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Thread ID: 18864 | Posts: 12 | Started: 2005-06-27
2005-06-27 19:44 | User Profile
[I]When you consistenly put out a product that's offensive to a large majority of White folks as well as putting out product that's unoriginal, lowest common denominator based, far-fetched, boring and completely politically correct. Let it fall!! I prefer foreign films anyway.[/I]
[B][SIZE=3]U.S. Box Office Hits Longest Modern Slump[/SIZE][/B]
By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer Sun Jun 26, 6:46 PM ET [URL=http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050626/ap_en_mo/box_office_10]Yahoo Story[/URL]
LOS ANGELES - "Batman Begins" took in $26.8 million to remain the top movie for the second straight weekend, but it could not keep Hollywood from sinking to its longest modern box-office slump.
Overall business tumbled despite a rush of familiar new titles ââ¬â "Bewitched," a "Love Bug" update and the latest zombie tale from director George Romero.
Revenues for the top 12 movies came in at $116.5 million, down 16 percent from the same weekend last year, when "Fahrenheit 9/11" opened as the top movie with $23.9 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
It was the 18th weekend in a row the box office declined, passing a 1985 slump of 17 weekends that had been the longest since analysts began keeping detailed figures on movie grosses.
2005-06-27 20:40 | User Profile
[I]This is hitting Hollywood filthmongers right where it hurts - into their wallets:[/I]
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050627/ap_on_en_mo/box_office[/url]
[FONT=Arial] [SIZE=5]U.S. Box Office Hits Longest Modern Slump [/SIZE]
[B]By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer
Mon Jun 27,11:08 AM ET[/B]
LOS ANGELES - "Batman Begins" took in $26.8 million to remain the top movie for the second straight weekend, but it could not keep Hollywood from sinking to its longest modern box-office slump.
Overall business tumbled despite a rush of familiar new titles ââ¬â "Bewitched," a "Love Bug" update and the latest zombie tale from director George Romero.
Revenues for the top 12 movies came in at $116.5 million, down 16 percent from the same weekend last year, when "Fahrenheit 9/11" opened as the top movie with $23.9 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
It was the 18th weekend in a row the box office declined, passing a 1985 slump of 17 weekends that had been the longest since analysts began keeping detailed figures on movie grosses.
"Batman" lifted its 12-day total to $121.7 million.
Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell's sit-com update "Bewitched" debuted in second place with $20.2 million.
Audiences were lukewarm toward the weekend's other major premieres. "Herbie: Fully Loaded," with Lindsay Lohan behind the wheel of the speedy VW "Love Bug," was No. 4 with $12.75 million, raising its total since debuting Wednesday to $17.8 million.
"George Romero's Land of the Dead," the fourth installment of the flesh-munching zombie saga from the director of "Night of the Living Dead," debuted at No. 5 with $10.2 million.
In narrower release, the documentary "Rize," about the south-central Los Angeles dance form known as krumping, opened at No. 12 with $1.6 million.
In limited release, the nature documentary "March of the Penguins" had a strong debut of $121,788 in four theaters. "Yes," starring Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian and Sam Neill in a drama about an affair between an Irish-American married woman and a Lebanese man, opened with $29,437 in seven cinemas.
Theater revenues have skidded about 7 percent compared to last year. Factoring in higher ticket prices, movie admissions are off 10 percent for the year, according to box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
If the slump continues, Hollywood is on course for a third straight year of declining admissions and its lowest ticket sales since the mid-1990s.
"We're working with a pretty huge deficit that would take a lot of business to overcome," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. "Just breaking the slump is not enough. We would have to reverse the trend and see attendance on a big uptick."
Even with a big Fourth of July weekend expected from Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise's "War of the Worlds," which opens Wednesday, Hollywood still may not snap its losing streak. Over the same weekend last year, "Spider-Man 2" pulled in $180 million in its first six days, leading the industry to a record Fourth of July.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at North American theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final figures will be released Monday.
"Batman Begins," $26.8 million.
"Bewitched," $20.2 million.
"Mr. and Mrs. Smith," $16.75 million.
"Herbie: Fully Loaded," $12.75 million.
"George Romero's Land of the Dead," $10.2 million.
"Madagascar," $7.3 million.
"Star Wars: Episode III ââ¬â Revenge of the Sith," $6.25 million.
"The Longest Yard," $5.5 million.
"The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D," $3.4 million.
"Cinderella Man," $3.3 million.[/FONT]
2005-06-27 20:41 | User Profile
Petr, Already posted here: [url="http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18862"]http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18862[/url]
2005-06-27 21:29 | User Profile
Someone should invest in pro-white movies and start showing them in select theaters. Movies are powerful media. And they become much more so when the plot clicks with the audience.
Yeah, and friends don't let friends go to anti-white movies.
2005-07-01 02:30 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]Someone should invest in pro-white movies and start showing them in select theaters. Movies are powerful media. And they become much more so when the plot clicks with the audience.
Yeah, and friends don't let friends go to anti-white movies.[/QUOTE] Pro- white movies, IN SPANISH! Edumacational and PC.:jester:
2005-07-01 03:46 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]Someone should invest in pro-white movies and start showing them in select theaters. Movies are powerful media. And they become much more so when the plot clicks with the audience.
Yeah, and friends don't let friends go to anti-white movies.[/QUOTE]
madrussian, I don't know you from a hare in a handbasket, but I want you to read something. A group I know of and talk to, but haven't joined, nor will, " until the ballon drops ", if even then, is this. I read Hill of the Raven, and have it on file, and that is the first in the trilogy, Distant Thunder being second. Read it here http://distant-thunder.kicks-ass.org/ I don't ever want to leave New England. So until things change, that's where I stay.
2005-07-01 20:48 | User Profile
You guys are, I think, reading the data wrong.
This "slump" only points to the now-standardized divide that cable, home video and, now, DVD have created. The majority of whites over, say, 35, are now almost completely weaned from the habit of going to the movies at all. Particularly if they already know who they'll be sleeping with that night. Damn, if I can buy the dvd for half of what two tickets, parking, popcorn and soda will set me back it isn't even a choice.
Much as I dislike Manhattan, the few times I'll venture out to the movies the theater must be located there....because the outer boroughs are now so chockablock with runamuck third-world flotsam and jetsam (not that the white kids around here are any but a few notches up on them) that my last movie attendance in Brooklyn or Queens was like attempting to traverse India by rail. Meaning it was so loud, crowded, and full of umber-colored teenagers jabbering in Urdu to each other throughout the film that by the time it was over it was as if I'd somehow bought a ticket for a Refugee Camp Simulator instead of a movie.
So now, if I'm determined to see a movie, I'll pay more and commute just to rub elbows with a higher percentage of my own kind...even if most of them are the sorts of hoity-toity race-traitors who will then leave the theater and resume their life's work of making the rest of the world [I]look like [/I] that refugee camp.
But remember that I have somewhat of a choice, as well as a much wider assortment of movies to see, "living" in Gotham as I do. If I were somewhere [I]else[/I], the urge to depress/inconvenience myself at $9.00 or $9.50 a pop trying to hear the crafted, nuanced dialogue of X-MEN UNITED or BEWITCHED over the cell-phone pages, nonstop conversations, nog-cackles and macaw-cries that now regularly permeate theaters like the ambient jungle sounds in a Tarzan picture would diminish into the ether the minute I saw the dvds in the display window of the Circuit City I had to drive past to get to the theater.
The cinema has been relentlessly morphing into a youth-culture ritual almost excusively for decades now....but the developments in home-theater tech have now cast that transformation in stone. I foresee a far longer, far deeper box-office 'slump' than even Hollywood is prepared to envision.
Thank God at least that those glorious art-deco picture palaces built in the 20s and 30s....those architectural marvels our parents and grandparents saw their movies in...were mostly torn down by gimlet-eyed real estate hucksters years ago, before they could become rotting husks for wigger know-nothings, and the jabbering parasites they aspire towards, to rip out the seat cushions and plaster wall-fixtures from.
2005-07-01 20:58 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Il Ragno]So now, if I'm determined to see a movie, I'll pay more and commute just to rub elbows with a higher percentage of my own kind...even if most of them are the sorts of hoity-toity race-traitors who will then leave the theater and resume their life's work of making the rest of the world look like that refugee camp.[/QUOTE]
IR, I know those types of pretentious posers all too well. I used to frequent the Angelika theater and then, years later, the Sunshine theater, both on Houston St because of their features of art, foreign, and indie pictures.
With DVD's, Netflix, cable, libraries, etc, there's no need to go to the theaters anymore. The experience is much more hassle than pleasure.
[QUOTE]Much as I dislike Manhattan, the few times I'll venture out to the movies the theater must be located there....because the outer boroughs are now so chockablock with runamuck third-world flotsam and jetsam (not that the white kids around here are any but a few notches up on them) that my last movie attendance in Brooklyn or Queens was like attempting to traverse India by rail. Meaning it was so loud, crowded, and full of umber-colored teenagers jabbering in Urdu to each other throughout the film that by the time it was over it was as if I'd somehow bought a ticket for a Refugee Camp Simulator instead of a movie. [/QUOTE]
LOL!!
2005-07-01 21:05 | User Profile
[QUOTE=BlueBonnet]Pro- white movies, IN SPANISH! Edumacational and PC.:jester:[/QUOTE]
Ponce <---------wants to play the part of the hero, the part of the first Spanish president of the USA who stops ALL aids to the state of Israel, expect the movie to gross about 50 millions bucks on the first day. :thumbsup:
2005-07-30 18:42 | User Profile
NEW THIS WEEK!!!
A Very Brady Wednesday
The Incredible Hulk goes through Puberty
FART: The Movie
Son of Pee-Wee Herman
The Munsters
Deputy Dawg
*My Two Dads
It's a Wonderful Life (stariing Christian Slater)
*IN THE TV VERSION, THEY WERE JUST ROOMMATES. THIS IS THE REMAKE.
2005-07-30 22:43 | User Profile
U.S. Box Office Hits Longest Modern Slump" - death to Hollywood!
Support Zionists:
Go to a Movie.
Rent a video.
Buy a video.
Rent a CD.
Buy a CD.
Support Zionists:
Listen to rock 'n roll.
Buy an R 'n R CD.
Buy a ticket to a R 'n R concert.
Support the Zionists/yankees in the destruction of the distinct American culture:
All of the above.
Support and fund leftist Communist types:
All of the above.
2005-07-31 20:02 | User Profile
Yes, Death to Hollywood!
[QUOTE]When you consistenly put out a product that's offensive to a large majority of White folks as well as putting out product that's unoriginal, lowest common denominator based, far-fetched, boring and completely politically correct. Let it fall!! I prefer foreign films anyway. [/QUOTE]