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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“Tshane3000 says:
March 12, 2013 at 8:06 pm
And we should all absolutely be working to eliminate poverty, hunger and environmental destruction and slavery and other social ills instead of working for rich people to enrich only them.”
Me thinks you’ve not seen poverty, hungry people and real environmental damage. BTW, if you think 6 billion, going on 7, is too many people for this rock then please be the first to set an example and step off it.
Thanks to Darryl Hannah for making such an outstanding documentary. Word of mouth will propel its box office receipts, as more people awaken to the horror of corporate distortion of the public dialogue.
Moderator:
You deleted my note calling others denialists. In fairness, please also delete all comments calling AGW supporters warmists or alarmists. I agree– ad hominem attacks have no place in a scientific discussion.
If you want to admit that this is NOT a discussion about science–merely a forum by and for true believers supporting an antiscience agenda– also known as a religion– then go ahead and keep the alarmist and warmist ad hominem attacks. Apparently this is a way of protecting your flock from the mean greenies.
But if you do, your agenda is clear. No more can you pretend that this is any kind of reasonable discussion.
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I can’t wait until the movie is uploaded on YouTube!!… I gotts me popcorn ready too!
Tshane3000 – you are most welcome here, no poisionous snipes just common sense science. I too, some 6 years ago, thought the same as you, that fossil fuels were killers and CO2 was the main warming driver. Believe me I had no idea how much I didn’t know. Here at WUWT and other so called “skeptic” sites you will get real unadulterated facts and figures which can be debated by the readers openly. I agree that the poor and hungry in this world deserve better from our governments, and land usage for biofuels (for example) is not the way to do it. Just for the record I live in Finland and have no political motives at all, i just read books and many blog sites to try and get the big climate picture.
nwblacksmith says: March 12, 2013 at 10:16 pm
. . . A minor point of grammer. . . .
I think she can get by with ‘salient’ more easily than you can with ‘grammer.’
Muphry’s Law, doncha’ know. 😉
I, too, thought she was great in ’10.’
‘Prissed off, losing her shirt, Tshane3000, – what a great thread!
Even the earnings of $45,000 seem to be more than this film deserves by the look of it. I hope that the disaster teaches them a lesson about public gullibility’s limits.
Heh-Heh, looks like the “I`m somebody and I know better than you” crowd once again gets kicked in the gonostrils.
Looks like the cAGWers have lost their mojo, baby
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/Austin_Powers_TPWSM.html
“AUSTIN POWERS: (turning stiffly to face Basil)
I took a Viagra and it got caught in
my throat. I’ve had a stiff neck for
hours. Basil, is it true”
@ur momisugly D. B. Stealey
The value of your commentary is so low I will not be responding anymore after this.
The following article doesn’t even mention all the people killed directly as a result of fossil fuel accidents in production and extraction. The Gulf oil spill blowout killed 11. A recent coal mine catastrophe in PA killed many more. This industry is rife with corruption and lack of regulation and as a result, between 10s and 100s die every year. Fossil fuel extraction is consistently rated as one of the most dangerous occupations. Ever.
How many mine collapses and explosions have happened since coal mining begin? The number of deaths in the US in the past century is estimated at more than 100,000 according to Wikipedia. While the number of deaths from coal mining in the US has declined to an average of 30 a year, the number of deaths in 2004 in China was over 6000.
The federal regulatory agency responsible for for mining states that 4000 cases a year of black lung reduce the lives of miners in the US:
http://www.msha.gov/MSHAINFO/FactSheets/MSHAFCT2.HTM
Furthermore the following article reveals over 13,200 a year in the US alone die from fine particulate matter due to coal burning. You ought to do some research before you refute claims. It took literally 1 minute to find the article below:
Fossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928053.600-fossil-fuels-are-far-deadlier-than-nuclear-power.html
Please stop wasting everyone’s time here with futile, fact-free posts. It’s really not worth your time arguing with me. Listen and learn.
And if anyone really thinks coal mining is such a great thing, and the federal government should be smaller, and the companies that do it are such great humanitarian industrialists pushing to improve humanity one mine at a time, read this:
How many mine safety deaths does it take to create safety regulations?
http://mobile.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/coal/2012/11/mine_disaster_west_virginia_no_new_safety_regulations_after_massey_s_upper.html
Mathew W,
“Would it be ironic if that were post # 1,000,000??”
And he wins the $1,000,000 prize for being the millionth poster. That WOULD be ironic.
Watch out for the next Climate Warmista film “A Fierce Green Fire : The Battle for a Living Planet” by director Mark Kitchell. Interview with him in March/April ‘Sierra’ magazine. Opens in N.CA this Friday.
One of the new safety features was hilltop removal, open pit mining. The rational being if there’s no thing above the miner’s head, then he’s less apt to get quished with it falling on him.
But of course government and protesters insist through their actions, that a miner’s job isn’t dangerous enough to impliment those kind of safety features.
Heh damn near all Climate Arguments come down to: If only there were 5-6-7 million less humans and how do we do it quickly?
Mike Roddy says:
March 12, 2013 at 11:28 pm
“Thanks to Darryl Hannah for making such an outstanding documentary. Word of mouth will propel its box office receipts, as more people awaken to the horror of corporate distortion of the public dialogue.”
Mike, what about your film project with the last warmists in a city in the Antarctic fighting off the hordes of desperate non-believers escaping from an overheating world? Is it already in production?
I guess its real intention was to add it to the “Inconvenient Truth” stable and so to make it available to schools across the country. It doesn’t really matter whether it makes money when it only cost $1.5m and can be used to spread the word to schools for the next 5 years.
But isn’t the idea of a expose documentary which lies through it’s teeth – not only fatuous but arrogant in the extreme to put it to general release?
The many politicians who make their living spinning the lies of AGW, have much to answer for and have a deluded sense of their own worth and popularity. It is OK talking to the converted in closed off university lecture halls where the deluded orate to their captive sycophantic underlings.
But take these extremist green views and out to target a wider audience – a paying audience at that – and imho – this highlights the thing that the Hollywood clowns do not get………..
Nobody, anymore gives a damn about Man Made climate change, because: more importantly nobody any longer believes the myth.
Please, dear sweaty-toothed Tshane3000, take a little time out to engage with some ‘Austrian Economics’ (at http://mises.org/, for instance). There you will discover that the equality you so yearn for can never be attained by the bankrupt ideology you espouse. You will also learn that the system we currently suffer under is not even remotely ‘capitalism’. Once you have engaged with the material emanating from the many great and superior minds you will find there, and internalized the truths found therein, then please feel free to return and offer your sincere apologies to the many people you have offended while frequenting this pinnacle of 21st century open debate!
Shane, if you think that “warmist” and “alarmist” are on par with “denialist”, then maybe you should think about what those words mean and if they are accurate descriptions. Technically, I could be labeled a “warmist”, since I believe that the evidence points to some warming… but I see no reason to be “alarmed” about it, because I see no believable evidence that it is unprecedented or out of control. For the CAGW crowd, spreading “alarm” is clearly the goal, is it not? OTOH, “denialist” implies the willful non-acceptance of some truth. So, calling skeptics “denialists” allows you to shut down the debate (because you have “settled science” on your side). I think this is probably what angers skeptics the most… this assertion that they are ignoring “facts”… that plus the wholesale bastardization of the scientific method for political ends, of course. It seems curious to me that you have a littany of criticisms of the fossil fuel industry that have little or nothing to do with CAGW. That’s your prerogative. But is it possible that you accept CAGW theory because “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” rather than a critical evaluation of the scince behind it? Just sayin’…
Tshane3000 says at March 13, 2013 at 12:59 am “Fossil fuel extraction is consistently rated as one of the most dangerous occupations. Ever.”
He is quite right.
Although he then ruins his case by assuming that this is because of corrupt and evil people who want the deaths of their employees.. but paranoia doesn’t mean he is wrong when he says soft rock mining is dangerous. And probably more dangerous tonne for tonne than the hard rock mining required for the nuclear industry. Of course, tonne for tonne far more coal is dug than uranium but even so, industry is dangerous.
However, everyone pause for a moment and think about how many people die from the lack of industry? Specifically, how many people die from the lack of fossil fuels, the cheapest of energy sources?
This isn’t fact free. Life expectancy across the first and third worlds are directly correlated with energy production. In fact development and enegy production are interlinked.
Hospitals work better with fridges that stay cold.
Schoolbooks work better with the lights on.
Food works better when it can be delivered to the hungry.
In summary, externalities don’t just mean “what I don’t like”. It means the impact on a wider scale than the immediate comsumers.
There is a reason why every society, ever, has chosen the externalities of cheap fossil fuels. They are worth it.
Tshane3000 says:
March 12, 2013 at 11:23 pm
“………….Again, looking at small moments– cherry picking–while ignoring the big picture, while claiming this small slice is the only important piece, is a trait of typical conservatives that reveals ignorance. If not ignorance, then a willful and evil intention to dupe others…………”
This paragraph reminds me of what certain so-called scientists do to promote their own agendum.
You also lie. You refuted nothing nor have you proven anything about education or ignorance3 of socialist economic skills. Perhaps if you actually pen a comment, theorem or insight about economics one can judge for themselves. Since you have not, you are merely trying to lie your way out an untenable situation.
@ur momisugly Tshane3000. So if the film made $0.00 in revenue it would be even more successful?
Scientific illiteracy cuts both ways. Yes, you can get a large group of people to believe in a fake hockey stick. No, you can’t get large crowds of people out to movies or demonstrations because it’s not just that they don’t understand – they just don’t care. Otherwise they would have taken the time to learn the truth.
TShane3000…………..You obviously dont actually know anything about science.
You also dont know what an “argument” is: simply referring to lists of articles by other people is not an argument. For it to be so you would need to have been the authorof those articles in the first place.
All you are doing is blindly following the opinions of others.
As for deaths from coal…that is the most pathetic sophistry I have ever seen. At least 250 million deaths have resulted from Environmentalists obtaining the end of free use of DDT.
If you have any balls you will stick around here. But somehow I suspect yours is a flying visit and you wont be back but a few times at most. Because this site will challenge your bigotry if you do and your bigotry rests on unsure footing. So you will experience dissonance and dissapear back whereyou came from.