Great.
The LA Times was reporting, based on the U.K. Guardian, that the movie was a smash in London, based on selling a L1 Million. Extrapolated to the size of the US, and translating the currency, that’s about $5 million. A bomb.
“Family orientated”???
Not good—it’s great!
The LA Times tried to spin the numbers as not-that-bad yesterday, but if this film doesn’t break $70 million domestically, which looks more and more possible, then it is a flat-out disaster.
Cost to produce your anti-Christian film: $250 million
Cost to market and distribute film: $50 million
Waking up on Sunday to find you’ll
probably gross less than $75 Mil: Priceless
An atheist film was expecting a ‘Saturday miracle’? I guess if you deny the basis for the miraculous, you don’t get miracles.
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(That’s an Orthodox Christian monastic smiley, in case you’ve not seen one before—short cylindrical hat, long beard.)
The trailer was visually stunning, but the message is evil.
If you don't want to go see it, then don't go. If other people want to check it out, why would you care?
That's a major flop for a $200+ film. Glad to see the American people didn't buy the deceptive advertising. 'God is dead' doesn't sell.
Time to give my $$$ to more worthy films like 'Narnia: Prince Caspian' in May.
I took my son to see Fred Claus and the theater was packed. It was a very good movie to take your kids to. My son liked it and at the end it was very sentimental...I couldn’t help but shed a tear. It is a movie you can take your kids too and it is a movie of redemption and reconciliation. As for the Compass, I’ll probably watch it when it is available for free but I didn’t care to go out of the way to support the movie or its author who wrote the books to sell atheism to children.
I think the poor showing shows what happens when people make principled decisions based upon their beliefs. It has a marked effect. Vote with your dollars. We have lots of choices and the only way we are going to get more of what we like is by voting with our dollars and abstaining from that which we would like not to buy.
My grown daughters and I went to see "Enchanted," and we really enjoyed it.
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Hmmm, New Age doesn’t sell. Who woulda thought.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Send your condolences to the studio:
Robert K. Shaye, Co-Chairman, Co-CEO
scooter@newline.com
Michael Lynne, Co-Chairman, Co-CEO
michael.lynne@newline.com
atheistic and other liberal ideas can’t survive the marketplace of ideas on their own merits so they must be propped up by government public schools, PBS, government subsidized student loans to prop up liberal colleges and government research grants.
I’d like to say that there’s no good reason this film opened so terribly. It had market-saturation advertising, big name star power, fight scenes which made one think of Lords of the Rings and children with magical animals in fantasy settings which reminded one of Narnia, and it was all presented to us on a plate pre-Christmas. It should have been a smash.
Word of mouth via the internet killed this film.
Screw the Golden Compass. Check out “Tin Man” on Scifi today. It wasn’t bad. The acting needed to be better sometimes, but the story was very unique and the hottie evil queen was a delight to watch!