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TheImpressiveX@piefed.socialM to movies@piefed.socialEnglish ·
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Lake Oswego theater loses rights to screen ‘Melania’ after marquee jokes

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Lake Oswego theater loses rights to screen ‘Melania’ after marquee jokes

lakeoswegoreview.com

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Lake Oswego theater loses rights to screen 'Melania' after marquee jokes - Lake Oswego Review
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Lake Theater & Cafe announced that it will no longer show “Melania,” the Amazon Studios documentary about the first lady, after Amazon revoked the theater’s rights to the film. “Got […]
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    The loss of the theatrical rights is attributed to the Lake Theater’s marquee messages for the documentary. These included: “DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!” and “TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.”

    Really not funny, offensive, or even interesting, but I guess that’s enough these days.

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      The Prada one is mildly clever, implying Melania is the devil.

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        I kinda like the second one, about defeating them you must know them.

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          Welcome to Sun Tzu Theater.

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        Yeah. I don’t wear Prada.
        False economy.

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    The jokes that made the snowflakes angry:

    These included: “DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!” and “TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.”

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    Not a single ticket sale was lost

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    Sounds like they did it for the lols, made light fun of it in their promo material, and Amazon pulled the licensing.

    “Mostly, I thought doing so would be funny. For some of you, that’s enough. Great! Otherwise… Financially, the film marketplace this week and next were a desert… So, to fill a screen, why not get this inexplicable vanity piece from the current president’s wife? I mean, it just seems so weird that it even exists (who wants a movie about Melania lol?), and wouldn’t it then be exponentially weirder, to the point of being funny, to show it here, at your obviously anti-establishment, occasionally troublemaking, neighborhood cinema?” Perry wrote.

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      Nice

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    Theatre Owner: Oh thank fuck.

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      Is it a cinema, or theatre? I am confused. I thought it was a movie.

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    And nothing of any value was lost.

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    Oof. Lost out on a whole $30 in revenue.

    They’ll never financially recover from this.

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      Well boys, looks like we have ourselves an optomist!

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    portland for anyone else that has a lake oswego in their area. did not realize how popular a name that was.

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    What state is that in?

    • TheImpressiveX@piefed.socialOPM
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      Oregon.

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        Its a wealthy suburb of Portland just FYI.

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    oh no, they will lose tens of dollars.

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    Hope they gonna stop showing every Amazon production in the future like James Bond

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    My take is the theatre owner was screening the film primarily for mockery purposes?

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      Yup the general manager stated they did it for the lols

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    They should replace it with a screening of 1984.

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    Is Barbra Streisand involved?

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