Yes, $2,805,000 in 2,575 theaters for an average of $1,089 per theater (estimate only) was a very weak opening but you need to consider the facts. Remember actual weekend box office gross revenue is not available until late Monday afternoon. It's not very intelligent of you to trash a movie on a one day only official estimate. I don’t know where you dug up that $6 million weekend BS but it is not an official estimate and lends no credibility to your “razzies”, bombing big-time, this turkey is over babble. Have you even seen the movie?
While I don’t expect CWW to be a blockbuster by any means it should do alright in comparative terms and with word-of-mouth increased ticket sales. There has been a number of liberal hacks anti-war movies released in the last half of the year so people may not initially give CWW a look, until they understand it’s actually a good comedy, and a politically balanced one at that. People are sick and tired of major release movies not being light and fun to watch. The lawsuit threat by Joanne (with Charlie in tow) and the substantial movie deletions also greatly hurt CWW’s opening market Many people will think CWW is now a hacked up piece of junk. Further, CWW has a large foreign countries release dates schedule which will be revenue interesting .
CWW was originally to be U.S. released on December 25, but was moved up to the 21st knowing that Fri-Sun will be the busiest shopping weekend of the year and movie attendance is typically very poor right before Christmas. Anything Universal makes from Dec 21-25 is unbudgeted revenue that will offset distribution costs on a movie with very low production costs. Add to the facts - that over half the Country has been hit was a major arctic storm with snow, freezing rain, and high winds. Add to the facts - that many people will watch the 5 Star two hour documentary on television - - The True Story of Charlie Wilson - - this weekend before deciding to see the movie. On this subject, we hosted a large watch party Saturday night for the documentary and afterwards almost everyone in attendance could not wait to see the theater movie.
It appears you missed the Time Magazine post above so I will post it again for your reading convenience
…. A year ago, the lockstep liberals who run the movie studios received a directive from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, ordering them to finally make some films about the Iraq-Afghanistan catastrophe. The moguls dutifully complied, bankrolling top directors and Oscar-winning stars to make serious, worthy films eviscerating the Bush Administration's war policy. The laugh, for the right wing, (a.k.a. The Intelligent Majority - TAB) is that nobody went to see these movies. In the Valley of Elah, Rendition, Lions for Lambs, Redacted — together, in their entire theatrical runs, they earned only about what Will Smith's I Am Legend did on one day last weekend.
More facts you must have missed ……….
Total Worldwide Box Office Revenue
In the Valley of Elah: $12,851,486 (BOM Rating: C)
Rendition: $17,055,746 (BOM Rating: C)
Lions for Lambs: $47,111,450 (BOM Rating: D)
- - Starring: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, and Michael Peña
- - Movie lost $26.2 million due to substantially higher fully loaded costs than Charlie Wilson’s War.
Redacted: $220,307 (BOM Rating: F)
It will not require much for Charlie Wilson's War (BOM Rating: B / IMDB 7.4 – opening U.S. day) to beat all the above ultra liberal hack anti-war movies, not that I or anyone - - with maturity not financially invested in CWW - - cares about any of this. Frankly, I was surprised that ultra liberal Al Gore and A.I.T. movie butt kisser Roger Ebert liked CWW. I thought he would trash the movie after worshipping An Inconvenient Truth (4 of 4 stars) with his barf-fest review. He also loved some of the above disaster anti-war movies giving two of them 4 stars. Even the liberal movie review members at Ebert’s site gave CWW an overall 3.5 stars out of 4 stars max.
But you know what, if CWW’s director and producer had put a fraudulent man-made global warming hysteria spin on the movie - - because of the excess heat generated by all of Charlie’s hot tub parties, all night screw-a-thons, and his excess alcohol consumption induced belching and flatulence - - I’m sure CWW would be a mega box office revenue hit. Particularly since Charlie is a Texas “yellow dog” Democrat and one of the very few in the Country with balls - unlike Texas DA Ronnie “Soros Shadow Party and ultra liberal hack” Earle.
That’s my 3 cents while I’m shoving down some breakfast and reviewing this thread. You and your family have a great Christmas and New Year!
FlAttorney
What’s the dateline on that Time article? From greenlight to release on most movies is about two years, so nothing in response to Nancy’s “request” since becoming speaker would be released yet, that would be 2008 early 2009 at the earliest. Hopefully CWW will at least do better than the others and Hollywood might decide that makes it worth taking another chance, a lot will depend on how expensive it was to make too, $30 million budget movies are easier to be profitable than $100 million budget, if it’s closer to the former then it could still hit the black.
Grosses came out today. I was off on my estimates, the movie did a “robust” $9.6 Million. A bomb considering the Stars and budget. It’s downhill from there.
“Lions for Lambs” only did $15 Million domestic. That is Bomb in every since of the word here.