I just got word that two local Cinemark theaters have decided not to

show Sicko. the parent company has pulled it from many communities.

This movie is going to make a ton of money.

to a theater in about 12 years.

Block buster here won't carry Moore's movies. I guess I will have to download.

local Hollywood Video; I imagine the same will apply to this. They claim documentaries don't do well, though that wasn't the case with F/9-11.

said "We don't sell movies by traitors." I told him to go fuck himself. I haven't returned to their stores.

adding BB to my boycott list. Actually have not rented anything from them in quite awhile, but now it's official.

if it was a decision from the top.

Two BB locations have closed in town. The one I mentioned was one of them.

(see post 53 - I had no trouble getting it - well, once I found a copy on the shelf, it was popular!)

http://www.netflix.com/
Guarantee they will have it and you can keep it till you're done with it.

....cross "freedom of speech" off the list.

Sigh...

...I'm frickin' sick of these "I'm giving up on hope and my values" posts. Christ, either stand and fight with us, or slink off into a dark corner and enjoy your stomache acid.

Sheeeeesh.

NGU.

:sarcasm:

Moore from making the movie.

Maybe it was purely a business decision. No movie theater is required to show any picture if they don't think they can make money with it at a particular place. And Kentucky isn't exactly a place where I would think a Moore movie would do well.

know the reason they won't show it is they are owned by corporations..

in Kentucky, which isn't exactly a hotbed for the sort of message Michael Moore is known for. If there's enough public demand - local public demand - from people willing to pay to see the movie - then maybe the theater chain will reconsider.

Here in Denver, which is a very liberal town, the movie is opening at one of the Landmark theaters, which is a chain of three fairly small theaters around the city, which specialize in indie and foreign films. It's not showing in the big theaters. They're all showing "Die Hard Again and Again" (or whatever that piece of crap is called) and the usual other horrible garbage that passes for film these days. They might pick up "Sicko" if it does well at the box office in those other theaters. That's the way it normally works for independent movies



Maybe the reason it isn't being shown is because they're owned by corporations that expect to turn a profit. Maybe it really is that simple.

luck with Moore's movies. I do a lot of leafleting at this theater. Bowling and F 911 had overflowing crowds.

It's the corporations against the people. The corporations control the traditional microphone and they just cut Moore's mic. No problem though, nowadays we have DVDs and the internet so it's their loss. If they would rather support the party of corporate corruption like good German soldiers then they won't get their cut of the profits Moore will make off this film.

You bet.

:thumbsup:

:sarcasm:

They get black lung from the mines....

what's your point?

Are you going to force that fellow, the one who just tuned Rush Limbaugh in on the radio while coughing his lungs out, down to the movie theater to see a Michael Moore movie?

one's politics...

That was done to the Dixie Chicks.

Cinemark mustn't like to have lots of sold out shows, and mustn't be interested in making its shareholders a profit.

in 6 months. Pirates of the Caribbean III made that in a weekend.

plus, documentaries tend to be viewed by older audiences, who are less likely to generate other revenue for the theaters. the first two weeks in a theater, the theater makes basically all it's money from concessions as they pay extremely high royalties to the distribution company. the longer the movie is in release, the higher the percentage of each ticket the theater gets to keep. People going to a blockbuster for entertainment are more likely, statistically, to buy the popcorn and drinks that make theaters money.

. . . requires that a corporate entity carry a particular DVD in its stores?

Interesting.

:eyes:

We can do it again.

NGU.

number of an independent theater, The Kentucky Theater. F 9-11 sold out over and over again.

http://www.cinemark.com

Corporate Office:
Cinemark USA, Inc.
3900 Dallas Parkway, Suite 500
Plano, TX 75093-7865

Telephone: 1-800-246-3627

Link to send a message: http://www.cinemark.com/contactus.asp

Hit them at all levels.

:evilgrin:

since Roger & Me (including his book releases) been met with similar attempts at "censorship"? Doesn't it always backfire and the film/book is a huge hit, due largely in part to the publicity he gets through these attempts at "censorship"? It's par for the course. It helps him more than it hurts him, and I'd bet money he deliberately exploits it to gain free publicity.

The more people are told NOT to watch something, the more they want to watch it. The more theaters that refuse to have it, the more people will feel the need to find it somewhere! Just to prove a point.

This is just making sure this is going to be a hit.

After this stunt, they could show the show once a day, late at night, and be for sure the room would be packed. Making it seem like they are doing so because of lack of intrest, etc. But they will make tons at a time when some would rather be at home sleeping.

once they see this film making money, they should hopefully relent and show it.

Remember "The Last Temptation of Christ"? The movie would have come and gone with little notice, but once Christians got their panties in a bunch over it and started calling for it to be banned, attendance at theaters actually rose.

If a movie theater decides not to show a movie that will pique the interest of far more people than if it simply showed it.

do you think have health insurance at those big corporate chains? I'm guessing not many. It seems like most of those jobs are at about the same level as flipping burgers or working at Wal-Mart. Do you think Sicko might make the management uncomfortable?

persuaded them not to show it.

The Herritage Foundation was one of the many groups that was listed as going to challange/protest Sicko. Some of the other groups mentioned were other "think tanks" that I have heard of before, a couple I have not heard of.

This is pure political pressure to silence Moore and the message of Sicko.

Nothing like a bunch of screaming wingnuts marching around in front of the theater to make people want to see the show.

It will get ugly (that is the only thing that they know) and there will be assults on Moore and Sicko on many fronts.

Fasten your seatbelt, the bastards are bent on (metiphorically) killing us all.

and they need it:


http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070625/cinemark_holdings_mover.html?.v=1


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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=CNK&t=3m

http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/c/3m/c/cnk

Today, I was told by a Camelot manager that, "We do not book documentaries during the blockbuster summer season."

"What about blockbuster documentaries?," I asked.

"We do not book documentaries during the blockbuster summer season," she repeated.

"What if the documentary producer has a track record for blockbusters?", I asked.

"We do not book documentaries during the blockbuster summer season," Madam Manager repeated.

"Ah, I think I understand," I said. "Blockbuster is a modifier that Camelot only uses to describe seasons, not films. That should have been obvious to me, because all you have showing right now is pure-t crap."

:banghead:

interest, but then she said they have sold a lot of tickets.

They may not have clearance from the major chains to show the film. Many smaller companies and independents get blocked out of lots of films that way. And, instead of explaining the whole clearance issue to every customer that calls (and theaters don't like to discuss the clearance process), they may use some lame excuse instead.

> "We do not book documentaries during the blockbuster summer season,"
> Madam Manager repeated.

Look, the memo told her to say that, that's her story,
and for the sake of her job and her crappy but at least
existent health insurance, she's sticking with it. ;)

Tesha

when I was growing up I saw so many movies there.
Saddens me to hear that they're being such chickenshit popcorn merchants about "Sicko"

means the more people will find it for themselves. Fugg them.

months when they see how much money they can make. We are a smaller city, but have a huge medical community here, lots of healthcare workers. They used to be conservative, but alot of them are talking about needing change. They'd go see Sicko in large numbers here, I bet.

Cinemark's loss if they choose not to run the show.

huge medical community.

go from here. We do have one theater that is willing to show intelligent movies. I bet they will get hold of the movie.

pharma.

I think Sicko will get way fewer assholes shutting it down. Times are certainly different than when F9-11 came out and it was pure heresy to speak ill of the Royal Bush family.

The owner is a good leftist.

joy to see a movie at.

bastion of free thought and free speech.

but neither was F911.

the republicans disagree with free speech because it doesn't agree with their republican ideology... Michael Moore is a great, entertaining film-maker, there's no denying that...But, these same greedy talentless republican corporatist who refuse to show a film simply because they don't agree with the content and don't want a much needed message to be shown...what can they be described as?

http://www.wtvq.com/midatlantic/tvq/home.html

it's midway down page.

I found the poll earlier this morning and was going to post about it but couldn't find any news articles. Thanks Alfredo for posting about it. I'm still stunned that they'd pull it.

showing it??? :evilgrin:

He said that the distributor would only make say 700 prints for a limited movie and the big cities get them first, then they send them back to the distributor and then if the movie is making money the little towns will pick it up. So I guess I'm going to email MM and tell him what he said. Is there any way to find out how many prints were made?

pulled, that ticket sales were "brisk." When I found that it had been pulled, they said that sales were not.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/21/17402/0972
SiCKO Distributor trying to limit openings - Action needed
by SarahLee
Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 03:58:26 PM PDT
SiCKO is opening in 49 more theatres this Saturday! Be there!

Michael Moore’s office informed Healthcare Now! that SiCKO will be premiered in 49 cities THIS SATURDAY. It is critical that we get this information out because the distribution of the film next Friday will depend on the numbers they see on Saturday. I have included the link to the web site and a listing of the theaters below. Can you help us get the word out and pack each theater NATIONALLY?

ACTION NEEDED - we need to make sure the Distributor sees that there is nationwide interest in this film. If you are near any of these theaters or know people who are - please go or get them to go.

Theaters listed below.

SarahLee's diary :: ::
Please distribute widely asking people to go even if they suspect they won’t get in or will have to stand in line.

The distribution company is looking at a very limited release of the film because they don’t know if people will see a film about health care. We can show them that SiCKO will be THE film of the summer and that health reform matters to people.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/...