Silly Conspiracy Theory Department: Are the rumors that Disney is buying Captain Marvel tickets and there being many empty theaters showing Captain Marvel true?

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Are the rumors that Disney is buying Captain Marvel tickets and there being many empty theaters showing Captain Marvel true?
Absolutely not. Those rumors, are just that: rumors.
Malicious rumors, dumb rumors, and definitely childish rumors.
Let’s look at the numbers, shall we?
Per Box Office Mojo: In 10 days since its release, Captain Marvel has earned $264,884,063 in the United States alone (as of yesterday, anyway). That’s a bit more than Star Wars took in its year-long run in 1977–78, without adjusting for inflation. ($220 million, more or less, in 1977 dollars).
There’s no way on Earth that a studio, even one as ginormous as Buena Vista (the distributor for everything Disney), is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying tickets to its own product. Seriously. The film cost between $152–175 million to make: do you really believe that Disney investors are going to get a nice payoff if the film’s costs ballooned to some $400 million because the studio was fraudulently buying tickets to compensate for those mythical empty seats?
Sorry, dude, but there is something seriously, massively wrong with the alt-right wing nut jobs who create these rumors in the first place. The guys (and it is mostly guys) who get bent out of shape because women and minorities get juicy roles in action hero movies that they feel should be the exclusive domain of white males…they have to have some deep insecurities to get so riled up over the success of Captain Marvel.
Oh, and by the way, Captain Marvel has earned $760,753,510 worldwide. In 10 days.

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