Keep in mind that the takings will include the money Interpreter paid for all the tickets for the Premiere - a full 250 seat theatre screening? Plus the tickets sold for the early pre-Premiere “sneak preview” screenings.
This doesn't bode well for a film that cost twice as much (2 million) to produce than Witnesses.
$85,000 6DIA
$135,000 Witnesses
Premise 1. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
Premise 2. The best evidence for the Book of Mormon is eyewitness testimony.
Conclusion. Therefore, the best evidence for the Book of Mormon is notoriously unreliable.
It would seem that the film is conspicuously absent from the websites that track box office information. I wonder: did the Executive Producer deliberately scheme to withhold this information in order to avoid criticism?
Keep in mind that the takings up to 11th October will include the money Interpreter paid for all the tickets for the Premiere - a full 250 seat theatre screening? Plus the tickets sold for the early pre-Premiere “sneak preview” screenings.
Ah! Thanks very much! I admit that it’s enormously gratifying to see that the film is failing financially. I figured it would—does that make me a prophet? Maybe Dr. Peterson should have paid 10% for his whole life to me instead of to Joseph Smith, Oaks, and Nelson? Here: let me make another prediction—the film will not even make back 1/4 of its budget at the box office.
"If, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
They couldn’t even fill the premiere auditorium. Typically for a movie release these are packed with people waiting to get in.
I can’t imagine a world where DCP subjects himself to further embarrassment with a 3rd even more lackluster cinematic endeavor.
They look absolutely thrilled to be there. The Executive Producer has learned a hard, valuable lesson that he has no right to ever be involved with another film project.
Hopefully, he can now return full-time to doing what his loves the most. Namely, attacking the gays, Jews, Blacks, women, other Mormons, Rodney Meldrum, other religions and other apologetic organizations.
"I'm on paid sabbatical from BYU in exchange for my promise to use this time to finish two books."
I’ve skimmed through Witnesses, and am left with a feeling that anyone other than DCP could have made a real proper Hollywood movie out of it.
DCP runs an organization whose primary purpose is to “defend the church from enemies.” That’s not a good foundation for a truly artistic film project. All the actors look like they’re from 90210, they’re all young, the sets and area are all beautiful. The music is modern and moving.
A real historical drama wouldn’t have such a slick whitewashed sheen. Witnesses is about as faithful to the era as Hogan's Heroes is to WWII. Hogan's Heroes was a comedy first - and Witnesses and August are primarily apologetic first. All those people in the audience are bored because they’re basically getting ready to watch a 2 hour long church video.
Six Days In August is tanking fast. For the life of me, I can't figure out why Mormons don't want to see a crappy film, not produced by the Church. I just don't get it.
Oct 11 Friday $53,135
Oct 12 Saturday $28,439 -46.5%
Oct 13 Sunday $3,000 -89.5%
Six Days In August is tanking fast. For the life of me, I can't figure out why Mormons don't want to see a crappy film, not produced by the Church. I just don't get it.
Oct 11 Friday $53,135
Oct 12 Saturday $28,439 -46.5%
Oct 13 Sunday $3,000 -89.5%
It’s been made available in 82 theatres. So the theatre averages are:
Friday $647
Saturday $346
Sunday $36
There must be whole screenings completely empty. How much is an average ticket price?
The Producer has very sensibly not put his own money into this impending disaster.
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Premise 1. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
Premise 2. The best evidence for the Book of Mormon is eyewitness testimony.
Conclusion. Therefore, the best evidence for the Book of Mormon is notoriously unreliable.
It’s worth noting that the first 2 days takings for Witnesses were as good as it got. And Witnesses was released during 2021 when things were impacted by the pandemic.
And the takings for 6DIA are currently a very poor relation to Witnesses.
Premise 1. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
Premise 2. The best evidence for the Book of Mormon is eyewitness testimony.
Conclusion. Therefore, the best evidence for the Book of Mormon is notoriously unreliable.
It was an absolutely terrible idea for a movie. It's essentially trying to make what amounts to a bureaucratic procedure into an interesting film, which a reasonable person could/should have seen was a lousy idea. Too bad that the Executive Producer is surrounded by sycophants and butt-kissers who would never tell him when his judgment is "off."
"If, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
I think the problem can be summed up in one word: marketing. This event IS dramatic and inherently interesting. Even a flawed attempt at rendering it in film should do much better. Lack of adequate marketing is the problem.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
