Posted on 12/17/2005 11:10:22 AM PST by dangus
$11,000 per theater in strictly midtown locales is no way near being sold out. Some of these theaters can take $40, or $50,000. And "staying the same" as you go from Thursday to Friday is pretty disasterous. If you're going to compare Thursday to Friday to sense "selling out," I suggest you also consider LAST Friday, when the take was four times higher.
Friday's take was far from the highest per screen daily take. Return of the Sith opened up at $13,666 at over fifty times more theaters, including smaller rural and small-town theaters.
>> the notion that 11k/screen is a bad showing is just ludicrous <<
Actually, I said that measure was quite good. But I also said you have to consider where those screens are and what they represent as a portion of the audience... that's where the film's weakness is revealed
No, Aslan is literally supposed to be Christ. If you read all seven books, especially 'The Magician's Nephew' and 'The Last Battle', Lewis makes it abundantly clear.
>> especially the arthouse theaters where a movie like that is likely to play <<
There's the mistake in your logic. This is being shown at most of the largest theaters in the nation. The sort of movies that are shown in "arthouse" theaters in mid-America are shown in flagship theaters in downtowns of major cities.
And it certainly is not a way of keeping any good that may have been gained from devout Christians through the Passion of the Christ.
Trouble with Brokeback mountain is it's the same tired old story. How many times do we need to see a movie about a couple of cowboys who go off to the mountains every once in a while and have gay sex? I for one am tired of it.
When shark die nobody cry . . .
Evidently you don't know the difference between sheep herders and cowboys.
I know it's not Return of the Sith, but right now it is not the bomb you are making it out to be. As of today it's doing very well financially.
Not in your wildest fantasies will your points make your statements true. Good try.
We thought so too. The only other movie we'll be seeing this year is the Chronicles of Narnia. The insects and bats in King Kong were something else.
Brokeback Republican....I like it!
Mel Gibson's dad. Quite the anti-Semite, one gathers: the Holocaust never happened, and so on
Is he one of THE Huttons?
This will be a double Ooffa. Keep the fudge.
What's a funnier name for Brokeback Mountain - Broke Back Mountin', Back Door Mountin', or Raw Hind?
"brown eye for the back door guy,,,,lmao"
Try "Butt-plug Mountain"
Peter Jackson learns the right things from the experience; he is very talented, very passionate, and, from the messages of his movies, very decent.Then you clearly haven't seen all of his movies.
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