Maher's 'Religulous' Continues to Own Zucker's 'Carol'

Posted by Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake at 8:23 AM on October 14, 2008.

Bill Maher continues to thrash conservative David Zucker's "An American Carol" for the second week in a row.

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When I was in grad school at USC, every Monday was devoted to analyzing the weekend boxoffice.

Some habits die hard:

This Wk	Last Wk	Title	Dist.	Weekend Gross	Cumulative Gross	Rlse Wks	# of Theaters
13	10	Religulous	Lionsgate	$2,230,898	$6,732,631	2	568
15	9	American Carol	Vivendi Entertainment	$1,395,000	$5,971,000	2	1621

Bill Maher's Religulous and the poorly-timed David Zucker conservative tirade An American Carol have been in release for 2 weeks. While still on roughly one-third the number of screens as the An American Carol, Religulous took in over $835,000 more in boxoffice receipts. That makes its cumulative gross $761,631 more than An American Carol.

In common Hollywood parlance, it's known as an "ass whipping."

Maybe, as they say, it's a "liberal plot" against American Carol. Or maybe the American public just doesn't have an appetite right now for a 90 minute hissy fit associated with the ideology most people blame for a disastrous war and a tanking economy.

Who knows.

Tagged as: movies, maher, zucker

Jane Hamsher is the founder of FireDogLake. Her work has also appeared on the Huffington Post, Alternet and The American Prospect.

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