"In theaters April 15th"Yup. That wins the Oscar for Best Irony, if you ask me.
:lmao:
Interesting, in reading about the cast list 1 of the cast is Graham Beckel the conservative brother of liberal Bob Beckel.
Yup. That wins the Oscar for Best Irony, if you ask me.
The Life of Ayn Rand (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/atlas-shrugged-ndashand-the-tea-party-poured-in-to-watch-2268644.html)
Short and sweet. Scroll to the bottom of the article.
line after line of middle-age white people wearing tricorn hats, stars-and-stripes T-shirts and pin badges suggesting that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This is the Tea Party, on a big night out.Right. I'm sure he actually saw that.
Don't a lot of movies make as much or more after the DVD release? I seem to remember VHS movie releases taking six months to a year before they would show up on the shelves. Now it's happening 60-90 days after the movie leaves the theater. I'm hoping the DVD sales do well and from what I've read of DVD/Blu-Ray sales vs. theater attendance over the last couple of years, I think it may be the case. I certainly did not expect to pay $10+ for a ticket... I was expecting to pay $7 and some change.
We saw it Friday night, and all I can truthfully say is that while I am exceedingly happy it was finally made, I really wish it had been made better. We went for the content, NOT the execution of the film, ya know?
John Aglialoro held the film rights from Leonard Peikoff for 18 years, and was unable for a host of reasons I won't go into here to get it made by a major studio, and literally had to start shooting within hours of losing them. Hence, for a little over $10 million of his own money, we end up with what we have now, and while I am in no way stating that the final product should not have been made, I really do wish that he had a bigger budget to work with.
This is especially worrisome to me, given that Aglialoro has already stated (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/atlas-shrugged-first-movie-target-175724) that future installments of the film may not be made if this first chapter fails.
This is particularly scary, given the numbers: The film cost $10 million to make, so if it makes $100 million worldwide (which is exceedingly hopeful, albeit less-than-likely), Aglialoro has to give half of that to the distributors, leaving him with a helluva lot less than he's already said he would need to gross in order to even think of starting production on Part II.
And this is why, despite my love of All Things Rand, I really wish Aglialoro had either negotiated new terms with Peikoff, or simply let the project lapse altogether, and focus his passion, time and money toward the advancement of Open Objectivism and the free-markets.
In my humble opinion, if we weren't prepared to bring our biggest gun to the gunfight, we really shouldn't have brought a ****ing Ginsu knife.
I'm really sorry, but after two days of consternation over this film, that's how I feel.
Atlas Shrugged earned $1.67 million for the weekend April 15-17. Per-screen earnings put it at #7.
Box Office Mojo (http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=2011&wknd=15&sort=avg&order=DESC&p=.htm)