“…only 9.9 people a day seeing the movie in any given theater”
That the American people, especially those of us in flyover country (or of that outlook if not geographical location), have HAD it with their inferiors preaching to them from heights that they have not attained on all matter of subjects and issues? We’ve just finished eight years of Best-Gun-Salesman-in-Chief making all kinds of disparaging remarks about we bitter clingers and trying all he could with his “pen and phone” to thwart that Second Amendment Right of ours? Didn’t they see that the Obama’s-Third-Term-Its-My-Turn candidate Hillary, who ALSO wanted to push that meme into double-overdrive?
Apparently not – that “Miss Sloan” movie TV advertising that has been hectoring gun owners for a couple of months has met its match – a loser with the American people. But really, THIS bad?
YOU CAN’T ASTROTURF THE BOX OFFICE: Hollywood’s Gun-Control Dud. “Miss Sloane, a highly anticipated movie demonizing the NRA and calling for gun control, has bombed. The movie succeeded only in emphasizing the top-down nature of the gun-control campaign and
how little intensity there is for more regulations. The movie seemed to have everything going for it. Liberal movie critics loved it, and it was backed by a hefty ad budget along with heaps of favorable news coverage. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has already nominated the movie’s star, Jessica Chastain, for a prestigious Golden Globe, considered a strong predictor of the Oscars. But two weeks after its national release, it has made only $3.2 million. During its second weekend, it averaged just $102 per movie theater per day. With a ticket price of $10.30 per adult, that comes to an average of only 9.9 people a day seeing the movie in any given theater.”
But will Hollywood learn this lesson? Probably not and I really hope they don’t. Let them keep spending huge gobs of money making dreck that can’t even earn back the collective cost of putting up the marquee letters outside the theaters.
Really, though, ten people? I know that our local multiplex has some pretty small screen rooms (out here in the sticks) but that’s pretty pitiful to not even to fill them. Yet, we see the disconnect between Hollywood and “the folks” once again:
- They spent $13 million to make a Progressives’ propaganda film
- They expected to bring in $5 million – proving it was a Progressives’ propaganda film (re: who makes films to LOSE money if not to “preach a message”?)
- It brought in $3M.
- I’m betting that those 9.9 attendees / threater / day were alREADY of the same mind set as the film’s producers.
- Yet, even with this absolutely miserable financial result, it’s up for a Golden Globe (a high honor)? Talk about disconnect…
So, WHY did they make it? I guess emotions – it made them feel good about themselves about a film that seemingly has failed to work for its intended purpose. But again, isn’t that how most Progressive programs work? Intentions are the biggest part of it – not results.
(H/T: Instapundit)
