F 9/11 did NOT make $21 Million Dollars! So stop saying that!

[King Of Paperboys]

It made $24 Million Dollars! :P

Revised numbers are out! It just gets better and better!

[benburch]

1. LOL

Had me going there for a millisecond.

[RobertSeattle]

2. $24,078,959 to be exact

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fahrenheit911.htm

Domestic Total as of Jun. 27, 2004: $24,078,959

[GumboYaYa]

3. I knew it had to be more.

they announced the $21.8 million as my wife was headed out the door to see the movie. I knew that they needed to add at least eight more dollars to that total.

[Mortos]

4. They came out with the 21 million figure

on Sunday afternoon. I was wondering how they could come up with a total before the late afternoon and evening showings. Right on! MM. I saw it Saturday and I am going to take and pay for a group of about 4 more this week including 2 republican Bush supporters. It is a small price to pay to possibly change someone's mind when faced with facts.

[LowerManhattanite]

8. Freepers are spitting mad about this...

...claiming "Soros bought a couple of thousand tickets" to change the numbers and crap like that.

Any half-wit who knows anything about the movie biz knows that the Sunday reportage of weekend grosses is based on a couple of days of data and a day or so's worth of mathematical extrapolation. The Monday numbers are always revised to indicate the actual grosses as the previous 24 hours true ticket sales are finally tallied. There have been lawsuits over certain films claiming weekend superiority over another close competitor based on the soft Sunday totals. As the "White Chicks" and "911" extrapolations were not that close, there was and will be no dispute.

The other things these idiots are hung up on is comparing "911" to Gibson's "Passion" insofar as grosses. One was a general release "entertainer" on 3000 screens while the other was a documentary released on 860 screens. No one saw "lines" for "Passion" as it was a wider release. Demand outstripped supply for "911", thus the lines. Think about it...a documentary film with lines around the block on opening weekend? Unheard of. What's doubly hilarious is their shifting expectations, i.e. "It'll gross $70 million over maybe three weeks and then disappear. Can we start a death watch?"

70 million for a documentary is a failure? After it shatters the record by 300%?

The producers of "White Chicks" must be pissed to the height of pisstivity--when they saw they'd be competing against "911", they must have been licking their chops...now they're licking their wounds.

[rinsd]

12. I disagree....

Both Passion and F911 are prop films, made to cause an intense reaction. They just have different styles.

Interesting how both filmakers were able to turn controversey into both film's biggest marketing vehicles.

I simply cannot believe that White Chicks did anything. That movie looks awful ;-)

[TlalocW]

5. No, it's $24,078,964

For some "reason" they didn't want to count my five dollars that I paid to see it on Saturday! I noticed that the ticket booth worker looked suspiciously like Katherine Harris!

TlalocW

[TheDebbieDee]

6. Overheard on talkradio in Kansas City this evening..........

a freeper had called in to the "Russ Johnson" show to complain about the "lies" in MM movie and how it shouldn't be called a documentary. The moderate host was telling the freeper that he should at least go see the documentary. Anyway, the freeper stated that he didn't want Michael Moore getting any of his money so he decided that he would buy a ticket to another movie, like "WhiteChicks" or something and then sneak into one of the theaters showing F-9/11.

I'm sure lots of freepers have already thought about this. It makes me wonder how many untold millions that Michael Moore hasn't been given credit for. I've read several accounts from F-9/11 movie-goers stating that people were standing in the aisles because there weren't enough seats.

[k in IA]

7. I haven't seen this in GD or LBN. Are you hiding in the Lounge with

real info?

[King Of Paperboys]

9. Sorry

I'll make the same post in GD! :P

[King Of Paperboys]

10. OK, posted in GD!

eom

[k in IA]

11. No problemo, Mr King of Paperboys! I bet a lot of people want to

know what the actual numbers ended up being and I figured they might be higher than the estimates.

[Kellanved]

13. WOW- this might have more effect than F911 itself

So this is a clear signal: money can be earned with left positions. The media won't need much time to come to that conclusion and might leave the current policy, which is: money only can be made with reactionary positions.