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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At least we will get to see it on Netflix.
To Tshane3000:
Your claim that the fossil fuel industry is “…the most dangerous…” is interesting.
Can I assume from this that you are HUGE advocate of nuclear power, as is
NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen? (For your passing information, Hansen is
possibly the world’s biggest pusher of the catastrophic climate change caused
by human-generated CO2.) After all, it has been pointed out that for
every ONE person killed by the nuclear power industry, FOUR THOUSAND
have been killed by the coal industry. And since you have demonstrated
that you have an over-riding concern for all of suffering humanity, it follows
that you should be a HUGE advocate of nuclear power. (See, for example,
http://www.the9billion.com/2011/03/24/death-rate-from-nuclear-power-vs-coal/.)
Come back, Phobos, all is forgiven.
@ur momisugly Tshane3000: Fixed your sentence for ya –
” … typical of R̶e̶p̶u̶b̶l̶i̶c̶a̶n̶s̶ enviro-activists and small minded people is they judge things only in terms of money, which is basically the entire problem the film is t̶r̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ failing to expose!
TShame says:
“The value of your commentary is so low I will not be responding anymore after this.”
Excellent news. Then we’ll be seeing your back? Don’t let the door smack you…
MattS says:
March 12, 2013 at 9:13 pm
> P.S. Anthony needs to put a running comment total under the view in the blog stats section in the right margin panel.
There’s a summary, updated daily, at my Guide to WUWT, see link in the right margin to http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/index.html
Here in Phoenix, the movie is showing at only one theater. Its showing 4 times a day. The Box Office Mojo data shows it earned $900 per theater over a three day span. At $9.00 a ticket, that works out to 8.3 viewers per showing. Oh, and they plan on pulling the movie after Thursday. Ouch.
geran says:
March 12, 2013 at 4:18 pm
Well, I’d be reluctant to say “approaching,” as the weekly datum is pretty noisy:
Opening http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/pdisp_sst.sh?ctlfile=oiv2.ctl&ptype=ts&var=ssta&level=1&op1=none&op2=none&day=09&month=feb&year=2013&fday=11&fmonth=mar&fyear=2013&lat0=-5&lat1=5&lon0=-170&lon1=-120&plotsize=800×600&title=&dir=
Found target /png/tmp/CTEST13630212025270.txt
Opening http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov//png/tmp/CTEST13630212025270.txt
Data file
data from 00Z09FEB2013 to 00Z11MAR2013
“———-”
-0.476145
-0.302259
-0.468448
-0.292665
-0.0628619
Safer to say that the El Niño some people were expecting may not happen, and that betting on a La Niña isn’t a great bet either. They’re like recesssions – they take several months of “conditions” before being declared.
I’ve been away – I took my wife to Georgia (the last time I was there was in March too and got snowed on both times) for her to start walking back on the Appalachian Trail. On her first day there was 1.3″ of rain in the forecast. She got her tarp up before much fell though.
That’s helped reduce the drought level in Georgia.
No Stealey, I want to see the 3000 come back…lets see his response to our evisceration of his posts.
So you are the ones we have to thank for filling the farm pond back up! Thanks!
I notice any time I plan a hiking trip it rains at least one of the days. For the sake of Georgia, maybe I should take up hiking again.
D.B. Stealey says:
March 13, 2013 at 2:43 pm
TShame says:
“The value of your commentary is so low I will not be responding anymore after this.”
Excellent news. Then we’ll be seeing your back? Don’t let the door smack you…
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Darn it, Stealey! How am I supposed to train a pet troll if you keep driving them all away like that?!? Anthony told me I could keep one if I could teach him not to mess the floors…
:>
Sorry to be pedantic, Wamrom (it’s just that I am, sigh), but schadenfreude is a sub-specie of gloating which can as well be used to celebrate a personal victory or a friend or relative’s good fortune, as someone else’s misfortune. Schadenfreude is the only word I know of that has the specific meaning of taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune, which is why I and many others use it – there is no substitute.
@Tshane3000,
Please come back and play, you are very entertaining.
Re the 3000, 2999 models failed before this one?
All the best, great passion and rant, do avoid any contact with firearms, unless you have kevlar boot covers.
I would like to interject a great TED talk video that is relevent to the discussion of a world class scientist amending and apologetically revising his and others, prevelent theory of the sequestering of carbon and finding a solution that was not popular, but none the less true.
It really is a very good video:
@Jeff Smathers – we had this last week here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/08/a-bridge-in-the-climate-debate-how-to-green-the-worlds-deserts-and-reverse-climate-change/
Paddi……your definition of “gloating”.are you sire?
It doesn’t change the fact that by your definition “gloating” would do just as well. I still see no goodreason to use a German word where an English one exists.
…on the other hand, “Juliusturm” does the job of no English word that I know, but it seems that younger Germans dont know what it means!
…and “vorurteilstruktur” is hard to find in any dictionary.
Re. the dangers of fossil fuel extraction, when my 17 year old self attended a Health and Safety lecture before my first voyage as a Midshipman I was told that I was entering a profession in which I was “… statistically 27 times more likely to be killed or seriously injured than someone in the coal mining industry.”
I’ve also heard that 78% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Do we know where the 1.5 million to make the film came from?
I’ll make a film raving about fossil fuels for 1.5 million, if you introduce me to the fellow who forked out the 1.5 million. Of course, it will be a spoof, but the funny thing is that Alarmists will think I’m dead serious.
Ric Werme says:
March 13, 2013 at 3:06 pm
>MattS says:
>March 12, 2013 at 9:13 pm
>> P.S. Anthony needs to put a running comment total under the view in the blog stats section in >the right margin panel.
>There’s a summary, updated daily, at my Guide to WUWT, see link in the right margin to >http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/index.html
What I am suggesting is a running total of all the comments on the site (so we can see how we are doing against the 1M comment milestone, not comment totals for individual articles. Your summary while interesting is not what I am asking for.
There was a day, when I can’t say, on WUWT I did pay. Such that Anthony could “spew” away.
(Don’t forget to tip.)
What I most resent about Tshane’s absurd comments is his implication that people who come here do not care about the enviorment. Nothing could be further from the truth. I’ll bet the majority of WUWT regulars recycle. [Why don’t you do a poll Anthony]? If you, as I am, are a regular you will see that the site screams enviormental health. Tshane is an obvious troll who may never have visited WUWT before.
@Tshane:
The reason we are celebrating the low box office returns in dollar terms is that that’s the way the statistics are complied. Raw attendance isn’t counted. If it were, that’s what we’d focus on.