Al Franken: God Spoke
FRANKENFLOP
God Spoke Generates Tiny Box Office
Perhaps it will have better luck on DVD.
After several weeks in both limited and general release, Al Franken: God Spoke appears to be a genuine big screen flop. So far, it has generated just $64,600 in ticket sales, according to The Numbers.com, a box office- tracking website.
Last week, God Spoke ranked a mere 60th overall, among films in current release. Even now, it's being shown on just ten screens nationwide, with several additions expected this weekend.
And despite an avalanche of positive coverage in the true spirit of Frankenfluff, which included reviews in hundreds of publications across the country, the alleged documentary has simply failed to catch on. Click here for a rare negative critic's assessment of the film.
With Air America Radio now suffering through its final miserable days, God Spoke might have represented a way for Franken to keep his increasingly- troubled career on track, but it's now clear this effort isn't going to do it, either.
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God Spoke Generates Tiny Box Office
Perhaps it will have better luck on DVD.
After several weeks in both limited and general release, Al Franken: God Spoke appears to be a genuine big screen flop. So far, it has generated just $64,600 in ticket sales, according to The Numbers.com, a box office- tracking website.Last week, God Spoke ranked a mere 60th overall, among films in current release. Even now, it's being shown on just ten screens nationwide, with several additions expected this weekend.
And despite an avalanche of positive coverage in the true spirit of Frankenfluff, which included reviews in hundreds of publications across the country, the alleged documentary has simply failed to catch on. Click here for a rare negative critic's assessment of the film.With Air America Radio now suffering through its final miserable days, God Spoke might have represented a way for Franken to keep his increasingly- troubled career on track, but it's now clear this effort isn't going to do it, either.
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published by Brian Maloney at
22:00
6 Comments:
Hmmm...
The Franken movie has no audience.
The Franken radio show has no audience.
Heeheeheehee....
I wonder what they have in common?
Oh, I know.
The left will claim it's not the content.
The left will claim it couldn't be the so called "star".
Any idea why the Bush Administration restricted the release of the movie to just ten theaters? The nutroots on the left will be claiming the culprit must be Karl Rove. It certainly could not be due to the audience demand.
By
The Benson Report, at 11 October, 2006 23:45
It was ironic when the Dallas AAR station promoted a showing of it...
then the next thing you knew, the station's new owners were about ready to change the format to Catholic religious programming. "God Spoke"---and said
get that Frankenfraud stuff off the
air!
By
raccoonradio, at 12 October, 2006 03:58
You do realize that the per-screen average outside Week 1 was awful. (And even Week 1 was barely tolerateable for a movie like this.)
By
BF, at 12 October, 2006 11:54
I think this blog is great, but you ought to consider putting Old Glory or the Stars and Stripes and the WA State flag on your blog please.
By
Anonymous, at 12 October, 2006 18:30
Apples to Oranges, alex.
1st Weekend: The reason none of the Top 40 had a per screen average that high was because all but 4 of them had at leat 100 screens. The more screens, the lower the per screen average. Simple math, my friend. Besides, God Spoke wasn't competing against Gridiron Gang or Black Dahlia. It was competing against the likes of US vs. John Lennon and The Ground Truth. Both of which, BTW, grossed more than Franken's flick.
Weekend #2: God Spoke wasn't in the Top 20 (or Top 85 for that matter), so you can't compare a film to a subset of which the film is not a member of.
Look, I don't think anyone imagined this would do Inconvenient Truth numbers. Otherwise, they would have released on more than 2 screens. Still, it's slightly underperformed even it's modest expectations. But it's not even performing to the level of it's competitors such as Lennon and Who Killed the Electric Car. As such, it's dying on the vine and can be fairly labeled as a bomb. (Just like Jesus Camp).
By
BF, at 13 October, 2006 09:39
Download it here:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/807661
By
Unknown, at 17 March, 2008 04:26
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