I wouldn't worry. Harry Potter & Dodgeball have already made their money. The only competition Moore's film (term used loosely) had was White Chicks, which American audiences seem to be willing to forget. Who can blame them, it looks vapid.
Next week Spider-Man 2 opens. Fahrenheit 9/11 will seem like it came out a month ago.
I went to see Shrek 2 instead... ;)
What makes this Breaking News?
Which just goes to show... Jesus is more popular than Michale Moore.
Weekends allmost over.
The media pumped it up and then to try to keep some integrity reported the lies on the day of it's release, a Friday, also the second least watched night in network news, IIRC.
Saturday night being the first.
1 weekend movie
and white chicks gross $22 million
Could've been worse. There were some predictions being thrown around on Friday that it might do as much as $ 30 million.
The per screen average of $ 25, 000 is enormous though. White Chicks, the # 2 film, has a per screen average of $ 2, 700. The left wing nutjobs sure turned out en masse to vent their hatred. I just hope this piece of crap doesn't pass the $ 100 million mark.
At any rate it won't be # 1 for long: Spider-Man 2 hits theaters on Wednesday. Spidey has a way with defeating fat bastards: if he can take out The Kingpin, then he can take out Michael Moore. ;)
Everyone slows down to look at the car wreck and then they move on. Will be old news soon.
CAMPBELL BROWN, GUEST HOST:
BROWN: Real quick—we‘re almost out of time—but how—how—given how the Bush administration is reacting to the 9/11 film, which is, you know, banning their staffs from going to see it or anybody...
HITCHENS: What?
BROWN: I know. Is it the right approach?
HITCHENS: I didn‘t know that.
But, if so, then it would be something to add to my long list of misgivings about the Bush administration.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5286752
Is there anyway to expose this comment for the trash it is? It is all the way to the bottom of the page!
I am really sick and tired of people like Michael Moore saying he is patriotic. Patriotic to what? If he is patriotic to America, then he is patriotic to what we were founded to be. We were founded to be a capitalist society, with free speech that cannot be supressed because it offends some one. We were founded to be society in which one is free to persue their dreams, and it is owed to no one to pay for theirs. The only thing I owe is a little bit of my labor to help protect to keep our society that way. So if you say you are a patriot, then you support the constitution and are a capitalist! Are you Michael? NO Michael you are the biggest slobbiest ASSHOLE in this country. You want the benefits of freedom so you can work to deny me of my rights to freedom.
Saturday is ALWAYS a big raise over Friday. F911 DROPPED on Saturday by 5%, and it will probably drop even furthur today. Then it will crash and burn in the shadow of Spiderman next week.
Mark my words, this POS will be gone from theaters within 3 weeks.
Last night, lionsgatefilms.com had the entire movie available for free download. I've got it on two CD's and am curious as to what the legalities are of passsing it on to others. Anybody here know?
The libs will blow their wad by next week and it will sink into the oblivion. Libs will talk about it amongest themselves for months, but it's impact will be gone by Novemeber.
To all of you who have never "FReeped" before, I guarantee you will get so charged up from FReepin', that you will have a hard time to sleep that night regardless of how tired you are! The faces of grateful patriots are the second best payment you could get. By FReepin', you wake up something inside of them and you. They get encouraged to speak out and they walk with more spring in their step. They are PROUD to be an American who just gave you the thumbs up or tooted their horn showing their support for the country at a time when some real IDIOTS are racing to give their money and support to an America HATER.
But the best payment is when you see these IDIOTS who HATE America, and you see the anger and fear in their face because they know YOU aren't gonna stand idly by, while they trash the country! Their faces are all twisted and contorted and here YOU are standing there waving, proud of your country and sharing your BIG SMILE! You have just RUINED their day, and they will no doubt tell their fellow liberals how YOU were there, and they haven't won yet.
Here's a few ideas to get going: Get a small American flag that you can easily handle with one hand as you hold your sign, get some foam poster board (so your sign will be firm and easy to read and handle), a black marker and and red marker and make your sign simple and BIG letters. Tell them Fahrenheit 9/11 is PROPAGANDA, That we should support OUR TROOPS and NOT terrorists! You can write a different message on both sides of your poster board, so you can easily flip it to display a variety of messages. I wrote "Support our Troops, not the terrorists" on one side, and "Hezbollah supports Fahrenheit 9/11". Whatever you write, hold your sign PROUD and SMILE - the spirit of America is watching you!
Where is the Bush Campaign on this one? I am getting a bit ticked off. Bush could even address the nation and prove to everyone that every single thing that Moore says about, him and his family is a Lie!
Damn this is Frustrating!
Is it playing in small towns or mostly concentrated in big cities and liberal areas? In the summer we live in Marysville, WA, a short distance from the Seattle area. It isn't playing in any of the multi-plexes nearby. These farming towns are more conservative than Seattle, that's for sure. There are lots of flags out, many at half-staff since Reagan died. Michael Moore timed his release date for a nothing weekend (no competition) and it's also location-location-location, with big liberal cities getting the bulk of the showings.
The poster is the only one who seems to get that this film is a HUGE success. 21 million would be a bonanza for any "documentary-style" film over any weekend, let alone one that opened in only about 880 theaters (vs. major films opening in 3100 - 3700 theaters). If Moore's film doesn't make another dime in U.S. theaters, it is probably already the most successful film of its kind in history. Every conservative I know is talking about it, let alone liberals. Coming out in DVD in Sept. for the election was very smart. I'm amazed at how people's politics or disgust with Moore can make them utterly stupid and unable to see what is actually happening. Wishful statements about Spiderman2 doesn't even vaguely alter the fact that Moore scored on this one.