On the *An American Carol* box-office scandal:
Ladies and gentlemen, I--Joy Whittemore McCann, AKA Little Miss Attila--have
ARRIVED.
The widely read (but often ill-written) lefty blog "Sadly, No" has just
taken me to
task for daring to suggest that *An American Carol* was the victim of
theater fraud.
I'm still trying to decide whether to toy with the moonbats, or simply
ignore 'em. I'll probably go play in their land-mine-laced sandbox for
a while, just to give the movie more ink and amuse myself. One always
feels so dirty afterward, though. [Of course, who put all those fish in a
barrel
just for me to shoot? God Himself . . . otherwise, how did they get there?]
It's lovely: they're making fun of the way I look. They're making fun of my
sidearm. Their critique is content-free . . . intellectual ambrosia!
Sadly, No on "Little Miss Attila Goes to the Movies"--
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/12453.html
My original post (which is actually pretty "weak tea," as Ace would say)--
http://littlemissattila.mu.nu/archives/275006.php
Memeorandum has the whole kerfuffle, including a contribution from
Dirty-Harry-the-film reviewer, and "thoughts" from Oliver Willis--
http://www.memeorandum.com/
I am laughing my ass off, folks! Now keep this ball rolling--not for
me, but to get people talking about the movie again. (Swear to G-d:
it's funny, even for neo-liberals. I may take my lefty-lib MOM to see it . .
.
really. It's funny, unless you're really a dyed-in-the-wool Michael Moore
fan--and, come on: he's a an intellectual lightweight. If you can't make fun
of him, whom can you make fun of?)
--Joy/LMA
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Subject: Action alert: Sabotage of AN AMERICAN CAROL?
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Theater Fraud? Sabotage of AN AMERICAN CAROL and Its Opening-Week Numbers?
Now this sounds like enemy action. Help me out here, folks.
Mpower pictures and Vivendi are starting to hear complaints about
sabotage of An American Carol by employees of theaters that are
carrying the movie. So far, ten theaters have been implicated in
outright fraud regarding this movie.
Obviously, the producers and distributors would like to get to the
bottom of this and find out the extent of any fraud, but they need our
help to determine whether the problem is systemic, or confined to a
few theaters in a nationawide release.
What we know: in at least ten theaters nationwide, customers were sold
tickets they were told were for An American Carol but turned out to be
for other movies.
Obviously, this type of "error" sometimes requires collusion between
employees--a way of marking the ticket so that you are sent to the
correct theater, even though you've been sold the wrong ticket.
As the customer, you'd have to actually read your ticket to check and
make sure you weren't an unwitting instrument of this fraud.
If you suspect that this might have happened when you went to see the
movie, please go double-check your tickets. If they have the wrong
movie title on them, please take a picture of them and send them to
the investigative team at An American Carol: fraud -- AT --
AnAmericanCarol -- DOT -- com . Please place the original tickets in a
safe place and fill out the info on the AAC fraud site. They may need
your ticket as evidence.
For more details on the investigation of various types of fraud
against/sabotage of this movie please monitor the AAC Fraud Site.
Here are some subtler things to be on the alert for, in terms of
attempts to suppress viewership / the appearance of viewership / box
office receipts for this film. If you have noticed these
irregularities with the theatres in your area please fill in the form
at the AAC Fraud site, and leave their investigative team details in
the comments section.
Examples:
• The theater suggested that the movie was rated R (its true rating is
PG-13);
• Posters for the film are not visible inside or outside the theater;
• An American Carol is not on the marquee, even though the movie is
playing there;
• The film title not listed behind the clerk in the box office, so you
have to ask if that movie is playing at that theater, never mind that
you checked on the internet and called in advance (this actually
happened to me);
• Showtimes are given on the theater's outgoing message machine for
every movie playing except for An American Carol (this is also out of
my personal experience: somehow the local four-plex only had showtimes
listed on the phoneline for three movies . . . . hm);
• technical sabotage: image or focus issues, problems with sound, and the
like.
Please check those tickets, check those movie houses where the movie
is supposedly playing (but you have to ask about it if you want to see
it), and document everything you can. Put those cell-phone cameras to
use whenever possible.
(FINALLY: With most of "the industry" looking for any an all excuses
to suppress any kind of centrist/center-right voices, a lackluster
showing from this movie will hurt us in terms of what messages we are
able to get out to people in feature-length formats in the future, and
some of "the suits" won't care if these depressed numbers are the
result of fraud. So if you still haven't seen the movie yet, this week
is your time to stand up for free speech---but, um . . . check that
ticket stub, okay? Also, do go to your favorite online film review
site and give the movie an honest rating, to counter-act the trolls
that are trying to make it look un-funny, badly made, racist, facist,
movie-ist, species-ist, looksist or ist-ist.)
All best,
J/LMA
Joy W. McCann
Little Miss Attila
http://littlemissattila.mu.nu
818/429-9806
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(But pixels obey me, too.)
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Received on 2008-10-07 11:38:11