Monday, July 25, 2011

Hix Nix Palin Tricks

Well, maybe they can re-title it as "The Defeated" ...


Palin doc headed for PPV as ticket sales plummet

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - With its Sarah Palin documentary "The Undefeated" increasing its playdates by 40 percent this weekend, only to watch box office revenue decline by more than 63 percent, distributor Arc Entertainment announced Sunday that the film will soon be available on pay per view.


The movie played in 14 Tea Party-friendly locations this weekend -- up from the 10 in which it opened last week -- but grossed just $24,000.


Starting September 1, subscribers to DirecTV, Dish Network and Time Warner can see the true Horatio Alger story of an Alaska woman's rise from self-described "hockey mom" to gubernatorial dropout to conservative cable news bastion talking head, all in the comfort of their own home.


In addition, the film will launch on DVD October 4 with a shipment of 250,000 units.

 


Hard to say "ticket sales plummeted", when on opening night, in Red-as-you-can-get-Red Orange County, Southern California, the theatre was empty - nobody showed up.


Why, on earth didn't some Right Wing Flying Monkeys, or, her own Mommy Moose PAC buy up all the movie tickets - just like they did for her book - to make it a runaway success?


To tweak LBJ, if the Wasilla Whiz Kid has lost the Teabaggers, she's lost the country.


And, so much for the juggernaut.


Highlights heading into the 2012 Campaign are, now, a cancelled pre-campaign victory bus tour, and a Susan- Alexander-Kanesque film that goes bust.


If Tina Fey has some smarts, she'll quickly punch out a Doppelganger spoof of "The Undeafeated", of which its' opening night will eclipse all the revenue of the Ex-Governor with Lipstick's box office.


 


Bonus Riffs


Andy Kroll|:  New Sarah Palin Hagiography: Springboard for 2012 Presidential Run?


John Cole:  So Much Awesome In One Place


Ben Child:  Sarah Palin likened to Joan of Arc in two-hour documentary film


TBogg:  Sarah Palin Is The Culmination Of All Human Endeavors and Wars And Probably Evolution


David Weigel:  Palin's Coming Attractions - What the new Sarah Palin documentary gets right, and wrong, about her politics.


Alyssa Rosenberg: Sarah Palin Taken Aback by Hollywood’s Reaction To Her

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