Friendo: “On Tuesday, 1.3, five ostensible Oscar contenders — Babylon, Empire of Light, The Banshees of Inisherin, Women Talking and Tar — made about $730,000 on 1,575 screens. Averaging three showings per day (or should I say four?), that’s about 10 people per showing, which just about matches my personal experience.
“Based on total box office, these films have collectively drawn about four million ticket buyers since their release. One presumes that very few righties are paying to see these films. Using the Biden vote total of 80 million as a yardstick, it’s obvious that lefties are not patronizing them either. Not really.
“Traditional liberal adults simply aren’t going to see these things. Not to any appreciable degree. Even wokesters aren’t. The filmmakers may be liberal and their films may also qualify, but even if every ticket buyer to these films was a leftie, the under-attendance factor (to put it mildly) would still be there.
“Everything Everywhere All At Once ($70 million domestic, $100,814,600 worldwide) has only been seen by about five million U.S. adult residents, of which there are over two hundred million (209,128.094) in the US. That’s roughly four per cent of the adult population. Okay, 4.5%.
“Even if they are all libs, that is a tiny percentage of them. If Hollywood made movies that actually appealed to the Average Joes and Janes, they could make piles of cash. But their prestige films are barely attracting anyone.”