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  • Posted by $ EitherOr 13 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Hey winterwind, your comment about the stickers in connection with ASIII gave me an idea...
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/00f5c3ggowirg5...

    I'd put these on everything. And hopefully they would get people curious and to the website, where they could watch a trailer. I find people are a lot more receptive to discussing Atlas Shrugged when they make it part of the way on their own.
    **I obviously made up the release date. June seemed good since that's the month Dagny spent in the Gulch.
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  • Posted by LionelHutz 13 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    The term "A=A" is meant to be taken "deal with reality, man.". It's the opposite of the popular way of thinking that people can ignore the impact of reality by denying it objectively exists - that they can wish it away - that they can say "well, that's what YOU think, but it's all relative - there is no truth - there is no standard."
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 13 years, 1 month ago
    AMC, for the release of Iron Man 3, is doing an Iron Man marathon in selected theaters.

    I'd certainly make a lot of noise to get people to see an Atlas Shrugged marathon.
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  • Posted by darren 13 years, 1 month ago
    By the way, does anyone here happen to know why Stephen Polk — originally slated to direct AS-1 — was summarily fired two weeks before production?
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  • Posted by khalling 13 years, 1 month ago
    I have this contest idea. In cities, if groups come together to buy billboards for ASIII, can they get a premiere event, like important someones would show up at the movie release in their city?
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    Posted by darren 13 years, 1 month ago
    LOL! What a bunch of amateurs!

    Hey, Harmon! Hey John! If this move is "for you" — meaning, for those who have already read the novel and will no doubt purchase the DVD regardless of how bad the movie is — then why bother releasing the movie theatrically? Just go direct-to-DVD. You sound as if you're already convinced (perhaps with good reason) that part III will also be a box-office failure. (Just a guess, but I wonder if it has something to do with the weak screenwriting and directing? Nah, couldn't be that. It must be the "irrationality" of the movie-going public.)

    Additionally, I've read some online film-finance sources that indicate the previous DVD sales of parts I and II were actually quite weak.

    I'm sure the failure, critical and commercial, of the AS trilogy will not hurt future sales of the novel (though it might possibly hurt future attempts by more competent producers to film or televise it), but it behooves us *cineastes* to ask the following:

    On John's blog, prior to the November 2012 election, Aglialoro asserted in an interview that if Obama won a second term, there would be no point in producing the final part of the trilogy. Alas, Obama did win a second term. So why is he proceeding with the project?

    Just curious. I expect him to duck the question entirely.
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