Nolte: Kelly Tran’s Queer, Super-Woke ‘Wedding Banquet’ Humiliated at Box Office

Kelly Tran’s The Wedding Banquet, which was advertised as a big, widely-released, queer, super-woke, gay remake died like few movies ever have at the box office this weekend. This isn’t get woke, go broke. This is get woke, shove a stick in your spokes, hit the ground, start to choke, have a stroke, and then croak broke. The Wedding Banquet opened Friday on 1,142 theaters and made exactly — tee hee — $922,906. Maybe you can locate why Normal People might not find it appealing from this description: [Kelly Marie] Tran leads the heartfelt rom-com as Angela, a scientist who...