Atlas Shrugged Part 1 - Production Budget - $20 million - Total box office - $4,627,375
Atlas Shrugged Part 2 - Production Budget - $10 million - Total box office - $3,336,053
Atlas Shrugged Part 3 - Production Budget - $5 million - Total box office - $846,704
So assuming their only costs were the production budget, all told, they lost $26,189,868. But wait, that wasn’t all of their costs. I couldn’t find all of the numbers, but I did for part 2. They spent an additional $10 million for advertising.
He went on to cite passages from the March article in which the writer, Doug Haugh, president of the Mansfield Oil company, said the Lego film had taught his children to view him “not as the leader I’m supposed to be, but as a movie-villain incarnate.”
Hey, Doug, if your kids think that about you after a lifetime living with you, the 100 minutes they spent with a kid’s movie isn’t the reason.
Sesame Street’s co-habitating gayness indoctrination,
Bozo’s giant Tootsie Roll consolation prize “everyone gets a trophy, even lazy mooching failures” lessons,
Mr. Rogers’ unerring support for unionized train systems,
The Great Spacecoaster advocating for better and faster reading comprehension,
The Banana Bunch’s irresponsible countercultural drug-fueled psychedelic hippy rock,
Captain Kangaroo’s mysterious Frank Zappa connections,
Romper Room’s environmental terrorist focus on bees,
Scooby Doo teaching children to disrespectfully meddle in adult’s affairs,
Fat Albert’s mere existence, and
Reading Rainbow…well…duh…how nefariously pro-gay does something have to get before everyone has to admit it’s a plot to push the LGBT agenda “down our throats”? It even says it in the name…
I wonder, did Senator Johnson speak out against Hollywood when it stereotyped Italians as vicious mob guys, Arabs as bloodthirsty jihadists, Russians as callous Commies or blacks as illiterate inner-city hoodlums?
The gargantuan hypocrite is up in arms now because businessmen, whom we all know to be sweet, benevolent and altruistic in real life, have suddenly been misrepresented as greedy in a veritable cartoon.
Not to mention You Can’t Take It With You, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Meet John Doe, State of the Union, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – pretty much the entire Frank Capra oeuvre.
I know…the government is planning to buy Lego blocks to sell to ISIS to build ramps to cross the southern border and will then spread ebola via infected illegal immigrants! It’s all coming together now!
Another blow in the titanic battle for “Stupidest Man in Congress” that rages on between Sen. Ron Johnson (R-idiots) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-morons).
Here’s what I got out of the Lego Movie: thanks for your $175, Dad, but don’t get pissed off when your son wants to play baseball with you, on a “home plate” crafted out of the Lego City Police Station floorboards and the wings from a Lego Star Wars fighter.
