{"id":8852,"date":"2011-04-17T08:31:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8852"},"modified":"2011-04-17T08:31:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T12:31:53","slug":"atlas-shrugged-has-good-opening-day-in-the-theatres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/17\/atlas-shrugged-has-good-opening-day-in-the-theatres\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em> has good opening day in the theatres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I haven&#8217;t seen the movie. But that&#8217;s more because I&#8217;m not much of a moviegoer. Others <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mikebilly.com\/2011\/04\/atlas-shrugged-movie-has-positive-opening-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">have seen it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at the numbers first. According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, <em>Atlas Shrugged: Part 1<\/em>, which was filmed with a meager $5 million budget, brought in $683,000 on Friday, the film\u2019s opening night. It placed 13th overall in total box office receipts for the day. Not too shabby.<\/p>\n<p>There is another interesting metric that BoxOfficeMojo.com provides. It breaks down a film\u2019s estimated gross on a per theater basis. This is a fair thing to do considering <em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em> was only shown in 300 theaters and, say, Rio, the number one grossing film for the day, was shown in 3,826.<\/p>\n<p><em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em>\u2019s per theater gross was $2,277, ranking third for the day. Rio\u2019s per theater gross, on the other hand, was $2,666. One has to wonder, then, if <em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em>\u2019s opening day would have grossed more if it would have received a wider release. After all, it\u2019s per theater take was very near the number one grossing film for the day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The critics have generally panned the movie, but the RottenTomatoes.com users have given it a 3.8 out of 5, which is quite positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I haven&#8217;t seen the movie. But that&#8217;s more because I&#8217;m not much of a moviegoer. Others have seen it: Let\u2019s look at the numbers first. According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, which was filmed with a meager $5 million budget, brought in $683,000 on Friday, the film\u2019s opening night. It placed 13th overall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[67,122],"class_list":["post-8852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","tag-aynrand","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2iM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}