Thank You Real America! Elah Has Crashed! Get it: Crash-ed? Get it…?
LIBERTAS BLOG
— Dirty Harry @ 7:49 am
After a less than stellar debut last weekend Paul Haggis's defamation of our troops disguised as a prententious, dull, anti-war tract is now officially a flop:
"In the Valley of Elah (Warner Independent) expanded with less success. The Iraq War-themed drama managed only $270,000 Friday at its 317 locations for a PTA [per theatre average] of only $850. Elah appears to be headed for just under $900,000 for the weekend for a 3-day PTA of just $2,811.
In comparison, Into The Wild's PTA was $46,000, The Assassination of Jesse James, $26,000, and The Jane Austen Book Club, $5,500.
Elah had been projected to do upwards of $2.5 million by people who don't live in the real world and think there's an audience for portraying our best, brightest, and most heroic as sadistic monsters.
I have cut open Elah and am now victory-dancing in her putrid guts. Please join me and hope this is just the beginning of a lovely trend for similarly-themed, multi-million dollar propaganda films for al-Queda.
IN OTHER NEWS: Here are this weekends three-day estimates:
1. Resident Evil: Extinction – $22M - $7,779 PTA - $22M cume
2. Good Luck Chuck - $12.54M - $4,801 PTA - $12.54M cume
3. The Brave One – $7.47M - $2,713 PTA - $25.1M cume
4. 3:10 to Yuma - $6.12M - $2,109 PTA - $37.6M cume
5. Eastern Promises – $6M – $4,330 PTA - $6.8M cume
6. NEW – Sydney White - $4.9M - $2,331 PTA - $4.9M cume
7. Mr. Woodcock – $4.5M - $2,012 PTA - $15.2M cume
8. Superbad - $2.72M - $1,182 PTA - $115.7M cume
9. The Bourne Ultimatum - $2.71M – $1,351 PTA - $220M cume
10. Rush Hour 3 - $2M - $1,235 PTA - $135.8M cume
*In the Valley of Elah - $891,000 - $2,811 PTA - $1M cume [Bwa HA HA HA HA!!!]
*The Hunting Party - $590,000 - $1,793 PTA - $782,000
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