so basically, yes, movies about biblical characters with wide openings did far better than foreign-oriented and upper east side-oriented movies in limited release
i bet snowpiercer could have done better if the weinsteins put any promotional weight behind it, but they hedged their bets
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Also I was talking about domestic and I still am.
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
it's not like all these films were released with the same amount of accessibility and promotion and america just ran to the jesus shit
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
Pretty good year profits for the financial backers of religious films!
fixed
― Aimless, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
I didn't realize how many screens God's Not Dead had played on. I thought it maybe did some bible belt screens and then went to VOD.
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
don't get me wrong cheap jesus movies are potentially even more profitable than cheap "ack! i just filmed a monster on my camera!" found footage movies
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
I know, I was just surprised. Sheesh man
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
i'm just saying it's no surprise. the fact that they did better than art movies (and for better or worse, distributors releases snowpiercer and wind rises like art movies)...well, the fix was in before we even had a say
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Snowpiercer is an action movie with Captain America in the lead. Everyone I know saw it, some more than once. I thought it was much bigger.
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
well now you know you have hip cool friends that saw a movie based on internet buzz while the distributors decided it wasn't worth pushing the film outside of urban markets
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
more evocative numbers
title US Box Office Number of screens releasedSex Tape $38,029,974 3,062 Deliver Us From Evil $30,577,122 3,049Heaven is for Real $91,443,253 3,048 Million Dollar Arm $36,457,627 3,019
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
gah i swear i spaced those out more damn formatting
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
noah's relative standing is less impressive
Hercules (2014) $70,264,908 3,595 Noah $101,200,044 3,571 Blended $46,290,741 3,555 Edge of Tomorrow $99,992,247 3,505 300: Rise of An Empire $106,580,051 3,490
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
jeeeeeez that's a pretty good per-screen rate for Heaven is for Real
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
meanwhile
Snowpiercer /$4,446,463 /356 Fading Gigolo /$3,769,873 /356 Veronica Mars /$3,322,127 /347
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Veronica Mars is sort of a religious movie tbh.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
this suggests the weinsteins probably should have given the odd foreign-born action movie they bought starring someone from captain america 2 a chance
Son of God /$59,700,064 /3,271 Earth to Echo /$38,173,560 /3,230The Expendables /$29,202,472 /3,221 Lucy /$115,079,315 /3,202
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
The old gods?
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
Well, at least in terms of how it was marketed and received.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
They had marshmallows for communion wafers at the door.
i wonder how many people funded the movie, got their lil doodads and still paid to see it opening week
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
the vm kickstarter brought in 5.7 million
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
Kevin Sorbo has been making the promo rounds lately talking to evangelical or fundie media outlets and of course has been saying kevin sorbo-like things:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/kevin-sorbo-explains-why-more-christian-movies-arent-made-jews-run-hollywood/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/gods-not-dead-actor-kevin-sorbo-laughingly-tells-jews-news-bulletin-you-did-kill-jesus/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/actor-kevin-sorbo-ferguson-unrest-let-black-protesters-be-the-animals-they-truly-are/
Which are either him expressing his actual sentiments or desperately trying to mention as many tribal shibboleths as possible to market to his target demo
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Thursday, 18 September 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-q-Llzww-8
― 💻 👀 (am0n), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Best. Movie. Ever.
(Wasn't there a subplot about a girl abused by her Muslim father in there somewhere?)
― Eric H., Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
v disappointed w the ending was hoping for descent into Hell in true Jack Chick-like fashion
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
2:18 Atheist. (Obviously.)
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
B-b-but he accepted Jesus in his life as his true savior at the very last minute! The rain stopped!
― Eric H., Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
god should just hit everybody with cars
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
That is an amazing ending. Taking advantage of a mortally injured crash victim who is probably in shock: the Christian thing to do!
― jmm, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
WOMAN: You really should go see mom. She's not doing well.
FAT DEAN CAIN: She hasn't been doing well for years. That's why they call it dementia.
oh word?
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
can someone explain to me what the dean cain scenes were all about or were those just dropped in from a different also
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
different movie
Dementia, from the Latin demens, meaning "not doing well for years".
― Portly Backgammon (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
Against the backdrop of the debates, a series of peripherally related subplots develop. Radisson dates Mina (Cory Oliver), a Christian whom he often belittles in front of his fellow atheist colleagues. Her brother Mark (Dean Cain), a successful businessman and atheist, refuses to visit their mother, who suffers from dementia. Mark's girlfriend, Amy (Trisha LaFache), is a left-wing blogger who writes articles critical of Duck Dynasty. When she is diagnosed with cancer, Mark dumps her. A Muslim student named Ayisha (Hadeel Sittu) secretly converts to Christianity and is disowned by her father when he finds out.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Mark's girlfriend, Amy (Trisha LaFache), is a left-wing blogger who writes articles critical of Duck Dynasty. When she is diagnosed God punishes her with cancer, Mark dumps her.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
Mark at last visits his mother, only to taunt her; she responds that all of his financial success was given to him by Satan.
So Mark doesn't get hit by any cars at all?
― jmm, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
http://doyoubelieve.com/_images/landing_title.gif
― Infostealer.Steamfishi (am0n), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
That image prompts me to believe, because it provides me with evidence of things not seen.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
lol that fucking Ted McGinley and former NFL/"STone Cold" star Brian Bosworth are in this.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 20 March 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
can't believe they didn't go with God's STILL Not Dead
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 March 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
that is practically artisanal, aimless, bravo
― j., Friday, 20 March 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
God's Not Dead 2: Not Deader
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 20 March 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
Godlier, Aliver
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 04:04 (nine years ago) link
Oh God, You Deader
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 05:08 (nine years ago) link
God's Not Dead is on Netflix streaming now btw. Trying to talk myself into watching it, but I have not unlocked that level of self-hate.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 05:50 (nine years ago) link
weekend at god's
― drash, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 07:50 (nine years ago) link
Custos's Not Dead
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 09:40 (nine years ago) link
I GIS'd God's Not Dead and there were a lot of Duck Dynasty guys are they in that movie too or is this just Walmart-style synergy at work.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
^^^winner
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link