It’s like the theatrical equivalent of an MLM scheme. The business can’t stand on its own, and apparently neither can Dan’s film attract a natural audience.We are looking for people to serve as “super fans” for Six Days in August, which we’re currently expecting to open in theaters on the evening of Thursday, 10 October 2024. What would a “super fan” do? He or she would, of course, try to attend a screening of the film on that weekend. (The box office totals for a film’s opening weekend are a major indicator for theater owners, by which they gauge whether or not they want to commit their screen or screens to it on the following weekend.) But we also want “super fans” to take others to see the movie. We want them to take their immediate and extended families, their neighbors, their friends, their ward members.
An independent Latter-day Saint film like Six Days in August obviously lacks the massive publicity and distribution resources that major motion picture studios have behind them, and films oriented toward Latter-day Saint audiences also have, by their nature, a smaller market than do films that are aimed at the general population. So we hope that a large proportion of the distribution “water” for Six Days in August can be carried via word-of-mouth invitations and recommendations.
We hope that you will like and enjoy Six Days in August. We are confident that it can be a springboard for good conversations with . . . well, with immediate and extended families, neighbors, friends, and ward members. Please mark the date and, if you can manage it, plan on attending at least one showing with a few hundred of your closest personal acquaintances on that opening weekend.
“Six days in August” needs an audience
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It's just a matter of time before the Afore starts begging people to leave 5 Star reviews.
My box-office prediction for Sick Days In August's theatrical run is $325,000.
An artist rendering of opening night for Sick Days In August:

My box-office prediction for Sick Days In August's theatrical run is $325,000.
An artist rendering of opening night for Sick Days In August:
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Maybe we can all load up and go together.
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DCP is devoting the final years of his life to this last-ditch Mopologetic effort to convince….*someone* that the witnesses and the “succession crisis” both work out in Mormonism’s favor. As far as I can tell, this is convincing to absolutely nobody beyond the usual suspects, and it is dramatically interesting to an even smaller audience. Meanwhile, just within the last 24 hours or so, he has been getting his ass handed to him in a debate on the fundamental reliability of eyewitnesses in general. lol! He needs to go back and take a basic class in rhetoric and refresh his memory on the “argumentum ad populum” logical fallacy. Then again, maybe not, because it might be a faith destroyer!!
Seriously, though, who did they honestly think that this movie would appeal to? I’m hard-pressed to think of any LDS that I know who would want to piss away two hours of their lives on this. And is this supposed to appeal to a younger demographic, which, allegedly, is the main group that’s currently exiting the Church in droves?
At the end of the day, it’s hard to see it as anything beyond a pathetic vanity project. Hey: at least DCP and his wife like it. At least it will screen in an actual theater.
As to the concept of “super fans”? I mean, I can’t even…. It’s hard to even laugh at that. What are the super fans supposed to get in return? Free subscriptions to Interpreter? Brownie points?
Seriously, though, who did they honestly think that this movie would appeal to? I’m hard-pressed to think of any LDS that I know who would want to piss away two hours of their lives on this. And is this supposed to appeal to a younger demographic, which, allegedly, is the main group that’s currently exiting the Church in droves?
At the end of the day, it’s hard to see it as anything beyond a pathetic vanity project. Hey: at least DCP and his wife like it. At least it will screen in an actual theater.
As to the concept of “super fans”? I mean, I can’t even…. It’s hard to even laugh at that. What are the super fans supposed to get in return? Free subscriptions to Interpreter? Brownie points?
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Is there any way for the Interpreter to encourage entire Stakes to attend on a rotating basis to support this type of LDS cinema and to show their love for the Prophet Russel M. Nelson in his 100th year?
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Will the Exec Co Producer be putting his own money where his mouth is, by buying up a whole screening or two and inviting all his friends and Ward members to attend?Doctor Scratch wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 3:18 amDCP is devoting the final years of his life to this last-ditch Mopologetic effort to convince….*someone* that the witnesses and the “succession crisis” both work out in Mormonism’s favor. As far as I can tell, this is convincing to absolutely nobody beyond the usual suspects, and it is dramatically interesting to an even smaller audience. Meanwhile, just within the last 24 hours or so, he has been getting his ass handed to him in a debate on the fundamental reliability of eyewitnesses in general. lol! He needs to go back and take a basic class in rhetoric and refresh his memory on the “argumentum ad populum” logical fallacy. Then again, maybe not, because it might be a faith destroyer!!
Seriously, though, who did they honestly think that this movie would appeal to? I’m hard-pressed to think of any LDS that I know who would want to piss away two hours of their lives on this. And is this supposed to appeal to a younger demographic, which, allegedly, is the main group that’s currently exiting the Church in droves?
At the end of the day, it’s hard to see it as anything beyond a pathetic vanity project. Hey: at least DCP and his wife like it. At least it will screen in an actual theater.
As to the concept of “super fans”? I mean, I can’t even…. It’s hard to even laugh at that. What are the super fans supposed to get in return? Free subscriptions to Interpreter? Brownie points?
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.
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.
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Surely there's nothing wrong with misleading the theater owners into committing to showings based on artificially inflated opening weekend numbers, right? /s
If lying for the lord is OK, then perhaps lying for an apologist isn't a big sin. /s
I wonder if anyone has advised the theater owners that there are plans afoot to cheat them.
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Theater owners are a fairly savvy bunch. It's not hard to see how poorly "Witnesses" did, and predict that "August" will do much worse.malkie wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2024 1:07 amSurely there's nothing wrong with misleading the theater owners into committing to showings based on artificially inflated opening weekend numbers, right? /s
If lying for the lord is OK, then perhaps lying for an apologist isn't a big sin. /s
I wonder if anyone has advised the theater owners that there are plans afoot to cheat them.
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“Witnesses” made very little at the box office. So little genuine (not sycophants buying multiple tickets but not showing up) as to make it an irrelevance. “Six Days” will follow that pattern. A theatre release is counter productive if “reaching a large audience” is the priority. A YouTube release would reach an exponentially bigger audience than will ever be achieved any other way. But it won’t be released on YouTube because Dan wants the vanity of an opening night and to say he produced movies that had movie theatre runs. It’s not about the audience, it’s all about Dan. If it weren’t then both “Witnesses” and “Six Days” would be available for free to everyone who cared to stream them.
The Church hasn’t even bothered to promote either film, nor link to them on its website or social media pages. In fact, the Church has ensured there’s no connection whatsoever. Which tells us something I guess.
Still no published financially accounting for “Witnesses”, despite it being promised. How embarrassing must the losses be to renege on a public commitment like that?
The Church hasn’t even bothered to promote either film, nor link to them on its website or social media pages. In fact, the Church has ensured there’s no connection whatsoever. Which tells us something I guess.
Still no published financially accounting for “Witnesses”, despite it being promised. How embarrassing must the losses be to renege on a public commitment like that?
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.
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.