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'Fahrenheit 9/11' Ignites Box Office Passion
Box Office Mojo ^ | 06/27/2004 | Brandon Gray

Posted on 06/28/2004 7:37:26 AM PDT by daviddennis

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I omitted information about other movies in the post; all FR-relevent information is here.
1 posted on 06/28/2004 7:37:27 AM PDT by daviddennis
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To: Dog Gone; RonDog; Rabid Dog

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.

D


2 posted on 06/28/2004 7:40:54 AM PDT by daviddennis (;)
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To: daviddennis

Amazing. Not good, mind you - but amazing.


3 posted on 06/28/2004 7:41:58 AM PDT by NCPAC ("Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: daviddennis

This reportedly was a queerfest in Dallas, Tx.


4 posted on 06/28/2004 7:41:59 AM PDT by Ben Chad
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To: daviddennis

Two words.


No Legs.


5 posted on 06/28/2004 7:43:20 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: daviddennis

Down 25% Sunday, from Saturdays numbers.


6 posted on 06/28/2004 7:43:23 AM PDT by jbstrick (War is not fought for peace. War is fought for victory.)
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To: daviddennis
Do let's recall the words of Christopher Hitchens...

"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. "

Unfairenheit 9/11

7 posted on 06/28/2004 7:52:37 AM PDT by Mr.Atos
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I don't understand. The movie "White Chicks" was released on the same day and has sold more tickets. Where's the stories? Here's the receipts...

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
Source: ET Movies Online

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.

8 posted on 06/28/2004 7:53:55 AM PDT by mattdono (To President Reagan: Rest now. Look in on us. Enjoy eternity. I'll see you again some day.)
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To: daviddennis

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?


9 posted on 06/28/2004 7:55:28 AM PDT by Jaded (Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain)
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Sorry...that table came out a little whacked out...Here's the table, just a bit more readable.

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

10 posted on 06/28/2004 7:57:03 AM PDT by mattdono (To President Reagan: Rest now. Look in on us. Enjoy eternity. I'll see you again some day.)
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To: daviddennis
According to the article, Moore's film has netted under 6 million in profit on its first weekend after which, IMO, this movie will see a steep falloff in attendance.

6 million is alot of money, but it ain't huge.

11 posted on 06/28/2004 7:58:00 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Ben Chad

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.


12 posted on 06/28/2004 8:02:46 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: skeeter

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...


13 posted on 06/28/2004 8:03:34 AM PDT by Maringa
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To: daviddennis
Around three million people elected Fahrenheit 9/11 to be the No. 1 movie of America.

Through good timing or dumb luck, no big movies opened that weekend. Fahrenheit 9/11's numbers are regularly dwarfed.

14 posted on 06/28/2004 8:07:03 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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I wouldn't be surprised if this thing earns over a $100 million.

I would. Every Bush-hater has now seen it, and who else will want to?

15 posted on 06/28/2004 8:08:44 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: mattdono

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.


16 posted on 06/28/2004 8:08:46 AM PDT by Jadge
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To: Maringa
I could care less how much Moore makes. I was simply saying IMO this film's luster will wear off very quickly - it won't, in the final analysis, be 'huge'.

I must admit to being pretty annoyed with the celebratory tone of the news media regarding its success. Up their's.

17 posted on 06/28/2004 8:11:30 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Know your rights

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.


18 posted on 06/28/2004 8:15:32 AM PDT by JFC
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To: daviddennis
Fellowship Adventure Group -- the latter quickly formed by Miramax chiefs Bob and Harvey Weinstein to release the $6 million picture after buying it back from corporate parent Disney.

Fellowship Adventure Group? LOL

19 posted on 06/28/2004 8:17:24 AM PDT by rabidralph (My pit bull drives an SUV.)
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To: skeeter; Jaded; mattdono; Mr.Atos; jbstrick; hobbes1

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


20 posted on 06/28/2004 8:27:44 AM PDT by daviddennis (;)
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