Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Mr. Answer Knows it All (And Really Likes the Easy Questions)
Question: What were the total revenues for the movie, Apocalypto?
Answer: Without including DVD rentals or sales, Apocalypto took in a combined $118,854,971 from domestic and foreign ticket sales from an estimated production budget of $40 million. Which isn’t bad considering that it didn’t star anyone, featured languages that almost nobody speaks, and came close after Mel’s big anti-semitic festival of drunken bad decision making. In fact, it’s a far better showing than Gibson’s own 1993 release, The Man Without a Face,which took in just $24,760,338 in domestic ticket sales and had actors that spoke English.
Which just goes to show that hating Jews isn’t the big career-damaging maneuver for actors that most of us might have imagined.
Further: Apocalypto still hasn’t made a dime from the Zomby, although, I admit to being curious as hell about the thing.
For more reading: With questions like this, you’re really better off getting answers from Boxofficemojo.com.
Comments & Trackbacks
Get it from Netflix; you’re very unlikely to be the marginal renter who triggers an additional purchase of the DVD.
It could be worse, you know. Mel could have gone the academic route, explained that he’s an anti-Zionist rather than an anti-Semite, and hit the lecture circuit talking about the genocide of the Palestinians.
Oh, and as another possibility (if even being 1/50th of a DVD purchase is too much support for Mel), you can always steal it. Bit Torrent. Not that I would know how to do such a thing, of course.
I suddenly remembered why we invite you to all the good parties.
I hate to confess it, but I am dying to see that damn movie. Maybe we could watch it together. I recall having an outstanding debt to you, still…
The MPAA just said that every time you mention a site featuring .torrent files, God kills another kitten.
Thanks Bob. You just moved my lapcat further up the list.
Awesome!
bitttorrent.com MEEEEEOWWWWWR (thud)
torrentspy.com MEEEEEOWWWWWR (thud)
meganova.org MEEEEEOWWWWWR (thud)
...
Let me know when Mr. Fluff snuff it.
You’re an evil kitty killer.
Evil, perhaps. But kitty killing? Colfax set up the machinery of death. I’m not responsible for God’s choices.
Hey, all *I* said was that the MPAA says that. It doesn’t mean God actually listens, you know.
And we all know that the MPAA and RIAA are aligned with “the other side” and funnel 10% of their revenue through Hugo Chavez’ former third grade teacher so that the Great Evil can fund His dark projects.
So God wouldn’t listen to them anyways.
Good point. God does, indeed, hate Hugo Chavez.