Six Days in August D.O.A.?

[Everybody Wang Chung]

I’d be interested in knowing who submitted the estimates…they have submitted estimations for the last two days which each total more than the films cumulative take for the first fifteen days.

John Pack Lambert?

I don't think John Pack Lambert would have time to do this. I hear he is pretty busy maintaining his psoriasis Facebook page.

[drumdude]

Dan has time for trivial Facebook things, but not his blog or promoting his film.



Priorities

[I Have Questions]

Had the film been a roaring success, I suspect the internet in Guatemala would have been much much better.

[Marcus]

Had the film been a roaring success, I suspect the internet in Guatemala would have been much much better.

Absolutely.

[I Have Questions]

6DIA after 17 days of release is tracking at only 70% of the takings that the box office bomb ‘Witnesses’ achieved. At that run rate it is heading for an overall box office take of less than $600,000. As a reminder 6DIA cost more than $2,000,000 to make and the makers will receive less than half that box office take as a return. Is there a different label for films that miserably underperform a film that is categorised as a ‘box office bomb’?

Where has all that money gone? Who’s made money on this venture? Certainly not the donors, nor the movie theatres. From the sounds of it Interpreter/Peterson has overseen yet another massive financial loss. But somebody, somewhere, has been paid. Does the Production company produce financial accounts? Because Interpreter certainly won’t be publishing the accounting of this particular financial disaster, nor that of Witnesses.

Peterson and most of Interpreter, the production company and the crew will have prayed and fasted for this film to be successful. They will have done the same for Witnesses. They need to take the hint - either God ain’t listening, or He thinks these films are not worthy of His blessing.

[Moksha]

I imagine future donations will be tighter now that the emphasis has shifted to purchasing top high school players for athletics.

[drumdude]

This likely explains the very limited advertising budget for the film. They knew they didn’t have something very special on their hands (financially speaking) and were unwilling to risk any more money to try and tell people about it.

If you build it, they will come. And DCP in this case didn’t build it.

[Gadianton]

Had the film been a roaring success, I suspect the internet in Guatemala would have been much much better.

If it had been a roaring success, can you imagine the gloating that would happen on the next trip to Warsaw?

[drumdude]

To the nearly giddy delight of several folks on the Peterson Obsession Board, Six Days in August has, thus far, considerably underperformed our hopes and expectations at the box office. As a consequence, it will probably not last much longer in theaters.

I have to say that it is comforting evidence of the non-existence of the Mormon God. Mormon God, if they exist, has seen fit to make the movie perform exactly as it would in a Universe in which that God did not exist.

The movie could have easily become a giant sleeper hit, with commentators raving about it. This wouldn’t on its own be enough to convert everyone to Mormonism, but it would be a miraculous event. Maybe even worthy of mention at the next general conference.

But that’s not the Universe we live in. Either Dan’s beliefs are false and Mormonism is false, or Mormon God has to remain so hidden that even his great works of art must be shunned and underperform. Dan is welcome to choose the latter view, but it seems to put his beliefs on shaky ground. Perhaps he can frame it as a personal test of his faith.

[sock puppet]

Had the film been a roaring success, I suspect the internet in Guatemala would have been much much better.

If it had been a roaring success, can you imagine the gloating that would happen on the next trip to Warsaw?

It makes one wonder why the God of finding lost keys doesn't give His faithful more help in making movies people want to watch.