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Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson story 'Fair Game' failed at the box office
St. Petersburg Times ^ | 03/29/11 | Staff Article

Posted on 03/29/2011 6:02:42 AM PDT by shortstop

'Fair game' a box-office flop

The movie Fair Game, about the Valerie Plame/Joseph Wilson affair, was in theaters and then it seemed to disappear. Any reason?

Poor ticket sales, basically.

Fair Game was a generally well-regarded movie (it got a good 79 percent favorable rating on the movie website Rotten Tomatoes) that starred big-name actors in Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. It was about CIA operative Valerie Plame (played by Watts) whose cover was blown in Bob Novak's widely read Washington Post political column.

The information was allegedly leaked to Novak by White House officials to discredit her husband, Joseph Wilson (played by Penn), who had written a column in the New York Times in 2003 that said the Bush administration distorted intelligence information to justify the invasion of Iraq.

The movie, based on books by both Plame and Wilson, opened Nov. 5 in 46 theaters. It drew a paltry $651,082 in the opening weekend. As a comparison, Watts' 2005 movie King Kong drew more than $50 million in its first weekend.

Fair Game's total domestic gross ticket sales were just $9,540,691, and it closed on Feb. 17 after being in theaters 15 weeks. Its foreign ticket sales totaled $13,004,731, and the combined total barely covered the movie's $22 million production budget.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blamegame; epicfail; fairgame; hollywood; joewilson; moviereview; plame
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Finally, some good news in the St. Pete Times.
1 posted on 03/29/2011 6:02:45 AM PDT by shortstop
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To: shortstop

Fiction.


2 posted on 03/29/2011 6:05:12 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: shortstop

It kept reminding people of the horrible Bush years when we had jobs.


3 posted on 03/29/2011 6:05:12 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: shortstop

4 posted on 03/29/2011 6:05:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: shortstop

Maybe a movie that told the truth would sell better.


5 posted on 03/29/2011 6:06:15 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: shortstop

The movie was about as true as an Obamaloon speech.

And Valerie Plame was - and is - a bimbo.

And her husband is even dumber than the loon, if that’s possible.


6 posted on 03/29/2011 6:06:40 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: shortstop

A couple of D.C. grifters!


7 posted on 03/29/2011 6:07:26 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: shortstop
... The information was allegedly leaked to Novak by White House officials

That's some really great reporting.

Richard Armitage Admits Plame Leak "Extraordinarily Foolish"

8 posted on 03/29/2011 6:07:33 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: shortstop
and the combined total barely covered the movie's $22 million production budget.

For a propoganda film to break-even, that's actually pretty good. Probably better than its producers even expected.

9 posted on 03/29/2011 6:07:38 AM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: shortstop

Cue the HA-HA guy.


10 posted on 03/29/2011 6:07:54 AM PDT by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: SERKIT

It failed because now a days people like to see their fairytales in 3D.


11 posted on 03/29/2011 6:09:02 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: shortstop

I dont reallly know this story, I wasnt really paying that much attention to world events like I do now. My point being the people who see this will consider it as truth and not know what really went on.


12 posted on 03/29/2011 6:10:21 AM PDT by eak3
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To: Da Coyote
Valarie Plame's 15 minutes of fame expired more than three years ago.

And while loons may be dumb, they sing beautifully.

FWIW, I saw Plame's hardcover book on sale at the local dollar store. I gave it a pass since rubber doorstops sell at the same store for a dollar, come in a pack of two and make less of a footprint.

13 posted on 03/29/2011 6:10:52 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: shortstop

Hollywood manufactures LEFTIST PROPAGANDA and then wants us to pay for it. No thanks.


14 posted on 03/29/2011 6:13:11 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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The information was allegedly leaked to Novak by White House officials to discredit her husband, Joseph Wilson

Which was disproven.

15 posted on 03/29/2011 6:16:26 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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This we know is a complete lie:

allegedly leaked to Novak by White House officials to discredit her husband,

But you would believe from this story this is the historically viable theory of what happened. Maybe nobody went to the move because they knew is was just another Big Media lie fest.

16 posted on 03/29/2011 6:16:26 AM PDT by DManA
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To: shortstop

Obviously fantasy yarns have saturated the movie viewing public’s options.


17 posted on 03/29/2011 6:17:32 AM PDT by Amagi (ObamaCare proposed a tax on Tanning Salons. That is RACISM STRAIGHT UP!)
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To: PGR88

Marketing and Distribution puts it back into the red, although video may save it.


18 posted on 03/29/2011 6:18:41 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: shortstop

Sean Penn.... reason number 1 not to see the movie


19 posted on 03/29/2011 6:19:39 AM PDT by SouthernBoyupNorth ("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
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To: DManA

I don’t go to the movies much. Once in the last ten years.
But if I did go it woulnd’t be to see anything Sean Penn was starring in.


20 posted on 03/29/2011 6:19:50 AM PDT by Venturer
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