Posted on 12/19/2005 3:56:40 PM PST by jcav
Will "Brokeback Mountain" play in Plano? In the movie's first weekend in the Dallas suburb where the 2004 Mel Gibson film "The Passion of the Christ" earned some of its biggest grosses, the answer appeared to be yes.
After setting a record for the per-theater average for a dramatic movie in limited openings in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, critically acclaimed "Brokeback Mountain" faced its next obstacle as Focus Features expanded the so-called gay cowboy movie to strategically selected smaller cities.
The movie, directed by Ang Lee and starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as two ranch hands who develop an enduring emotional bond, "Brokeback Mountain" took in an additional $2.36 million in its first foray outside those three metropolitan cities, rising to No. 8 at the box office, Focus Features estimated Sunday. Its 10-day total is $3.3 million.
The closely watched debut in Plano, Texas, "was a revelation about the accessibility of this movie," said Focus head of distribution Jack Foley. "This is not gay-dependent. Attendance at those theaters indicates the film has the attention of suburban moviegoers."
It was the first time since Disney's animated "Pocahontas" in 1995 that a movie in fewer than 100 theaters cracked the top 10 box office ranking, according to tracking service Nielsen EDI Inc.
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If anyone in Hollywood is foolish enough to thow a big budget at the next gay sales pitch they hear, it'll only take one or two box office flops to correct the market.
Over the long term there will be a sufficient qauantity of gay films with realistic budgets to satisfy a niche market and turn a profit.
Every gay in this country will pay to see this movie several times. It will have a gay cult following in larger cities where more gays live.
Every gay in this country will pay to see this movie several times. It will have a gay cult following in larger cities where more gays live
Not likely.
I should have said 'gay romances' because non-erotic gay movies a la 'The Birdcage' have a much broader appeal.
I find it totally amusing how Hollywood and the excessively adulterous left have promoted a film solely because of its gay message and do not even one time consider that these two homo's are married men who commit adultry against their wives because they want to have sex with each other.
The GAY choosing left is so proud of this too!
Yep. Titanic all over again.
Kinda like the illegal drug trade, huh? Massive profits in the %multi-1000 and higher range.
>>>"Hey this looks like a nice family film, it's even got that girl from 'The Princess Diaries' in it."<<<
...and she even flashes her bare naked boobies in it.
the be nice yups and gen x and y meteros ...basically the same folks who would go see Michael Moore....will be the ones to go see this
aside from cakeboys...but not in the same numbers
Here's an excerpt from an honest review (pluggedinonline.com):
The sexual interaction shared by Jack and Ennis is usually rough-and-tumble. Newsweek calls it "fierce and full-blooded." There's lots of pushing, shoving, grappling and holding. In fact, one bit of foreplay/horseplay gets so physical that it ends up in a short-lived fistfight. Several scenes show the two men groping each other and kissing. (Half the time it looks more like forceful mashing than kissing.) Once, the camera keeps staring as kisses give way to anal sex. (There's no nudity shown, but the sequence is explicit; it includes sexual motions and sounds.)
Ennis and Jack both have heterosexual sex, too. Ennis and Alma get physical twice. Both scenes are graphic; one includes breast nudity. The day they meet, Jack and Lureen make out and prepare to go further. Lureen is so eager to make it happen that she strips off her shirt and bra to show Jack (and moviegoers) her breasts.
But those straight relationships are shown to ultimately matter little to Jack and Ennis. They just can't wait to cheat on their wives when the opportunities present themselves.
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I think it only cost between 15-20 million
between US and foreign and video, it could very well break even
unfortunately
queer nation will continue to push in hollywood and the visual and print medias as long as they continue to be disproportionately employed as such in those industries
i know music row here in nashville fairly well and the homosexual community has now about gained the same foothold in middle management that middle aged career women lifers used to command...and it shows....just look at CMT
if it's going on here in nashville where queerdom is now omnipresent then one can only imagine hollywood, madison avenue, newsroom , networks etc
I'm confused, isn't 3.3 million in ten days a complete bomb?
LOL! That's quite a sense of humor you have!
Dr. Ted Baehr of MovieGuide said the film has generated a tremendous amount of public awareness, including positive reviews from ABC and other mainstream media outlets — which have, in turn, invited him to comment on the movie.
His assessment?
"If you're not looking at this through the eyes of someone caught up in the 'love affair' between these two men," Baehr said, "then the movie appears to be twisted, laughable, frustrating and boring Neo-Marxist homosexual propaganda."
In other words, he didn't like it.
Whether it can draw large audiences may well be the real test — a sign of how successful gay activists have been.
Price said the movie will probably have trouble drawing an audience — because it has what he called a high "ick" factor.
That includes, Baehr explained, a "San Quentin-type rape scene" of sex between the two cowboys.
"If they're not vomiting their way out of the theater when they see that scene, they are certainly going to be uncomfortable, and even in the uncomfortable aspects, they are going to be bored silly," he said.
He does not expect people to recommend the film to friends.
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>>I'm confused, isn't 3.3 million in ten days a complete bomb?
Not necessarily. You have to look at how many screens it's playing on. This movie opened in 5 theaters, and expanded to 69 this last weekend. In contrast, Narnia is playing in over 3,600 theaters. It won't be known for a few more weeks, when it's playing in at least a few hundred theaters, whether this movie will be a success or not.
Romeo and Juliet was a hetero love story; they got married; there was a tragic ending.
I don't see any parallel to BBM.
Umm.. I admit it's been quite a while, but last time I saw the play Juliet took the Friar's elixir the effects of which would mimic death - so that she could avoid the arranged marriage with Paris. Romeo who is exiled vows to poison himself in her tomb, where he finds and kills Paris, then poisons himself. Juliet awakes to find Romeo dead and stabs herself with his dagger. And everyone lives tragically ever after!
Well, except for Romeo and Juliet, of course, who are presumably in hell. In the gnarled wood of the suicides in the Seventh Level of Hell, to be precise.
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