{"id":23571,"date":"2013-08-19T15:47:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23571"},"modified":"2013-08-19T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:48:13","slug":"the-butler-1at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23571","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Butler&#8217; #1 At Box-Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Lee Daniels&#8217; The Butler&#8221;<\/em> is serving up success at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Starring <b>Forest Whitaker <\/b>as a longtime White House butler and <b>Oprah Winfrey<\/b> as his boozy wife, the Weinstein Co. biopic debuted in the top spot with $25 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. But the weekend&#8217;s three other major new releases, including the action romp <em>&#8220;Kick-Ass 2,&#8221;<\/em> failed to find traction with fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expected to do well, but we didn&#8217;t expect to do this well,&#8221; said <b>Erik Lomis<\/b>, president of distribution and home entertainment for Weinstein Co., adding that<em> &#8220;The Butler&#8221;<\/em> is the company&#8217;s first No. 1 debut since 2009&#8217;s<em> &#8220;Inglourious Basterds.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lee Daniels&#8217; The Butler&#8221; is serving up success at the box office. Starring Forest Whitaker as a longtime White House butler and Oprah Winfrey as his boozy wife, the Weinstein Co. biopic debuted in the top spot with $25 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. But the weekend&#8217;s three other major new releases, including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}