Re: A Name is Missing From Posters Advertising 'Inconvenient Truth' Movie

Rich Blinne wrote:

> On 6/8/06, Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Al Gore's Name Missing From Posters Advertising His 'Inconvenient Truth'
>> [global warming] Movie
>>
>> 'It's not a political movie,' a top source at PARAMOUNT explained,
>> offering
>> no other explanation on why Gore's name does not appear, even in the
>> film's
>> credits on the poster."
>
>
> Paramount's problem is the movie is more about Al Gore than about
> global warming. For example, what does the 2000 recount have to do
> with climate change? The "inconvenient truth" is Al Gore is in the
> movie and does nothing to de-politicize the issue. Removing him from
> the poster credits is a meaningless fig leaf gesture as it won't
> attract Republicans who might consider that anthropogenic climate
> change is real. This will be the Farenheit 911 of 2006 with the same
> limited audience.
>
That's too bad since the message of the movie is an important one. The
fact of global warming and the impact on our culture and world is one
that needs to be told. If the movie also discussed how the 2000 election
was stolen in Florida then it may indeed turn off some people who are
offended by the fact that Gore did win the election. To many Gore's
movie may indeed be an Inconvenient Truth (http://www.climatecrisis.net/)

And perhaps the audience did not respond as we may expect

<quote>But to *Rob Schultz*, Paramount Classics' executive vice
president of specialty film distribution, one of the most interesting
statistics came out of the Dallas film-distribution region. There, the
film opened at three theaters - *Landmark*'s Magnolia in Dallas, the
*Angelika Film Cente*r in Plano and the *Arbor* in Austin (part of the
Paramount Classics' Dallas market). Exit polling showed that 80+% of
viewers who consider themselves Republican said they'd recommend the
film. (The first weekend, in New York and L.A., 90+% of viewers said
they'd recommend it.)

"We went into Texas because it's not homogenous politically," Schultz
said. "The Republicans had a high recommend rate. It's low-80s instead
of the 95% range, but that's still huge. So everyone finds it
rewarding."</quote>

http://www.indiewire.com/biz/2006/06/truth_convenien.html

See http://www.indiewire.com/boxoffice/060605.html for the box office
tables
Received on Thu Jun 8 12:21:52 2006