Earns just $45,000.00 nationwide on opening weekend – film cost $1.5 million to make
GLB earned forty five thousand dollars nationwide, wow. Maybe it had to do with the situation described in this review by Alana Goodman from a showing in Washington D.C. area:
Only a handful of people showed up to a screening of Greedy Lying Bastards—Craig Rosebraugh’s documentary that aims to expose the global warming denialist-industrial complex—at an Alexandria, Va., theater on Saturday. And none of them seemed to notice one of the documentary’s star villains seated in the audience.
Yep, the numbers are in, and it’s a bomb. It never even had Box Office Mojo to start with:
The screen above was captured in two parts from Box Office Mojo, which tracks weekend box office ratings.
Note the gross receipts circled in red. The average Theater take was $900, and since the theaters earn their majority of profit on concessions, and the green types that attended probably don’t eat that evil butter flavored popcorn or drink Coke because it reminds them of the Koch Brothers, I’m guessing that a number of those 50 theaters won’t be showing the movie next weekend.
I wonder if eco-activist producer Daryl Hannah will ask for her funding back?
UPDATE: I agree with this comment from MattS, so I’ve elevated it to the post body.
Comparing GLB to blockbuster entertainment films doesn’t seem fair some how. How does it compare to other documentaries.
looking at documentaries for 1982-Present, GLB comes in at 128th for opening weekend take. Not a stellar opening even in it’s own genre.
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So another fine own goal, the energy has gone out of the ‘Cause” even their lies are tired desperate mumbling.
Lol. Good one. Greenpeas turnover $305m
“The $1.5 million film is an investigation of the influence the fossil fuel industry has had on the political process and efforts to combat climate change.”
I can see the problem: they have the premise backwards. It should have been done this way:
“The $10,000 film is an investigation of the influence the political process has had on climate change and efforts to combat the fossil fuel industry.”
And how many people pay to read the utter tripe you spew? Oh, maybe the Hartland Institute is one of them.
REPLY: LOL^2! WUWT is a FREE TO READ blog. Did you pay anything to read here?
The stupid, it burns. – Anthony
Ahhh, but to the rescue will be public schools busing children in to indoctrinate them.
The more they do, the more they are confronted by minor public support. It must be disheartening. Which is the beginning of people like Jerry Rubin going from anti-everything activists to mainstream pimps.
Great idea.
jcales says:
March 12, 2013 at 3:49 pm
And how many people pay to read the utter tripe you spew? Oh, maybe the Hartland Institute is one of them.
REPLY: LOL^2! WUWT is a FREE TO READ blog. Did you pay anything to read here?
The stupid, it burns. – Anthony
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Funny !!
FIrst I saw that this was snipped and then it came back !!
Glad you showed what it was Anthony !!
[Reply: I snipped it. jcales can do his spewing elsewhere. This is a class site, and above his gratuitous insults. — mod.]
[Reply2: Anthony re-posted it. Now everyone can see ‘jcales’ lack of class.
— mod.]
Looks good on them. Too bad it wasn’t 10 million dollars to make it.
Nobody cares about their cause anymore and that’s got to hurt big time. But we all will be the winners for it.
What was the carbon footprint of this film?
I agree that the problem is we can’t stop this being pushed in schools and shown on the Discovery Channel, which was probably the purpose of it anyway rather than to make money.
jcales says:
March 12, 2013 at 3:49 pm
And how many people pay to read the utter tripe you spew? Oh, maybe the Hartland Institute is one of them.
[Reply: I snipped it. jcales can do his spewing elsewhere. This is a class site, and above his gratuitous insults. — mod.]
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Would it be ironic if that were post # 1,000,000??
Anthony: WHO was the arch villain? I’m missing that!
REPLY: Myron Ebell, of CEI – Anthony
I just wish the apathy the public are showing would turn to anger….for the record just in case a few warmers are paying a visit.
1) In order for your theory to be correct there has to be a warming of the Tropical Troposphere….none found by weather balloons over 20 years and none found by the Aqua satellite.
2) CO2’s ability to create heat is logarithmic and not linear…therefore as you stack it up you get a diminishing return…so it cannot overheat the planet. For a doubling of todays levels the warming would be around 1C and a further doubling even less and another doubling less again and so on.
3) The computer models are biased towards positive feedback with negatives virtually ignored.
Therefore it is litte wonder CAGW has not materialised.
And most of the people going to see it probably saw it advertised here first at WUWT! Would love to see the real thing “Global Lying B****” showing the alarmists’ decline to abandonment. Starring Al ´”Almighty God” Gore and Michael “Even mightier” Mann. The first scene would be fire burning at the North Pole ……..
“And how many people pay to read the utter tripe you spew? Oh, maybe the Hartland Institute is one of them.”
Yup, but only on every seventh day.
Maybe it would have done better if it weren’t for all the cold weather & snow around the country, keeping people at home.
Matthew W says:
March 12, 2013 at 3:54 pm
Ahhh, but to the rescue will be public schools busing children in to indoctrinate them.
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No no no. They release a DVD which the schools will pay big bucks for and indoctrinate the little ones in class.
/sarc
OT, but I see WUWT’s ENSO meter is approaching exact neutral. Maybe I’m being too optimistic, but that could translate to the end of drought in US Midwest.
Based on the title I thought this film would be about Al Gore and the selling of Current TV to Big Oil.
Academy Award, Best Documentary. – Lock.
HBO, then NBC – Lock.
Nobel Peace Prize – Long shot.
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When does the count count? Funny how there seems to be a deflecting transference of their own self image as in “Greedy Lying Bastards” temperament onto others.
Re Jcales…..Bwahahahahajahjahahahjahahhahahahajhahjahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The news about the film is the most heartening thing Ive read in ages. I was getting fed up with his site, but thanks for this news. Really boosted my mood.
Then that nads comment is the cherry on top. You didnt make it up did you.?Just sooo good its hard to believe an idiot could be so frank with its idiocy.
Speaking of lying bastards:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/338270.php
Re schools: In the UK a court ruled that any school showing Al Gores efort would also haveto acknowledge anddeclare 45 pages of factual innacuracies.
The USA is a lawyer-operated society (a shysterland if not actually sheisland) …if the above was accomplished in theUK, then surely you lot can do better with those legalistic resources than just sit back and moan about the movie going to schools ?
Really MUST[n’t] see this!