{"id":2063,"date":"2004-06-28T11:52:30","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T18:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/fahrenheit-911-sets-box-office-record-documentary-with-anti-bush-message-beats-blockbusters\/"},"modified":"2004-06-28T11:52:30","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T18:52:30","slug":"fahrenheit-911-sets-box-office-record-documentary-with-anti-bush-message-beats-blockbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/28\/fahrenheit-911-sets-box-office-record-documentary-with-anti-bush-message-beats-blockbusters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fahrenheit 9\/11&#8217; box-office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/06\/28\/MNG5H7D7SS1.DTL\">&#8216;Fahrenheit 9\/11&#8217; has sold a lot of tickets<\/a> for a &#8220;documentary:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMichael Moore&#8217;s &#8220;Fahrenheit 9\/11&#8221; made Hollywood history by selling $21.8 million worth of tickets in its first three days, becoming the only documentary ever to outgun all other blockbuster films at the nation&#8217;s box offices in one weekend. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But how popular does that really make it?  Not all that much, if we&#8217;re talking about &#8220;blockbusters&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBy comparison, &#8220;The Passion of the Christ&#8221; earned $117.5 million in its first five days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems an apt comparison, for <em>Fahrenheit <\/em>is a documentary like <em>Passion <\/em>is a historical drama. I suspect the audiences are fairly similar, though: people who place little stock by reason and evidence, have no use for science, and spend most of their lives fearing the dark forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Fahrenheit 9\/11&#8217; has sold a lot of tickets for a &#8220;documentary:&#8221; Michael Moore&#8217;s &#8220;Fahrenheit 9\/11&#8221; made Hollywood history by selling $21.8 million worth of tickets in its first three days, becoming the only documentary ever to outgun all other blockbuster films at the nation&#8217;s box offices in one weekend. But how popular does that really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/28\/fahrenheit-911-sets-box-office-record-documentary-with-anti-bush-message-beats-blockbusters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Fahrenheit 9\/11&#8217; box-office&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-xh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}