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Posted on 01/06/2006 3:31:19 PM PST by Balding_Eagle
Did anyone else hear this on the Michael Medved talk radio today?
A man called in, near the end of the hour. He said he had been taken his kids to the theater, and the kids movie they were waiting to see had a very long line. Brokeback Mountain was also showing at that theater. He said he sat near the ticket booth for 35 minutes, as his kids waited in line to buy tickets for their movie.
During that 35 minutes he never heard one person buy a ticket for Brokeback Mountain. However, during that 35 minutes, the “SOLD OUT” sign came on for Brokeback. Out of curiosity, he went in to the Brokeback theater, and only saw 4 people in there. The theater manager refused to comment when the man questioned him.
Is this how all those theaters are getting such high attendance for Brokeback? Imaginary theater goers?
Perhaps other theater goers can investigate for themselves this weekend.
I can only vouch for the fact that this man called in a related the story as I presented it here, not if it’s true. Callers can make up stories too. It peaked my interest though.
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LOL....Seriously, I thought the same thing when I saw that graphic.
"You are recommending a movie with two sodomite males who engage in anal sex for the viewers to experience?
I wounldn't recommend this to anyone."
I wouldn't either!
I was recommending Walk the Line about Johnny Cash!
YIKES!!!!
Cultural change is their objective. I think a few people care.
Congrats on a twisted mind. LOL!! Come on people... that was funny!
"Sold Out" would mean they had hit their limit on how many tickets they could divert to BBM.
It would help to know what movie was playing besides BBM, and if it had the same distributor.
So in appx. one month BM has made appx. 33% less in the box office than "Passion Of the Christ" made in one day. And BM has had the most positive and fawning press blitz of any movie I can remember.
You are correct though about the appx. DVD sales. Homosexulals will be snapping them up like gerbils.
It looked like they were praciticing bronco busting.
Appropriate that this movie's initials are "BM."
No need to insult Nerds.
Uh, okay--so no one is actually seeing the movie, that's all hype, but it's going to change the culture? Ooookay...
Enough for you to know how that people here LOVED it (your emphasis, not mine).
I recall it had a limited release, and then it got released in more theaters, supposedly because of the great demand to see it. I think this is all marketing hype. Motion pictures have marketing schemes just like any other product. I think the producers are trying to hype the film by creating an impression there's great public enthusiasm for it. It wouldn't entirely surprise me if the company handling the release asked theatres to say it was sold out as part of the deal, even if it wasn't.
Same thing. 'Cept I spose you don't need a ladder for sheep.
Flame away. Go ahead. I dare ya! Pffffft.
Ironically I answered that question in the very next post.
The studios wouldn't stay in business long if they made a habit of this. Their purpose is to make money, not give it away. And theater chain owners would scream bloody murder. They get as much or more of their revenue from concessions as from tickets sales. Am I supposed to believe that the studios are footing a big chunk of the original production costs for films, and then buying up millions of tickets which will not be resold, and paying off theater owners for the lost concessions? Theater owners have a stake in this business too, and wouldn't stand for this if it happened on more than very rare occasions in a limited number of markets. And local journalists would have a field day, since they'd have no trouble confirming the stories with the many casual workers who staff theater ticket windows, projection rooms, and concession stands. And most of these major studios are publicly traded companies, or segment-reported subsidiaries of publicly traded companies, so the stock analysts would be all over this, followed quickly by the SEC's investigators, who'd slap fines and nasty publicity on the studios that would put a quick stop to such schemes. And competing studios would get wind of such antics quickly, and be quick to expose them, since their own revenues would suffer from false promotion of competitors' films as blockbusters. If major studios were falsifying financial reports by misreporting sources of revenue and targets of 8 figure expenditures, while engaging in deceptive practices that thousands of casual theater workers, plus theater owners, are in a position to notice and blow the whistle on, the execs would be in deep trouble very quickly, and the practice would end.
Nope, if what you describe has ever happened, it has been rarely and on a small scale. Inflated ticket sales/attendance numbers are very common in the sports world, but none of the major sports organizations are publicly traded, and nobody is paying for the tickets. The same companies, or incestuously related companies, are getting most of the revenue from ticket sales, and reporting the numbers, AND managing the events on site (so unsold seats are frequently packed with people who've been given free tickets, making the reported numbers look at least vaguely believable to naive people, and making concession owners happy since people who got free tickets buy at least as much junk food as people who already spent a bundle on tickets).
Hollywood always seeks to change the culture. In this case, their goal is to promote homosexual "love" over heterosexual marriage.
Are you disputing that?
The Passion was a huge success had an enormous pre-release publicity push, targeted at the likely viewers.
There are many, many more Christians than there are homosexuals, and they came out to see a movie in wide release, as opposed to this one.
In fact, The Passion is a textbook example of how to release a movie Hollywood saw as a "problem" film. In fact, it was a problem for them, as its success has now made alternatives to their view of religion (pervert or lying priests, anyone who espouses Christian beliefs being an idiot or kook) potentially lucrative. Hollywood can spin it all they want, the gigantic success of The Passion showed that Christian-themed movies will draw the audience in gigantic numbers.
The Passion is a success story that Hollywood is trying to ignore but seeing how box office was down this year they may have no choice but to back more Christian-themed movies. Narnia, partially funded by a Christian investor, is another example.
Hollywood likes pushing their agenda, but they like making money, too. Don't be surprised if you see some spin-off companies arriving on the scene to make just those kinds of films for the major studios.
Yes, but where's the discussion? All I know is that people loved it. But the endless threads about Brokeback? I'd rather read why those who've seen Narnia enjoyed it.
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