https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-most-profitable-movies-of-2011-more-poor-expenditures-20111230/ Sun, 22 May 2016 04:43:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-most-profitable-movies-of-2011-more-poor-expenditures-20111230/#comment-123392 Sun, 22 May 2016 04:43:43 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/the-most-profitable-movies-of-2011-more-poor-expenditures-254703/#comment-123392 Machine Gun Preacher was never even given a chance! In Australia, it ran for only a week in limited release in a major cinema chain, which gave it no promotion whatsoever! Every other piece of useless rubbish had a poster but not MGP! Then the session times were ridiculous. People with jobs could only go and see it during the weekends due to it only being screened during the day. I believe the political nature of this film had a lot to do with it's lack of promotion. Kudos to Gerard Butler for having the balls to star in something that rendered the movie studios as cowards. He does deserve an Academy Award for his performance in this film and I am sure anyone who has seen it will agree!

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-most-profitable-movies-of-2011-more-poor-expenditures-20111230/#comment-123393 Sun, 22 May 2016 04:43:43 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/the-most-profitable-movies-of-2011-more-poor-expenditures-254703/#comment-123393 Pairley is right it was a disgrace the distribution of Machine Gun Preacher and such a beautifui film
Hundreds o3 Mr Butler's fans are very disappointed
Shame on you
Joan (hug)xx

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-most-profitable-movies-of-2011-more-poor-expenditures-20111230/#comment-123394 Sun, 22 May 2016 04:43:43 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/the-most-profitable-movies-of-2011-more-poor-expenditures-254703/#comment-123394 Diane is correct regarding Relativity's mishandling of Machine Gun Preacher. In the United Kingdom and elsewhere newspapers and television were running ads to promote the film. And in the United States? … (crickets) It's tough for a film to be successful if the general public isn't even aware of its existence.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-most-profitable-movies-of-2011-more-poor-expenditures-20111230/#comment-123395 Sun, 22 May 2016 04:43:43 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/the-most-profitable-movies-of-2011-more-poor-expenditures-254703/#comment-123395 You realize you just published an article rewarding movies with a budget more than a third-world country's GDP and criticized only mid- to low budget misses. You gotta ask: What's the point of writing this article? If they (or their assistants) happen to read this, all it does is affirm the worst impulses of corporate hacks.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-most-profitable-movies-of-2011-more-poor-expenditures-20111230/#comment-123396 Sun, 22 May 2016 04:43:43 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/the-most-profitable-movies-of-2011-more-poor-expenditures-254703/#comment-123396 Relativity Media dropped the ball on Machine Gun Preacher. They didn't take the film to the areas where people were clamoring to see it. The "reports" about Sam Childers not having done what he's claimed to have done for the children of South Sudan and northern Uganda were lies spread by a former employee of the Children's Village who'd been fired after he'd been caught stealing thousands of dollars and supplies from the orphanage. Childers and his organization have nothing to hide.

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