Comments on: Expelled #2 Highest Grossing Political Documentary

By: DaveScot

DaveScot — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:08:51 +0000

Per screen receipts are rather meaningless. The screen it was on in NW Austin was sold out much of the time (200+ seats). The screen it was on 20 miles away in cow country probably didn’t sell 200 tickets for the entire weekend. The producers wanted everyone everywhere to have a chance to see the film even if it meant putting it in rural theaters with little traffic.

By: JABbering Stooge :: We’re Number 9! We’re Number 9! :: April :: 2008

JABbering Stooge :: We’re Number 9! We’re Number 9! :: April :: 2008 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:00:09 +0000

[...] couple of patents and a self-reported IQ a couple of standard deviations above the mean. Here he is claiming that Expelled had the Second Highest Opening Box Office Gross Ev4r!!!! Expelled easily ranks as having the second largest gross box office receipts on opening weekend of [...]

By: evo_materialist

evo_materialist — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:49:44 +0000

DLH, I was simply comparing the per-screen receipts to the other top documentaries, as per DaveScot’s original post. The data are in the first link of the original post. My point is merely that the high total opening-weekend are a result of the extremely wide opening.

By: DLH

DLH — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:26:38 +0000

For the weekend of April 18-20, Box Office Mojo ranks Expelled as 10th in gross receipts with $2,970,848, and 20th out of the top 131 movies in average earnings per theater with $2,824/theater. Here are the daily details evo_materialist, please provide objective commentary with references, rather than trying to repeatedly discredit Expelled.

By: evo_materialist

evo_materialist — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:05:32 +0000

Actual numbers are lower than expected by over $200,000. The film earned less than $3 million for the weekend. Expelled also had a terrible per-screen gross ($2,824 per screen for the whole weekend. Wow). I took the data from Box Office Mojo, where Expelled was #2 overall, and calculated per-screen opening weekend grosses. Excluding those for which no screen numbers were available, there were 80 movies in the table. I divided opening weekend by total screens. Expelled ranks in the bottom half (52 out of 80), just below Bush's Brain, and would probably rank lower if the numbers were adjusted to account for inflation and the higher ticket prices of more recent films. (Of the 28 movies below Expelled, 13 were released in 2005 or earlier.)

By: William Wallace

William Wallace — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:39:45 +0000

By my calculations, Expelled did fairly well. In $USD/theater, it ranked #5, but was within a horseshoe of #3. Like you, I wonder if the evolanders sneaking into the theater might have something to do with this.

By: russ

russ — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:35:48 +0000

Expelled is a political film? I thought it was about science.

It only touches on science. It’s primarily about the political attacks on those who question Darwinism and/or support ID.

By: EndoplasmicMessenger

EndoplasmicMessenger — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:58:46 +0000

Reg:

Expelled is a political film? I thought it was about science.

The primary theme of the film, from opening to closing credits, is freedom, academic freedom, using the motif of the Berlin wall to represent that force in today’s academy which limits freedom of inquiry. ID is merely the thread, the example, the motivation to illustrate where academic freedom is totally absent in the US.

By: DLH

DLH — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:19:51 +0000

Reg After the first two days receipts, Box Office Mojo ranks categorizes Expelled 18th in the Genres of Christian, , 26th in Documentary and 8th in Documentary-Political.

By: Jonathan Sarfati

Jonathan Sarfati — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:04:40 +0000

Don’t forget that Moore’s junk had the backing of the Leftmedia and Leftacademia.

Expelled reminds me of something that Dr Thomas Sowell said (although in this case about general leftist articles of faith):

“No belief can be refuted if it cannot be discussed.”