Actually, I know what I am talking about but since you have your own thoughts on things. No need to debate. Keep playing.

From the guy that has to keep changing handles. :1orglaugh

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Middle Men is playing today (8/19) in San Francisco on 10 screens, and has 23 showings.

When I key in tomorrow (Friday 8/20), it shows that it is will be on just 2 screens with only 5 showings.

In the South Bay (San Jose, etc) it is playing today on 9 screens, with 15 showings.

It is scheduled to be on only 1 screen with 2 showings tomorrow. :helpme

In LA, it is showing today on 10 screens, with 24 showings, and Friday, only on 2 screens with 6 showings.

These cities represent more than 10% of the 252 screens the movie has been showing on.

Similar pattern for NYC.

The theatrical future of Middle Men appears to be dim...

ADG

You are so informative, who needs Yahoo. :1orglaugh

I'm sorry to hear that this movie didn't have more success than this.

I'd expect them to end up profitable in the long run...

What this movie does reinforce is the fact that a movie like Avatar making a gazillion dollars really is an amazing accomplishment. Generating that kind of push for anything, let alone 3 hours of sitting in a dark room full of strangers is a hell of a task. :2 cents:

can you see if its playing in miami anywhere? i cant find it anywhere

My worry is does this put Epass as a company in jeopardy? Many of us have significant money in their hands. Shall I submit for a wire?

Just saying im a bit concerned.

You really believe the movie was financed with customer funds?

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hit me up man. cant find your icq

Oh brother. :Oh crap

Everything points to no. It's what I've been planning to do on August 20th for quite awhile.

10 + people use this nick.

You know what though- that's what they get. I'm not going to shit on them for making the movie, but if that's where they chose to promote it then they are reaping what they sewed. The same people surfing those sites are the same people that share torrents. They aren't going to support a drama in the theatres. :2 cents:

why the hate?

LOL I think I have heard it all now.

Do you think my $2k in EPASS is safe or did he use it to make this movie?

could someone explain to me please how making a flop movie is the current way to launder moneys?

Too bad wanted to see that movie, I wonder if Luke Wilson was as bored doing it as he was doing ATT commercials.

Perhaps it will do well on video

perhaps some good will come out of this movie and no one will cast that deadpan deadbeat wannabe actor in anything, including commercials. biggest mistake the middlemen movie makers did was cast him and have him narrate.

They will make profit. You guys are forgetting selling the pay-cable rights to someone like SHO or HBO and the OnDemand orders. :2 cents:

they say a picture is worth 1000 words but i have no idea what this pic means re: the question. :upsidedow

From IMDB:

I never saw the movie or the play it's based on but sorta knew what it was about. Not entirely sure how it'd translate to the question about money laundering since there was no "money raising" for this movie afaik.

Well, keep in mind we're getting this info secondhand, but if true, I would agree that that's some serious bad form.


Trying to sell any sort of content, mainstream or not, on a tube is like trying to sell sand on the beach.

i dont see the fail in this pic...

to me it looks like something magical will happen as soon as that motor gets started... :2 cents:



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The official numbers are in. It's going to be on 16 screens this weekend.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/counts/...0&wk=34&p=.htm

Ouch. I say it'll get back up to $400 per theater this weekend for a mystical magical $6,400 gross and that'll be all she wrote. On both Monday and Wednesday this week, it made a whopping $70 avg per theater. $70! With ticket prices being what they are that's what, 7-10 people per day avg per theater?

So if it doesn't go wide, it'll end up with just over $700,000 final gross.

I think the topic is still interesting enough, and it could make a great HBO or SHO series with good writers. Did the writer just suck? Was the content too "porn" for mainstream to accept?

All I know is that the Facebook movie likely won't flop this bad, and that'll be tragic. This actually did look interesting enough and I couldn't care less about the story behind Facebook n whatnot. I hope that one flops but it probably won't. :(

Perhaps it was too porn for mainstream.

Lol, the movie was loosely based around Epass owner, other than that there is no correlation.

ahh, i see. :thumbsup
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ADG

I havent been able to watch it yet, I hope everything works out well for Chris

a not too bad review from Hollywood Reporter

They came up with a scheme that would allow them to profit from a flop. That was it...didn't really have anything to do with money laundering.

I guess all that is left to be said is "Porn is Dead" or maybe "Adapt or Die" ;)

A movie with this subject matter was never going to be a box office smash at the cinema. I am surprised at how many people are surprised by this.

As many have said before me, it was always going to make most of its money through other channels.

The people vs larry flynt and boogie nights two amazing films ,amazing performances and at the box office they were duds. People dont want to watch movies about porn.