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“DCP” wrote: The opening weekend of a film is especially important in the movie theater ecosystem. (Curiously, under the arcane rules of the movie industry, our two “sneak peeks” — the past ones on 26 September and the ones on Monday — apparently count toward opening weekend figures.) If a movie does well on its opening weekend, that gives its distribution efforts enhanced persuasive power with additional theaters and it assures a movie’s continuing presence in the theaters where it opened. Six Days in August opens on Thursday evening, 10 October. It will continue over the following weekend and for an undetermined number of weeks thereafter. Our window is, we calculate, rather small, because the big holiday movies from Hollywood will begin to be released in not too many weeks from now. (I began seeing Christmas-themed commercials on television already in mid-August.) That will put pressure on theaters to find screens for them, and movies that haven’t done well, or that (as all movies eventually do) have begun to fade, will necessarily surrender screens to the new potential hit films.
So we ask you to see Six Days in August early. In fact, rather in the manner of a classic Chicago political machine mobilizing its voters, we would love it if you were to see our film not only early but often. Take other people. If you feel that you can, speak highly of it to other people. (If you don’t feel that you can, please forget that you ever saw it.) Recommend Six Days in August on social media. Encourage others to go. Spread the word. On a very basic level, if we want to encourage good Latter-day Saint cinema, we have to support it. We have to demonstrate that there is enough of a market for it that it’s viable. Are we content to let our faith, our church, its history, and our way of life always be portrayed by such works as September Dawn, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Under the Banner of Heaven, Heretic, and Real Housewives of Salt Lake City? I certainly hope not!
Please go to the official website of Six Days in August to find a place near you where the film will be playing. Buy tickets there. If it’s not playing near you, please locate the button on the website and request that it do so. (The request will take only a few seconds.) Invite friends and neighbors to request it, as well. We take such requests very seriously. We will make every effort to get the movie near those who want to see it.
It’s interesting that none of the “professionals” who worked with DCP explained the intricacies of a limited theatrical release or the implications of a lackluster sneak peek opening weekend.
The comments below are also fun:
“comment section” wrote: Dan: “you can purchase tickets for these showings at Six Days in August – Early Access.”
What can we do to get the word out and get more people to watch? It looks like about 96% of ticket currently remain unsold.
I will try to see it next weekend. Hopefully more will join me in supporting the film.
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DanielPeterson Just Asking
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JA: "It looks like about 96% of ticket currently remain unsold."
I wanted to emphasize the core of your post, so that nobody will miss it. It's a pity that you had to write the rest of your comment just in order to slip it into the comment in a passive-aggressive way.
I expect that the numbers will go up over the next fifty hours or so. We'll see by how much. I know that my wife and I don't typically buy movie tickets until the day that we go. Probably most people don't.
As for spreading the word:
Talk the movie up among your friends and neighbors, and among your pals on the Obsession Board. Assure the denizens of the Obsession Board that it will be a laugh-fest, full of anachronisms, poor writing, and amateurish acting.
Point out to them that they will be much better able to identify ridiculous mistakes like plainly-visible microphone packs on the actors' backs -- of the same kind that my Malevolent Stalker was able to see so clearly in Witnesses even though they weren't there. (We used no such devices.). Obsession Board devotees will also be able to watch the reactions of the largely-Mor(m)on audience around them and to observe and report on any empty seats that there may be and, later, to comment sardonically on both the audience and the film.
I hope that you're able to attend next weekend.
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Dan: “Talk the movie up among your friends and neighbors, and among your pals on the Obsession Board. Assure the denizens of the Obsession Board that it will be a laugh-fest, full of anachronisms, poor writing, and amateurish acting.”
That’s a strategy that just might work. Tell the public the film will be so bad that it’s actually good. I think that marketing ploy worked well for the film Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes.
I’ll do my best to support your film and see it next weekend.
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DanielPeterson Just Asking
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JA: "the film Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes"
One of the great classics.
When I was an early teenager, some of us occasionally gathered on Saturdays to watch a local LA television show that was devoted to sci-fi and horror movies, many of them uproariously and excruciatingly bad. That's something that might appeal to your associates at the Obsession Board. Mocking me and the film will, I think, reliably give them great pleasure and joy.
Of course Dan is omitting the anachronisms that this board helped point out - anachronisms that were fixed in real time after DCP was made aware.
nice.