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Posted on 01/20/2006 10:16:53 AM PST by Lee_Marvin
Jumping off a big win at the kudofest Monday and helped by an otherwise weak field, "Brokeback Mountain" garnered the impressive achievement of a solid No. 1 win at the box office Tuesday and Wednesday despite playing just 682 theaters. With about $740,000 both days, Focus' cowboy love story beat "Glory Road," which was on 2,222 playdates, by approximately $50,000 Tuesday and $100,000 Wednesday.
That puts "Brokeback" in a very strong position as it expands this weekend to 1,194 playdates -- a significant boost from the 800-900 Focus was planning before the Globes victories.
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Focus has been regularly expanding "Brokeback" by 100-200 playdates per week for the past few weeks, but decided to take advantage of excitement among exhibs and the public after the Globes.
"We have the opportunity now with these exhibitors to play at least through the Academy Award nominations," said Focus distrib toppertopper Jack Foley.
If, as expected, "Brokeback" garners a slew of Oscar noms on Jan. 31, it could go significantly wider then.
Pic will push into remaining small cities, as well as further into the suburbs, this weekend.
"Brokeback" also has a big weekend overseas, where it's opening in Spain, Italy, France, Norway and Taiwan. It's cumed $6.1 million foreign so far, mostly via two strong weeks in the U.K., where it's playing on 275 screens.
Pic bowed Wednesday in France with 155 prints, becoming the No. 2 pic in the country and the highest-ranked in Paris with 15,397 admissions. In all of France, it finished with 37,331 admissions, missing the No. 1 spot by about 1,000.
http://www.variety.com/VR1117936467.html
Brent Bozell made this interesting comment in his Townhall.com column today:
" "Brokeback Mountain" has made a profit now, grossing $30 million for Universal Studios largely in large blue-state metropolitan areas with devoted gay audiences. It is, in one sense, an event for gays like "The Passion of the Christ" was for Christians. You don't just see it. You see it repeatedly. You're in a sense "voting" for it, for Hollywood to make more of it. Gay activists called it their "Gone With the Wind."
I think that explains some of the movie's "popularity".
Gay sheepherders? Man, that's b*a*a*a*a*a*a*d!
Variety abbreviates everything. It's short for cumulative earnings.
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Domestic Total as of Jan. 18, 2006: $33,545,000 (Estimate)
Distributor: Focus Features
Release Date: December 9, 2005
Running Time: 2 hrs. 14 min.
Production Budget: $14 million
MPAA Rating: R
Est. Marketing Costs: $14 million
MUNICH
Domestic Total as of Jan. 18, 2006: $34,571,050
Distributor: Universal
Release Date: December 23, 2005
Running Time: 2 hrs. 44 min.
Production Budget: $70 million
MPAA Rating: R
Est. Marketing Costs: $35 million
The truth is that most of America is turned-off by Hollywood's insane leftism. Revenues were down again in 2005: -8%. Between lousy movies and technology's ability to deliver to people what they want, Hollywood is on that long slide to oblivion.
Was this movie originally titled "The Marlbutt Man"?
I may actully go check it out !...uhh not really
"...they are gay sheepherders."
Redundant?
your wives = their wives
And People did an atricle on real Gay cowboys! What's sad is the men they picked out look like a bunch of child molester's!
I'm sure there are a lot of sick queers out there - having consumed their 10th bag of popcorn while sitting through the 10th showing of this piece of trash.
"Pic bowed Wednesday in France with 155 prints, becoming the No. 2 pic in the country and the highest-ranked in Paris with 15,397 admissions. In all of France, it finished with 37,331 admissions, missing the No. 1 spot by about 1,000."
Heheh.
I am insanely irate that Hollywood and the MSM have demonized an otherwise well-written piece of American literature! The original piece of fiction, written by Annie Proulx, had one, maybe two, paragraphs discussing the homosexual exchange of these men, and it was never portrayed in an overtly graphic manner.
The end of the story was the two of them parting ways realizing that their "experience" was something that they'll both keep to themselves, but only one could truly put in the back of his mind.
This is just my take, but it was a story I read several times in my college English courses. I hate that it's being demonized.
The question will be, "Is this enough money for the other studios to do, Queers in Space, etc."
I guess this is "success" in Hollywart these days.
Pushing agendas no sane folk would ever swallow, no matter how much 'honey' you put on or in it.
Nah won't happen and if it did MSM would not print it. Even if this movie made only $20.00 they'd call it a success.
Doesn't really bother me too much as I won't be seeing it. I hope "Walk the Line" takes the oscars though.
January historically is the worst month of the year for movies.
Look at the movies that have been released this month that brokebutt moutain is competing with.
Grandma's boy, Glory road, Last holiday, hoodwinked, and Hostel.
and by the way, BoxofficeMojo says bareback mountain was ranked 9th in box office receipts last weekend. #1?
The MSM is full of crap as usual.
King Kong and Narnia still pulled in more money that weekend.
http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
PS: nothing special will be released between here and about 1 month after the Oscars. Maybe Pink Panther (Is that a gay title or what?).
More like bending over a table with their pants down.
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