Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: Woodstock Revisited Revisited

I was at a friend’s house a few nights ago for a little informal gathering. When we were chatting he had his iPod providing some background music.  One of the songs that came on was from the “Woodstock” soundtrack. So there I was in a kitchen full of conservative upper middle class Midwesterners who were suddenly waxing poetic about how great Woodstock was.

What happened next was the kind of thing I do that keeps me off the party circuit.  I said something to the effect that Woodstock was an unmitigated disaster and a perfect metaphor for the Obama administration. If it were technically possible this is the point where we would have heard a needle scratching across the album and dead silence while the folks stared at me in disbelief. (more…)

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Posted Aug 26th 2009 at 10:47 am in Featured Story, Political Humor | 210394176 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/08/26/stand-up-notes-from-flyover-country-woodstock-revisited-revisited/Stand+Up+Notes+from+Flyover+Country%3A+Woodstock+Revisited+Revisited2009-08-26+17%3A47%3A21Jeffrey+Jena

Independent Christian Film, Hollywood’s Best Investment in ‘08

Yes, The Dark Knight made more money in U.S. theaters than any film in history except Titanic (in nominal dollars, unadjusted for inflation), but in terms of sheer return on the investment dollar, you’d have been better off putting your cash into the teen vampire movie Twilight, the teen musical High School Musical 3: Senior Year, or Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert.

And you’d have been much, much smarter to invest in Kirk Cameron’s small, independent, Christian film Fireproof: it cost a half-million dollars to make and brought in $33.1 million, a return of more than sixty times its budget.

That’s the conclusion of an interesting article on E! Online about movie returns on investment. Of course, it’s not possible to predict precisely what films will have greatest audience appeal before they’re even made, but a few things are clear and have remained true for years:

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Posted Jan 11th 2009 at 10:22 am in Entertainment, Media Criticism | 1416936 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/stkarnick/2009/01/11/independent-christian-film-was-hollywoods-best-investment-in-2008/Independent+Christian+Film%2C+Hollywood%27s+Best+Investment+in+%2708+2009-01-11+18%3A22%3A56S.T.+Karnick