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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (27802)	6/2/2004 4:51:14 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

One distribution company executive predicted the opinionated Moore would deliver a broad audience with the film's mix of entertainment and enlightenment. "It makes people react. It gets them to show up," the executive said. "You just can't sell that many tickets with Barbra Streisand and her crowd in Malibu." The second executive saw "Fahrenheit" selling at least $30 million to $40 million in tickets in North America, compared with $21.6 million for "Columbine," and playing in as many as 1,000 theaters. That would be a third the level of a Hollywood hit, which would be enormously successful for a documentary. "Even Michael Moore haters will have to see it to talk about it," he said. forbes.com