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