Posted on 12/29/2005 6:11:43 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
LOS ANGELES - Who's afraid of a couple of gay cowboys? Not moviegoers, who helped "Brokeback Mountain" post the highest per-screen average over the film-flush holiday weekend.
The Ang Lee film, which follows the 20-year forbidden romance between two roughneck ranch hands, earned $13,599 per theater, compared with $9,305 for weekend winner "King Kong" and $8,225 for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
The big question is whether "Brokeback" can maintain its momentum as it moves from selected cities, where audiences are receptive to the subject matter, to suburbs far and wide, where that might not be the case.
Early numbers — and early awards buzz — establish the picture's staying power, industry insiders say. "Brokeback" earned a leading seven Golden Globe nominations.
"It delivered very strong growth in what is truly a highly unforgiving, competitive, cruel market at this Christmas period," said Jack Foley, president of theatrical distribution for Focus Features. "It showed it has breadth beyond the gay community."
Distributors planned to roll out the film slowly. It opened in just six theaters, where it earned an "unprecedented" $109,000 per venue, said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office tracker Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc.
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And how both could be solved with fumigation and judicious application of nail polish.
I suppose it's possible.
Another FReeper actually rented "Charlotte Gray" after I recommended it on a military-related thread.
Although, that movie was actually entertaining.
:-)
I like to take credit for the fact that almost every Barnes & Noble in New York-at least, the ones I've been to-now has a copy of the Anti-Chomsky Reader.
When I first started to plug it, both here and on other conservative websites, the only copy I was able to find was the one I had bought at at a remote B&N located on Massepequa.
Ha...homomentum.
This reminds me of a joke about Elton John and his new blushing bride:
Did you hear that Elton John's new bride is worried about contracting botulism?
You see, - ahem - he heard that you can get it from old meat in a can. :-DOkay, okay... it's a slow news day...
Sounds like the sheep are herding themselves into the theaters.
In other words, momentum that is so imperceptible it does not actually exist in reality, a la the abortive Joe Lieberman presidential campaign.
No, it's "Bloke's-back Mountin'"...or was it "Poke-crack Mountin'"? I can't remember.
Please don't tell me that I am the first one to point this out: This means that roughly 20% of the "record profits" in 200 theatres are actually coming from just six locations. Anyone care to guess where they are?
"Narnia" refers to the entire 8 book series.
In the context of the December 2005 movie season, it's unambiguous. They're marketing the movie as "Narnia" with TLTW&TW as a subtitle.
(there are 8 books? I thought there were 7.)
My bad. At least they didn't decide to make Magician's newphew first. It is the last because it has no impact if you read it first.
Yup...I love seeing Hollywierd and it's lickspittles twist themselves in paroxysms of joy in support of "Flaming Saddles"...
Hilarious!
I don't think our theater will show Brokeback Mountain. There was a ton of church pressure not to show Fahrenheit 911. I imagine it'll be even stronger pressure over this movie.
I don't think our theater will show Brokeback Mountain. There was a ton of church pressure not to show Fahrenheit 911. I imagine it'll be even stronger pressure over this movie.
Church pressure? Over a theater's choice of films? And the church kept Fahrenheit 911 from the screen? That's a new one. Welcome to Free Republic.
Hollywood is trying very hard to put lipstick on this pig... it ain't workin'.
Is it true that the writers of BBM, while doing background research, discovered two new uses for sheep:
wool;
and
mutton?
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