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".
I haven't seen Brokeback on TV. Nor has anyone I know seen it on TV. You mustn't be talking about U.S. TV.
Try this for 1 source.. http://www.slate.com/id/2124078/# .. and you admit in later posting that I was indeed correct that the movie was a dud without all of the free media.. Even the media couldn't save this stinker with all of the fawning and propping.. Take a breath, your slip is showing.. :)