According to box office estimates, An American Carol grossed $145,000 yesterday in 1,621 theaters for a per theater average of…. $89.
As BoxOfficeMojo explains:
Theaters refers to the number of locations where a movie is playing, but it does not reflect the number of screens. One theater location, for example, may play a movie on several screens—this is a necessary distinction since print and Web references routinely and mistakenly refer to theaters as screens.
So $89 is not per screen or per showing. That is for the day, the whole day, no matter how many screens An American Carol appears upon.
$89. Eighty-nine dollars. Ochenta y nueve dólares.
For the whole day.
The closest movie theater to my house has showings at 1:00pm, 3:10pm, 5:20pm, 7:35pm, 9:45pm
You do the math.




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wow. I show two houses near me, five showings per day each. If I hurry I can see it at 10:25 . . . .
What a turd.
This is what happens when wingnuts believe their own trash philosophies a little bit too much.
They truly believe that in their “culture war” that there is still a massive majority who really thinks like them when it is they who are in the minority.
Boo hoo.
BoxOfficeMojo Rulz!
Ahem….Bwahahahahahaha. Ahem. That right there is funnier than the movie.
Two wingnuts per theater, on a mission from Gawd, asses sore, fingers butter-stained, soldier valiantly on.
Foo! That stinker had direct to video written all over it.
it has “direct to $2 discount bin” written all over it.
Too bad for the wingnuts, their usual “pump up the volume” scheme that they use for books to get on bestseller lists won’t work here. Not least, because its revenue that gets reported, but also because even if #viewers was reported you’d have to turn the theaters into homeless shelters to get enough people to sit through that dreck.
What’s that? Do I hear the sound of a teeny-tiny little violin playing for them? Yes, I believe I do…
The Freepers are claiming it’s all a liberal plot. Really.
I’m starting to think you may be saying people aren’t paying to go see this movie, which is strange considering all the polls are wrong and there’s an enormous Republican majority in this country. If it wasn’t for ACORN our economy would be in great shape and all these polls would show McCain ahead by double digits. And Ayers, I forgot about Ayers. Yeah, he’s the one who started the conspiracy against American Carol. When the rapture comes he and Barama will be sorry.
I think all those pimply teenagers running the box offices are ACORN sleeper agents. Think about it, it fits!
I bet it does great in DVD sales. Seriously. I wouldn’t be surprised if Scaife or some other right-wing billionaire ends up buying hundreds of thousands of copies and mails them out as an alleged “bonus” with a magazine subscription or something. You know, the same way Man Coulter’s books get distributed these days.
That thread is pretty funny. Do these people ever get honest with themselves? They want to blame “liberal” theater owners…but, last time I checked, these people want to sell tickets and, you know, make money. Or perhaps the real problem is that the paste eaters are so stupid, they watch the wrong movie?
Anyways, there is apparently one theater where it’s quite popular….and funny! “We went to see it on Friday—theater was packed. The only complaint I have is that the guy behind me and my girlfriend was laughing so loud and boisterously that we couldn’t fully enjoy the movie. ” This poster wouldn’t be bullshitting his fellow Freebulicans would he?
oops, meant to type Freepublicans – that unprincipled and clueless variety of apologist-Republicans.
Finally! A movie that underperforms “Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video”!
And now, their star, Dennis Hopper, has endorsed Obama.
Ha ha ha ha!
Ha.
Can anyone tell me why Man Coulter is not outed? Is it because Dems have respect for the transgendered?
It seems so painfully clear to me that she has had a sex change. What would THAT knowledge do to her following in conservative circles?
just wonderin’
At the local muliplex, Religulous had a respectable crowd for the weekday 4:30 showing; the Amer. Carol crapfest had no one. I looked.
Anyways, there is apparently one theater where it’s quite popular….and funny! “We went to see it on Friday—theater was packed. The only complaint I have is that the guy behind me and my girlfriend was laughing so loud and boisterously that we couldn’t fully enjoy the movie. ” This poster wouldn’t be bullshitting his fellow Freebulicans would he?
This guys “complaint” sounds like it was made up by the same guy who says he has a problem riding bicycles because his giant penis gets in the way.
What really tips me off that this guy is full of shit is the claim that he has a girlfriend.
Is Regnery in the movie biz these days?
Does the ticket price include the paper towels?
IB, their claim is even more outlandish than that.
What they’re saying is that Freeper A goes to the box office and requests 2 tickets to “An American Stinkbomb.” Liebrul conspiracy teen sells them two tickets to “Mexican Chihuahuas 2: Across the Border,” then secretly marks their ticket in highly coded usher symbols so that the ticket taker directs them to the showing of “An American Stinkbomb.” They pad the sales number for that move with the damned furriner dog, and suppress how truly popular their ‘Michael Moore is fat’ ode truly did.
The levels of self delusion on display there are just…special.