Sounds like the very same folks who bought tickets for the first one showed up again. Slow learners, aren’t they?

Heh. Three times as many screens, same gross. They should probably put some orcs in part 3 – I understand people like that sort of thing.

I’m shocked! Stunned! How can a POS movie and it’s sequel do that well. This is troubling. TBogg, round up the snark troops, pronto!

Do those numbers take into account the massive crowds in Galt’s Gulch, Alabama?

It’s down yonder in Goatfuck Country…

@SkinnyMinnie: Heh. Three times as many screens, same gross.

Yes, so not even-steven at all. And if we do some of that icky math stuff that gives Mittens the hives, ASII averaged just $562 per screen, per day. Figure six showings a day and an average ticket price near $10, that’s a whopping 10 people per showing.

Winning!

So, I wonder if this whole hustle was designed to create some sort of tax dodge/money-laundering ruse? It would be irresponsible not to speculate/investigate/shakedown for hush money.

Also, would the producers be makers, or takers? Outlay of $ 20M, handle of $ 6M (so far). Looks like to next installment needs to go big, or go broke. There should be a couple of popular politicians, real photogenic guys, available after early November ’12, for the next ‘production’. That ought to boost the take.

this weekends box office may have been hurt because Rand-fanboi Paul Ryan and family were busy

Yeah, I mean there goes 30% of your customers right there.

Was wondering when you were going to make a post on the ASII fail. I was really interested in the numbers because there has been a metric asston of commercials for the movie on cable (usually following some random franklin mint commemorative belly button lint commercial).

It seems they have increased the marketing money and reaped a lower ROI this time around. I wonder why they haven’t adopted any of the methods for wingnut welfare book sales. Just take all of the marketing money, buy tickets randomly across the country and hand tickets out with every romney yard sign…or free with a purchase of Truck Nutz(TM) or rascal scooter.

Just wait till the nutjobs at Hot Air or Brietbart.com start accusing them ginning up the box office numbers. I’m pretty sure they already have somewhere.

Almost entirely recast, too, with retreads and has-beens like “the guy who played Ellen’s best friend” and “the girl in the tank in Minority Report.”

A-Shrug I eventually pulled down $4,627,375 during its theatrical run after having been produced/distributed/marketed for $20 million.

$15.373 Large of upside-down tragedy comedy butthurt.

Ayn Rand sucks on the middle finger of the invisible hand.

So moviegoers went Galt? This is all very confusing, in an objectivistic way.

Shrugging’s “in” cuz that’s how I feel about this ho-hum loser.

My amazement is that this crapola didn’t go straight to DVD, whereupon some rightwing Sugar Daddy could buy bulk and send around for distribution to the usual reliable “churches.” No doubt, Ma ‘n Pa Kettle’d be happy to view at home for free after Pastor Wingnut hands it out after the Sunday-Go-Ta-Meetin’ speechifying.

Under the right circumstances,you can earn more money with a flop than with a hit.

Rotten Tomatoes says 0% critics liked it; 82% audience liked it. That’s quite a spread.

Under the right circumstances,you can earn more money with a flop than with a hit.

Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom thought so.

Now now, some of the most artistically brilliant films were box office flops. Keep pumping your own money into this franchise, that’s the ticket!

Did the Germans stop when their movies bombed at Pearl Harbor? No! Keep making sequels until you get to Atlas Doddered, Return of the Atlas, Atlas of the World Part 17, suck up all of the right-wing money in the world into an Atlas Black hole of fail from which nothing can escape, even at the speed of white.

Good Atlas movie?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(film)

I’m in pain! And I’m wet! And I’m still hysterical!

Now now, some of the most artistically brilliant films were box office flops. Keep pumping your own money into this franchise, that’s the ticket!

The really funny thing if they haul that one out is that Objectivists don’t understand any metric of brilliance other than “makes a lot of money.”

MMMM! Pop Tarts!

Esai Morales, known for:

RITCHIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Wait a minute, they spent $20 million on the first one? I can remember when Terry Gilliam was nearly blackballed for spending $40 million on The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Not his best work, but pretty entertaining. Amazing how little $20 million buys you now.

Needs more trains going in tunnels.

Hell, I’ll bet “Starship Troopers 3 Marauder”, (The only DVD I ever put through a shredder), did better than that.

3rd rate cast including Jason Teghe, who’s a former Scientologist who took part in a doc on exposing their practices. The only film I remember him in was Monkey Shines, a minor George A. Romero movie.

“Starship Troopers 3 Marauder”, (The only DVD I ever put through a shredder)

So to clarify, you’re saying that you didn’t enjoy the film, then?

Yeah, that’s right – there’s S-E-Youknowwhat hinted at in these epics, or so I understand! Can’t think that would sit right with the Pastor-Distributing-to-Flock ploy, unless Jimmy Swaggart. (Is he still concertizing?)

I can’t figure out how the people behind these things are proposing to pay back their investors. If they’re using the Bialystock System, how can it work? I mean, Max wasn’t going to play footsie with the little old ladies forever, he and Leo were going to head for Rio. But where could you go where wealthy investors can’t track you down, wealthy investors being what they are today? Would you want the Koch Bros. on your tail?

Actually, that has the makings of a comedy, that scenario……

I sure hope the girl (Samantha Morton) in the tank in minority report isn’t in this…she’s really good, in an understated way.

Whew! I just looked it up. Samantha Mathis is that Taggart woman, not Samantha Morton.

I’ve actually seen ADS for this thing ON MY TEEBEE!!!111eleventy. And, much to my horrified fascination, it’s actually playing here on more than one screen… I’m not much of a movie goer, and certainly don’t know how to figure out how many morans (that still makes me snicker) shelled out their hard-earned pennies (for the ticket… popcorn costs dollars) to see the thing. Is there a way we can find out how many terminal idiots are in my town?

[snork] With Dagny Taggart at the controls?

They knew they were going to “Like It” before they were sure it was even going to be made.

And now Objectivists can ignore their own “the market has spoken” mantra and point at that figure and shriek SEE IT IS A GOOD MOVIE SO STOP LAUGHING AT ME SHUTUP SHUTUP SHUTUP

(Oh God, I can’t wait for ASIII: Live Free Or Shrug.)

Really?!? Is that what you got from that? Okay, sarcasm off. Worst. Movie. Ever.

Damn! I was hoping they were going to be returning with “Starship Troopers IV: Beach Blanket Marauders Go Hawaiian.” Quoting:

“Gidget and Frankie Avalon fight off giant sand bugs while waiting for the perfect wave and getting their tans on.”

Beats the shit out of “Atlas Shrugged.” You gotta admit that…

i thoroughly enjoyed the commercials for Atlas II on the Colbert Report. Not as subject mind you. They actually bought commercial time on Comedy Central to reach Colbert’s audience. Maybe they don’t understand it’s an act.

I’m witing for the first wingnut to proclaim that the box office numbers are lies because Hollywood is all libruls who hate freedom, and Atlas Sucked 2: Electric Boogaloo actually pulled in sixtyleven jillion dollars because shut up, that’s why.

Frankie Avalon was Teh Hawt when I was a kid… Which should tell you something about marketing to young females. And we ALL knew that Annette was a slut because she had tits. (Yeah, growing up in the 50s was a ball. Why do you ask?)

Thanks for the laugh. altho’, I didn’t hate her, I envied the heck out of her, ’cause mine were takin’ freakin’ forever to come in.

Atlas took a dump.

Apparently you did not see White Wolves, or something like that. Really. That had to be the very freakin mos worst. Evah. That one so bad, I really am not sure of the title of it.

And also, my head hurts even thinking of trying to remember it.

Of course… that’s how we knew she was a slut. Sex made your tits grow, didn’t it? (Me? Flat as a washboard until I was well into my 20s when I finally grew into an A…!)

Worse than Red Dawn?

let Big TBogg nannystate the Free Information for you, you blood-sucking information parasite on the body internet.

I are BSIP!

Feed me!

Is this what you’re thinking of? Apparently there are at least 2 sequels…

Had to be.

I was once in a bad movie too, and I know you will all just be so impressed if I don’t tell you the name of it. And also I want you to like me, so that’s another reason I can’t say it.

Funny, in a twisted bizarro world funny, thing is is they timed the release for now to “pump up” their base. Or something. They have to time that part juuuuust right cause their base is pumped up for as long as the Geritol holds out and the sun hasn’t set for too long.

Go ahead and tell us. We only like the young ladies here who are modestly endowed anyway. And uncertaintyvp. And inside made of wires. and Gbbutter. And onitgoes. And…aww shit, I guess a whole bunch of folks here….

I think it could have been in about 1993, so maybe that is it, but I thought Wes Studi was in it, and he is not listed on any of them, neither are any of them listed among his films, maybe he scrubbed his name from it. The plot was missing, in addition to the bad acting. Torture.

OK, you know I just want attention, and since I am old now and don’t get much traffic, I will tell you the film. Billy Jack. Terrible.

One tin soldier! I loved that flick, I was too young to know it wasn’t good.

I guess this makes the producers (and everyone else involved!) of Atlas Bored Everyone Part Deux Takers rather than Makers, part of the 47% that Sir Mittens doesn’t care about.

Terrible? Merely terrible? Surely you jest. Execrable. Horrendous. Inexcusable. And you had to make me remember, didn’t you? You’ve got a lot to answer for — tomorrow’s a work day and now I’ve got to go and try to drown that recollection in distilled liquids… And I certainly DON’T mean distilled water.

Sorry. Bottoms up!

But also, that other movie you did not see was worse. Waaaay. Really.

I thought their base only got pumped up between sunset and dawn, in the dark of the moon.

You were in Billy Jack???? I thought it was a lot longer ago than ’93,though.

It may have been bad, but it was a heck of a cult film for awhile, at least.I’m so impressed!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444592404578032291709944404.html

“Part II” faced a new setback when Cybex lost a liability lawsuit in 2010 alleging that one of its weight machines had tipped over on a woman, leaving her paralyzed.

“I feel so sorry for her,” Mr. Aglialoro says. “She jumped up on there and pulled the machine back on herself while she was stretching.” The parties settled for $19.5 million in February. Cybex stock dropped so low the company faced delisting.

“The lawsuit was crippling,” Mr. Aglialoro says. He put just $5 million into “Part II” but recruited additional investors, allowing Atlas Productions to spend $10 million on production and $10 million more on marketing. The new film will open on three times as many screens as the first installment. It’s slicker and faster-paced, with a train crash and a jet-plane chase. The lead roles have all been filled by different actors, with Samantha Mathis replacing Taylor Schilling as Taggart. Cameos include Sean Hannity, Grover Norquist and Teller of Penn & Teller (Teller speaks). And in inspired casting, the two top government officials are played by Ray Wise and Paul McCrane, who were murderous hoods together in “RoboCop” and have spent careers portraying creepy villains with oversize foreheads.

The producers showed snippets to supporters of presidential candidate and fervent libertarian Ron Paul at the Republican convention and held screenings at the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute in Washington.

“I’m making this as a warning,” says Mr. Aglialoro. “It’s about what happens when heroic producers disappear, and they leave the job of creating prosperity to the moochers and, God forbid, the politicians.”

Mr. Kaslow admits that after all their effort, one hurdle remains: “The challenge is that our audience doesn’t go to the movies that often.”

“I’m making this as a warning,” says Mr. Aglialoro. “It’s about what happens when heroic producers disappear, and they leave the job of creating prosperity to the moochers and, God forbid, the politicians.”

Mr. Kaslow admits that after all their effort, one hurdle remains: “The challenge is that our audience doesn’t go to the movies that often.”

They admit they made a movie for people who don’t go to movies? Somehow “heroic producers” isn’t the phrase that leaps to mind at that thought.

The modern equivalent of PDQ Bach:
“[P. D. Q. Bach was] one of the most curious figures in the entire history of music in Western Civilization; a man who did not change the course of music one iota, a man who defined definitively the doctrine of originality through incompetence, a man who triumphed over the most staggering obstacle ever placed before a composer: absolute and utter lack of talent.”

I am not a blood-sucking information parasite, I’m an information-sucking information parasite. A distinction without a difference…

“Billy Jack” is indeed teh poop, but it’s freakin’ “Citizen Kane” compared to its sequels “The Trial of…” and “…Goes to Washington.” Tom Laughlin planned a fifth* round with ol’ BJ (“The Return of Billy Jack”) in which the aged ass-kicker dresses up as a priest to infiltrate a cabal of child molesters (oh WOW) and bust ‘em up real good, but the film was never completed.

I’m sure it would’ve been as sensitive, sensible, and thoughtful as the rest of Laughlin’s movies. (Seriously, ten minutes of “The Master Gunfighter” and I’m ready to claw my eyes and ears off.)

The weird Wiki article on “Return” says the molesters are organized by “The Godfather of Godfather’s.” Holy shit, I bet Herman Cain loves that.

*Billy got his start in “The Born Losers” and yeah, it sucks too.

This movie would be stupid whether it was or not.

This trilogy calls for a SPRINGTIME FOR REARDEN tag.

Unless I’m mistaken, Uwe Boll has built most of his career around this maxim.

Today I saw an ad for that piece of trash “Obama: 2016,” available on PPV on DirecTV.

Now I’m no Obama fan, but from what I’ve heard, “Obama 2016″ could give AS II a run for its money — a run for the bottom of the barrel.

I like this! In fact, while this idea is fine as a standalone concept, it could also serve as the creative trail head that opens to a pathway which leads to a parody production, Galt’s Gulch, The Musical!

It needs some catchy ditties and suitably chintzy sets and costumes. And keeping the budget low wouldn’t just be a fiscal necessity, but an essential component of the overall atmospherics. [Could we work in one of the female leads wearing a dress held up by a curtain rod, a la Carol Burnett? Yes, sez me, this must be worked into the script, by any means necessary. Ms. Burnett deserves no less a tribute!]

I’m thinking of something that liberally borrows and modifies concepts from Rocky Horror Picture Show and Team America: World Police, maybe with some gags from Airplane! and… the possibilities seem endless!

And would there be trains going through tunnels? Of course there would!! Every damn 5 minutes, I should think!

SPRINGTIME FOR REARDEN

It needs some catchy ditties and suitably chintzy sets and costumes. And keeping the budget low wouldn’t just be a fiscal necessity, but an essential component of the overall atmospherics. [Could we work in one of the female leads wearing a dress held up by a curtain rod, a la Carol Burnett?

I like it! I really like it!