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January 28, 2006
Item #42 on the gay agenda can be checked off the list
The liberal elitist Hollywood gay agenda is moving forward into the red states, as planned.
Agenda Item #42: Get movies about gay cowboys into red state suburban theatres.
And that is what Jack Foley, president of distribution for Focus Features, which is distributing "Brokeback,'' calls the "unspoken truth" about a movie that has succeeded in markets where few would have expected it to."This movie is playing to heartland America," he said.
"Brokeback'' -- an odds-on favorite to clean up in Academy Award nominations, including best picture, on Tuesday -- is not just an art-house favorite or a cultural statement or a milestone in filmmaking. It is a bona fide hit making money in places, and with audiences, that make an East Bay movie house look like the Cannes Film Festival.
As of Sunday, the latest day for which figures were available, "Brokeback Mountain" had appeared in 1,196 theaters and earned $42.1 million in seven weeks. For a movie that cost just $14 million to make, that's already some serious profit.
Terrell Falk, vice president of marketing and communication for the huge theater chain Cinemark, notes that the film has done well in red-state strongholds like Pearl, Miss.; Lubbock, Texas; Ames, Iowa; and Ogden, Utah.
Ogden, Utah? Does Orrin Hatch know about this?
Posted by Carla at January 28, 2006 11:15 AM
