Melania makes just £33,000 at UK box office after near-empty screenings: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/melania-trump-movie-documentary-film-b2913744.html
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@ Charlie Stross 33000 is still quite a lot. how much is a ticket?
@jabgoe2089 No idea how much a ticket is, but ballpark will be £10-20. Remember a lot of these folks are reviewers who have to watch it for work, not recreational movie goers!
@cstross Of which, a sizable chunk came just from reviewers who were paid to go watch it
@cstross is it still the worst rated movie in IMDB's history?
@cstross I'm trying to figure out how much this is "nobody wants to touch things tainted with Trump" or "it's laughable propaganda" versus "it's a poorly made film"?
@cstross That's a zero more than expected.
@cstross this is tingly vieil bribe by Amazon to the US Cheeto.
One of the FediVerse's own reviewers, @beer_mat_movies , was adding to the anecdotes of audiences that were wholly movie reviewers just the other day.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@beer_mat_movies/115999980450841401
The review itself is at the top of that thread.
@cstross Well that’s £33,000 more than I expected.
@cstross Anybody know what the collective ticket budget for press reviewers etc is?
@cstross I'm surprised box offices bother counting that low.
@cstross That’s rather more than I expected, to be honest
@oblomov @cschack @cstross I had the impression that that was a joke. The NY Times did report better-than-normal box office for a documentary (and here I use the word they used…). But their Sunday book review section uses a special footnote to denote reports of bulk purchases—I wonder if that needs to be done for movies like this, too.
@SteveBellovin @oblomov @cschack It's a viable money-laundering tactic. Cf. political campaigns buying huge quantities of hardcover books ghost-written for their candidates and shoveling them into landfill. Gets bestseller list publicity, and a non-attributable donation.
