Win one for the Gipper! Ronald Reagan film tops in home sales following Trump victory

nypost.com:

film “Reagan” has surged to the top of the home sales charts following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 5.“Reagan” was listed as #2 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list overall Monday for DVD, Blu-ray and digital download sales.It was listed No.

1 over the weekend, the movie’s publicist said.The team that created “Reagan” cited similarities between the two Republican giants and the synergies between Trump’s successful campaign and the movie that retells the life story of Reagan, a popular two-term president and previously a Hollywood actor.Reagan earned the nickname “the Gipper” for his first big role as an actor portraying gravely ill football player George Gipp in the 1940 film classic “Knute Rockne, All American.” Gipp was in his hospital bed, when he asked coach Knute Rockne to have the team “Win just one for the Gipper.”“First and foremost, Reagan believed in America and Americans.

I believe Trump feels the same. Reagan was, and Trump is, willing to fight for what they believed was right,” “Reagan” screenwriter Howard Klausner told The Post.Asked if the Reagan film will do well with home sales, he said, “I do.

I believe people are just consuming the overwhelming majority of their filmed entertainment in the home now.” Actor Robert Davi, who played Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev in the film and is a staunch Trump backer, said, “The film showed how Reagan was demonized just as Trump was.”He said he was “elated” by Trump’s victory and was in Palm Beach with the president-elect for the victory celebration.“They were both red, white and blue.