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damkira on 20 April 2008
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timmytomthegreat said:
damkira said:
Looks like the movie flopped hard.

3.4m debut with only $1,130 per screen (which is terrible)

Conservatives have parroted that the movie industry is assaulting America with its hedonistic values and that if it just made a movie which has the "same values" as America does (conservatives like to think of themselves as the only Americans) then it would be successful and revitalize the industry. They've been saying it for years and years. I really plan on rubbing this films failure in some faces :)

I have seen zero advertising for this movie. Plus the majority of Americans don't view documentaries. If this movie was a drama and had advertising on tv, it would have had numbers closer to The Passion of Christ, which grossed $610,000,000 and is the thirty-sixth highest-grossing film of all time.

Really? I rarely watch television and saw advertisements on Comedy Central and The History Channel. I believe March of the Penguins made $77.4m in during its American run... I also believe Fahrenheit 9/11 earned $119.2m in the US/Canada.. so people will go see documentaries.. they just didn't want to see this one.

By the way, I know Fahrenheit 9/11 had inaccuracies in it, so there's no need to point that out.

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The only other newcomer in the Top 10 was conservative commentator Ben Stein's #8 documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed which makes the intelligent design argument. Playing in 1,052 theaters, the pic distributed by Rocky Mountain Pictures earned $1.2M Friday for what should be a $3.4M weekend. But the per screen average for Friday was a feeble $1,130 (that $3,000 ballyhooed on the Internet would be for the entire weekend), showing there wasn't any pent-up demand for the film despite an agressive publicity campaign. So much for the conservative argument that people would flock to films not representing the "agenda of liberal Hollywood". (Just for comparison purposes: Michael Moore's most recent Sicko did $4.4 mil its opening weekend from only 441 theaters, and his Fahrenheit 9/11 did $23.9M its opening weekend from 868 venues.)

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/jet-and-jackie-nudge-out-judd-on-friday/