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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I wonder how many of those ticket buying customers were actually skeptics/luke-warmers ready to take notes? ;->
The watermelons just can’t seem to comprehend the fact that the majority of the public knows them for what they are and no longer fall for their agitprop.
Comparing GLB to blockbuster entertainment films doesn’t seem fair some how. How does it compare to other documentaries.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?view=main&sort=opengross&order=DESC&pagenum=2&id=documentary.htm
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.
Davidxn had the seed of a good idea. What if reasonable people chipped in and funded a movie about once respected and now turned corrupt researchers and scientists in cahoots with agenda driven political hacks who fomented a Man Made Global Warming scheme to defraud the world of billions. It could be a hit.
I doubt many even know this movie exists in the first place. Ticket sales have little to do with quality anyway. Not that I’m defend the movie, but I doubt anyone is asking for their money back.
Just saying…
Epic fail as they probably can’t show it in schools due to profanity in the title
Ok, so jcales is obviously not too bright. But I think you guys are misreading his intent. Unless he’s literally retarded which I doubt, he understands that WUWT is FREE. His point I believe, murky and illogical though it is, is that at least some people paid to see that risible movie whereas NOBODY pays to read WUWT.
(Because it’s you know, free. So why should they pay? So yes, stupid x 3, but not utterly without some sort of thought process.)
Heck it had a bigger audience here!
With an intellect like Daryl Hannah’s behind this epic , how can it miss? By the way, who the hell is Daryl Hannah and why can’t she spell? Is Daryl a male, a female, or a neuter?
Greedy Lying Bastards, thought it was a movie about climategate.
I don’t see why it wasn’t more popular. Sounds like a great date movie!
….movie houses are where we get yummy demonic salted popcorn and evil death drink soda. That’s according to Mika Brzezinski MSNBC “Industry groups like theater owners serve popcorn that is so full of salt it will kill you and these big drinks that you sit for two hours and drink and become sick…”
Kind of looks like the warmistas got her message…stayed home…ate sprouts and drank filtered water.
Maybe jcales was emotionally distraught when he made the post. It’s possible that he invested in the production of the tripe
You have to pay to read here? I guess that explains where all my Big Oil checks are going, clearly my WUWT reading/posting privileges are being deducted from my checks before I get them. Evidently the sums even out, because I never get a bill from Anthony, so it’s all good!
I’ve never even heard of this movie, by the way.
I think the title should be” Greeny Lying Bastards…et al…ad nauseum.”
pokerguy wrote: “Unless he’s literally retarded which I doubt,”
I don’t doubt it.
“probably don’t eat that evil butter flavored popcorn or drink Coke because it reminds them of the Koch Brothers”
I saw an ad on TV a few days ago where Coke was hyping their support of WWF to the tune of $5 million for polar bear something or other.
Coke has lost me as a customer.
“Daryl Hannah Boards ‘Greedy Lying Bastards’ Documentary as Executive Producer”
I thought for sure it you would say it was funded by the NSF. I wonder, if someone followed the “money” if part of it didn’t come from the NSF.
You mean it wasn’t about Al Gore and Mann?
I wonder how many of those that went to this movie thought is was a sequel to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: 🙂
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095031/
Looks like they should have titled it something like, “The Climate of Oz.”
The best part is knowing that useful idiot Darryl Hannah lost her shirt. Good thing she believes in global warming because she may get a little cold protesting without her shirt after this flop.
I think there could be a successful TV series based on the climate skeptic / alarmist theme. Similar to The Big Bang Theory, but without the annoying cloitus jokes.
Of course it would have to present the science accurately as TBBT seems to try to do.
GLB has a ways to go before it catches up to #20
“Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed RM $7,720,487 1,052 $2,970,848 1,052″
Is the correct word “irony”, or is it “hypocrisy”?
The large majority of people debating against CAGW theory and practices, are not receiving any funding for their actions in this issue, are certainly not liars and are unlikely to be “bastards”, either literally or figuratively speaking.
So it could be logically argued that the title and premise of the film are themselves a lie!
Also insulting. (Seems to be a common enough technique of the ‘warmist’ group).
Now the hypocracy – The title of the film actually neatly and truthfully describes the producers of the film, AND also of the CAGW proponents, wouldn’t you agree?