Subject: FWWM Box Office + What We Need To Do if We Want a Sequel From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey) Date: 1992-09-15, 13:37 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks ^Bret writes^ > >Well, FWWM has gone in and out of our local theaters in the space > >of about a couple weeks, so I was wondering if anyone had news > >on how much money it earned during its (short) run in the U.S. > >Hopefully more than 10 million? Pipe dreams. Dude... not even close. Opening Weekend: FWWM posted earnings of about 2 million bucks at 700 or so theaters, which is decent, if not wonderful. Second: New Line had thinned the distrib by about 100 venues after the opening weekend was less than they would have liked, and FWWM posted a B.O. of just under a million bux. Last Week: Nobody reported what FWWM made last week... for the figures, we'll have to wait for the VARIETY covering last week's B.O. to be released. Conjecture: New Line probably thinned the mixture again. Gross was between $500,000 and $800,000 - but probably not more than that. The studio is not arbitrarily stripping FWWM from theaters, but looking for a happy medium between venues and earnings: those venues posting decent per screen bux for FWWM will show it for as long as it remains profitable; obviously, LOEWS, Cineplex Odeon and United Artists chains won't be keeping FWWM in any kind of chain-wide distribution. In urban areas (particularly the major cities), college towns, and on the arthouse circuit, FWWM will probably enjoy a long life. There is also the possibility of FWWM's continuation in theaters semi-permanently in the same way Heavy Metal and Rocky Horror are (tho FWWM is infinitely superior to that berthing!!). Basically, I'd say, it's us fans who are propping FWWM up at the box office at this point... so if we want a sequel, I'd recommend a couple or three things: 1. SEE FWWM AGAIN -- and don't sneak in! 2. Write New Line praising them for supporting expressionist moviemaking like TWIN PEAKS - and encourage them to lend their distribution support to more TWIN PEAKS movies. 3. Write the French Production Company that financially backed FWWM (and with whom Lynch has a 6-picture deal... any number of those could be Peaks pictures, you know...) praising THEIR support of fine cinema, the auteur David Lynch, and Twin Peaks... but do it in French! 4. Most importantly, write Lynch himself! (in care of Lynch/Frost productions... somebody please post the address?) Make the letters as surreal and disjointed as possible and, in the opening paragraph of all of them, use this sentence: "Emil is my lover; my lover, Emil." Shortly thereafter, the health of Annie Blackburn still in question, the behavior of Special Agent Dale Cooper was noticed __________________________to have changed. Scott Gorcey.
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