F911 not top documentary opener

[voice of reason]

Apparently Jackass: The Movie (which both imdb.com and rottentomatoes.com have classified as a documentary/comedy) beat F911 by $1 million on its opening weekend.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/JackassTheMovie-1115355/numbers.php

oh well . . .

v.o.r


EDIT: actually I'm now finding conflicting weekend opener numbers for both films, some put F911 on top, others Jackass. I guess the funny part for me is I never thought of Jackass as a documentary. v.o.r.

[Rosco T.]

1. Jackass: The Movie ?? You mean there was ANOTHER docu. about Shrubya? n/m

[htuttle]

2. LOL! If 'Jackass:The Movie' is considered a documentary...

...then Girls Gone Wild would also be considered one!

Are 'imdb.com' and 'rottentomatoes.com' considered to be the authorities on the subject of what is a documentary?

[voice of reason]

3. I don't know

they were just the easiest to find the numbers on. I'm gonna chack Girls Gone Wild now.

v.o.r

[voice of reason]

11. heh imdb.com calls Girls Gone Wild a documentary, too

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338066/

[joefree1]

4. "GENRE: Comedies, Reality-Based (Tv).... Performance Artists, Stunt People

Performance Artists, Stunt People"

According to the site you linked.

[voice of reason]

10. IMDB calls it a documentary/comedy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322802/

[Cocoa]

14. IMDB has misclassified it

Jackass is not a documentary.

And "Fahrenheit 9/11" beat it anyway.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

5. But let's divide $$$'s by # of theaters ....

... and voila.

[TexasSissy]

6. I heard on major cable F9/11 was top grossing doc. on op. weekend

So....I don't know. Did they check their facts?

[Longhorn]

I thought the F9/11 weekend take was revised

to upward of $23 million, which would still put it higher than Jackass.

[mzmolly]

7. It appears that rottentomatoes.com is behind in their news?

$22,763,437 is the number garnered by Jackass,
F911 made 24 mil. :hi:

Adding: Jackass opened in 2,509 theatres, F911 in less than 900.

[Beaverhausen]

8. here you go

Jackass: $22.7M

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322802/business

[Individualist]

9. Jackass: The Movie

will be the title of a film biography of Chimpy.

[charlie]

12. RT's figures

For F911's opening is larger than Jackass's:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Fahrenheit911-1133649/numbers.php

$23 million vs $22 million.

[TexasSissy]

13. Nice try, but that's not a documentary.

I had never heard of it, so I looked at your link. It's nonfiction film, but it's not a documentary. It's described as slapstick. The definition of documentary film is one that is based upon documentation. That describes F9/11. Not Jackass. The latter is made-up comedy sketches performed by real comedians on unsuspecting real people.

[charlie]

15. Doesn't matter

Rotten Tomatoes' figures for opening grosses for both films have F911 coming out ahead.

[Zorra]

16. Oh, well....

:party: :beer:

Congratulations to Michael Moore.

[ConsAreLiars]

17. You're making up numbers? or just using chimpy math?

Where did you find ANY source for that false claim?

The site you use gives 22,763,000 for your movie and 23,920,00 for F9/11. What exactly led you to conclude, or where did you hear, that 23 is smaller than 22?

Your edit now claims you are finding "conflicting" numbers. Can you point to those sites that support your claim?

[voice of reason]

18. numbers have been revised

go to google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=911+%2421.8+million

and look at all of the stories saying F911 did $21.8 million. This is what I was basing it on. I was unaware the numbers for F911 were revised up. That's why I made my edit (4 minutes after original post so as to clarify before a lot of replies hit). In fact . . there are far more stories saying 21.8 then the revised number.

As I also said in my edit, the thing that surprised me about all of this is that Jackass was being called a documentary - a point that all of you missed from my edit and then attacked me on in replies.

Every one needs to relax!

v.o.r.


EDIT: edited for stoner typos

[ConsAreLiars]

19. Prove your claim

You say:

"EDIT: actually I'm now finding conflicting weekend opener numbers for both films, some put F911 on top, others Jackass."

Exactly WHERE are you "now finding conflicting weekend opener numbers for both films, some put F911 on top, others Jackass" ?

You first said the numbers showed your film higher than F9/11, then when that was proven false you claimed to now find "some" sites showing your film on top. Cite one.

[voice of reason]

20. chill

Look at the time of my edit(03:40) and look at the time of the first reply to challenge the numbers (03:43) - I self corrected before being challenged.

I knew the original $21.8 mill for F911, but was unaware of the the revision.

I was looking for some info on Jackass in google for a completely unrelated to F911 reason and noticed the numbers and the clasiification as documentary and thought it was funny.

What conspiracy are you chasing here?!?

v.o.r.

[stellanoir]

21. next they'll be calling

"Debbie does Dallas" a documentary

sheesh