“An American Carol” CRUSHED, Absolutely CRUSHED By Talking Chihuahuas

4:34 pm EST October 5th, 2008 | Movies | 13 Comments

The right wing put on absolute media blitz for “An American Carol”. They bought lots of ads, especially on sites like the Drudge Report. They also got tons of free media on channels like Fox News.

That was good enough for an opening weekend at #7.

An American Carol brought in $3.8 million.
By comparison, a movie about talking dogs made $29 million.

Carol was shown on 1,639 screens.
Bill Mahers Religulous was on 532 screens. And yet, so far it has made $3.5 million.

Want to know how to do con humor? Team America, in very NSFW language:

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13 Responses to ““An American Carol” CRUSHED, Absolutely CRUSHED By Talking Chihuahuas”

  1. SpiderJ says:
    October 5, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    Well, John McCain said it best, when he said that sometimes these things happen because life isn’t fair.

  2. jr says:
    October 5, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    O’Reilly will have the “Culture quiz” segment go long to avoid mentioning this

  3. Rheinhard says:
    October 5, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    Going to see Religulous in a little while with a few friends, so we’ll be adding a bit to that weekend total! Godlessness FTW!

  4. durablend says:
    October 5, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    IT’S THAT DAMN LIBRUL MEDIA THAT KILLED IT!!!!! CURSE YOU ALL!!!!

  5. LTmidnight says:
    October 5, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    King of the Hill

    American Dad

    2 Conservative shows that are successful.

  6. LTmidnight says:
    October 5, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    All because they are

    Funny FIRST

    Ideological Second

  7. lauren says:
    October 5, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    Thanks for this bit of humor in my day! I cross posted your welcome movie news on our blog. LOL

  8. EG2001 says:
    October 5, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    Was beaten by a movie about MEXICAN-American talking dogs, quick sic Lou Dobbs on the case

  9. Parthenon says:
    October 5, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    Rheinhard, FWIW, Bill Maher isn’t an atheist. I know you didn’t say that but you seemed to imply it.

  10. James H says:
    October 5, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    I second Midnight’s comment. The big problem with going out and asying, “I’m going to make a liberal movie!!” or “I’m going to make a conservative movie!!” is that you end up simply didactic rather than funny, informative, provocative, or entertaining.

  11. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    October 5, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    “Rheinhard, FWIW, Bill Maher isn’t an atheist. ”

    I’m pretty sure he is.

    By the way, An American Carol barely made more than $2000, which is the Mendoza Line for film. Opening at $2000 means the film made less for the studio than it cost them to print and ship the physical prints to theatres.

  12. Parthenon says:
    October 5, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    CSS, supposedly he has expressed some vaguely deistic statements about an unknowable otherworldly ‘God, if you want to call it that.’ He once called organized religion a bureaucracy between him and God that he didn’t need, implying, to me, that he believes in something supernatural, though obviously not the Judeo-Christian idea.

    That contradicts what I understand to be the definition of atheism, which is a belief in the physical observable world and nothing more. Is that incorrect?

  13. Strannix says:
    October 6, 2008 at 9:45 am

    LTMidnight said:

    King of the Hill

    American Dad

    2 Conservative shows that are successful.

    ——————————————

    Wow, you are so incredibly wrong. Though there could conceivably be an argument made that KOTH has a somewhat Conservative, though I’d say Populist bent (even though Hank simply cannot stand George W. Bush, a fellow “Texan” because he has a limp handshake), American Dad was created by Seth MacFarlane specifically because he hated W. so much. Don’t believe me? Hear it from the man himself.