Moore's laughing all the way to the bank - or the buffet. His 9/11 movie cost less than $5 million and grossed over $100 million. But you're certainly right that it didn't get Francois in the Maison Blanche.
Moore is nothing but a con artist. At the end of the day he fooled the idiot liberal Democrat scum, and filled his pockets. And....the gays have been had the same way with "Brokeback Mountain". The producers hyped the movie for gas, got every gay person to see it fifty times, upping the revenue (profit stream), and then at the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute, "Hollywood" just about ignored the film totally at the Oscar Awards ceremony. A materful act by "Hollywood". But, take my word for it gay community is not happy about this!!!!