'Gosnell' Filmmakers: Theaters Dropping Movie, Preventing People From Buying Tickets.
(PHOTO: GOSNELLMOVIE.COM)Actress Sarah Jane Morris in "Gosnell"
The filmmakers behind "Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer" have questioned why hundreds of theaters have dropped the pro-life movie despite a strong opening performance.
They also shared of various reports of moviegoers being misled or flat-out prevented from buying tickets to the movie, noting that there are too many incidents to simply be dismissed as a coincidence.
"Gosnell," which retells the investigation, arrest, and trial of real-life abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, broke into the top 10 at the box office last week, earning $1,235,000 on just 668 screens.
On Friday, the film's domestic gross hit $2,000,000, but that was not enough to stop nearly 200 theaters from dropping the film.
"I can tell you from my experience in 15 years of releasing movies independently, we're in uncharted territories," John Sullivan, the film's producer and marketing director, told the Daily Wire.
"It is an impacted fall, no doubt about it, but the fact that we've been dropped from theaters where the movie is the number 6 or number 9 movie is just something you don't see," he added.
"It's hard not to believe it isn't about the content of the movie."
Sullivan explained that some of the theaters that have dropped the film include top multiplexes where it was performing strongly.
"We've been the number 6 in a 15-plex and it gets dropped this week. We've been number 9 in a 30-plex and we're getting dropped this week. There are about 15 theaters like that where typically you would not get dropped," he stated.
