Well, the first day's numbers are in. The new Right Wing Comedy "An American Carol" scored a less than awesome sixth place with a whopping $1,387,000 in nationwide box office for an average of $846 per theater on it's opening day. It only opened on 1,639 screens, so it wasn't like the box office was suppressed by people avoiding long crowds to get in.
The average ticket price in 2007 was $6.88, it is higher now but using that figure, this movie attracted 123 people per theater for the day. At 5 showings per day, they likely had 25 people per showing for the opening. That's enthusiasm you can believe in my friends.
Basically, they got the "A List" of right wing Hollywood celebrities in this spoof of how dumb are teh liberals. David Zucker of Airplane fame, converted to wingnutatopia after peeing his pants after 9/11. This crap fest is the result.
Kelsey Grammar, James Woods, Dennis Hopper, Trace Adkins, Jon Voigt all are along to make fun of the terrorist loving left wingers. As a bonus, Chris Farley's also fat, unknown brother Chris stars as a knock off of Michael Moore. Box office gold I tell's ya.
Fahrenheit 9/11 made $23,920,637 it's opening week-end. An American Carol has just $22,600,000 or so to go on Saturday and Sunday to smash that result out of the park.
Or not.