the anti-Obama film 'I Want Your Money' was a box office dud

[spanone]

here's the numbers.......


I Want Your Money

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $348,563
Domestic Summary
Opening Weekend: $249,428
(#26 rank, 537 theaters, $464 average)
% of Total Gross: 71.6%
> View All Weekends
Widest Release: 537 theaters
In Release: 7 days / 1 weeks


http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=iwantyourmoney.htm


compared to say....

Fahrenheit 9/11

Domestic Total Gross: $119,194,771
Distributor: Lions Gate Release Date: June 23, 2004
Genre: Documentary Runtime: 1 hrs. 56 min.
MPAA Rating: R Production Budget: $6 million

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fahrenheit911.htm

[myrna minx]

1. I guess only tea baggers and oligarchs attended.

:rofl:

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. this made me laugh

but I assume it's about healthcare?

I keep saying it, peeps, we need to co-opt the phrase OBAMACARE. Take it away from the other side. Obamacare is a good thing, yet I keep hearing these horrid political ads where the "average housewife" says to her "average husband" "honey, we can't support _________ - for goodness sake, he supported OBAMACARE!"

[Oceansaway]

3. LOL...n/t.....

[marmar]

4. Conservatives don't do documentaries or comedy very well.

nt

[spanone]

they didn't reveal their budget on this website, many do.

i bet they spent some serious bucks on advertising....they ran commercials here in tennessee frequently

[marmar]

9. I'd never even heard of this film until this post.

[spanone]

10. it's a pretty cool site... look up how much the harry potter movies grossed...billions

ahhhh showbiz

[eppur_se_muova]

16. It was advertised on MSNBC -- during the evening 'liberal' shows. nt

[PSzymeczek]

19. They showed it at our local multiplex,

but they wouldn't show Capitalism: A Love Story.

[sakabatou]

5. Bwahahah

[iamjoy]

6. Your Point Is...

Fahrenheit 9/11 may have been a box office hit, but Republicans still won at the ballot box in November. And success at the ballot box is more important than success at the box office.

Sorry to be a buzz kill

[spanone]

8. my point was the movie was a dud.

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

7. OMG -- Those #s are PATHETIC

Epic Fail.

:rofl:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

11. LOL....I bet Repukes will spin it

I recall when that turd "An American Carol" came out, it was the same weekend as "Religulous". Well, despite being on far more screens, AAC only drew a few thousand dollars more gross than the Maher movie, and got killed on the per screen average......yet right wingers were saying "All that matters is we made more money". I mean really......is it any wonder these people suck at money?

[Bluenorthwest]

12. And there you have it

Not just a bomb, but a full tilt bupke. No market for this dreck whatsoever.

[spanone]

13. compare it to Capitalism: a love story....

Capitalism:
A Love Story

Domestic Total Gross: $14,363,397
Distributor: Overture Films Release Date: September 23, 2009
Genre: Documentary Runtime: 2 hrs. 7 min.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=michaelmoore09.htm

[Bluenorthwest]

18. My favorite part of the 'I Want Your $' numbers, is the per screen

figures, $464 average. Even if the tickets were $5 each it is a tiny amount of people. In areas where they hoped to have an audience, they had no audience at all.

[bluestateguy]

14. I was not even aware that it existed

I just took a moment to watch the trailer.

People on the right only care about deficits when they are out of power.

I guess two unpaid for wars, tax cuts for the rich and a giveaway to the drug companies are all OK.

[spanone]

15. and mr bu$h* never even put the wars in his budgets...Obama has.

[PSzymeczek]

21. Which is the reason

the deficit appears to be so much larger.

[donco6]

17. Never heard of it. n/t

[spanone]

22. it was publicized on m$nbc political shows probably faux & cnn

a documentary that not many people heard of

[malaise]

20. You can't have documentaries with myths and legends

Facts are still required

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahaha I'm lovin' this.

[NYC Liberal]

23. Even if you hate him, nobody can deny that Michael Moore goes after BOTH

Democrats AND Republicans.

I noticed during the trailer for I Want Your $$$ (I only saw it played once) there were a bunch of Republicans who kept crying about deficits and spending money. But no mention of Reagan or Bush's role in the deficits and debt. They had the clip of Raygun saying "Government is the problem" (omitting the first half of the sentence, "In this present crisis..." of course). When it came to deficits, it was Carter, then Clinton, then Obama. Zero mention of the Republican presidents in between, or the fact that Clinton had a SURPLUS.

[bagimin]

24. But it's such a critical suck-sess

0% on Rotten Tomatoes http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_want_your_money/

[spanone]

25. here's the trailer....

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2242644249/