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From: Chris Owen <chriso@lutefisk.OISPAMNOdemon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,rec.arts.movies.current-films
Subject: Box Office Mojo on BE's performance this week
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 23:10:59 +0100
Message-ID: <$fqlnPAzvbJ5EwD0@lutefisk.demon.co.uk>

From today's edition of Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/):

"It goes without saying that Battlefield Earth will fall off the face of
the earth. John Travolta might not even notice since after the
disastrous opening weekend he's probably been holed up deep in the
recesses of the Scientology Celebrity Center getting "audited" up the
wazoo. Expect the $73-million bellyflop to manage just around $5 million
this weekend.

5/16 Weekend Box Office

Gladiator threw the Scientologists to the lions, as its second weekend
haul of $24.6 million more than doubled the opening of the universally
reviled Battlefield Earth ...

Few were interested in seeing a cackling John Travolta prancing about in
dreadlocks and an enormous codpiece as his $73 million pet project
Battlefield Earth mustered just $11.5 million from 3,307 theaters, the
fifth widest release of all time. What will this do to his "tone scale"?
Perhaps some intensive "auditing" at the Celebrity Center is now in
store for him to get all of his "thetans" in order.

My God, what does one say about Battlefield Earth that hasn't been said
already? The ad campaign declares that "John Travolta is the new face of
evil." Hey, they said it. Not me. "The summer movie season starts off
with a bang." Yeah, from the sound of this megaton bomb exploding.

Distributor Warner Bros. won't be losing that much money though. They
just paid for the prints and advertising and are getting first dollar
until they recoup their costs. Franchise Pictures, who foot the hefty
production bill, will be the one hurting though, as the picture will
peter out quickly, drowning them in red ink. They should have known
better. No way in hell was this thing ever going to make money."

And those predictions in full for this weekend:

1 Dinosaur   $33.0m
  
2 Gladiator  $16.9m
     
3 Road Trip  $15.3m
 
4 Battlefield Earth   $4.8m

This might actually be understating it: last weekend BE took $11.5m,
only 76.52% of the predicted take of $14.2m.  The raw figures for this
week's performance show the startling drop in the film's grosses:

Monday

Daily take: $852,686
Overnight change: -70.0%
Average take per showing: $258
Total take: $12,401,584
#: 4

Tuesday

Daily take: $763,616
Overnight change: -10.4%
Average take per showing: $231
Total take: $13,165,200
#: 5
 
Wednesday 

Daily take: $611,633
Overnight change: -19.9%
Average take per showing: $185
Total take: $13,776,833
#: 6

Thursday

Daily take: $553,568
Overnight change: -9.5%
Average take per showing: $167
Total take: $14,330,401
#: 7

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Als je je afvraagt of "Thetans" soms gratis waardebonnen zijn voor de
stomerij bij jou om de hoek, nee. Helaas, dan had je er nog wat aan 
gehad. Spijker dus snel je kennis bij. Er gaat echt een wereld voor je
open: http://www.b-org.demon.nl/scn/nl/tech/ot-3-nederlands.html

Mikey
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