An American Carol: Filmmakers are NOT Saying there is a Conspiracy

publiusforum.com ^ | 10/10/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Once again, we see the long knives sharpened against the right by employing innuendo and outright lies. This time it is against the movie An American Carol. On Tuesday, I reported that there was some concern that ticket sales for the movie were being diverted to other movies at certain theaters across the country. But, I never said there was a "conspiracy" to do so. The filmmakers also attempted to do some detective work to find out the veracity of the claims. But they didn't call it a conspiracy either. Apparently simply asking the question, though, is too much for Wonkette and Huffington Post to handle. They had to gin it up as some wild-eyed claim of a "conspiracy" on our part.

In her inimitably profane and unprofessional style, Wonkette claimed the filmmakers are saying some great, leftist conspiracy is destroying the movie. The next day, an entry at the Huffington Post asserted the same thing. From there the lefty blogs took over to add to the din. Unfortunately for their hyperbole, the movie folks never asserted any such thing (for that matter, neither did I).

In fact, the folks that produced An American Carol went so far as to take down their page offering movie goers a place to report the incorrect ticket sales. I have been told by a spokesman from Mpower pictures that they had no intention of claiming there was some nationwide conspiracy being mounted against their film and that they will not be making any further public comments for the time being. But, there have been reports from many theaters that, among other things, fans have been handed tickets stubs from other movies instead of from the movie they came to see. It was the responsible thing to do, in my opinion, to give fans a place to report the matter if they felt they had been one of those defrauded....

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[Mobile Vulgus]

Some people will do anything to destroy this movie, I guess.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

What did your ticket stub say?

[massgopguy]

Some people who saw it said they were issued tickets to movies that had been out for five weeks. This gives more money to the theater. Ask for the manager. this is illegal.

[xJones]

You could have given a link like this:An American Carol

The Dems and the powers that be are doing their best steal, swipe, win-at-any-cost this election, and the Zuckers are that rarest of breeds; brave Hollywood conservatives. The 'black listing' of Hollywood liberal-socialist-communists in the 1950s never reached the level of what happens to Hollywoods conservatives in the last 20 years at least.

IOW, I hadn't heard about the film before, but now it's ticket buying time!

[Spunky]

I had heard opening day for "An American Carol" was Oct. 5th. So I checked to see which theaters it was going to be at. It was listed for one theater only in a very small town about 30 miles from us.

I will keep checking to see if it comes to my community. We have a theater that has 12 theaters in it and it was not listed for any of the 12.

[est1995]

ITs only in about HALF the theaters here in Pittsburgh.
I was going to go see it last Friday. But couldn’t find a theater anywhere near my house.

[OneWingedShark]

What do you do then? Press charges?

[cameraeye]

Get it out on DVD as soon as possible. I’ll watch it with my friends and I will not support any movie palace who wants to censure us from seeing this film. If Moore made this, all 12 screens would be showing it and the reviews would be out of this world. barf!

[Last Dakotan]

I still have them - they say GHOST TOWN.