'An American Carol' Producers Cry Foul Over Poor Ticket Sales

[meegbear]

More liberal bias? The producers of An Americal Carol, the conservative-minded comedy currently in theaters, report that they have received complaints of what they call ticket fraud. The producers believe this led to the film's lower-than-expected box office gross this weekend.

By "lower-than-expected," we mean by their own estimates; I thought $3 - $4 million sounded about right for a movie in 1,600 theaters that didn't get a huge marketing push. Several other websites that also forecast box office earnings arrived at roughly the same number. It wasn't finishing in anyone's top five; let's put it that way.

The movie, directed by Airplane! writer-director David Zucker takes aim at liberalism in the United States, seeking to reform a Michael Moore-inspired filmmaker played by Kevin Farley, who wants to abolish the Fourth of July holiday.

According to WENN, the film's official website contained a message earlier this week asking its patrons for help in reporting odd behavior occurring in multiplexes over the weekend:

"Please check your ticket. If you were in fact one of those people that were 'mistakenly' sold a ticket for another movie please fill out the form below. Hold on to your ticket so we can have proof...If you have noticed other irregularities with the theaters in your area please let us know in the comment section below. For instance, Rated R film rating (when in fact we are rated PG-13), posters not being up, not being listed on the marquee, image or focus problems, sound issues, etc."

The notice is no longer on the website, though it clearly points to, what, a vast left-wing conspiracy among every corporate and independent film exhibitor, as well as all the studios, to keep David Zucker's message out of theaters? Come on. The week before, Fireproof did huge business. Nobody claimed that was The God Patrol artificially inflating numbers.

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http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2008/10/9/an-american-carol-producers-cry-foul-over-poor-ticket-sales.html

[Champion Jack]

1. Maybe it would do better if it was funny

Just a thought

[MUAD_DIB]

23. Conservatives don't do comedy that well.

[codjh9]

27. Right - their sense of humor is often fairly narrow, old-fashioned, etc.

[KingFlorez]

2. People just don't want to see the movie

Why is that so hard for them to accept?

[donco6]

3. Lame.

Like movie theatres have nothing better to do than mess with some RW snooze-fest.

[amdezurik]

17. yeah all those theaters will conspire

to lose money just to tweak their noses or something.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. What a bunch of whiney-assed little cry-babies...

So typical of the sore-losers, and arrogant,bad-winners on the right.

[tjwash]

5. Sounds like the DU'ers that complain about their boring longwinded posts always sinking like rocks

It's always a conspiracy, people can't handle the truth, etc...

[navarth]

6. In a word.....

BWAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA.

fail.

[LynneSin]

7. Hey it beat out Religilous by about $200k in ticket sales

of course Religilious was in one-third less theaters but I'm just saying.

[NoodleyAppendage]

9. Exactly! Religilious was showing for 4 days on only ONE small theater in the NC Triangle Area.

None of the major theaters in the NC Triangle Area would show Religilious, but we certainly have this piece-of-shit American Carol out there for viewing.

J

[Jazzgirl]

15. Religulous was showing in only 1/3 as many theaters

as that piece of shit.

[NoodleyAppendage]

8. Whining from Repuke crybabies who can't understand that their audience is STUPID.

Zucker's just trying to soften the blow to his over-inflated ego by going "tin foil hat" on the public. Nice try asshole, but no dice...the idiots of your ilk have de-evolved into the pariahs of society. No longer will the rest of us take your Repuke bullshit. The era of Repuke is over. The pitiful ticket sales for your derivative idiotic movie is evidence of your rapidly approaching obscurity.

J

[grannie4peace]

10. i hope it bankrupts that creep!!!!

[unpossibles]

11. once again, right wingers taking full responsibility for their own failure

Gee, maybe if your political heroes had not destroyed the economy and robbed us all blind, more people could afford your shitty movie.

Or maybe had it not sucked. Honestly, I don't know ANYONE, including my conservative friends, who wants to see that movie. ANYONE! HAHA!

[louis-t]

12. Denial. They really think it was good.

Maybe it will be the 'sleeper' of the Christmas season. :eyes:

[tularetom]

13. WATB's

[Sheets of Easter]

14. What happened to the "this movie is for us" rhetoric?

What a bunch of crybabies. I am glad their turkey of a film bombed.

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. When are the right wingers going to realize that hate just ain't funny?

You would have thought the complete failure of FAUX Noize's attempt to rip off The Daily Show would have been enough evidence of that. Let alone the fact that Dennis Miller's total right wing whoredom post 9-11 hasn't yet revived his so-called career.

[On the Road]

18. I Will Watch South Park

even when they make fun of Al Gore. It's funny and I can take a joke.

But the ads for that movie made it look unbelievably lame and humorless. Just a Michael-Moore lookalike getting hit with anvils. Ididotic. I can't imagine it appeals to more than 5% of the population.

[spanone]

19. hey zucker, folks actually LIKE michael moore

and if you think about it, sending young and old alike off to die for an unnecessary war is really just not too funny. especially when 'your people' lied to the soldiers to get them there in the first place.

pissing on the constitution is also not too funny. people actually like that little constitution thingy.

there is very little about the last eight bu$h* years that make me laugh.....in fact, nothing at all.

[Gato Moteado]

20. the wrong farley brother died

nt

[Cheap_Trick]

21. Well Fucker...I mean Zucker, it's like this:

YOUR CINEMATIC ABORTION SUCKED SHIT.

You said if this movie tanked, you'd get out of the movie biz.

Now, be a good little maverick and do the one thing repugs NEVER do....honor your promise.

[Arugula Latte]

22. Sore Loserman. Get over it. Your movie sucks.

[Hawkeye-X]

24. What, did it get nominated for Academy Award, Zucker?

I don't think so. It was nominated for Razzies, I hear.

Hawkeye-X

[RainDog]

25. this is so stupid it's funny

the reality is, Zucker, that your movie only appeals to the 25% that will remain Bush conservatives even after he fornicates with the devil on the capitol steps.

[morgan2]

26. its that awful liberal group the caryle group

seeing as they own united artists, they must be the ones doing it!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

28. Are they saying that their own supporters are too dumb to notice

that they've been sold tickets for the wrong movie? (If that's what happened, which is highly unlikely.)

:eyes:

Actually, the whole premise of the movie sounds stupid. I've never heard of anyone trying to abolish the Fourth of July. I even attended a very left-wing Fourth celebration once in which the emphasis was on reclaiming the revolutionary spirit.

[Quantess]

29. Does anyone plan to rent it on DVD or video just to see how lame it is?

[Dukkha]

30. O'Reilly made a cameo, is he crying on the air about this yet?

[Vickers]

31. "conservative-minded comedy "

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Now THAT'S fucking funny!