Apparently Gore’s climate doom message just isn’t that popular anymore, even with a “climate caused” hurricane hitting the USA this weekend. Now in it’s 5th week (4 weeks in wide release, the premier was only a handful of theaters) An Inconvenient Sequel dropped 74.6% over the weekend as reported by Box Office Mojo:
It must be humiliating to be beaten by Captain Underpants: the First Epic Movie in it’s 13th week.
That’s a far cry from the fifth week of Gore’s original movie, An Inconvenient Truth, back in 2006, when it ranked 14th:
Note also the difference in take and theaters. In 2006, Gore’s AIT was in 514 theaters during it’s fifth weekend, now in 2017, AIS has only 127, basically 25% of the 2006 numbers. But the take is even worse. In 2006, AIT earned $2,016,408 while in 2017 AIS earned only $83,951 – which is just four percent of the earnings for the fifth weekend in 2006 of AIT.
Overall for all five weeks, AIT in 2006 earned $9,630,014, while AIS has earned only $3,329,343. That’s only 34.5% of the earnings for the original during the same period.
He’ll probably blame it on Hurricane Harvey.
To be fair though, movie going this summer has tanked across the board – maybe because people have so many other less expensive choices now, and maybe because there’s really not a lot of good movies worth going to anymore.
Imploding under the gravity of the failure to cause climate change as advertised by propaganda using statistical modelling by so called scientists, in fact computer jockeys paid to prove CO2 was guilty by ignoring or artificially suppressing other effects. In fact what we see is a little bit of climate variability that is not a lot within this interglacial, on the way to the next 80,000 year ice age. Its all BS to justify £Trillions pa in renewable subsidies that also must make net grid emissions of CO2 greater – science fact. Thankfully with no actual significant effect on the climate.
To point this out is not science denial as statistical correlation isn’t causation, nor physical determinsitic science. Climate change from CO2 is improbale and unprovable in fact. Atmosphere does not heat the oceans, the Oceans control climate and the atmosphere. The CO2 they release because they warm. It was never a problem before, as it sgould be if this was a real cause.
What we have is a legalisedc climate change protection racket for a fast buck by law, and Al Gore is one of the biggest and most deceitful science deniers for personal gain within it, at the real economic expense in energy poverty of Billions of people in the developing and developed world, and sometimes freezing deaths. Al Gore is a dangerously egotistical and evil man to persist with this unravelling fraud on the real science, for the profit of himself and his rich crony lobbyist friends. Not a libel, true on the science and economic facts of the energy fraud as well as the dodgy models.
Excellent post.
Or maybe because common sense Americans are sick of hypocritical, self-righteous Hollywood leftists?
The movie attendance results are, perhaps, a metaphor for the general “global warming” scare and society moving on.
Four points
First, global warming adherents have made so many over-the-top (jump the shark) statements (ice free Arctic Ocean) that have not happened, and stupendously stupid efforts ( activist group 10:10’s exploding heads video) that backfired that many folks have gotten tired of the whole cAGW mess.
Second, researchers have shown the “science” is not settled. Internet sites, such as WUWT, have given this information a wide distribution.
Third, demographics plays a role. A person that was, say 16, when the first movie came along (2006) is now 27. That person may now have university (or other) training, a job, spouse, and children. For almost all of this group, their interests have been refocused.
Fourth, much has changed in society such that those with an activist character have other things to occupy their interest – black lives, gender pronouns, the terrible Donald, American disrespect in the NFL, and new smart phones popping up like mushrooms.
Unfortunately, human beings evolved intense responses to (real or perceived) immediate threats (e.g.: killed by lion), as opposed to noodling over “what’s the probability of a lion lurking in the grass & do I have good data” – better safe than sorry won the evolutionary race.
In cartoons & real life, lots of nut cases wander around with sandwich-sign-boards proclaiming the end of the world is tomorrow – have you ever seen even one wearing a sign saying the world will go on for billions of years?
I’d die of a heart attack if I had to sit through this smarmy idiots movie. I get palps just thinking about this scum of the earth hypocrite.
4% of the original? Is that considering inflation?
Joel
It’s even worse than you thought…the 4% is not inflation-adjusted for the last 10 years.
Chuckle.
It will make money when it is required viewing in all elementary schools in the country.
All those statistics and no one could come up with a 97% anywhere??? Have they tried adding up all the percentages and dividing by the number of days the film has been running? The lack of scientific rigour here is very disappointing
Once the theatres and distributors have taken their cut there is going to be very little left in the kitty for Mr Gore.