P.T. Barnum Lives! Atlas Shrugged movie number three for per screen $

[sixmile]

Beaten by Rio and Scream 4.

http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2011-04-15&p=.htm

Still pulled in less than $1 million for first day.

[Taverner]

1. Atlas Shrugged was a boring book that only held sway if you really think being an ass is a virtue

[Boojatta]

13. What about Dagny Taggart's efforts to help end our dependence on foreign oil?

She found the remains of a special kind of motor. (Actually, it was some kind of energy reception device that draws static electricity from the atmosphere, but if they throw in a free motor then you can't go wrong.)

Link to a DU thread about the religion invented by Ayn Rand

[Brother Buzz]

2. $683,000 is a lot less than a million

It will be out in DVD very soon and will probably go directly to the bargain bin.

[sixmile]

3. Scream "Fire!" in those theaters

See how fast the door gets closed in your face after the stampede. "I'm okay, everyone. No need to worry."

[niyad]

4. where is MST3K when you really need it???

or the "pinkie"??

[FormerDittoHead]

9. They're alive and well in "Rifftrax". The MST3K crowd and more...

http://www.rifftrax.com/

[niyad]

11. thank you for that link. I miss them

[backscatter712]

17. and Cinematic Titanic!

http://www.cinematictitanic.com/

[onethatcares]

5. hahahahahahaha, $683,000, or round up to $684,000.00

at $12.00 a seat equals 57,000 folks that showed up to see it in 4000 theaters nation wide.

I'm willing to bet that most didn't even know the book version existed.

[sixmile]

6. It opened in 300 theaters

nt

[romantico]

7. to be fair

to be fair,it only opened in 299 theaters. Robert Redford's CONSPIRATOR opened in 700 theaters and came in at number 10.

Still, the horrible reviews and the low budget will kill this film. Only way they will do part 2 and 3 is if some rich Republican finances it.

[sixmile]

8. Can you say Tax Writeoff?

Loss carry forwards for years. That old ghoul Rand would be proud. Phonies.

[jmowreader]

25. The only way Part 1 got done was a rich Republican financed it

John Aglialoro, who makes his coin as the president of the company that makes Cybex exercise equipment, paid for the production of this thing.

[Liberal Veteran]

10. Didn't I read somewhere that that they had to make the movie or lose the rights?

Or is that just the excuse they are using for releasing a bad movie?

[Magron]

24. The original book..

should be about to come out of copyright unless they've managed to extend copyright indefinitely by now.

[jmowreader]

26. There's no reason for that book to have a copyright on it in the first place

A printed copy of Atlas Shrugged is cheaper than the case of paper and new toner cartridge it takes to print one yourself.

[sharp_stick]

12. And next weekend

it will probably pull in about 100,000 in the same number of theaters. That POS movie will play to the true believers who will go even though they know the thing is shit but still they will go once and then say fuck it.

It opens just like any of the RW fuckhead films, a few full theaters for one or two weeks and then nobody ever hears about it again. Anybody remember "American Carol"? It was supposed to be the big coming out of the new Republican cinema. The only problem was that it was so fucking bad that even pukes could only stand seeing it once.

At least with The Passion you had decent production values and acting along with a nutso fan base that would go back again and again to watch some poor shit get tortured for two hours.

[OhioDoink]

14. For Ayn,selling books wasn't enough......

So she needed that evil Govt. SS and Medicare to support her in the end.Her followers don't want to hear that part of it.
Hope I posted right,being a newbie and all.

[onethatcares]

15. ah, you did ok for a newbie.

welcome to DU.

How'd ya find the place? :toast:

[OhioDoink]

18. Thank You

I've been reading D.U since 2002,just never posted.During the build up to the Iraq mess I yahoo searched Anti-Bush and found this great place.Spent many hours reading posts.I have laughed and cried with all of you over the years.Great people on D.U should have posted sooner.

[RagAss]

16. Welcome to DU !

[Magron]

23. Being a darling of the privileged class

has it's risks..especially when your usefulness is at an end. Being a science fiction fan I read the book, all 1200 pages. She really had to work it hard to somehow justify destroying world civilization over personal pique. Her 'brilliant creators' practically had angels wings while I DO believe the evil communist opponents actually had horns. I think therapy would have helped her angst over what the marxists did to her successful middle class family in the revolution, eh?
I often wonder how that couple thousand 'brilliant creators' did when they marched out from their golden valley into a world of cannibals, warlords and death. The sequel would have been real short, bet they lasted about a month.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. A meaningless comparison....

Rio on nearly 4,000 screens, same for Scream 4. 10 Million and 8 million respectively. C'mon. What is meaningful is that it is number 13 out of 16 films in release. PT Barnum bombs. Big time. It would take over 30 weeks of BO at this rate to pay for the film. It has been our for 48 hours. Do the math.

[chrisa]

20. Who is John Galt?

Apparently nobody gives a shit. :shrug:

[hobbit709]

21. The statement about candy, birth, and time still holds true.

[Magron]

22. An 'anthem' to greed

Atlas is a turgid anthem to 5 year old child level greed that conveniently ignores the fact that the 'creators' need the rest of us to build, buy and use their 'creations'. It's blind both to the fact that civilization is a partnership and bloody revolution and/or the collapse of civilization always follows the concentration of wealth in too few hands.