I bought American Cannibal for $1.99 previously viewed, and I still feel cheated... :2 cents:

KB did NOT do the advertising or hook up that deal with PornHub for the placements. He came in AFTER all of that was done.

Get your facts straight. Just because someone takes credit for something doesn't mean they actually did it.

Limited release movies typically see a higher per screen average, so it wouldn't have exactly been huge success even if it was $5k-$10k per screen average over the weekend. Close to $1k is atrocious. I'm kind of shocked...I thought it looked pretty good.

FYI:

Bad News

Theatre Grade Breakdown
A's: 12 34.3%
B's: 3 8.6%
C's: 2 5.7%
D's: 1 2.9%
F's: 17 48.6%

"The Kids Are All Right" Never heard of it, but only 4 Million Dollar Budget and it did 2,606,000

At Least I was right about something, they advertised it on the Tube Sites, then everyone went and downloaded it for Free.

You live with the sword, you die by the sword.

I would love to see what the download stats for it are. I know torrentreactor usually posts the top 10 most pirated movies of the week. It will be interesting to see if this one shows up on the list.

That strategy only works if you have a good movie. Has Luke Wilson ever been in a good movie? Case closed.

You're right about nobody wanting to see it. This movie is very under the average person's radar.

All the kids watching the movie where saying "There was a time that people paid for porn?"

Yep, pretty true, which is why limited release movies are USUALLY done for more of the Cannes type films that are actually pretty good. If a movie sucks, it dies on the vine in limited and a lot never even expand. That's how you sometimes get some fairly high budget movies (or at least tens of millions) making less than a million dollars sometimes, which this might do given this opening.

A $3 million opening, which would have been what this would have done with about 2500 screens, would be equivalent to the $1-$2 million openings of a decade ago...$3 million isn't even close to respectable anymore, and generally a $3 mil opening means it'll make $5-7 million overall.

I think this movie's problem is that Luke Wilson is more of a "family" actor, so him being in this kind of a movie kills its target audience, and it being the kind of movie it is kills HIS biggest audience, so it's lose/lose having him in a movie like this. Plus he's been doing so many of those stupid AT&T commercials which probably doesn't help.

can't win them all.

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ADG

I thought Middle Men kicked ass! Good job Mr. Mallick!

I'm going to check this out before they pull it from theaters.

Will probably do well in foreign markets, dvd, etc., but the B.O. numbers are too bad.

Rolling Stone, Variety, Hollywood Reporter all gave positive reviews. 62% on rotten tomatoes which is decent. oh well.

I've seen ads on tv here but it's not playing anywhere near Minneapolis as far as I know. Hoping it makes it so I can check it out.

any link for a torrent of it? Figure it's only fair to d/l it.

It is not available to download yet.

Honestly i dont see point of making a movie about billing processor,it would more sense to make a movie about some pornstar or surfer side of porn.

Forest has a link for it but you have to blow him first.

Things don't look good for a film if nobody can be bothered to pirate it.

i wouldnt even know how to use a torrent.

piracy isnt my cup of tea.

That's how the limited release thing works usually.

When a movie has a "Special Sneak Preview" the week before its official release, that always 100% means that the studio is confident they have a good movie, and want to get some word of mouth going.

Sometimes, they can be surprised by an unlikely hit, but the studio execs know when they have a good movie, or a pile of dogshit they need to sweep under the rug and hope for some good DVD profits.

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The per screen average pretty much dooms it to hitting DVD shelves in about a month.

A $1200+ PTA on a limited release movie doesn't bode well.

That doesn't mean it won't make it's money back with ancillaries like DVD/cable/PPV/foreign (although I'm not sure that this type of movie has the appeal to do much worldwide), but it's not looking good for a wider release.