Glenn Beck made a movie?

Glenn Beck made a movie?

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Published on December 4th, 2009, 9:48 pm
Rift: Life

Apparently Glenn Beck made a movie.

I hadn't heard of it but at $20 it would have to be a humdinger. But it's not

In New York, Beck sold 17 tickets. In Boston, another 17. And in Washington, D.C., the hotbed of political activism, his tearful film drew only 30, Raw Story has found.

Glenn Beck's new movie The Christmas Sweater – A Return To Redemption -- released for a viewing Thursday night in hundreds of theaters across the country. While it performed better in the south and in rural, more conservative areas, his ability to draw viewers in major US markets was a bust.

"The theater's almost empty," a representative at Regal Cinemas in Manhattan told Raw Story moments before it began.

The trailer says it all

Glenn needs to get his people to call my people... I could have scripted an excellent action sequence involving his sweater turning into an undead sheep who turns Beck into an evil zombie who sneaks up on unsuspecting democrats and teabags them.

Holy carp! Sounds like he won't even recoup the limited theater distribution costs. Good for him.

But I bet a dolla that he would have packed them in had he followed Sarah's strategy of playing to the yokels around the country. He'd have made a killing in theaters in Fayetteville and Yadkinville. Nfidel... the DO have theaters up your way, right?

At 20 a head? That's for a movie of one man telling a glurge parable while over-acting.

DON IMUS, 'IMUS IN THE MORNING': "The Christmas Sweater" the story comes from where? What is the story?

GLENN BECK: It comes from — it's a fictionalized story of my childhood, my last Christmas with my mom. And then
...

IMUS: Well, tell me about it, is it sad? Well, I'm serious.

]BECK: My mom — I found out the last year of my mom's life — I kind of figured out that she was an alcoholic and addicted to drugs. It wasn't going well and she decided to take her own life.

And I remember the last Christmas. We were poor and it was one of those Christmases where you don't really know — when you're a kid, you don't really know you're poor. And so there was only one present under the tree that year for me and it was a sweater and I hated it.

I mean, what kid wants a sweater? And didn't treat it well, it wasn't the best response at Christmas and still didn't get it and it was right after Christmas, I just — it was rolled up in a ball and it was on the floor.

And my mother came in and she was talking to me about something and she looked down at the sweater and she said, "Is that the sweater I gave you for Christmas?"

And I said yes and she picked it up and she said, "Please don't treat that that way," and I realized at that moment how much my mother had done and how hard it was for her and that she knew it was a crappy present that I wouldn't want but it was all that she could afford.

And then shortly after that, she died and that was kind of the turning point in my life. That was the first kind of real rocky area that kind of screwed me up for many years.

And then I started to repeat my mom's life and...

IMUS: Drinking?

BECK: Drinking and — I mean, I was right — suicide, everything. It was all coming to me. And my ex-wife actually backed me up into a garage and said with her finger and she said, "You are not going to repeat your mother's life and do to your children what she did to you."

We got a divorce because she was always backing me into the corner of garages.

And I sobered up, and the last part of it is based on a dream that I had when I was sobering up. And I realized how hard work was that I had to do and it was about facing your storm and just going through.

Don't worry about the storm. You got to walk through it and it's warm on the other side, but if you're going to stand here and be afraid of the clouds in that storm walking through, well, you're going to be in this desolate place forever.

I can't imagine dropping $20 for that and I expect the good folk in Yadkinville can think of a better use for the money too. Like maybe buying a sweather for their kids for Christmas or a 12 pack of beer.

A Person wrote: sweather for their kids for Christmas or a 12 pack of beer.

I'm officially calling all sweaters, sweathers now!!!

YES!!!!

If you want to move to Wales you had better get used to calling them jumpers

A Person wrote:If you want to move to Wales you had better get used to calling them jumpers

Ha.... That's Brit 101, A.P..... in fact Smiler's Ex sat us all down at work one day and had a huge discussion about jumpers and Fanny(s) after one of the guys at work broke into an English accents and made what he had hoped to be a humorous impersonation. He of course thought, as all of us Americans do (did) that fanny referred to one's buttocks.... but as we learned the Brits have a much different interpretation.

(Everyone goes and Google's now.... ) LOL...

My new one for the day is Amn't. Though the kids love when I break out the Welsh accent and say "sweetheart".

SouthernFriedInfidel wrote: He'd have made a killing in theaters in Fayetteville and Yadkinville. Nfidel... the DO have theaters up your way, right?

Well, no they don't. There is one at the extreme western edge of the county, but I can get to two multiplexes in Winston quicker than the one in my county. And yes, if Beck's movie had shown here I'm sure it would have put up better numbers than did those big city theaters. Remember, even though NC went Democrat in the last presidential election Yadkin County was 75% McCain...or Palin. Either one will do for these folks.

I hadn't heard anything about this movie till this post, did he plug it on Fox? Or is that it's problem? (Other than being crap.)

I made a mistake, it wasn't a movie as was widely reported. It was a live performanceat the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, simulcast to movie theaters. (Sort of like Live at the Met, but without the talent)

And yes he did plug it on FOX

No doubt it was recorded and his OTT performance will be required Christmas viewing in the right households.

Church groups were upset at Beck's use of Christian imagery and Christmas as a way to disseminate what they call his largely hateful message. They believe the way Beck addresses women, people of color and immigrants is incompatible with the Christian ethic.

"It is outside Biblical narrative," said Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, senior minister at Lemuel Haynes Congregational Church. "We are a small church saying we are opposed to constant racist language."

A Person wrote:simulcast to movie theaters.

Did not know they could do that.... Is that what they're doing with movies now? Beaming them in via satellite? I'd love to get a black box receiver to pull those in! (Not Beck though.)

Not all theaters can receive simulcasts. I believe most theaters can now use 2K (2048×1080) projection and even 35mm film is scanned to that reloution for projection. I think they are mostly distributed by optical disk, but I'm not a movie junkie, maybe Sanjuro can confirm.

I have watched "Live at the Met" simulcasts and they are very good. They are a huge money maker, bringing the live performance to a huge potential audience for a modest expense.

By the end of the season 920, 000 people - exceeding the total number of people who attended live performances at the Met over the entire season - attended the 8 screenings bringing in a gross of $13.3 million from North America and $5 million from overseas.

That's pretty groovy... To bad the airlines couldn't do what the movies have done in innovating their product to be more consumer friendly....