Posted on 10/13/2018 12:42:01 PM PDT by simpson96
Michael Moore set the record for the highest-grossing documentary of all time (1989’s “Roger & Me”). Then he broke his own record (2002’s “Bowling for Columbine”). Then he broke it again, with what remains the highest-grossing doc in US history, 2004’s “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Along the way he won an Oscar and predicted Donald Trump’s presidential victory when no one else saw it coming.
That was then. These days Moore’s IRS-reported income is (according to legal papers filed by his ex-wife, Kathleen Glynn) negative-$350,862 (in 2014) and negative-$221,025 (in 2016). He’s still making movies, but America is yawning. Already there have been two Trump-bashing ones, and each failed spectacularly. “Michael Moore in TrumpLand,” released in hopes that it would sway the 2016 vote against The Donald, grossed $149,000 two years ago. This fall, his latest Trump takedown, “Fahrenheit 11/9,” has grossed barely $6 million despite being rolled out nationwide in some 1,700 theaters while Moore was undertaking a media blitz that included appearances on Bill Maher and a one-hour special with Chris Hayes on MSNBC. “Where to Invade Next,” a 2016 movie praising Euro-socialism, grossed $3.8 million that same year.(snip)
It’s a sad reality for the man who once considered himself General Motors’ greatest scourge, but, to steal a phrase, General Motors is alive and Michael Moore is dead. That his hometown of Flint, Mich., once again made national headlines a couple of years ago during a water scare should have provided a boost to his career, but Moore’s usual grandstanding on the subject attracted little attention. He simply doesn’t matter anymore.
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Jobs not Blobs! Ha. Love it!
When Moore started, Maury Povich was also popular - the kind of shocking, tabloid, funny-yet-conspiratorial journalism was still en-vogue and acceptable.
Moore never moved on from that, but people are not interested in that style any longer.
It might be more apt to recognize that GM was on life support briefly, in Chapter 11, in 2009.
Nope....not photoshopped
The good thing with negative incomes is that it forces you to eat less. I wish that’s what’s happenning to Michael Fat Moore.
I don’t think he ever met a pie or gallon of ice cream he didn’t eat whole.
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