Not exactly the whole truth.. The gross boxoffice success story is greatly exaggerated, the real profit numbers are hidden and unnoticed by the great unwashed.. It's TV Licensing Revenue that rings the money bells.. and Brokeback only made studio money because it was part of a package deal with real money makers..
Alone, Brokeback was a disaster, of biblical proportions, considering it was freely (and FREE) touted by every known media outlet to the exclusion of all the other really worthy films released last year.. Brokeback, broke more hearts and pocketbooks than any other feature film in recent history..
Where do you get this information, and if have a line that we, the "unwashed" don't where is your evidence for the real numbers you claim the rest of us aren't privvy to? The movie was made by a consortium of investors; worldwide receipts BEFORE video or TV money comes to $172 million, so your claim about it making "real" money because it was part of a package is untrue. Anything it makes from now on is pure gravy--unless you don't think making over ten times its original investment means it's a hit?
Alone, Brokeback was a disaster, of biblical proportions, considering it was freely (and FREE) touted by every known media outlet to the exclusion of all the other really worthy films released last year.. Brokeback, broke more hearts and pocketbooks than any other feature film in recent history..
LOL You're out of your mind. Show me the evidence for this--not rhetoric, evidence. A cheap movie that makes $170 million BEFORE it gets sold to TV, as part of a package or alone (your information about how movies make money is completely wrong) is closer to being a success of Biblical proportions (hate to use that term in connection to this but...).
Let's see your "facts".