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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Tshane, you’re entertaining… probably not in the manner you think you are, however.
Here’s a really simple concept: more people would die and live miserable, short lives WITHOUT fossil fuels than what we have now.
If you actually feel the dismantling of our civilization, or any portion of it, is desirable, then you’d have to come up with a credible alternative. However, you can’t. Because at the moment, with our level of scientific understanding and technology, there is no better alternative. We’re barely above the level of medieval times, with badly misinformed luddites protesting and blocking credible nuclear alternatives, governments blocking easy access to known petroleum reserves, and deliberate paid misinformation everywhere. Alas, even the internet, which many of us had great hope for, has been overrun by deliberate misinformation and corporate interests. Or, as I refer to them, Big Left. Giant, non-producing, charity beggars, who literally steal your money that YOU think is being put to good use and instead divert it to damaging and non-productive “social” engineering.,. while a significant portion slides into their pockets.
I know people like you, I’m sure we all do. You think you have answers. You don’t even understand the questions. You think the world AS IT IS is a horrible place, you don’t understand history. You think fossil fuels are the worst thing ever for the planet, you don’t comprehend simple Science. You think anyone on the right or “Republican” cares nothing about the environment, you have it completely backwards.
Maybe one day you’ll understand how wrong you are in so many ways. That day, sadly, is not today.
Well said!
“Greedy Lying Bastards”. Can someone confirm – is this a film about Al Gore, Michael Mann, James Hanson, ‘climategate’ emailers, pal peer review, climatic research funding, Greenpeace, WWF or the UEA?
TShane3000…re your Socialist skills in economics that israther dwarfeed by their skills at oppression and killing people, at least 200 million.
Re your narrative about incidental deaths resulting ftrom coal miningsomehow validating opposition to it, the same specious sophistry would demand action to ban all private motor vehicles, which kill vastly more people in accidents every year.
Re your equation between terms such as “warmist” and “denialist” you seem blind to basic human consideration of the special significance of the term “denial”. Terms such as”warmist” are labels but labels are no ad-hominem. Clearly you dont know what the phrase means. Every time you use the term “denialist” in an attenmpyt to sleight those you simply disagree with you trivialise one of the most appalling crimes of history and insult both its victims and its survivors.
Attempts to rationalise a failed opening for a movie as not a failed opening for a movie by referring not to its performance at opening but hypothetical future events does not impress. It looks desperate.
Furthermore, TShane3000, yourpomposity and arrogant blustering suggestsyou dont actually get to test your overblown bag of wind up against actual people in the real world who might disagree with you and add punctures to your balloon, but prefer to stay inside your mutually self-confirming flock and make comments on web-sitesfrom which you can flee in an instant.
I’d love to know what percentage of people going to see this movie were skeptics just checking to see if they were mentiioned?
Tshane3000, since you obviously are a big government, nanny state aficionado maybe you can answer a question for me. Who are we at war with this week, East Asia or Oceania?
TShane 3000 says ” The purpose of humanity should be…”
What an idiotic statement. He accuses others of reflecting a religion. But the concept of humanity having a purpose is only possible to hold in a metaphysical context. Any scientist leaving religion aside would have to acknowledge that there is no such thing as “purpose” but only occurrences. What he, like his fellows, hold about “purpose” comes directly out of religious thinking. That is its only origin and locus.
Furthermore, I would ask TShane3000 a simple question which it will be impossible for him to respond to without adducing either metaphysics or his proximal culture and given socialisation:
“Why should I give a damn what happens to anybody not yet born”.
We could actually go further and ask:
“Why should I give a damn about anybody but myself”
Whilst a truly scientific outlook would force the purest version of the question:
“Why should I give a damn”.
It is literally impossible to maintain the “purpose of humanity” schtick whilst answering these questions without bringing in, as I say, either religion or culture. There are no purely rational means of squaring the two. Hobbes and Mill tried and failed.
Of course, reading TShane3000 arrogant diatribes suggests he thinks hes sharper than two of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. So may be we will see him fail in trying to rationalise “care” which they could not, but somehow I dont think we will even see him try.
He (and I bet it is a he, with a fashionable caring beard and RadioHead in his collection) seems to be a child.
TShane: You’re hardly the first socialist to advocate reducing the population of human beings of one variety or another. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler, etc, etc have all given it a go in recent years and all with about the same efficacy as carbon taxes.
These arguments you make might all sound fresh and innovative to you but that’s just because you are young and inexperienced. Everything you have posted is rehashed nonsense from the 19th and 20th century. If you are going to make such a spectacle of yourself, at least try to be original.
..oh and the “argument” deployed against Stealey isone of the most dihonest imaginable. He was referring to deaths caused allegedly by CO2 from coal. TShane3000 disingenuously brought up an entirely different context, of industrial accidents. My hunch is he knew damn well what Stealey was referring to. This TShanes style of “debate” is cheap below valuing.
Tshane3000 says:
March 13, 2013 at 12:59 am
[Strawman/irrelevant nonsense omitted], which leaves us with…. I got nuttin,’ but for an amusing contrast, here’s more strawman/irrelevant nonsense in response.
How many convenience store workers are killed each year?
How many taxi drivers are killed each year?
How many construction workers die each year?
How many warehouse workers are killed each year?
How many farmers and farm workers are killed each year?
How many EMTs are killed each year?
How many firemen are killed each year?
How many overworked/overstressed office workers keel over each year?
How many commuters are killed each year?
And if your job doesn’t have some risks…
How many hikers die each year?
How many mountain climbers die each year?
How many canoeists-boaters-kayakers die each year?
How many recreational runners die each year?
How many swimmers drown each year?
How many bicyclists die or are killed each year?
How many hospital patients are killed each year?
How many people die needlessly from starvation each year?
How many people die from fuel poverty each year?
And so ends Round 1 of Strawman vs Strawman where the score remains tied at 0 to 0.
Tshane3000 – Yep, production and extraction of fossil fuels is a dangerous business. Without fossil fuels, you couldn’t support the current world population nor any expansion of that.
Nobody likes the way capitalism often seems to put the value of human life at the bottom of it’s agenda – but it works. Money and human greed has been proven over time to be a greater motivator for societies to work together towards common goals than has good intentions. That’s human nature.
mcshame wrote: “The purpose of humanity should be furthering the interests and health and ideals of all humanity,”
that puts me in mind of my favorite Lewis quotation: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
In another part of that same quote, Lewis foresaw (because it is in fact the same old thing that has been going on since the dawn of history) the uses to which “science” would be put once those who lust for power realized how it could be used:
“If we are to be mothered, mother must know best. . . . In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They ‘cash in.’ It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. . . . Let us not be deceived by phrases about ‘Man taking charge of his own destiny.’ All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of others. . . . The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be.”
(this also explains quite nicely just why nanny Bloomberg is so annoyed at having his dietary orders countermanded this week)
[I]”Warmist epic ‘Greedy Lying Bastards’ bombs at the box office
Posted on March 12, 2013 by Anthony Watts
Earns just $45,000.00 nationwide on opening weekend – film cost $1.5 million to make
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I am going to wait until it comes out on DVD
and then not see it.
🙂
Rob Potter says:
March 12, 2013 at 8:20 pm
Box Office Mojo lists the number of screens showing the movie as well – 50 listed here. Dividing the take by nine bucks (about usual) gives 5000 people and dividing by the 50 screens comes out at 100 people per screen. I think the weekend is three-night period so 33 people per showing. Not very good considering the publicity it got.
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actually that would be 33 people per day. Most theatres have multiple showing in a day. If we assume 3 showings a day (between 6PM and midnight), that would be about 11 people per showing. a quick google shows the Angelika Film Center New York is shownig it at 10:30am · 12:40pm · 2:50 · 5:00 · 7:10 · 9:20 – Six times a day, we could be talking as little as an average of 5 or 6 people per showing.
I can’t wait to see this…
…as a bootlegged copy!
Tshane3000,
Do you consider it your self-appointed duty to take care of and guide all mankind because you presume they are mostly ignorant compared to yourself?
I ask the question because all your comments give that impression.
If you answer yes then why do you think your worldview is superior.
John
45K gross? LOL. I hope it cost them 50X that to make the film and that they lose a boatload. Of course they will just make some of it back by cheating on their taxes which is what liberals do – and often is rewarded with a position in the Obama Cabinet. 🙂
This is poetic justice. The warmists are perhaps realising they are losing the battle for the public mind. But the creation of the documentary for me shows the warmists do not understand why they are losing the battle. Their aim seems to be at the “Lying Bastards”, us skeptics; They should ask why it is people themselves dont actually believe them any more. I find that general public has a lack of trust and sympathy with scientists because science in general does not trust the public to have the bran power to handle complex issues. Time & again the public prove this notion as false, and once again this attack piece is an attempt to simplify the issue another level to make it accessible to “more people”. Listen guys, spend that $1.5 million on educating yourselves as to why the public does not trust warmists any more. Oh p.s. given the computer models are 100% correct now, can you ensure that the BBC in the UK have optional 1 year weather forecast so I can book my holidays for next year?
Tshane3000 says:
March 12, 2013 at 11:32 pm
You’ve not been described in full, so here’s the complete broadside: You are a member of the CAGW: Anthropogenic Catastrophic Genocidal Warmistas.
That’s not an ad hominem attack–that’s the truth; it’s an accurate description. That’s the consequence of policies promulgated and implemented globally by you and your CAGW-believing acolytes. You’re wrong and we’re right. You’ve been brainwashed.
Note: Tune in to Climategate3 for a real education.
Straight to landfill. Still, they can afford it!
HaHaHAHa Throw some more money at your “Cause”, Daryl Hannah. Maybe you’ll get a clue when you go broke.
There is still hope for “Greedy Lying B8888s” Youtube, as some have already pointed out. Youtube will show millions upon millions of “hits.” Although, even on Youtube, there is a still standard for fudged data:
Youtube Cracks Down On Views Inflation, Deletes Billions Of View Counts Fudged By The Music Industry
“Youtube said it has began regulating the views of videos by several recording artists after it claimed the data has been fudged by the music industry, several reports said.”
Inflating view hits on Youtube is against policy, and it is just plain bad science as well, with serious consequences.
“Based on Youtube’s policy, the users had violated TOS item 4, Section H, which bans artificially inflating view counts, and calls for the deletion of such videos.”
Schadenfreude isn’t nice, but the thought of OTH professsional babe Darylll Hannah and the other investors in this adolescent project losing big just warms my cockles.
Any interest in forming a betting pool, on how long it will take DVDs of GLB to appear in the bargain bin of your local supermarkets?
Schadenfreude is just a pretentious way of saying “gloating”. Theres no difference in usage. So I would deny that I exhibit “schadenfreude’. But man am I gloating. Yeah, I is a glaoddin I is!
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If he wants to learn about something scary (and covered up) he should check this out.
http://www.dhmo.org/
(Of course, to act on this leads to death also. What’s an alarmist to do?)