Brokeback Mountain Shatters Box Office Records
You know - it's quite funny. Last week I was reading an article written by Focus on the Family regarding Brokeback Mountain. Christian extremists decided not to boycott the movie because it would only give the movie more publicity...
Focus on the Family stated the following:
Baehr said gay films usually do poorly at the box office.
The average homosexual movie averages only 600,000 dollars," Baehr said. "To put that in context for people, at six dollars a ticket, that's a hundred thousand people. In a country of 295 million people, it doesn't even register."
First of all where the hell can you get a movie ticket for $6 anymore? Though back to the point... not to burst their bubble, but Brokeback Mountain opened on Friday night in 3 cities (San Francisco, New York and LA) on a total of 5 screens and shattered records. The estimated three-day box office take was $544,549, an average of $109,000 per screen. This is both the highest per-screen average for any film released in 2005, and the highest per-screen average ever for an adult drama, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc.
Focus on the Family went on to say such the following statements in their "review" of the movie:
"If you're not looking at this through the eyes of someone caught up in the 'love affair' between these two men," Baehr said, "then the movie appears to be twisted, laughable, frustrating and boring Neo-Marxist homosexual propaganda."
Whether it can draw large audiences may well be the real test - a sign of how successful gay activists have been.
Price said the movie will probably have trouble drawing an audience - because it has what he called a high "ick" factor.
That includes, Baehr explained, a "San Quentin-type rape scene" of sex between the two cowboys.
"If they're not vomiting their way out of the theater when they see that scene, they are certainly going to be uncomfortable, and even in the uncomfortable aspects, they are going to be bored silly," he said.
Wow - I'm even more excited to see it now.
On Friday, December 16, Brokeback Mountain opens in 21 additional markets on approximately 60 screens in cities such as Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Portland, and Washington DC.
On Saturday, December 10, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association named "Brokeback Mountain" the year's best movie and Ang Lee as the year's best director. Brokeback has also won a whole bunch of other very noteworthy awards. I guess "it's a sign of how successful gay activists have been".
Don't forget to read Gay Rights Watch's own Meg Daly's take on Brokeback. Read her review here.
For ticket sales click here.
Posted by Bryan Harding
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on Sunday, December 11, 2005 at 4:59 PM.
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ByI'm looking forward to seeing the movie/ My hubby won't want to go see it, so it'll probably end up being me by myself or maybe my sister if I can grab her on a day in which I have someone to watch the toddler and she's off. Those two don't coincide that often. If the hubby worke 9-5, we could go in the evenings, but he's the closing manager which means there isn't enough time to see the movie and get home before he has to go to work.
I definitely want to make it to the theater to see it. Sure I could wait until it came out on DVD, but I want to do my part to add another $8 onto the amount of ticket sales for the movie.
On a side note, someone's been driving me crazy by sending me e-mails from groups like Focus on the Family. I wrote the person and told them to stop, as I don't accept e-mail from hate groups.
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Well, I guess they're going to threaten to boycott the Golden Globes as well as any advertisers during the awards ceremony since Brokeback Mountain took 7 nominations-- the most of any movie.
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this is just silly, man I thought thats what sheep on the range were for,, daaaaaaaamm
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