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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No wonder the alarmists are in full panic and screaming louder. I can hear them now: “The scare tactics worked once. Why isn’t it working now? We’ve got to scream LOUDER. The people AREN’T GETTING THE MESSAGE ANYMORE!!! Quick! Think of something even scarier than before. Quick. QUICK!”
I love this so much. So close and yet so far. Bliss. I’m glad this demise is happening in the lifetimes of Hansen, Gore, the Team at UEA, etc., etc. They’ve got to be feeling pretty sick by now. They’ll certainly be looking over their shoulders.
garymount: probably about $45,000 worth…
At nine bucks a head $45K is 5000 filled seats nationwide.
Bringing MattS comment into the post is a wonderful example of the open, challenging, adapting to better perspectives and facts that characterizes the vast majority of the unwashed skeptics. And which self evidently does not for the vast majority of the climate science community, apart from a few prominent and noteworthy exceptions.
Image Mann or Cook importing a good critical comment into one of their rants.
Bravo, Anthony.
That’s too bad. I’m sure I’ll find a way to deal with the sadness somehow.
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I know! Maybe it’ll become a cult classic midnight movie.
I think I’ll wait for this film to show up on Netflix before I watch it.
That way I can fast-forward through any parts I feel are a waste of time.
If Daryl Hannah wants to people to go to her movies she should star in them and put in one of her absolutely unique and unforgettable acting performances. She was great in 10.
Anthony: Thanks! Say, didn’t the Horns, the stinger tail, and the sulfur smell give him away?
Anthony: WHO was the arch villain? I’m missing that!
REPLY: Myron Ebell, of CEI – Anthony
jcales says:
March 12, 2013 at 3:49 pm
And how many people pay to read the utter tripe you spew?
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We all read for free but let me guess – some guy in Lagos sold you a subscription to WUWT over the internet via Western Union?
LOL
I saw Rosebraugh’s documentary on its opening day, and there were only three other people there
Of the $45,000, almost $30,000 was from NASA/GISS and NOAA employees who were required to see the movie and produce ticket stubs as proof of attendance the following Monday or risk suspension. The requirement to see the movie was reportedly mandated by Hansen with heavy support from Trenberth.
Of course I just made that up now, but now you can say that you saw a comment on WUWT to that effect…
garymount: funny you should mention the very underrated Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The first film was about con men; the second was made to prop up con Mann.
It’s not over until the special prosecutor is appointed to find out how all that government pogey was misspent by the alarmist research complex. So don’t pop the champagne corks just yet.
Highflight…I dont go to movies. I am here having eaten one lovely salty saurkraut noodles with extra saltiness and monosodium glutamate, one chicken and onion salty flavour extra salty noodles with monosodium glutamate and am weighing up what to have for a third salty monosodium glutamate noodles chaser.
I also add demerara sugar to Cola occasionally as I dont think its sugary enough.
I am in myfifties with nominal blood pressure, no heart problems and a 32 inch waistline.
I tried that “healthy” eating in my youth, it made me ill.
As for the title..shows who was a dumb bar steward for missing the much more apt to his theme (especially given that poster) “Dirty, Lying Bastards”.
CAGW was a wonderful scare, but like bird flu, terrorists, MMR vaccines and Y2K it has done its dash. Like the famous Monty Python it is dead, deceased, no more.
Not good times to be a warmist. Hurrah!
Re Sean…………Id prefer seeing Darryl Hannah without her shirt back in the day.
I guess she must be Prissed off now.
Are you being facetious? She is a halfway decent actress, but has gotten so political of late I can’t separate her from the character enough to get a suspension of disbelief going well enough to enjoy the show. I wish actors would stop jumping on all these bandwagons so publicly, as they ruin their ability to get lost in the role. A decent biography of her is available at IMDB.com if you are interested. She went full vegan and environmentalist in the 90’s and is part of Colorado’s Californication* problem. (*Californians moving in and bring their leftist tripe with them.)
The only greedy lying bastards I see here are the @ur momisugly#$%&*!!heads that made this movie, and the @ur momisugly#$%&*!!heads who threatened the jobs of people at NASA and NOAA. That’s extortion, by the way, and those who were forced to watch that piece of @ur momisugly#$%&*!! should file criminal complaints.
Greedy Lying Bastards…..
Looks like the worst kind of psychological projection.
* Monty Python parrot of course!
The Director of the Climate Institute, Mike MacCracken is getting tiring on Yahoo:
“My reference was to average sea level rise around the world, and it has clearly risen at an increasing pace. For example, see http://imbie.org/about-the-project/sea-level-rise/ for the global average. A focus on the more recent period and the global spatial distribution, which is available since satellite observations started, is at http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/en/news/ocean-indicators/mean-sea-level/
Mike”
Gone from Aviso are of course the Envisat early years of measurements that needed no corrective orbital calculations… Celebrity Mike is again averaging instead of discussing the strange distribution of sea level supposed rises. That hack is getting really annoying and his presence is simply a thorn in a discussion group, notwithstanding the eye and ears of Tickell.
His sudden appearence or re-appearence there is no coincidence: he is monitoring for the AR5 crowd. Open your eyes people on yahoo!
> I guess she must be Prissed off now.
Time to die…. Laughing!
pokerguy says (March 12, 2013 at 5:09 pm): “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.”
We invest our time reading WUWT, and time is money, right? 🙂
Two points:
1) I pay to read the articles and the comments on this site and am quite pleased to do so.
2) Daryl Hannah now knows exactly how those of us who object to the wasting of our money on bogus research feel.