From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: FWWM Box Office + What We Need To Do if We Want a Sequel
Summary: was re FWWM earnings
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:37:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

^Bret writes^

>Well, FWWM has gone in and out of our local theaters in the space
>of about a couple weeks, so I was wondering if anyone had news
>on how much money it earned during its (short) run in the U.S.

>Hopefully more than 10 million?

      Pipe dreams.  Dude... not even close.
      Opening Weekend: FWWM posted earnings of about 2 million bucks
      at 700 or so theaters, which is decent, if not wonderful.
      Second: New Line had thinned the distrib by about 100 venues
      after the opening weekend was less than they would have
      liked, and FWWM posted a B.O. of just under a million bux.

      Last Week: Nobody reported what FWWM made last week... for
      the figures, we'll have to wait for the VARIETY covering
      last week's B.O. to be released.
        Conjecture: New Line probably thinned the mixture again.
        Gross was between $500,000 and $800,000 - but probably not
        more than that.
        The studio is not arbitrarily stripping FWWM from theaters,
        but looking for a happy medium between venues and earnings:
        those venues posting decent per screen bux for FWWM will
        show it for as long as it remains profitable; obviously,
        LOEWS, Cineplex Odeon and United Artists chains won't be
        keeping FWWM in any kind of chain-wide distribution.

        In urban areas (particularly the major cities), college
        towns, and on the arthouse circuit, FWWM will probably
        enjoy a long life.  

        There is also the possibility of FWWM's continuation in
        theaters semi-permanently in the same way Heavy Metal
        and Rocky Horror are (tho FWWM is infinitely superior
        to that berthing!!).

      Basically, I'd say, it's us fans who are propping FWWM
      up at the box office at this point... so if we want a
      sequel, I'd recommend a couple or three things:

      1. SEE FWWM AGAIN -- and don't sneak in!  
      2. Write New Line praising them for supporting expressionist
         moviemaking like TWIN PEAKS - and encourage them to lend
         their distribution support to more TWIN PEAKS movies.
      3. Write the French Production Company that financially
         backed FWWM (and with whom Lynch has a 6-picture deal...
         any number of those could be Peaks pictures, you know...)
         praising THEIR support of fine cinema, the auteur David
         Lynch, and Twin Peaks...  but do it in French!
      4. Most importantly, write Lynch himself!  (in care of
         Lynch/Frost productions... somebody please post the
         address?)  Make the letters as surreal and disjointed
         as possible and, in the opening paragraph of all of
         them, use this sentence: "Emil is my lover; my lover,
         Emil."  

                 Shortly  thereafter, the health of  Annie
                 Blackburn still in question, the behavior
                 of Special Agent  Dale Cooper was noticed
                 __________________________to have changed.
                                              Scott Gorcey.            
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