Former Vice President Al Gore’s new film, “An Inconvenient Sequel”, came in a dismal 15th this weekend at U.S. theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.
Gore’s defenders have been quick to blame Paramount Pictures for the dismal performance of Gore’s sequel. “Al Gore Gets Ripped Off Again,” screamed the headline of D.R. Tucker in Washington Monthly.View post.
“This was not supposed to happen,” Tucker wrote, adding, “he should have demanded a recount.”
“Sadly, the box-office underperformance of An Inconvenient Sequel will be seized upon by climate-change deniers as ‘proof’ that Americans don’t really care about this issue,” Tucker wrote.
According to Deadline Hollywood, Gore’s sequel “grossed $900K, averaging $5,000 (per screen). That brought its cume (cumulative) over seven figures, landing at $1,052,000. Its weekend gross placed it 15th in the overall box office as of Sunday morning. Paramount said it will expand the title to over 500 locations next weekend.
The box office performance will disappoint Gore, who had urged his followers to pack movie theaters to send a message to “Trump and the other climate deniers.”
“By filling theaters, we can show Donald Trump and the other climate deniers in the White House that the American people are committed to climate action –– no matter what they do, say, or tweet!” Gore wrote in an email alert sent to his supporters on Friday, August 4th, the day of his nationwide opening.
Many of the political left no longer want to see Gore as the face of the global warming movement. See Warmist New Republic: ‘The Troubling Return of Al Gore’ – ‘Not everyone on the left is celebrating Gore’s reemergence’
Gore’s climate claims are failing to materialize as many of his assertions are exactly the opposite of the current climate data. See: Extreme Weather Expert Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: ‘World is presently in an era of unusually low weather disasters & Climate Depot’s New ‘Talking Points’ Report – A-Z Debunking of Climate Claims
A prominent Ivy League Geologist who voted for Gore, was “appalled” after viewing his first 2006 film. “I voted for Gore in 2000, yeah. I think that if he ran again, depending on who he ran against, I might vote for him. He’s a smart man,” said Geologist Dr. Robert Giegengack, who chaired the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania in the skeptical film “Climate Hustle.”
But after viewing Gore’s film, Giegengack had this reaction. “I was appalled. I was appalled because he either deliberately misrepresented the point he was making or didn’t understand it. So it was irresponsible of Al Gore.”
“CO2 is not the villain that it has been portrayed. I’m impressed by the fact that the present climate, from the perspective of a geologist, is very close to the coldest it’s ever been. The concentration CO2 in the atmosphere today is close to the lowest it has ever been,” Giegengack explained in “Climate Hustle”.
A key claim in Gore’s sequel about his role in securing the UN Paris climate pact has also been called into question. See:
Gore’s Sequel ‘Sabotaged’!
Gore fans like Tucker are now reduced to blaming the distributor for the sequels disappointing box office.
“A botched strategy by Paramount Pictures effectively sabotaged the nationwide release of the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which finished in 15th place in US theatres this weekend. This was not supposed to happen,” Tucker explained.
Box Office Mojo Weekend Box Office for Aug. 4-6
Many climate activists and Gore apostles were hoping for a re-run of the success of Gore’s 2006 original film or of a Michael Moore style boom at the box office.
Tucker wrote: “Considering the fact that this is arguably the first major anti-Trump documentary to hit theatres–and considering the public outrage over Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement–Paramount should have stuck to its original plan; in fact, Paramount could have seized upon anti-Trump sentiment by giving An Inconvenient Sequel the same high-profile national roll out that Lionsgate gave [Michael Moore’s] Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004, a rollout that resulted in that iconic film opening at #1 at the US box office, a rarity for a documentary.”
“It’s a shame that Paramount dropped the ball, giving the film a ‘national’ release in so few theatres that most Americans must wait until the film is available on demand or on DVD in order to see it,” Tucker explained.
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If Al Bore was realy serious about Climate Change Global Warming he would go live in a mud hut like him and his fellow Eco-wackos would want us to all do Live in a mud hut no electricity no running water stay at home sacrifice a few virgins or children when theres a lunar or solar eclypes and worship in the temple of Gaia
You can fool all of the people some of the time and
some of the people all of the time………………….
Intellectuals like Al Gore don’t fathom that
They’re too busy being intellectuals
The coming exposure of
CLIMATE FRAUD
will be very damaging to the liars.
Will Al Gore be forced to pay back his
ILL GOTTEN GAINS ?
He’ll get to keep his loot, just like the Clinton’s. However, he can’t take it with him. Give him an enema and bury him in a shoebox.
Calling Al Gore an intellectual is giving him way too much credit. He’s a well-connected huckster. The privileged son of a racist senator, Al has a dubious record as a generously awarded “C” student at Harvard, where he was commonly understood to be passed-along based on his family connections.
After his crushing presidential loss in 2000 he went off the deep end, growing a Ted Kaczynski beard and gaining 50 pounds as he broke with reality. He has always had delusions of grandeur, flirting with the notion that he invented the internet, etc, and the left-media has always given him a pass because of the investment the liberal movement has with him. Now he has ensconced himself as the High Priest of the Church of Man-Made Global Warming, and the “Pope of the Eco-Left” – the natural evolution of a lunatic.
Not much intellectualism there…
When Big Al told the faithful to bring a friend and fill the theaters, send a message to Trump, he was begging for a lifesaver.
The Left sent Gore a message instead.
Sorry
Cannot
Attend
Movie
I think the big message is that the Left have identified Climate Change as solely a leftist/socialst movement.
Why dont Al Bores fans just GET A LIFE and quit their mindless whining were tired of their stupid whining
How will the MSM cover this? Condemn it with faint praise? Or tell Paramount how to run a business? If climate alarmism cost Democrats votes in 2016, it’ll cost them in 2018.
Give Al the hook.
The libs themselves know this movie is a steaming pile of dog excrement. They’re not even pretending to view the movie because of its content. Instead, Al Gore himself is “urging his followers to pack movie theaters to send a message to “Trump and the other climate deniers.”
Hmmmm… A person who has “followers” is telling them to send a message to “deniers”… So much for science.
No ones packing the theaters like Al Bore wanted too bad Al Bore now why dont you just skidddle on home and soak your head in your pool
It did well , for an infomercial.
Don’t worry, Man-Bear-Pig, will not have used any of his own money for this.
Too bad Al Bore you film a is a flop I hope he lost a cool million dollars or two over his little eco-wacko fake documentry
Yup. The reason it bombed is that its complete Left-wing fairy dust and unicorn poo fantasy drivel…..people have woken up to the Lefts agitprop behaviour , yawned and moved on. Own goal, Al baby….