L'Oscar du meilleur "documentaire", le pro-terroriste Taxi to the Dark Side
s'est révélé être un flop au box office.

=> Recettes (Box office mojo) :

- domestic : $274,661
- foreign : $6,958

7.000 dollars de recettes à l'étranger ! Impressionnant. Bref, c'est un
bide. Comme, avant lui, Redacted, The Road to Guantanamo, Un Coeur invaincu,
Grace is gone, Détention secrète, Dans la vallée d'Elah,... et tant d'autres
brulôts anti-américains (seul Lions et agneaux, de Redford, a marché, car
porté par Tom Cruise).

Il faut dire que les gars du marketing avaient eu une "brillante" idée pour
assurer la promotion du film : porter un ruban orange lors de la cérémonie
des Oscars, pour témoigner de leur solidarité avec les jihadistes islamistes
contre le gouvernement américain (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...022503123.html )
.. Ces cons avaient sans doute perdu de vue que ce ne sont pas les Talibans
ni leurs copains qui vont au cinéma, mais des Occidentaux, des Américains,
des Anglais, des Français, des Australiens,... dont beaucoup ont de la
famille engagée dans l'armée et que s'ils critiquent parfois les Etats-Unis
c'est parce qu'ils désirent la victoire dans la longue guerre, et non parce
qu'ils remettent en cause la noblesse de leur mission...

Hé bien, quoi qu'il en soit, le cinéaste vient d'avoir une brillante idée
pour se faire quand même du pognon : il réclame un million de
dommages-intérêts au distributeur du film... Nul doute que les De Palma et
cie suivront de près cette affaire...

http://www.reuters.com/article/featu.../idUSN26483143

> NEW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - Filmmaker Alex Gibney said on Thursday
> he was seeking more than $1 million in damages from a company he says
> failed to properly distribute and promote his Oscar-winning feature
> documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side."
> The movie focuses on America's use of torture in prisoner
> interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq and Afghanistan following the
> Sept. 11 attacks.
> It had made around $280,000 worldwide by June 1, according to movie
> Web site Box Office Mojo, a fraction of the multimillion dollar takings of
> other recent documentary Oscar winners.
> The 2006 winner "An Inconvenient Truth" raked in almost $50 million
> worldwide, while 2005 winner "March of the Penguins" made more than $127
> million, the Web site said.
> Gibney said he has filed for arbitration against the film's
> distributor THINKFilm, accusing the company of inadequately distributing
> and marketing the film after its Oscar win in February.
> Financial problems within the company has also caused the film's Web
> site to shut down, he told Reuters.
> "We won, we did it, and then not to capitalize on that moment so that
> a lot of people could hear that message was devastating," Gibney said.
> A spokesperson for THINKFilm could not be immediately reached for
> comment.
> Gibney, who previously directed "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the
> Room," said he was originally mystified about the lack of post-Oscar
> promotion.
> "Their whole strategy was predicated on the idea that if we win the
> Oscar, we would kick into gear," he said. "But we could not kick into gear
> because THINKFilm was out of money, they were being starved by their
> financier. But they did not disclose that to us."
> Gibney's company, X-Ray Productions, filed the complaint last week
> with the Independent Film & Television Alliance, an industry organization
> that arbitrates such disputes. (Editing by Xavier Briand)



--
Iraqi Freedom, ma collection de photos,
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QfhxEW4zrgc