Stephen King’s \u201cThe Long Walk\u201d movie performed horribly in the theaters following his Charlie Kirk comments that ended up being a lie – to which he apologized, but it was already too late.<\/p>\n
King was scrutinized for posting about Kirk on X: \u201cHe advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin\u2019.\u201d Even though King deleted the post and officially apologized to Kirk\u2019s family and supporters, he faced a massive backlash from the general public and even his own fans. Charlie Kirk<\/a> never advocated for that and was welcoming to people living their life anyway they wish, including gays.<\/p>\n Directed by Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), The Long Walk was projected to reach $20 million<\/a> by last weekend. Instead, the movie came in at fourth place, and the box office reports show a 50% drop from the initial estimation, reaching only $11.5 million domestically.<\/p>\n Produced by Lionsgate and distributed in 125 locations across the country, the film earned an estimated $125,000 in its opening weekend. Its per-theater average came to roughly $1,000, which came in as a 33-year low for any of Stephen King\u2019s adaptations.<\/p>\n Therefore, it still remains unclear if its low performance is connected to the King\u2019s negative comments about Charlie Kirk after his assassination, but it’s very possible that could’ve turned fans away.<\/p>\n At least one online bookstore has canceled Stephen King<\/a> after the comments he made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stephen King’s \u201cThe Long Walk\u201d movie performed horribly in the theaters following his Charlie Kirk comments that ended up being a lie – to which he apologized, but it was already too late. King was scrutinized for posting about Kirk on X: \u201cHe advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin\u2019.\u201d Even though King deleted the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":44894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[727],"tags":[995],"class_list":["post-44865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-charlie-kirk","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}