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Brokeback Mountin Bombs at Box Office; Holiday BO smells
data from Box Office Mojo ^ | 12/17/05 | Dangus

Posted on 12/17/2005 11:10:22 AM PST by dangus

A gross of $11,000 per screen is quite good. If you're an autumn Wide Release, opening on 3500 screens across the country. When a movie opens on only 69 of the nation's largest theaters in a few dozen of the largest cities, with almost all of your target audience within range of those theaters, it's pretty bad.

Brokeback Mountain played in fourteen times more theaters this Friday than last Friday, and made less than four times as much money, only $760,000. It looks like the movie will make considerably less than its $15 million budget before the Academy Awards come out. How many tens of millions of dollars in free promotion, reduced pay and credibility were spent on this film?

King Kong also appears to be a flop. I've seen this movie: Peter Jackson has mastered many movie-making techniques with the Lord of the Rings, and the movie is an amazing spectacle with much positive and true to say about human nature. But Jackson did not learn how to discipline his budgeting or story-telling. His movie is also bloated, over-long, too violent, very horrific and a bit tooo preposterous.

The early part of the movie centers around a movie director too obsessed with his story, prone to overkill, and swindling a movie company out of far more than they would have been willing to spend. Given that actor Jack Black even slightly resembles Peter Jackson, I can't help but to wonder if how consciously auto-biographical the film is. It will make many, many, many times more than Brokeback Mountain, and still become known as a flop. I sincerely hope Peter Jackson learns the right things from the experience; he is very talented, very passionate, and, from the messages of his movies, very decent. King Kong made $14 million last night... It will probably easily pass $100 million, but land short of its $200 million budget. On the other hand, it is precisely the sort of movie that translates well overseas, and does well on DVD. But it will not be the Box Office savior hoped for.

Chronicles of Narnia will apparently need a rebound in the Christmas vacations to be profitable. Except for a literally rushed ending, it's almost perfect, a purely magical delight. But it seems to have very weak legs; it's not surprising since everyone who wanted to see this movie knew they did so a long time ago, and most rushed out to see it immediately. Today's movie markets don't allow for the sort of excellent word of mouth that Narnia is getting.

That word of mouth means probably good DVD sales, and strong anticipation of a sequel, so Narnia's Box Office is by no means a failure... just it'll take some time to become profitable. Narnia sold about $9 million worth of tickets, down over 60% from last Friday.

But there doesn't seem to be any great challenger to Narnia for the Holiday season. The Family Stone opened weak ($4 million), Harry Potter is mostly played out ($1.5 million), as are Walk the Line ($1 million) and Yours Mine and Ours (under $1 million) Syriana also fell hard, too... ($1.6 million).

Don't look for any saviors at the box office next week either... Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Fun with Dick and Jane, The Ringer, and Rumor Has It all open, but none look too strong


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: barebackmountin; boxoffice; brokebackmountain; cowpokessuck; fagsfail; failures; fudgepackmountain; gayagenda; hollyweird; hollywood; homosexualagenda; moviereview; narnia; pudding; queerslose
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To: bnelson44
They aren't cowboys eithers. They herd sheep. They are shepards.

LMAO!
21 posted on 12/17/2005 11:22:57 AM PST by andyk (Fear my strategery of misunderestimation.)
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To: freedumb2003

I thought it was missing a W as in BWAAAAHAAAAAAAA!!!!


22 posted on 12/17/2005 11:23:08 AM PST by TightyRighty
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To: dangus

Tehy'll give brokeback an oscar for something or another and it will go into profit.


23 posted on 12/17/2005 11:23:25 AM PST by bigsigh
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To: FastCoyote
Personally, I think millions of men are just itching to see Bareback Mountain

Tap, tap, tap.....

24 posted on 12/17/2005 11:23:30 AM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: durasell

It WAS intended to have a religious theme. And Christ was a lion, an powerful force for good, but maybe also he was thinking that God could be wrathful against the wicked as well. Keep in mind, it's fiction. He didn't mean Christ literally was a lion on Earth. Narnia was a different place. If Christ returned to Earth, would he be full of wrath? I don't know, I'm not an expert in the Book of Revelations.

Maybe he saw Christ as a the Lion of Judah?

http://www.geocities.com/coolpoete/lionofjudahsymbol.htm

I don't know, just thinking aloud here.


25 posted on 12/17/2005 11:23:37 AM PST by Siegfried The Red (Subgeniuses are the last TRUE Americans!)
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To: dangus
Just heard one of the stars on Fox News this morning talking about how FudgePack Mountain is such a "wonderful love story".

And he sounded positively flaming ...

26 posted on 12/17/2005 11:23:45 AM PST by manwiththehands ("Merry Christmas .... and Happy New Year ... you can take your seat now ...")
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To: apackof2
But Bareback Mountain must be a great film, the San Francisco Comical ran two front page articles on the film saying it was Oscar quality and "ground breaking"..../sarcasm off/
27 posted on 12/17/2005 11:24:09 AM PST by Tadhg
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To: Pete'sWife

Hollywood is re-learning how to make and market "small" movies.


28 posted on 12/17/2005 11:24:12 AM PST by durasell
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To: FastCoyote
"And it will win an Oscar!"

it will likely win more than one given that the Social Engineers in H'Wood decided about 15 years ago that Gay is the Way and we had all better just shut up and accept it.

29 posted on 12/17/2005 11:24:36 AM PST by TCats
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To: Siegfried The Red
Did they really think a movie that appeals to such a small proportion of the population would do well?

No. I said in another thread that movies like this - they have to hype the hell out of the awards (and come up with all kinds of awards to give it) in order to keep justifying them. With this being a down year in movies (not due to piracy - due to turning out crummy movies), the stockholders and accountants are going to be really keeping an eye on things over the next few years.
30 posted on 12/17/2005 11:25:13 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: TightyRighty
I thought it was missing a W as in BWAAAAHAAAAAAAA!!!!

Your Right

How about this

BWAAAAAHAAA!!!

31 posted on 12/17/2005 11:25:14 AM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: dangus

I saw the trailer (and I use the term loosely)for dirt road mountain when I went to see Walk the line. There was a collective groan that went up from the audience when we figured out what this p.o.s. was about.


32 posted on 12/17/2005 11:25:19 AM PST by Larsen E. Whipsnade
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To: ghost of nixon

I gotta see Kong and Narnia!


33 posted on 12/17/2005 11:25:50 AM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Siegfried The Red

The letter, written from Magdalene College, Cambridge, where Lewis was a don, contradicts this. “Supposing there really was a world like Narnia . . . and supposing Christ wanted to go into that world and save it (as He did ours) what might have happened?” he wrote.

“The stories are my answer. Since Narnia is a world of talking beasts, I thought he would become a talking beast there as he became a man here. I pictured him becoming a lion there because a) the lion is supposed to be the king of beasts; b) Christ is called ‘the lion of Judah’ in the Bible.”

Interesting ... :)


34 posted on 12/17/2005 11:25:55 AM PST by Siegfried The Red (Subgeniuses are the last TRUE Americans!)
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To: All

So even the best movie is not making enough?

Seems telling that a movie with a known NON pc plotline does very well, while a disgused homosexual porn fantasy is bombing.

People don't want to pay for a Political Correctness. We get that for free from the MSM.


35 posted on 12/17/2005 11:26:14 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Siegfried The Red

An allegory is a story in which one thing is used to represent another thing. If Lewis did say it wasn't an allegory, maybe he just didn't want people to look too closely at the religious angle.


36 posted on 12/17/2005 11:26:35 AM PST by durasell
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To: Tadhg

Oh I am sure that in San Fran there was a "stampede" to the movie


37 posted on 12/17/2005 11:27:33 AM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: FastCoyote
"Nothing more appealing to American men than gay cowboys, for sure."

Well, to protect the honor of cowboys, the two queers are both sheepherders in the movie.

Line in movie..."There'll never be another ewe!"

38 posted on 12/17/2005 11:27:40 AM PST by texson66 ("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
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To: dangus

I would not allow my family, nor encourage anyone in my circle of family and friends to view a movie that pushes the homosexual agenda at all costs to the detriment of respect for decent human morals and the betterment of our society.

In Hollyweird, and the coasts no other social agenda gets pushed as much, given the millions of dollars of free media, glowing national daily newspaper editorial comment, and the regular subject of lamestream trash tv.

Nor am I that keen on promoting an elective activity that is highly risky to physical health and mental welfare. But I do not discourage those so inclined to pursue such activity regularly and routinely with reckless abandon as to the consequences. Such foolishness will ultimately lead us to a better gene pool.


39 posted on 12/17/2005 11:29:04 AM PST by tarepeter
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To: apackof2

They were lined up...back-to-back...?!?


40 posted on 12/17/2005 11:29:12 AM PST by Tadhg
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