Shut Up And Tank
Last week, Greg Tinti was ready to call the Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up and Sing a bomb. AllahPundit took some exception to that assessment. Well, the weekend box offices are out over at Box Office Mojo and it is probably a little clearer now. The graph below shows the box office for the first two weeks of release. Note the declining trend. That was with a total of 11 theaters showing the film. This week they expanded to 71 screens. But the per screen total dropped to just $2,281 for a weekend box office of $162,000. So although the movie was shown on more than six times as many screens, the box office revenue rose by only 122%. Theater owners can read numbers. This one is not bringing people in. I think we can call it a bomb now.
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The Political Pit Bull — November 20, 2006 @ 11:58 am
By Pam, November 20, 2006 @ 11:31 am
All of the reviews I read for the film were positive ones. But it just goes to show that while a movie critic may love it, if it doesn’t appeal to the movie-going audience, it’ll be flushed down with the rest of the refuse.
By Pam, November 20, 2006 @ 11:31 am
P.S.: I love your new format.
By Gaius, November 20, 2006 @ 11:43 am
Thanks. Generally, movie reviews have little to do with reality!