Six Days in August D.O.A.?

[Tom]

Odd that the film doesn’t appear in Box Office Mojo’s list for Thursday. As of Wednesday, Six Days had grossed $367,607 through 27 days. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4212031489/

I think Grant would have been an intriguing Brother Brigham. Grant possesses the acting chops to portray both the light and dark sides of the man. Young could be far from compassionate and caring at times.

[Tom]

Will this be the last weekend that "Six Days" is in theaters? It seems more or less definitive at this point that it will not wind up making back even 1/4 of its production budget, which means that it is quite a "box office bomb" indeed.

Meanwhile, it looks like another Mormon-themed movie, the Hugh Grant vehicle Heretic, is getting absolutely stellar reviews at Rotten Tomatoes, with a staggering Tomatometer of 93% based on *161* reviews! Wow! Will it blow 6 Days in August out of the water in terms of box office success, too? I can't help but wonder if all of the Afore's trash-talking about the film has come roundabout to bite him on the read-end yet again: another case of "karmic justice." Hugh Grant, I notice, is being especially singled out by critics for his excellent performance. Maybe if Interpreter had recruited *him* to play BY, things might have gone better?

I plan to see Heretic. I think it’s extremely important to support faith-based films—especially quality movies pertaining to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By doing so, we can help help grow the market for ever-better Latter-day Saint cinema.

[I Have Questions]

I see the Producer is boasting about having signed a distribution deal for DVD, Blu-Ray, Streaming, with a minor player in the movie business that seems to specialise in niche, and ‘straight-to-video’ type films.

The Producer has now pumped >$4 million of donated funds (he doesn’t use his own money) into his latest vanity project “I’m A Movie Producer”. The return on that investment, at the Box Office is around $600,000 across two box office bombing films.

Dan, for the love of God find a better use for those donations. Finish writing a book, or better yet serve a Senior Mission (which is what your God’s representatives whom you claim to sustain, have told you He wants you to do). Stop wasting other people’s money trying to aggrandise yourself.

[Dr Exiled]

It seems the church has been moving away from the one and only language. Great time to make an authority film? We are still number 1? Also, my group growing up and even when I was an adult teaching gospel doctrine or other classes, there always was some groaning or derision at church propaganda films, excepting perhaps the first vision. But, if the donors want a film about authority, then I guess why not blow 5 or 6 Mil?

[drumdude]

He’s going to claim it’s not a vanity project. Even though “Interpreter Foundation” and “Executive Producer Daniel C Peterson” dominate the first images you see on screen.

[Rivendale]

He’s going to claim it’s not a vanity project. Even though “Interpreter Foundation” and “Executive Producer Daniel C Peterson” dominate the first images you see on screen.

He said I am not seeing Heretic but please go see Six days in August. The church promotes The Saratov approach but decries Heretic. In fact they recommended members to see it because it is uplifting. Really?

In 1998, two Mormon missionaries (Corbin Allred, Maclain Nelson) in Russia are kidnapped, beaten and held for ransom.

[I Have Questions]

He’s going to claim it’s not a vanity project. Even though “Interpreter Foundation” and “Executive Producer Daniel C Peterson” dominate the first images you see on screen.

He said I am not seeing Heretic but please go see Six days in August. The church promotes The Saratov approach but decries Heretic. In fact they recommended members to see it because it is uplifting. Really?

In 1998, two Mormon missionaries (Corbin Allred, Maclain Nelson) in Russia are kidnapped, beaten and held for ransom.

Heretic has grossed $6.9 million. In one day.
After 29 days 6DIA has deteriorated to only 57% of Witnesses at the same point. It’s now only in 13 theatres.

[I Have Questions]

I see the Producer is boasting about having signed a distribution deal for DVD, Blu-Ray, Streaming, with a minor player in the movie business that seems to specialise in niche, and ‘straight-to-video’ type films.

The Producer has now pumped >$4 million of donated funds (he doesn’t use his own money) into his latest vanity project “I’m A Movie Producer”. The return on that investment, at the Box Office is around $600,000 across two box office bombing films.

Dan, for the love of God find a better use for those donations. Finish writing a book, or better yet serve a Senior Mission (which is what your God’s representatives whom you claim to sustain, have told you He wants you to do). Stop wasting other people’s money trying to aggrandise yourself.

I saw a claim today, online, that I (unethically) plowed upwards of four million dollars — and, of course (says the critic), not a penny of my own money — into what the anonymous critic describes as a self-aggrandizing vanity project of mine. Of course, the figure is vastly too high — much as his estimate of the returns from Witnesses and Six Days is substantially too low. We spent nowhere near four million dollars on Six Days.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... ugust.html

Read what I said again Dan. I said you have ploughed $4 million into your project of being a movie producer, not 6DIA. $4 million represents what you’ve ploughed into two films so far. The returns figure is based on 50% of the box office take of the 2 films. A fair estimate. Of course, if you publish accounts for these projects, as you promised to do, then I’ll be happy to make any material corrections to the figures I’ve estimated. But you won’t, will you…

[I Have Questions]

6DIA is not a failure, not really. Apparently.

Is it, though, a failure? No, not really. First of all, I’m confident that we produced a good, solid film. I’m proud of it. It’s a real contribution to Latter-day Saint filmmaking and to tell the story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Further, it will be around and available for years to come, along with its eventual docudrama sequel. It will (presumably sometime early next year) be accessible via DVD, Blu-ray, and online streaming. We will probably use snippets from it for educational purposes on the Interpreter website. It will be available for classroom use.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... ugust.html

I wonder if there’s a number at which Dan would consider the film a failure? He’s created something nobody wanted, nobody needed, and which won’t be used in classrooms for many years. What, on Planet Dan, constitutes failure?

[Tom]

And, still speaking of movies: Christopher D. Cunningham offers a critical review of the new Hugh Grant film Heretic that you might find interesting (as well as an acceptable alternative to actually going to see it): “Why “Heretic” Fails as a Critique of Religion and as a Movie”

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... ugust.html

I read C.D. Cunningham’s attack on Heretic. The fact that he doesn’t name Six Days as an alternative to seeing Heretic is a devastating rebuke to everyone caught up in the Six Days project. I am stunned that Cunningham, who fancies himself a “movie critic,” actually suggests that readers go see HitPig! I am not making this up.