Domestic violence activists want people to boycott the new ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ movie in order to support brutalized women.

#50dollarsnot50shades is going viral on social media and is urging moviegoers to boycott “Fifty Shades of Grey” and use the money they would spend on tickets, popcorn and drinks to support a domestic violence shelter or agency.

“The money you would have spent on movie tickets and a babysitter or movie tickets, popcorn and drinks will go towards serving victims of abusive relationships like the one glamorized in the50 Shades series,” the #50dollarsnot50shades campaign says on its Facebook page. “Hollywood doesn’t need your money; abused women do.”

The campaign currently has over 4,000 likes on Facebook, and is backed by several anti-abuse organizations including the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, which has called the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie as a movie that grooms “a young girl for sadistic sex”.

The new campaign says “Fifty Shades of Grey” glamorizes violence against women.

From the Washington Times:

“Fifty Shades” makes “violence sexy” but doesn’t capture the grave dangers and consequences that can occur in real-life controlling, abusive relationships, said the National Center on Sexual Exploitation and its allies, London Abused Women’s Center and Stop Porn Culture.

Other alarming themes in the book are coercion, humiliation, degradation, stalking, isolation, manipulation, physical torture, intimidation, possessiveness, jealousy and emotional and physical abuse, they said.

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation might be right. According to research on readers of the “Fifty Shades of Grey”, the book is linked to unhealthy behaviors.

Young adult women who read “Fifty Shades of Grey” are more likely than nonreaders to exhibit signs of eating disorders and have a verbally abusive partner, finds a new study led by a Michigan State University researcher.

Further, women who read all three books in the blockbuster “Fifty Shades” erotic romance series are at increased risk of engaging in binge drinking and having multiple sex partners. [MSU]

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Ryan Reynolds Reveals Secrets Behind ‘Deadpool’, and Why ‘The Green Lantern’ was a Failure

Ryan Reynolds’ career is about to make a comeback. After several big-budge bombs like The Green Lantern and R.I.P.D., the 38-year old actor has several new movies on the way. His latest production Mississippi Grind was a major hit during the Sundance Film Festival, and he has a new comedy called The Voices coming out on Friday. But, the biggest movie for Reynolds’ is the upcoming X-Men spinoff, Deadpool. 

During an interview with Yahoo! Movies, the actor revealed why The Green Lantern was such a failure and provides some interesting acting advice for aspiring actors. Ultimately, Ryan Reynolds explains that you should make sure you read the script for a movie before you agree to doing a role.

When we shot Green Lantern, nobody auditioning for the role of Green Lantern was given the opportunity to read the script, because the script didn’t exist. I’m not complaining about it — it was an opportunity of a lifetime, and if I were to go back and retrace my steps, I would probably do everything the exact same way. But script, that’s what’s different on this one.

Reynolds also revealed that leaking the Deadpool script and footage actually put pressure on the movie studios to make the X-Men spinoff.

Comic-book fans wanted a Deadpool spinoff for years, but it seemed like it was a dead proposition. How did the project suddenly get on the fast track to production?
Leaked test footage. Exclusively the leaked test footage, 100 percent.

Who leaked it?
I would have, if I had known it would have caused that! Honestly, we all thought Tim Miller, the director, had leaked it. But I have since investigated that enough, in quiet moments when he was beyond the point of being penalized by anybody, and he said that he really didn’t do it. The initial [leak] came from Fox they think — someone recorded the footage on their iPhone and then released it. And then once that happened, somebody hacked into Blurred Studios and got the original footage in high-res and put it online.

So when you saw it online were you nervous? Excited?
I was excited, because you can look back at an email chain from all of us, the core group involved in Deadpool, saying “We should leak this, f—-,” like three years ago. Saying, “Hey, if this thing is going to stagnate, one of us should just say ‘Whoops, I slipped it online by accident.’” And nobody seemed to want to nut up and do that, myself included. Someone did it for us, years later, when we all completely assumed it was dead in the water.

Now, we get to make the movie. We don’t get to make it with the budget of most superhero movies, but we get to make it the way we want to make it, so that’s even more exciting than having a catered lunch.

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True-Life American Sniper TV Series is coming soon from The Weinstein Co.

Following the massive success of Warner Bros. ‘American Sniper‘, The Weinstein Co. is planning to develop a true-life sniper TV series.

Based on the Nicholas Irving book The Reaper: The Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers, production is set to begin in the summer of 2015.

Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Irving was the U.S. Army 3rdRanger Battalion’s deadliest sniper. He was the first African American to serve as a sniper in his battalion, and became known as “The Reaper” by the end of his active service. During a four-month period in mid-2009, Irving tallied 33 kills as a master sniper. [via]

“The Reaper is a gripping story about a great American soldier that we are so proud to be a part of,” said TWC co-chairman Harvey Weinstein in a statement. “Nick Irving’s true bravery and heroism will make for some of the most riveting television ever seen and inspire patriotism in anyone who experiences it.”

The controversial American Sniper had a record-breaking run at the box office making $316 million worldwide. American Sniper was based on the story of CHris Kyle and directed by Clint Eastwood. The movie has become the biggest war-themed movie of all time beating Saving Private Ryan by nearly $100 million.

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Fifty Shades of Grey is not a movie you will want to watch with your mom.

The film adaptation of the bestselling novel by E.L. James will include approximately 20 entire minutes of sex scenes within its 100 minute movie, according to reports. That means one out of every five minutes in the movie will feature sex.

Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson, Marcia Gay Harden and Luke Grimes star in the film that centers on a student who takes a shine to a troubled businessman.

Fifty Shades of Grey hits theaters on February 13.

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