel to the 'howdy modi' thingy.

I think it's great that Trump is doing some outreach here. Dubya reached out to Hispanics and got 40%. Indians vote Democrat 90% of the time, so there's plenty of room for improvement.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2019-09-23 18:36  

#8  Saw Rambo while conversing here last night, parallel to the 'howdy modi' thingy.

The only moral of the story seemed to be : 'you can give some people everything. A home, a family, a horse, a car. They'll shit on it all and go die amongst their own kind'.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-23 15:58  

#7  ...right up there with the 'new' Madonna tour. x_x
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-09-23 13:25  

#6  Rambo? Are you kidding me? Stallone is still doing Rambo and there are people who actually go to see it?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-09-23 11:58  

#5  Before downtown was taken over by the homeless.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-09-23 11:09  

#4  Maybe it's a desire for good taste, manners, and seeing people who are not obese, potty-mouthed, wrapped in spandex and covered in tattoos, facial jewelry and fluorescent-dyed hair?
Posted by: Lex   2019-09-23 10:42  

#3   And the "lower classes" like to be reminded of the time when "elite" meant something.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2019-09-23 07:37  

#2  Yes indeed P2k. The 'downstairs people' are my personal favorites.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-09-23 07:11  

#1  The elites like to be reminded about the time when the lower class knew their place.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-09-23 07:08  

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