[Boundless]

> ... 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.

[SauronOfMordor]

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.

THis is my suspicion too. I also think it's the reason for why it's on so few screens: they wanted to pick theaters where they could get away with this. It's easy if you have a supply of activists who like going to the movies often. Whatever you're really going to see, buy a ticket to "Bareback", then just see another movie

[Wallace T.]

If about 3% of the U.S. population is homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual (a more likely figure than the 10% commonly believed thanks to Dr. Alfred Kinsey), that would represent 9 million people. Assuming that half of them saw the movie, at an average price of $8 (higher average due to their concentration in the Northeast and California, where movie prices are higher), that would result in sales of $36 million. For these deviants, "Brokeback Mountain" is what "Passion of the Christ" was to evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics. Hence, to expect 50% of them to attend the movie is not unrealistic. Add in dedicated, though heterosexual, leftists and the curious, and this movie is likely to be a money maker.