Now that’s profitable one for “The Gipper” — the late actor and President Ronald Reagan.
The movie “Reagan” has surged to the highest of the house gross sales charts following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 5.
“Reagan” was listed as #2 on Amazon’s Finest Sellers checklist general Monday for DVD, Blu-ray and digital obtain gross sales.
It was listed No. 1 over the weekend, the film’s publicist stated.
The crew that created “Reagan” cited similarities between the 2 Republican giants and the synergies between Trump’s profitable marketing campaign and the film that retells the life story of Reagan, a preferred two-term president and beforehand a Hollywood actor.
Reagan earned the nickname “the Gipper” for his first huge position as an actor portraying gravely unwell soccer participant George Gipp within the 1940 movie basic “Knute Rockne, All American.” Gipp was in his hospital mattress, when he requested coach Knute Rockne to have the crew “Win just one for the Gipper.”
“First and foremost, Reagan believed in America and Americans. I believe Trump feels the same. Reagan was, and Trump is, willing to fight for what they believed was right,” “Reagan” screenwriter Howard Klausner advised The Publish.
Requested if the Reagan movie will do nicely with house gross sales, he stated, “I do. I believe people are just consuming the overwhelming majority of their filmed entertainment in the home now.”
Actor Robert Davi, who performed Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev within the movie and is a staunch Trump backer, stated, “The film showed how Reagan was demonized just as Trump was.”
He stated he was “elated” by Trump’s victory and was in Palm Seaside with the president-elect for the victory celebration.
“They were both red, white and blue. The difference is in literary style. Trump is like Hemingway and James Joyce, direct and stream of consciousness, Reagan had a more restrained, poetic style,” Davi stated.
The movie stars Dennis Quaid as Reagan, Penelope Ann Miller as first woman Nancy Reagan, Jon Voight as a KGB agent and Mena Suvari as Jane Wyman, Reagan’s first spouse. It first hit theaters simply earlier than Labor Day.
Mark Joseph, founder and CEO of MJM Leisure Group, produced “Reagan.”
However there have been complaints of liberal bias after just a few theaters in blue New York Metropolis and far of the metro area didn’t display the movie.
“Reagan” additionally confronted censorship from Meta, Fb’s guardian firm, which later admitted to the error of blocking promos for the movie.
“Reagan” nonetheless reached $30 million in field workplace receipts, surpassing presidential biopics LBJ, Nixon and Oliver Stone’s “W” about former two-term GOP President George W. Bush., the publicist stated.
Davi stated the voters noticed by way of efforts to censor Reagan and cancel Trump.
“New York and California are 98% propaganda wings for the Democratic party and they don’t want anything that hurts their agenda. As we saw with the election and with Elon Music taking over X, [Americans] realize the absolute vacant and subversiveness of the media industrial complex,” the conservative actor stated.
“Many people that have seen the film have come up to me and said it was the best film they’ve ever seen. Random people at the supermarket.”
