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(Vanity) Brokeback Mountain, a Curious Attendance Story
Michael Medved Radio
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Posted on 01/06/2006 3:31:19 PM PST by Balding_Eagle
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To: GaltMeister
"Remember the Village People had a cowboy ... LOL "Message me!
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:42:31 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: GaltMeister
"Village People had a cowboy" ...But did they have Sheepherders as in this movie?
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:42:47 PM PST
by
litehaus
To: don-o
A lot of folks today with "fertile" imaginations out there.I agree with you. Thus my disclaimer at the end. Also a reason to have others actually check it out and relate their experience.
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:43:09 PM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(God has blessed Republicans with political enemies who have dementia.)
To: Spok
"only saw 4 people in there" Were they all men? Sitting REAL close? Maybe they bought the show out for privacy. And were they all sitting in the back row?
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:43:50 PM PST
by
MistrX
To: Ironclad
Brokeback Mountain, after four weeks: This week gross: $4,847,443 Cumulative gross: $15,102,697 Probable financial loser, I'd say.Yeah, making almost 1/3 of its budget back in one week's gross? That's some probably financial loser.
It's already made back more than it's budget, and will probably soon be in profit, depending on the theaters' cut, which is probably less than 30% of the take.
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:44:09 PM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. --Elmer Davis)
To: 19th LA Inf
On New Year's Eve my wife and I saw "Walk the Line" I've heard great stuff about that movie.
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:44:15 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Balding_Eagle
Was Matt one of the four seeing the movie and later bribing the manager to flash the sold out sign?
;)
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:44:56 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
To: NativeNewYorker
"only saw 4 people in there"
... er... possibly eight
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:45:05 PM PST
by
daku
(Islam , a religion of peace ... Liar liar, France on fire)
To: Balding_Eagle
I just visited America briefly over the holidays. I went to the cinema to see "Narnia". As I was standing in line, what was most evident was a large placard for Brokeback Mountain right in between the two sales desks. I had visited this theatre before and had never seen such aggressive marketing for a film.
Something is definitely wrong. This film is being force fed to the public in any manner it can be done.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:45:09 PM PST
by
MadIvan
(You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
To: Balding_Eagle
I doubt the manager would post the "SOLD OUT" sign if the theater had even a few people already inside, and about to watch the movie. That would only prevent a few more people from buying tickets, and result in the 4 watchers emerging with even more extreme reports of how few people were in attendance. Why would a manager want to do that? It's not as if people assume a movie isn't worth watching if they don't see "Sold Out" signs for it on theater ticket windows. And there's no way a manager would cancel a showing of any movie, if even a single customer was already there in a seat waiting to see it. They'd just cancel the movie's run at the theater earlier than planned.
The guy who reported this may have poked his head into the wrong theater, perhaps a theater where a later showing of the movie was scheduled, with few people having arrived yet. Or he may have looked in the right theater, but long before the scheduled start time, when few people would have already arrived. Many theaters do the bulk of their sales for new highly publicized films via advance and online sales, and Brokeback Mountain is no doubt being attended by a lot of gays, including some sizeable organized groups from colleges who would purchase in advance to make sure no one was turned away after the group arrived.
To: Spok
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:45:43 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
To: Darkwolf377
As per boxofficemojo the budegt was 14M.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=brokebackmountain.htm
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:45:45 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Balding_Eagle
BBM Director Ang Lee
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:46:43 PM PST
by
fishtank
To: billorites
It was an okay movie. It's one of the few we've seen in years. I'd recommend it.
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:46:49 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
To: billorites
It was an okay movie. It's one of the few we've seen in years. I'd recommend it.
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:46:50 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
To: Balding_Eagle
Brokeback Mountain opens in Fresno this weekend. At the largest multiplex,
Edwards Cinema , they put it in the separate theatre on the IMAX screen.
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:46:55 PM PST
by
Plutarch
To: Spok
Were they all men?All sitting in the same chair.
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:47:02 PM PST
by
My2Cents
(Dead people voting is the closest the Democrats come to believing in eternal life.)
To: Darkwolf377
Where does one find the budget?
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:47:11 PM PST
by
Ironclad
(O Tempora! O Mores!)
To: Spok
"only saw 4 people in there"..Were they all men? Sitting REAL close? Maybe they bought the show out for privacy.Hmmm...Since many theaters are automated now, maybe the (Male) Theaters staffers wanted to watch to "show" the attendees.
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:47:21 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: Ironclad
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:47:31 PM PST
by
Borges
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