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Posted on 01/06/2006 3:31:19 PM PST by Balding_Eagle
Did anyone else hear this on the Michael Medved talk radio today?
A man called in, near the end of the hour. He said he had been taken his kids to the theater, and the kids movie they were waiting to see had a very long line. Brokeback Mountain was also showing at that theater. He said he sat near the ticket booth for 35 minutes, as his kids waited in line to buy tickets for their movie.
During that 35 minutes he never heard one person buy a ticket for Brokeback Mountain. However, during that 35 minutes, the “SOLD OUT” sign came on for Brokeback. Out of curiosity, he went in to the Brokeback theater, and only saw 4 people in there. The theater manager refused to comment when the man questioned him.
Is this how all those theaters are getting such high attendance for Brokeback? Imaginary theater goers?
Perhaps other theater goers can investigate for themselves this weekend.
I can only vouch for the fact that this man called in a related the story as I presented it here, not if it’s true. Callers can make up stories too. It peaked my interest though.
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"Village People had a cowboy" ...But did they have Sheepherders as in this movie?
I agree with you. Thus my disclaimer at the end. Also a reason to have others actually check it out and relate their experience.
And were they all sitting in the back row?
Yeah, making almost 1/3 of its budget back in one week's gross? That's some probably financial loser.
It's already made back more than it's budget, and will probably soon be in profit, depending on the theaters' cut, which is probably less than 30% of the take.
I've heard great stuff about that movie.
Was Matt one of the four seeing the movie and later bribing the manager to flash the sold out sign?
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"only saw 4 people in there"
... er... possibly eight
I just visited America briefly over the holidays. I went to the cinema to see "Narnia". As I was standing in line, what was most evident was a large placard for Brokeback Mountain right in between the two sales desks. I had visited this theatre before and had never seen such aggressive marketing for a film.
Something is definitely wrong. This film is being force fed to the public in any manner it can be done.
Regards, Ivan
I doubt the manager would post the "SOLD OUT" sign if the theater had even a few people already inside, and about to watch the movie. That would only prevent a few more people from buying tickets, and result in the 4 watchers emerging with even more extreme reports of how few people were in attendance. Why would a manager want to do that? It's not as if people assume a movie isn't worth watching if they don't see "Sold Out" signs for it on theater ticket windows. And there's no way a manager would cancel a showing of any movie, if even a single customer was already there in a seat waiting to see it. They'd just cancel the movie's run at the theater earlier than planned.
The guy who reported this may have poked his head into the wrong theater, perhaps a theater where a later showing of the movie was scheduled, with few people having arrived yet. Or he may have looked in the right theater, but long before the scheduled start time, when few people would have already arrived. Many theaters do the bulk of their sales for new highly publicized films via advance and online sales, and Brokeback Mountain is no doubt being attended by a lot of gays, including some sizeable organized groups from colleges who would purchase in advance to make sure no one was turned away after the group arrived.
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BBM Director Ang Lee
It was an okay movie. It's one of the few we've seen in years. I'd recommend it.
It was an okay movie. It's one of the few we've seen in years. I'd recommend it.
All sitting in the same chair.
Where does one find the budget?
Hmmm...Since many theaters are automated now, maybe the (Male) Theaters staffers wanted to watch to "show" the attendees.
See Post 32.
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