“Gosnell” Movie Profiling Serial-Killer Abortionist Stays in Top 20 Despite Censorship
National Rachel del Guidice Oct 29, 2018 | 8:47AM Washington, DC
The movie about Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortionist in Philadelphia who went to prison after being convicted of the murder of three babies, briefly cracked the
Top 10 at the U.S. box office but also continues to face what its producers call censorship.
“We have been banned, blocked, and attacked,” Phelim McAleer, who co-produced “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer” with his wife, Ann McElhinney, said in a statement Friday to The Daily Signal.
“The mainstream media refused to review the film despite a national release of a movie about a subject [abortion] that is a major political issue,” McAleer said. “NPR refused our advertising, Facebook has blocked our ads, and theaters yanked our film, even though it was a success.”
“Gosnell” has taken in an estimated $3.2 million and was on 467 screens as of Sunday,
according to Box Office Mojo, which placed it unofficially at No. 18 among all movies in theaters.
The movie opened Oct. 12 and was the No. 12 film that weekend,
after hitting No. 10 for one day.
The movie tells the
true story of Gosnell and how his 30-plus years as an abortion doctor ended in a case alleging multiple murders at his clinic, dubbed the “house of horrors.” . . . .
