{"id":1737902,"date":"2022-11-14T08:13:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737902"},"modified":"2022-11-14T10:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T15:49:15","slug":"woke-free-ticket-to-paradise-brings-rom-coms-back-from-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-free-ticket-to-paradise-brings-rom-coms-back-from-the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke-Free \u201cTicket to Paradise\u201d Brings Rom-Coms Back From the Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoke-free-ticket-to-paradise-brings-rom-coms-back-from-the-abyss%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737902&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/George-Clooney-ticket-to-paradise-trump-talk-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Google \u201cthe rom-com is dead\u201d and you\u2019ll find a crush of think pieces bemoaning the genre\u2019s fall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to be a film journalist to realize rom-coms no longer rule the cineplex. The days of Hanks and Ryan are long gone, and even rom-com veterans like Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey have moved on.<\/p>\n<p>So has Hollywood, for the most part, relegating most of them to streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/ticket-to-paradise-review-clooney-roberts\/\">\u201cTicket to Paradise<\/a>\u201d could change that thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The George Clooney\/Julia Roberts pairing opened strong Oct. 21 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl3949822721\/?ref_=bo_we_table_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$16.5 million<\/a>) and has shown remarkable legs ever since. The story follows a divorced couple (Roberts and Clooney) reuniting to stop their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) from impulsively marrying a seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier).<\/p>\n<p>The rom-com <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/11\/box-office-black-panther-wakanda-forever-1235169891\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fell just 25 percent over the weekend<\/a>, continuing a series of strong holds against formidable competition like \u201cBlack Adam\u201d and \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever.\u201d Plus, the movie became available via VOD platforms Nov. 11 and still held much of its audience.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CgzTR5Vrtyw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Look at the poster. It\u2019s Clooney and Roberts, ageless and in-your-face. Their collective star power is the film\u2019s visual selling point.<\/p>\n<p>The movie itself is smart, funny and unabashedly romantic. What youngster hasn\u2019t fallen in love, hard, at a time in their life when it made little sense to do so? And who hasn\u2019t looked back at an old flame and wondered, \u201cwhat if?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The story hangs on a gimmick \u2014 can a divorced couple stop squabbling long enough to break up their daughter\u2019s wedding \u2014 but it\u2019s still a relatable premise. Parents routinely worry their son or daughter has chosen a mate who might not be perfect for them.<\/p>\n<p>Compare that to \u201cMarry Me,\u201d the 2022 rom-com which dramatically under-performed at the box office. The film\u2019s premise is so dumb it would make Lloyd Christmas blush.<\/p>\n<p>A pop superstar\u2019s public marriage ceremony collapses, so she impulsively picks an adult male fan out of the crowd and marries him instead.<\/p>\n<p>If we had a nickel for every time that happened to us \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTicket to Paradise\u201d offers beautiful stars, romance and not a whiff of woke nonsense. No lectures. No ham-fisted scenes to check off a diversity box.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an old-school, uplifting rom-com, and audiences are eating it up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/can-meg-ryan-revive-the-rom-com\/\"><strong>RELATED: CAN MEG RYAN REVIVE THE ROM COM?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an interesting wrinkle to \u201cTicket\u2019s\u201d success story. The film\u2019s current haul, $56 million stateside and counting, is under its reported $60 million budget. Did Clooney and Roberts demand huge salaries, ballooning the film\u2019s bottom line?<\/p>\n<p>Or was the Bali setting (actually it\u2019s Australia) set the producers back a pretty penny?\u00a0The film\u2019s official trailer on YouTube suggests tax incentives lightened the financial load:<\/p>\n<p><em>Ticket to Paradise is filmed on location in Queensland, Australia, aided by incentives from the Australian federal government and from Screen Queensland\u2019s Production Attraction Strategy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Either way, for all the golden word of mouth\u00a0\u201cTicket\u201d might be a technical failure without its international grosses. Good thing the\u00a0rom-com is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl3949822721\/?ref_=bo_we_table_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crushing it overseas<\/a>, streaking toward the $100 million mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google \u201cthe rom-com is dead\u201d and you\u2019ll find a crush of think pieces bemoaning the genre\u2019s fall. 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