Nice!…

Don’t forget your gas grill and red meat! Cheers!

As for AIT – see my revised poster here – note that it’s showing only in the deepest blue cities where the Left will flock to support it regardless of quality, much as they suddenly like country music when the Dixie Chicks trash Dubya.

When nationwide analysis of the box office for “Farginghype 7-11″ was done, it was found that it made it’s money in the Blue states and bombed in the Red. Moore was able to pretend that EVERYONE was seeing it – not that the Treason Media would blow the whistle on his lies – when actually he was fleecing the flock in the choir loft.

But, why are we talking reality in a thread about Al Gore? Don’t you know that these are mutually exclusive concepts?

RH

We’ve all heard a lot about Al Gore’s new movie, An Inconvenient Truth. It has been the subject of much debate and much media attention. So with all this hubub, where should you go if you want to see this……

It is best for him to open at locations where liberals are abundant. If he open in Olkahoma he would be lucky to pull in 20 per show. So more theaters do not help, better location helps.

Based on the average attendance per show, it is not a hot movie by any means. But for a documentary, it ain’t bad.

Is it true that he flunked out of Divinity school or was it when he found out the courses weren’t about him, he quit?

As long as each person sponsoring a “video party” bought a copy of his movie, he would end up sitting pretty, with what, $37 in the bank.

You make an excellent point – based on a per screen average, the movie had an impressive opening weekend take (and yes, I’m one of those conservatives who understands and follows Hollywood box office stats). However, I’m not so sure whether a couple more weeks is going to make much of a difference — at least at this rate. After all, the movie is only showing in a handful of theaters (Boxofficemojo.com is still reporting only 4, though I suspect that number will change this weekend). Why so few, if this is such an “important film?” Also, notwithstanding all the political shows on which I’ve seen trailers of the movie, I’ve yet to see a trailer air on any of the major non-news networks. Absent any decent publicity, it’s difficult to imagine that the film will become a breakout hit on the level of “Fahrenheit 911″ or “Super Size Me.” Like you, however, I’m willing to take a wait-and-see approach. Hell, I might even consider seeing it (depending on how much of a laugh I need), if it ever comes to a theater near me…

Here’s hoping that the people who were stupid enough to vote for Clinton/Bore twice aren’t stupid enough to vote for Gore, Clinton, or any combination thereof in ‘08. I won’t hold my breath, but I’ll keep hope alive…

Some theatres don’t report to box office tracking firms. If what you’re saying is true (that there are actually 7 theatres showing the film), then I bet the box office would bump up quite a bit. Again, this wasn’t a NATIONWIDE opening as you’ve just written. It’s what’s called a “LIMITED” opening in the top markets, LA and New York. You may want to do some research. According to Yahoo! Showtimes feature, An Inconvenient Truth hasn’t even opened ANYWHERE in Washington, DC. Doing a zip-code search using 20001, it comes up with three theatres who will be debuting the film TOMORROW. So I don’t know what you’re talking about re: the film playing in DC. It only officially opened in LA and NY, a standard for films of that kind. Here’s the link:

An Inconvenient Truth in DC–Starts June 2

Fact is, just based on the per-screen average from last weekend, the film did very well. Let’s wait a couple weeks to really judge. The standard for documentaries, now, is obviously Fahrenheit 9/11, which made over $100 million domestically. However, I would say the breaking point for An Inconvenient Truth would need to be at least $20 million to be considered somewhat of a success. Let’s face it: Documentaries, by their very nature, don’t do very well. Save for Fahrenheit and March of the Penguins, they’re aimed at very limited audiences. Is there a big chance Gore’s film will flop in the long run? Heck yeah. I’m just saying it’s too soon to make that judgment.

Get back to me when you get the names of those theatres showing the film.

But the rest of the information is correct. His box office take was under 285k for a nationwide opening.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

I actually sent in the tip on this one-
I blogged it here ( http://www.belch.com/~blog/2006/05/30/gore-movie-is-eco-flop/ )
and said:

So the real Inconvenient Truth that Gore should get to understand is that no one believes his chicken-little version of science. And if they do, no one wants to pay to see his power point presentation about it. And if his box office take is this low, his DVD sales will be abyssmal too. I guess his movie will go from the silver screen straight to YouTube where it belongs.

Gore’s film was released in only 4 theatres, thus meaning it was statistically IMPOSSIBLE for it to earn millions upon millions of dollars in its opening weekend. For perspective, X-Men 3 opened this past weekend in nearly 4000 theatres. That’s a thousand times more theatres than An Inconvenient Truth. Yet it only earned about $30000 PER theatre, whereas Gore’s earned about $70000. What does this mean? It means Gore’s film was FILLING MORE THEATRES. While I doubt it will achieve blockbuster status when it eventually does roll out into 1000+ theatres, I think you guys are jumping the gun a bit and not providing enough perspective. Per-screen averages are a fairly new way of determining early successes in the market. If the box office chart were numbered based on per-screen averages, then Gore’s film would have been number one. Now, if the film had debuted in 2000 screens last weekend and grossed a paltry $1,000,000, then you guys would have sufficient cause to bash it. However, it’s too early.

Don’t flame me. I’m really not trying to crash the party here. I just think you guys needed some perspective. I know all you conservatives hate Hollywood, so I just figured you may not have a clue as to how box office stats work. ;-)

signed
the genius behind brokeback mountain

I can’t believe this dude was actually our VP for 8 years.