Brokeback Spa and Salon will not do to well in Lubbock, I presume.
In another development, The California Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association has announced a new rodeo event. In addition to Bareback, Saddle Bronc and Bull Riding, cowboys will also compete in Rump Riding....
The pic's what????? BTW, went to Texas Tech in Lubbock. Plenty of liberals running around the High Plains.
I heard that "Brokeback...." is giving rival films some stiff competition.
BTW I like Andrew's line: "bringing the pic's cume to $22.5 million".
Just one mispelling.
bringing the pic's cume
Cut it out.
The film is maintaining its rock-solid consistency
I said, “Cut it out.”
But how can this be? I've been reading about this movie on FR, and it is conclusively established that it is a dismal financial failure with no hope of ever earning a penny. In fact, one study shows that no one has actually seen the movie.
Sounds like someone is playing with the numbers.
> ... weekend gross was $5.8 million, bringing
> the pic's cume to $22.5 million.
Figures are fake but real. There are multiple reports
of "sold out" nearly empty halls, and ticket boxes
issuing tickets for other titles, but credited to BB.
It's simply clever marketing to make a pedestrian low-budget film into a must-see phenomenon.
Are you kidding, my good friend? Every gay person in the United States is going to see this picture at least ten times, if not more. They will be joined by the entire Democrat Party. So expect the numbers to head upward similar to Michael Moore's "Farhenheit 911" which reached $119M gross revenue. Of course, in the real world, the political impact of Farhenheit 911 came to zilch, and was scuddled by a puny political ad worth $100K put forth by a group known as the Swift Boat Vets, which promptly proceeeded to destroy John "Traitor" Kerry. Yes, the gays folks are loving life today, but when the reality of tomorrow and the real world strikes home, they will find this movie vehicle a lost cause, no matter what the revenue numbers are. Folks, please take note of the declining viewership at all the award shows. You can't piss down a common sense person's back and tell them it's raining!!! Brokeback Mountain is going nowhere. You ought tune in to the "Black" music stations in Dallas. The negative one liners about "Brokeback" are truly both truthful, honest and funny!!!
Like this is an achievement??????
Having had the misfortune to actually sit through "Bloodrayne" this weekend because I had a bored college student home, I can tell you it is the first vampire movie I have been to where the audience was giggling at the acting(and no it was not intended to be a comedy). The last 20 minutes of this film the 10 audience members were no longer even trying to hide their laughter.
As for Brokeback we now know we can not trust the dollar figure this picture is making just like Fahrenheit 911, since certain theaters have been caught saying the movie is sold out when there are only 4 people sitting in the theater, meaning they are shifting money from other movies to this stinker.
What does 'auds' mean?
This reads like something Baghdad Bob might have written.
Narnia and Passion of the Christ will gross over a billion dollars combined, but they're just crap. Hostel will destroy Brokeback and it only cost 4.8MM to make.
This is going to be like F911, people are going to see it just to "stick it" (so to speak), to those who oppose such movies. F911 made what, 110million or so....
Translation: We've worn this out in the first-tier markets, and to keep it alive, we're forced to go places where we've known all along it will crater.
Playing at 483 locations, weekend gross was $5.8 million, bringing the pic's cume to $22.5 million.
... less than a third of Narnia's opening gross! Spin this any way you want, that's a pathetic take.
"Brokeback" came out ahead of several new pics on twice or four times as many playdates, including "Casanova," "Bloodrayne" and "Grandma's Boy."
It reportedly outgrossed the 8 mm movies of my crazy aunt's trip to Yellowstone, and the video I took of my son's butt boil being lanced.
That other great artistic achievement, The Dukes of Hazzard, grossed $111 million.