Posted on 12/01/2013 7:44:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
You are right.
It’s from Santorum’s company, just like the people who directed and produced movies like Courageous, October Baby went basically through an independent movie company.
We have movies from Warner Brothers, doesn’t mean Warner Brothers wrote it but sure, had a big part in creating, director, producing it.
Panned by the usual People Against Goodness And Normalcy.
Do you also say Warner Brothers didn’t create certain movies either?
Salon has paid a “journalist” to do a hate/hit piece on Rick Santorum....
The clearing house/stat sheet web site for movies that I consult is boxofficemojo.com
So I went there...in the opening weekend of the movie, it was only showing on five screens. Hey, it is the studio’s first release, it is admittedly and obviously a low budget, no-star film....and it was #37 for the weekend. By the way, it’s “per screen” gross was $13,000...which was higher than the #1 movie for the weekend, Thor.
So the next weekend, The Christmas Candle added several screens to its showing: about 387 additional movie screens ran the flick.
The additional screens naturally lowered its “per screen” gross, but it also made it the MOST IMPROVED gross amount from the previous week...an astounding increase of over 1,000% from week one to week two. And it went from #37 in weekend one to #15.
Keep in mind, this is with minimal to zero publicity or attention from the media.
Who is to say it is a flop? Does this “journalist” know how to read box office charts? Does this “journalist” know the production budget? With its gross of $918,000 or so, perhaps the film even turned a profit. If turning a profit is the measure of a success, according to boxofficemojo.com, THOR has yet to break even.
Same with “Delivery Man”, “The Counselor” and “Illysium”, all that got big media attention.
Nope, this Salon piece is just another chunk of evidence that the mainstream media and the “professionals” who populate it despise classical Christian entertainment, and they ESPECIALLY hate it if a Christian man is in charge of a business.
Rick’s decision to criticize Cruz didn’t help.
Not a big Santorum fan, but am willing to give the guy a big break. He is a total noob at this, didn’t produce it and was only made CEO of the distribution company in July...
You are exactly right.
I bet the same site has given glorious reviews for other low-budget films that made even less on more screens.
The review is from the one of the 2 more leftwing obama ass-kissing newssites aside from Pulitico so coming from Salon it didn’t surprise me.
BTW- What in the world is the “Book Thief” about?
Oh, I know. Doesn’t surprise me one bit.
This guy will do anything for a buck
Provide legal representation for pro wrestlers, run for POTUS on Romney’s money mans dime, now hes a movie executive!
He apparently sucks at everything he tries, otherwise he’d still be in the Senate
and the media loves the anti-Catholic film “Philomena”
BTW- Why did someone remake “Old Boy”? Did they think the Korean original wasn’t good enough? :p
The media also LOVES the pro-pedophile French movie “Blue is the Warmest Color” which is lower than Christmas Candle and has been out for more than a month and a half.
It is showing at three theaters in DFW today.
And I must say, for a film that has not been heavily advertised, is competing against Hunger Games and Frozen, and is NOT in 3D (resulting in lower ticket prices), I think that the film did OK.
So was “It’s A Wonderful Life.”
These days, it's not uncommon for a studio to just have a distribution deal where it circulates and sells the film through its system in return for a piece of the revenue. Without knowing how the deal was structured, it's not really possible to tell the degree of creative control (if any) a distributor had.
One of our family members had a private screening of this movie and said it was very good.
Not enough homosexual pedophiles in the screenplay, undoubtedly...
$2,500 isn't really pathetic for non-mainstream movie.
Not a big Santorum fan, but am willing to give the guy a big break. He is a total noob at this, didn’t produce it and was only made CEO of the distribution company in July...
They’re showing it on 2 screens here in Albuquerque. 1 is a Cinemark theater with 16 screens and one is the Premiere Theater (small theater group that just opened one here in Rio Rancho - smaller community that abuts Abq).
I was surprised with a limited release we had 2 screens here.
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