Maher's 'Religulous' Continues to Own Zucker's 'Carol'

[marmar]

from AlterNet's PEEK:



Maher's 'Religulous' Continues to Own Zucker's 'Carol'

Posted by Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake at 8:23 AM on October 14, 2008.

Bill Maher continues to thrash conservative David Zucker's "An American Carol" for the second week in a row.



When I was in grad school at USC, every Monday was devoted to analyzing the weekend boxoffice.

Some habits die hard:

This Wk 13
Last Wk 10
Title Religulous
Dist. Lionsgate
Weekend Gross $2,230,898
Cumulative Gross $6,732,631
Rlse Wks 2
# of Theaters 568


This Wk 15
Last Wk 9
Title American Carol
Dist. Vivendi Entertainment
Weekend Gross $1,395,000
Cumulative Gross $5,971,000
Rlse Wks 2
# of Theaters 1621

Bill Maher's Religulous and the poorly-timed David Zucker conservative tirade An American Carol have been in release for 2 weeks. While still on roughly one-third the number of screens as the An American Carol, Religulous took in over $835,000 more in boxoffice receipts. That makes its cumulative gross $761,631 more than An American Carol.

In common Hollywood parlance, it's known as an "ass whipping."

Maybe, as they say, it's a "liberal plot" against American Carol. Or maybe the American public just doesn't have an appetite right now for a 90 minute hissy fit associated with the ideology most people blame for a disastrous war and a tanking economy.

Who knows.


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/102910/maher%27s_%27religulous%27_continues_to_own_zucker%27s_%27carol%27/

[angstlessk]

1. well, it is all ticket fraud, registration fraud, voter fraud..you know

we Democrats could not function were it not for fraud!!!

[AlCzervik]

2. notice the difference in screen numbers?

[gatorboy]

3. And yet they're both being owned by a talking Chihuahua

[Initech]

7. Exactly what I was going to say.

Disgusting the kind of shit that people pay money to see. When a well-written movie that attempts to educate the public and create a cross cultural dialog like Religuous comes along, it gets shunned in favor of crap like "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" that is watched by morons who like shiny objects.

[ElboRuum]

4. The gross/theater is particularly telling.

Religulous: Avg gross/theater = $11,853.22
Carol: Avg gross/theater = $3,683.53

[gabeana]

5. I saw Mahers movie last night

enjoyed it, The best part though didn't come from the movie directly. It was when Joe Lieberman was on the screen and movie theater audience let out a collective groan

[Ezlivin]

6. Praise the Lord!

Damn, but he works in some fuc*ing mysterious ways.

[bullwinkle428]

8. ZOMG...ACORN IZ MESSING WITH MOOVEE TIKET SALEZ TWO!!1!