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.
"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?
Through good timing or dumb luck, no big movies opened that weekend. Fahrenheit 9/11's numbers are regularly dwarfed.
Fellowship Adventure Group? LOL
But what will the numbers be next week after all the DNC, Democratic party faithful, Bush haters, Communists, Socialists, Marxists, ANSWER members, TeeRayZAH and John, have seen it?
Numbers fall dramatically and he will go back to the dustbin of irrelevancy.
That's like Carl Lewis taking a bunch of first graders out to a track and then beating them in a 100m race and proclaiming himself one of the greatest sprinters of all time.
I rented "Bubba Ho-Tep" instead. It is about a good-ol-boy Egyptian mummy with cowboy boots and a 10-gallon hat living in east Texas. He feeds off the souls of people in a nursing home. When two of the residents, a geriatric Elvis and JFK (the first one, played by Ossie Davis) learn of it, they proceed to battle evil (in an electric wheelchair and a walker).
In other words, it was much more truthful and more of a documentary than Michael Moores film was.
My step-son Valley Forge College Sophomore said it was pure liberal bilge. I'm hoping more young people will come out more disgusted with the liberals than before they went in.
I'm proud to say it is impossible to see Fahrenshite 911 in Lincoln NE; none of our movie theaters are showing it.
Then it's NOT the highest-grossing documentary of all time, if other types of documentaries have to be excluded in order to make that point. It's like saying that the Houston Astros (currently in 5th place) of the NL Central are the top-ranked team in the division, if you exclude teams from the Midwest from that calculation.
My guess is they were careful WHERE to market this pig's movie. It probably appeared at all the liberal Democratic enclaves.