Hello, Hollywood...anyone there with a calculator...?
It says Narnia has made $90.3M, BBM has made $1.7M. That's including yesterday, when it opened on a lot more screens and doubled its gross.
BBM isn't going to bomb. Its budget was $20M vs. $150M for Narnia, it's never going to come close to Narnia in its gross (how many large families are going to see BBM?) but no one is expecting it too. All the liberal married women in my office want to see it. Unfortunately it's probably going to win a lot of awards because gays are in with Hollywood and it's a way for Barbra S. and company to say "f@ck you" to Red America.
Its success on the few screens where it is playing means it's going to be released in a lot more places over the next few weeks, until they reach the edge of their market. It's not going to play in rural or exurban America, but it will be within driving distance of most everyone who'd want to see it, which is not where it is now (it's only in a few cities, almost all in the northeast.) Looking at these numbers is like reading the 2 PM exit polls.
Naw, all they have is "attitude." Cramming this movie down our thoats and insisting this movie is beyond excellent by all the liberal reviewers is their version of a "victory" over conservatives, no matter what it costs them in lost revenues. Oscar sponsors are heavily vested in advertising within the gay venue:
Walgreens takes heat for sponsoring 2006 Gay Games in Chicago
Budweizer sponsors gay pride events
Proctor & Gamble bedroom scene ad
Ford - driven to gay advertising
They've attempted to remove the word "Christmas" and we've raised a firestorm of objection to THAT. We now have the "insertion" of gaydom into our lives. TV, cable and satellite are filled with it. It's movies, magazines, newspapers, groceries, vehicles and other items that pander for our $$, forcing us to back their support for the gay lifestyle, like it or not. Every time we buy P&G products (Tide/Downey), we contribute to it and provide them more $$ to invest in the movies and "causes dear to their little hearts."