Posted on 06/28/2004 7:37:26 AM PDT by daviddennis
I figured people would be interested to see how it's been doing. One thing for sure: A huge profit for Michael Moore and friends.
You'd think the oldest trick in the documentary marketing book - saying your film is being "suppressed" by evil forces - wouldn't fool so many people, but if nothing else Michael Moore's chutzpah has paid off big-time.
Part of me genuinely admires his marketing prowness. I'm just surprised the public fell for it so hard.
That being said, I doubt that it's going to influence the election since the audience will be virtually all-left.
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Amazing. Not good, mind you - but amazing.
This reportedly was a queerfest in Dallas, Tx.
Two words.
No Legs.
Down 25% Sunday, from Saturdays numbers.
"If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture. "
rank | prev. | title | studio | weekend | total |
1 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | Lions Gate | $21.80 million | $21.96 million | |
2 | White Chicks | Sony | $19.60 million | $27.10 million |
So, while F' 9/11 (which is what Moore really thinks about that day in our country's history) won the weekend reciepts, White Chicks has grossed more.
Well, this is just WRONG.
If you compare The Passion to F911 on an apples to apples basis The Passion was still a much bigger success.
Movie - F911
#Screens - 868
Wed - 83,922
Thur - 74,400
Fri - 8,200,000
Sat - 7,800,000
Sun - 5,800,000
Totals - 21,958,322
Adjust - F911 x 3.463
#Screens - 3005.884
Wed - 290,622
Thur - 257,647
Fri - 28,396,600
Sat - 27,011,400
Sun - 20,085,400
Totals - 76,041,669
Movie - Passion
#Screens - 3006
Wed - 26,556,573
Thur - 14,781,316
Fri - 22,909,948
Sat - 33,077,939
Sun - 27,860,195
Totals - 125,185,971
So F911 may be #1 as a DocuFraud but not much else. Oh, yeah there was that French thing, but who cares?
Rank | Prev. |
Title
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Studio
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Weekend
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Total
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1 |
Fahrenheit 9/11
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Lions Gate
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$21.80 million
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$21.96 million
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2 |
White Chicks
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Sony
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$19.60 million
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$27.10 million
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6 million is alot of money, but it ain't huge.
same in south florida.
new movie choice was this and white chix. If anything it seems they set it up with zero competition for those who go and see "whatever" is in the theater.
I think it is pointless to wonder and worry how much money the Moore film is going to make. It is going to make a lot a money...It can already claim a lot of firsts - highest grossing documentary ever. Has it opened in Europe, South America,etc, yet? If it hasn't, then I wouldn't be surprised if this thing earns over a $100 million. Marketing strategy,as mentioned, worked...
Instead of worrying about how much money is made, the ultimate come-back and commentary on the movie would be for W to win a convincing victory in November...
Through good timing or dumb luck, no big movies opened that weekend. Fahrenheit 9/11's numbers are regularly dwarfed.
I would. Every Bush-hater has now seen it, and who else will want to?
Some great points. F 9/11 opened against NOTHING. It was a really easy weekend to win first, by design I'm sure. When Spiderman 2 opens, it will be a distant third or fourth, is my prediction.
I must admit to being pretty annoyed with the celebratory tone of the news media regarding its success. Up their's.
We were going to see DodgeBall but after seeing the starts at the Kerry Rally, we opted for Terminal. I know Speilberg and Hanks are libs but I do not see them at Rallys. Certain people I will not support... and they are the ones like Bennifer and others who oppose openly my President at the time of war.
Fellowship Adventure Group? LOL
I wonder why they spent $10m on prints and advertising, which seems very high for a movie of this type, where the publicity is all done by Mr Moore. I would have thought $0 on ads would have worked out just fine and wouldn't have affected the box office one bit.
Also, $6m seems like a pretty bloated budget for what he did. I would have thought you could have made this film for under $1m.
It looks like you folks are right about "no legs" due to the substantial sales drop-off for Sunday. Still, I'll bet most of you would have been pretty happy to make $6 million (less distribution fees, but they're probably not huge) for maybe a year of work that was probably a lot of fun for him. And the DVD's already been bought up by the DNC for distribution near November, and even at wholesale that's huge revenues for Moore.
Finally, note that I posted the article to disclose the facts, not because I agree with the writer's slant. There's no question that The Passion is a much greater hit for its maker and is far more profitable.
D
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