Posted on 10/27/2008 2:16:40 PM PDT by DogBarkTree
If recent trends continue Hollywood may be looking for a government handout. A surge of liberal style patriotism has gripped the movers and shakers in Hollywood, they have produced movie after movie critical of the war in Iraq. Every one a box office dud. The red ink flowing faster than the blood of Al Qaeda in Iraq as our brave troops hunt them down in every corner of the country.
Hollywood reporters seem perplexed -- why isn't the public interested in Iraq war movies? Could it be the clear majority of Americans who consider themselves conservative -- According to this article in Newsweek nearly twice as many people call themselves conservatives as liberals (40 percent to 20 percent) -- are tired of seeing America and our armed forces vilified. For proof look at Vantage Point, that little pro-American thriller cost $40m to produce and made $73m here and $78m overseas.
And now we have W. Oliver Stone's vision of the Bush presidency. Nikki Finke reports on the latest egg laid by Hollywood: There's been tremendous interest by the public in the box office fate of Oliver Stone's W. for its second weekend in release. Well, it ran out of steam. QED International/Lionsgate's Bush biopic sank 58% to No. 7 with a $5.3M weekend from 2,050 dates and new cume of $18.7M. The $30M negative cost film should end up with $23M domestic box office gross by the end of its North American run. That means, with a $25M P&A investment and Lionsgate's distribution fees, the film won't recoup.
You'd think this industry would run itself like any other profit-making business beholden to shareholders, but they don't. They're just like the MSM, willing to lose dollar after dollar for their shareholders in order to make extreme political points.
If this were any other industry, the leadership would have been removed long ago.
-PJ
An American carol is a riot.
I KNOW this movie is a hit piece on Bush, but I gotta say the previews looked kind of funny to me. I was intrigued.
I MAY rent it when it comes out on DVD... next week :-)
I saw an interview with Stone and he admitted he took smidgens of truth and heavily exaggerated them.
It IS nice to know it will lose money.
I’m sure it will get an Oscar though.
FEW movies are worth going to see at the theater.
I think the last one hubby and I went to see at the theater was “Saving Private Ryan.”
I saw it and I loved it.
Be prepared when George Washington shows up. It’s a lump in the throat moment.
I saw it and I loved it.
Be prepared when George Washington shows up. It’s a lump in the throat moment.
Too bad it won’t be enough to send him to the poorhouse.
Does anyone know the box office amount for American Carol compared to W?
based on your post, the ideal movie would be a combination of Saw V and High School Musical - an all singing, all-dancing murder spree.
“...interesting to see who financed this turkey and who “took it in the shorts”. “
I wonder if they’re writing it off as an Obama campaign contribution?
This sad situation can be easily resolved. If Obama is elected, he will take the gross receipts from a success like HSM3 and share them with losers like W. Hey, it’s only fair.
The public is much smarter than the media that are trying to control public opinion. Bollywood and the propaganda machines seem to miss the most obvious point: the public has cast its vote by turning away from movie attendance, “the agenda”, “news” subscriptions and certain TV channels.
The propagandists seem to rather go bankrupt than change their evil ways.
[snip] '...Stone hopes that W. – a $30 million project funded partly with Chinese money because no big Hollywood studio would touch it – will salvage a career that has been taking on water for more than a decade.....'
I LOVED IT (American Carol)!
Unlike most Hollywood comedies (eg: Meet the Parents, Vacation, RV ect...) you didn’t leave this movie thinking: “this could have been funnier”.
No laughs were left on the table, no gags left undone.
The only thing is you leave thinking there is hope for Michael Moore, which of course there isn’t.
But that’s not the point of the movie. It’s a way to get around campaign contribution limits.
The annoying thing is that some conservative filmmaker could fly to Iraq, with a shoestring budget, get full support from the US military, use veterans as actors and their anecdotes as a script.
Iraqi military would joyfully depict their side of the fight against al-Qaeda, and using a lot of makeup would depict the real horrors done to the Iraqi people, and show the pain and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Clear as a bell, the US military and the Iraqi military are the good guys, and al-Qaeda are cowardly and evil foreigners intent on torturing and murdering Iraqis.
Even with direct to DVD production, the movie would make a fortune.
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