Brokeback Mountin Bombs at Box Office; Holiday BO smells

data from Box Office Mojo ^ | 12/17/05 | Dangus

[Bubbatuck]

Regardless of the merits of this movie, the notion that 11k/screen is a bad showing is just ludicrous. That's an exceptionally high number - far higher than anything else in theaters today.

Put me down with the "Live and let live" crowd. The existence of that movie, and whether it succeeds or fails, doesn't affect me one whit.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

it's a gay cowboy movie.

Cowboys don't herd sheep. Sheep herders herd sheep. The majority of homosexuals are not happy. Call it what it is: a homosexual sheep herder movie.

I'm surprised that Peter Jackson even bothered to remake King Kong. Was anyone clamoring for a remake of King Kong? What a waste of talent.

[Shqipo]

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN should have been titled BROKEBOX OFFICE.

[Revolting cat!]

Who is Hutton Gibson?

Dunno, but here's Hutton and a Gibson.

[durasell]

That's Lauren Hutton? Funny, I never recognize her unless she's smiling.

[JCEccles]

How many times have you seen Brokebank Molehill? I suspect you and the infinitesimally small number of people like you are responsible for at least 50 percent of its ticket sales to date.

[durasell]

Do the math on the movie. If you have 7 million people in the U.S. see the movie, then it's a huge success. Foreign rights, broadcast rights, DVD, etc. etc. are basically pure profit.

[Infantry Grunt 1968-69]

I'll wait for the sequel, "StumpBroke Hill"

[Palladin]

That was Bill McCuddy...and, yeth, he is very good to his mother.

[Always Right]

I guess we won't be seeing too many gay cowboy movies in the future.

BUt we will have to endure movies about gay football players, gay action heros, gay cops, gay lawyers, gay mobsters, gay firemen, gay president, etc. It will take Hollyweird about a dozen more flops before it strikes them that maybe gay sex movies don't have broad appeal.

[bigsigh]

how many mistakes do you make a day, more than a dozen or just a handful?

[Texas WOP]

Ah, Brokeback Mountain. Where the men aren't. And the sheep ain't nervous.

[devane617]

I bet it wins all Oscars for this year. Wanna bet? The prev's in Hollywood will be in line wanting to vote this pile of trash as this years best film.

[devane617]

prev's = PERV's

[CaptainK]

I'm afraid you don't understand how to read the boxofficemojo statistics. The movie has had the highest per screen returns of any film this year. In fact I'm surprised that the per screen result remain basically the same from Thursday to Friday when they expanded from 8 screens to 70. That translates into mostly sold out shows.

A month from now you might be correct, it may take a precipitous hit in audience volume and only take in a modest profit. But with a budget of only 12 million it's not going to lose money.

The producers of King Kong on the other hand, should be worried.

[BobS]

"...it's a gay cowboy movie.

That's it. Who wants to see a story about a couple of butthole surfers at Christmastime? I will take that blown $15M and create a business and some jobs to go along with it.

A lot of people think rich people are smart and got that way because of their intelligence and hard work. Not in this case. There are flocks of rich and stupid people who flood our senses with their dementia.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Yeah! Wait until it goes overseas, and is dubbed in arabic!

[durasell]

The producers of King Kong on the other hand, should be worried.


There are something like 300 licenses for Kong. They were well on their way profitability before the movie was released.