Posted on 12/09/2007 8:39:12 AM PST by keat
There was no Saturday miracle surge for New Line. The Golden Compass, an effects-laden family film starring Nicole Kidman with a reported budget of $200M, received a modest 16% increase from its opening day, posting an estimated $10.2M on Saturday. Assuming a Sunday drop of 33%, Compass will finish its opening weekend with a disastrous $25.84M. (For a comparison to other big budget, family-oriented films in this mold along with details about New Line’s dismal 2007 and Nicole Kidman’s box office cold streak, scroll down to my Friday Night report.)
Disney’s Enchanted blew past $80M domestic with a $4.9M Saturday, and the live action/animation hybrid with a sure-fire Oscar nomination for Amy Adams will cruise to an estimated $10.98M. This Christmas (Sony), Fred Claus (Warner Bros) and Beowulf (Dreamworks/Paramount) have finished 3-4-5 on Saturday and for the 3-day frame.
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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.
LOL
Love that post.
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.
” ...if this film doesn’t break $70 million domestically, which looks more and more possible, then it is a flat-out disaster”
Pity, that. Good for Donohue and others who brought the author’s philosophy to the public’s attention. I am curious, tho, about the producers choosing Nicole Kidman who’s apparently a fairly strong Catholic. Was it another of those secret chuckles lefties enjoy when they use someone unwittingly to achieve their ends?
It’s better than a poll.
People are voting with their dollars. The public recognizes anti-God propaganda and isn’t going to pay to see it.
If the anti-God, anti-American crowd wants to continue throwing their money away, it’s okay with me.
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.
Because I and others see this film as a symbol of Hollywood's disdain for people of the faith.
It's basically a boycott. My church and most others I know have been educating thier congregations about the message in this film and, apparently, many have chosen not to see it.
Talking it up in this board and others is a way of promoting the boycott.
How much of the poor box office is due to the boycott and how much is due to the crappiness of the film, I don't know.
It is hard to see an anti-God film where Yahweh is portrayed as the evil commander of the concentration camp of the afterlife. Christians, Jews, and Muslims every where should be offended. It appears that vast majorities opted out. I took one of my son’s to see “Fred Claus” yesterday and it was a touching, sometimes funny film, with a strong message of redemption. I’m glad I went to see it.
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“I don’t see the sense in so many people hoping for poor receipts for this movie. Rooting for or against a movie to do well is stupid and pointless.
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?”
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We care because the author is using this medium to deceive and indoctrinate children-those least able to judge for themselves. It takes a special kind of evil to do that.
Harry Potter was just a movie. This film is a hate crime against a particular faith: Christianity.
Certainly we are not blocking access to the theaters, nor is anyone making threats. I feel no guilt, but rather joy at seeing this propaganda film fail. As an American I am free to express my views, and I am free to boycott this film.
Please respect my right to free expression. Hoping the film fails is not stupid, it was backed by an effort several months in the making to educate Americans about the deceptive content.
I may not be able to do anything to a museum that calls a cross in a jar of urine, art. But I can warn people not to see blatant propaganda disguised as a kids movie.
Embrace freedom. Today, you have encountered not censorship, but diversity.
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