Harry Potter Rakes In $168 Million, While Palin Doc Barely Registers($8000 per theater)

[RamboLiberal]

When Harry met Sarah... well, let's just say he roared while she whispered. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the climax to the eight-film franchise from the J.K. Rowling saga, grossed a wizardly $168.55 million, according to early studio reports, to win the box-office weekend and quite a few other records besides. Meanwhile, the Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated, playing on about a dozen screens (compared to Harry's 11,000) in such conservative bastions as Grapevine, Texas, and Orange Country, Cal., amassed perhaps $75,000 — though it's hard to tell at the moment because the film's distributor hasn't released actual or estimated totals.

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Raw or real, the weekend take for the Palin doc — which may reach $8,000 per theater — is underwhelming, given the star quality of its subject, the ardor of her admirers and the exposure The Undefeated gleaned on right-wing websites. One blog this weekend quoted the Brisbane Times of Australia as reporting that the movie "opened in US theatres to overwhelmingly positive opinion." The Times must have meant "positive" as in "zero," which was the reviewers' rating on Rotten Tomatoes. When a post by a contributor to The Atlantic, noting that he was the only person at a Thursday midnight screening, received widespread coverage, conservatives rose in defense, with John Nolte of Andrew Breitbart's Bighollywood.com blog mocking the notion that anyone would see a movie that late on a weeknight — the same time as DH2 was attracting its record midnight haul.


Film critics, of course, are tools of the lamestream media; and the media are appendages of the vast left-wing government-entertainment complex. In a one-two punch to defeat The Undefeated, Hollywood scheduled the Harry Potter film as its competition, and the California Department of Transportation closed down a portion of highway 405, thus keeping Palinites from getting to the Orange County theater. Just two more pages out of the Saul Alinsky playbook.



Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2083682,00.html#ixzz1SQaI2c64

[July16th-20th]

1. If people want fantasy,

they'll go for a good one. I think you get what I'm saying.

R

[yourout]

2. I would bet most of the ticket sales were Koch brothers give a ways.

[HipChick]

3. It was smart of her to open againt Harry Potter..

doomed for failure..Kudos to whoever picked that date..

[Beaverhausen]

4. to be fair, an $8000 per screen average is not bad for a first weekend

but try releasing this wide and, well, forget it.

We do have to keep in mind that Sarah does have her followers out there. Want a good laugh? Read the posts on her facebook page sometime. The world is full of idiots who think she'd be a wonderful president.

[Joe the Revelator]

5. That's one of my favorite hobbies

[krispos42]

6. The audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are hilarious

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771245638/reviews/?type=user

James S July 17, 2011

I'm not sure what she is undefeated at; being govern (gave up) or running for vice president (defeated). I'm surprised anyone would want to see a two hour political advertisement.

Hod M July 17, 2011

The porn parody is way better.

Robert G July 17, 2011

How can someone quit their job, not get elected, and stop their bus tour early - and call her movie "Undefeated"?

SunSpots Tom R July 17, 2011

I'd rather hold bees in my honeyed palms.

Kevin H July 17, 2011

Why would any quasi-inteligent human being have any interest in spending a single penny to watch 2+ hours of Sarah Palin's back-patting herself, lying about things we know to be true, omitting anything not beneficial to her or her publicity whoring family, or her outright stupidity in thinking no one will notice any of it? The Half-Governor of Alaska has managed to finally replace "Plan 9 From Outer Space" as the worst movie ever made.

Erika L July 17, 2011

Hi, I'm Bert ( A polar bear from Alaska)
I sat through Sarah Palins' movie and would rather watch Canadians club my cubs to death than watch this "movie" again... nuff said.
I'm outer here on my tindog.

Lou Sarah P. July 17, 2011

A masterpiece about a woman who can save America if she feels like it from the evil unamerican parts of our country too, and pajama bloggers and the lamestream media there also! With a shoutout to the brave troops servin' our great nation, and an understandin' of how to progress our society in a way that would make God not slam doors when the bank account is runnin' low and electric bills on the mansion are comin' up! There also having an appreciation, too, for Bannon's smartness in craftin' this view of Real America's modern-day Esther! So don't miss this movie which will make you think about what a moral Christian Grizzly Grandma non-elitist Hockey Mom REAL American with a servant's heart Sarah is!
PS, please send $$$. Thx

Brett L July 16, 2011

I weep for humanity and the country I once swore to defend.

Rachel T July 16, 2011

The geriatric Teavangelical philistine who was sitting behind me in the theater was so stirred by this crass propaganda flick that she spilled her Ensure down the back of my neck.

William L July 16, 2011

I'd rather lick the phlegm from Flipper's blowhole than watch this.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. Those are hysterical. lol. nt

[jmowreader]

8. It's doing better than I expected

According to http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/04/17/atlas-shrugged-earns-1-7-million-at-weekend-box-office/, Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 and Final made $5,550 per screen on 300 screens, for a first weekend box office of $1.7 million.

Palin has a big problem: in this economy, the economy Republicans did their best to create, no movie theatre owner can afford to write off a screen twice in one year.

Seriously, though, they might be trying a page out of the Idiocracy playbook. Idiocracy opened in just a few theatres so they could say it had a theatrical release, and then it went to video and has done well there. Palin's movie doesn't really look like the kind of thing even the most committed would want to see in a theatre. Instead, they'll buy the DVD the day it comes out and have Amway-like meetings where The Undefeated, rather than the plan, is shown.

[ejpoeta]

9. is this going to be another case of them having to reimburse the theaters? that would be funny.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. I'll wait for the DVD to come to my library where I can borrow it for free

and buy a six-pack while watching it.

[tanyev]

11. Silencio! Stupefy!

Fighting evil is what Harry Potter does best.

[ladjf]

12. "Palin Does Politics" doesn't seem to be doing very well. nt