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'Brokeback' a Box Office Success So Far
AP in Yahoo News ^ | December 29, 2005 | Sandy Cohen

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; hollyweird; homosexualagenda; pudding
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1 posted on 12/29/2005 6:11:44 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

There's a reason they're rolling this movie out so slowly...


2 posted on 12/29/2005 6:14:46 AM PST by loreldan (Lincoln, Reagan, & G. W. Bush - the cure for Democrat lunacy.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I guess when the total box office take is crummy, you talk about sales per screen. There is a reason the movie is on so few screens...a very limited audience. Who really wants to see two gay sheepherders. If there is a sequel, I suggest the sheep go into hiding.


3 posted on 12/29/2005 6:14:59 AM PST by frankjr
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

ROTF. Now we know where Baghdad Bob landed....


4 posted on 12/29/2005 6:15:31 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hollyweirds contribution to society= normalizing homosexuality, promiscuity and a general lowering of morals.


5 posted on 12/29/2005 6:15:44 AM PST by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The hack flacking for this film is unreal! Every other box office tally lists the amount of million$ the film grossed over the period. In order to inflate this one, they have to use the "per-screen average." Pure propaganda.


6 posted on 12/29/2005 6:16:26 AM PST by JennysCool (Non-Y2K-Compliant)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I guess we all need to keep our fingers crossed for this movie's success, right? Isn't it great that all of those Golden Globe nominations for this movie were announced just in time to help make it successful? barf


7 posted on 12/29/2005 6:17:06 AM PST by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

All this means is that most of the gays are seeing it. I think everybody knew they would go flock to see the movie, it has a built-in niche audience.


8 posted on 12/29/2005 6:17:11 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hmm...because of it's relatively limited release, wouldn't it be more accurate to compare the "per theater" earnings of Kong and Narnia in the same cities where Brokeback was showing? Just a thought.


9 posted on 12/29/2005 6:17:32 AM PST by Castigar
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To: frankjr
"Who really wants to see two gay sheepherders?"

Um... gay sheepherders, perhaps?

;o)
10 posted on 12/29/2005 6:18:17 AM PST by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The lies of the left know no bounds.


11 posted on 12/29/2005 6:18:26 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: loreldan

Probably to make money...


12 posted on 12/29/2005 6:19:13 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

hmmm... I have NEVER (NEVER NEVER NEVER) heard of this 'per screen' average being used to rate a movie success.

I wonder why

Mel Gibson made a half billion for 'The Passion of the Christ'- what is the total take for this piece of excrement ?

They are trying to compare apples to oranges.


13 posted on 12/29/2005 6:20:14 AM PST by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Their marketing strategy is to roll it out to the top homo markets across the U.S. They're almost out of markets. The producers spent $14 million to the movie and the box office take has been $8 million, which means the producers have made approximately $4 million of that. They're still $10 million in the hole (pun not intended!) This movie is a flop, regardless of what the gay media cheerleaders try to say.


14 posted on 12/29/2005 6:20:32 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: dfwgator

I suspect they are going to see it multiple times as winter weather makes picking up one night stands in parks a bit uncomfortable.


15 posted on 12/29/2005 6:21:15 AM PST by Quilla
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This is the homosexual "Titanic," a movie that will be seen 10-20 times by males homos as a date movie and by f*g hags. Since there are far less homos than teen girls, the take at the box office will be miniscule for the pudding eating movie in comparison to ship-sinking special effects.


16 posted on 12/29/2005 6:22:45 AM PST by peyton randolph (<a href="http://clinton.senate.gov/">shrew</a>)
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To: jimbo123

I wouldn't say it's a flop. It was relatively cheap to make, and there are enough gays who do want to see the movie for it to recover it's costs and make a profit. But it will never play in fly-over country, but it still won't prevent the movie from being profitable.


17 posted on 12/29/2005 6:23:46 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Once they are gone...It's crickets chirping...


18 posted on 12/29/2005 6:23:46 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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To: JennysCool

Next they will be toting up the amount of popcorn sold to try and convince the public that this farce is making any money. But, in the end it doesn't matter if this movie totally flops. Hollyweird will hail it as a cinematic "masterpiece" and it will sweep the oscars.


19 posted on 12/29/2005 6:24:21 AM PST by SAMS (Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Here's the real story.....

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2005/12/minimal-appeal.html


20 posted on 12/29/2005 6:24:40 AM PST by traderrob6
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