So Much for $15,000,000

Heartening news:

The first Box Office numbers are in. Expelled opened in 8th place with $1.2M in revenues in 1,052 theatres resulting in a $1,141 per theatre revenue. You do the math. At an average of 5 showings this makes $220 per showing or 30-40 people. Expelled ranks 4th in the list of “new releases”

While the weekend has just started the movie will have to do some hard work to match the expectations of the PR people:

“He said they would consider the opening weekend successful if the movie sold 2 million tickets (earning $12-15 million).”

Something tells me the weekend ain't long enough for them to make up the difference, there. So much for the death of evolution.

Epsilon Clue gives us a good rundown of where things stand. Considering Expelled has taken their argument out of the science arena and made it into a popularity contest, the news doesn't seem good. Honestly, folks, when Catwoman gets higher ratings, you know you're in trouble.

And with that, I'm done for now. I'm already sick of this movie. I'm already fed up with the lonely few fuckwits who've come out with empty guns a-blazing. I'm going to go prop my feet up, catch up on Daily Show and Colbert Report, and just ignore the ignorant for a while.

We'll let Rowan Atkinson have the last word:



Yes, Expelled.