Ender's Game is an One Hit Wonder

Ender’s Game didn't hit the ground running. In fact, it was jogging lightly on the ground. This film is projected to make less than $30M this weekend, and while you can say that's cute... It ain't. The film cost over $100M, and if the numbers are that low, nobody's going to take another risk on that mess.

Then you add the film's boycott and you got drama on tap. Lionsgate will probably cut their losses and move on. And hopefully, execs will think twice before supporting Anti-gay authors again.

Geeks OUT Responds to Lionsgate about the Ender's Game Boycott

Geeks OUT responded to Lionsgate's statement:

As proud members of the LGBT community, champions of creative freedom and honest self-expression, and a group at whom the film Ender’s Game is directly marketed, we appreciate Lionsgate’s record of doing good things and its admirable, strongly worded rejection of Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card’s and the National Organization for Marriage’s anti-gay activism. The simple fact is that Skip Ender’s Game has never been about the content of the novel or the film Ender’s Game. It’s about money. It’s about the money the company has already paid to Card and the potential millions he and the National Organization for Marriage stand to make off of the success of the film—our money. A benefit premiere, indeed any outreach to the LGBT community by Lionsgate, ought to be much appreciated. What’s clear is that whether or not they support his views, Lionsgate is standing by their man and their would-be blockbuster. They made the common, perhaps cynical, calculation that audiences wouldn’t connect Ender’s Game with Card’s very public homophobia—or wouldn’t care. Geeks OUT appreciates that most American families work for every dollar and care deeply about where that money goes and what it supports. Skip Ender's Game is not a threat; it is a reality. Our pledge adds hundreds of signatures every day from sci-fi fans around the world who would rather stay home than support homophobia. We have only just started and Geeks OUT and its allies are prepared to carry on past November 1. Nothing Card nor Lionsgate has said changes the fact that skipping Ender's Game is the easiest way to ensure none of your dollars go to Orson Scott Card's and the National Organization for Marriage's extreme anti-gay agenda.

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Geeks OUT launches an Online Protest against Ender's Game the Movie

The folks over at Geeks OUT have launched, "Skip Ender's Game". It's an online protest that tells the masses to avoid the film at all cost. The reason for this is due to the anti-gay writer of EG, Orson Scott Card.

Their site states:

By pledging to Skip Ender’s Game, we can send a clear and serious message to Card and those that do business with his brand of anti-gay activism — whatever he’s selling, we’re not buying. The queer geek community will not subsidize his fear-mongering and religious bullying. We will not pay him to demean, insult, and oppress us.

And that's not all, Geeks OUT are hosting events in major cities during the movie's debut.

This group has proven to be effective with their protest tactics. They brought mega attention to Scott's Superman comic and prompt DC Comics to pull back. I'm so curious to see how this all plays out.

Check out Geeks OUT's site, here