Posted on 12/17/2005 11:10:22 AM PST by dangus
Really? I thought Affliction broke even with a little to spare...oh well, still a good movie.
I've been in the indie film biz for five years. Rule of thumb is that the film must do 250% of production and P&A in BO in order to break even. That translates to $53 million in this case. This film will not come close to one third of that. Foreign and rentals will not ride to the rescue.
Go see Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Have any numbers on Nobody's Fool and Light Sleeper?
My attitude is: gay cowboys? Fine, but not for me. I don't think anyone's updated the western for modern times since Hud (Horseman Pass by). But maybe they'll start making small movies again that are about actual people and not CGI.
Shane Black? No thanks.
Though he was funny in Burn Hollywood, Burn.
Light Sleeper - cost (w/o p&a) was $5 million. It did $1 million domestic BO. (I thought it sucked...if you like Schrader see Blue Collar).
Ah, yes. And of course........Hollywood thought they pulled the wool over our eyes by ramming yet another thinly-veiled gayfest down the collective US throat.
I think the producers will be standing sheepishly before the studio heads to answer for themselves.
Big Paul Shrader fan (with the stubborn exception of Taxi Driver). Did you know he didn't see a movie until he was a teenager because his parents were religious?
Walk the Line was incredible!
Go see Walk the Line. Phoenix is amazing.
Yep, a Calvinist IIRC. Hardcore came out of that.
He's best when not dealing with extreme subjects or dealing with the banality of them. Light Sleeper is a much better movie than Auto Focus.
But he's still uner appreciated.
Want to see a great performance by Bruce Willis, check out In Country.
Best news I have heard today. I hope that gay cowboy movie disappears from the theaters very soon. They better not hope for DVD sales to help them, either. Most Americans are sick of Hollywood pushing this "lifestyle" on us.
Yeah Butt..."two thumbs up" where?
"Brokeback Mountain "
It looks like this sodomitic epic has lived up to its name.
Hollyweird - Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
I heard second hand , but I dont know fer shore, this is a sample of the script...
"Howdy pardner...I lost mah job at the fudge plant, which is a shame considerin all ah learned, and now ahm herdin sheep like ewe. Les ewe an me round up some sheep an head on over to Cowpoke Mountain. Me an ewe, bein cowpokes an all, should KNOW our way around, in the biblical sense of course.
When the moon rises, we kin sang some cowpoke songs, and serenade the ewes. After which time, we kin head over to Hog Waller and bond with each other. If ewe dont squeal on me, I wont squeal on ewe..."
Lindsay Graham is heartbroken.
Agree 100% about Walk the Line.
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