when is this going to be released in America?
I want to see this
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August 15th
Erik Lehnsherr: You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourself.
Wide release or select theaters?
shareI know you posted this a while ago so you may already have the answer, but they have a list of theaters/release dates on the website
http://www.magpictures.com/dates.aspx?id=0d706c2f-d11b-4d8f-bb34-03ccd 076c5b5
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I am Jack's broken heart
NEW Mexico taxpayers FUNDED this film with FREE taxpayer money and only 1 TOKEN theater in Albuquerque is showing this? How does the state recoup its investment under those circumstances?
Or is that irrelevant? Is the idea of the filmmakers to just get the cash and to hell with the citizens of the host state who PAID to make their film? Sure looks that way to me..
The idea of these nonsensical race to the bottom free money to Hollywood FILM TAX grant programs is that it is "supposed" to generate revenue to the HOST state. How do you get that money back taxing tickets for one tiny theater in Albuquerque? And, is FRANK going to suddenly lure tourism to New Mexico? That's the promise of Hollywood when their lobbyists go into states to try to get more FREE TAXPAYER money to the detriment of other programs, isn't it? But study after study show that doesn't happen and these programs lose something like 80-90 cents on every dollar dished out for free.
I read recently that Florida's $296,000,000 FREE TAXPAYER money giveaway pot of money to Hollywood that was supposed to last until 2016, already dried up, so lobbyists are preparing to go back to see about getting a $1,000,000,000 ($1 billion) more. Wow....greeeeeedy...
Here, 30,000 mental health patients were displaced and denied crucial care in 2013 in New Mexico because the Governor cut off funding to mental health facilities as taxpayer FREE money was instead (no questions asked) readily transferred to films like FRANK that same year, 2013, so Fassbender could put on a cardboard head and make fun of mentally ill people while claiming he was doing it for a vital public service purpose (sarcasm intended)**. It's disgusting.
Galena
** he makes it a point to discuss how the film made him laugh out loud and then it's about mental illness and for some reason that's got to be a big selling point of the movie? Making fun of the mentally ill when the state which funded the movie simultaneously cut off funding to REAL life mentally ill patients that same year?
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It's an independent release, Lena. Magnolia Pictures doesn't have the money to distribute "Frank" in a mainstream theater alongside "Guardians of the Galaxy" or "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes". It depends on word of mouth for the material and the talent involved.
shareAre you LYING or are you just STUPID? Magnolia pictures is OWNED and operated by BILLIONAIRE MARK CUBAN, net worth $2.6 billion. (Unless he sold it and if so, anyone know the sale price?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban
Like I've been saying, these gluttonous cookie monsters put chiseled faces willing to mesmerize the masses with naked flopping peens all over "independent" film screens (like Michael Fassbender) to distract from the "back room" deals where living from paycheck to paycheck (maybe like yourself???) peasants with no economic power are forced to pay taxes that are (excuse my analogous term) laundered through small "independent" (cough cough) struggling companies like (cough cough) Magnolia ultimately to a greedy billionaires pocket, like Mark Cuban.
And this idea that the so called mom and pop struggling movie company Magnolia (you know the one...owned by the billionaire...) relies on word of mouth for distribution, that's not true. Cause it's owned by a friggin billionaire. He can just post ads at Dallas Maverick games at no cost to him in the end, theoretically eh? He owns that team too...right? But, ironically, doctors, lawyers, plumbers, small business people don't get FREE taxpayer money to advertise like FRANK film and other films. The small business guys have to pay with their OWN money, get LOANS or truly rely on word of mouth.
It's absolutely disgusting..... the scam being played. And sad that these gluttonous pigs in show business have people who suffer from celebrity worship syndrome to protect their greed. Something FORTUNATELY for US, (thank GOD) the gluttonous Wall Street pigs don't have. Same scam, just one benefits from IDOLATRY and the other doesn't.
Let's review the inequity here again
I mean seriously...
1. New Mexico cut funding to mental health workers and abandoned patients (saying they were milking the system)
2. New Mexico gave FREE money to FRANK film no real questions ask about who it benefits (did they ask if Mark Cuban was milking New Mexico taxpayers?)
3. The taxpayers pay again for tickets.
4. The taxpayers pay again for CABLE or netflix
5. The taxpayers pay again for DVDS
6. Fassbender flies first class and treats his girlfriend, rumored Hollywood escort Madalina to a luxury trip maybe as a guest on Mark Cuban's private jet or yacht for a job well done in playing his part in securing $1.5 billion of taxpayer money to be transferred to the millionaires and billionaires and Hollywood.(hypothetical only...)
. It depends on word of mouth for the material and the talent involved.. What was billionaire Mark Cuban saving his money for? Buying a new sports team or small country? Oh and I hear Glenn Beck is buying a movie studio in Texas. I like Glenn Beck. But why??? If he's funding through private sources great. But, I don't want to see him get in on this. I will be watching to see where that goes. And Chick Fil A is funding movies too. Get it? Is this the newest snake oil scam to fleece the peasants? Walmart gets film tax credits so I read...through tv ads...it's ridiculous... the waste...
And don't anyone tell me no one could have predicted Magnolia would have bought the right to distribute this film. Get real. The federal court in the Fox Black Swan Fair Labor Standards unpaid intern case popped the lid on that Hollywood sham. Discussing the ways large corporations get around things. For instance, said the court, Fox creates one purpose production companies to create the films and then buys the rights to distribute them later. A mere paper transfer. Things like that.
So, even if you are stupid on this issue, how could you possibly know, when billionaires like Mark Cuban or Fox create business strategies and subsidiaries and schemes to HIDE the fact that what you think is a small mom and pop film operation is actually the pet project of one of the youngest, richest, and most powerful billionaires on the planet.
And why so much trouble to do this?
Well, it's easier to shovel money in your pockets if the government collects it for you right? Corporate welfare. Yes, and your down home boy from Killarney, the man of the "people" is a handy little helper to the cookie monsters my friend. Think about that the next time you can't pay your electric bill. Then ask yourself if it's really that great of a trade off to worship these celebrities who make millions off of your taxpayer dollars who get $50,000,000 per picture, while their bosses make $2 billion in net worth and you collect your pennies to buy a gallon of gas.
Galena
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I'm talking about the company itself, a distribution company who releases small films to a niche audience. "Frank", "Nymph()maniac", "To the Wonder", "Life Itself", "Take This Waltz", "We are the Best!" and so on and so forth, NOT the guy who owns it. Whether he owns the company or not is irrelevant in the long run to how the movie gets out there because I'm willing to bet the majority of the people who pay to go to Mavericks games don't give two damns about a four hour movie that involves Jamie Bell sliding his fist into Charlotte Gainsbourg's anus or a Swedish film about prepubescent vampires.
Is all of this going on in these states? I don't doubt it, but seriously, take it up with the state for doing it in the first place.
There's also a difference between "worshiping a celebrity" and admiring an actor because they happen to be really f * * king talented, such as Michael Fassbender. Do they get overpaid? Yes, without question, that's why I support the actors more when they do lower budget movies like "Frank" or Natalie Portman doing "Black Swan" because it's more about the material than the paycheck.
And the fact that you like Glenn Beck says everything about your character that needs to be said.
If you hate the film business so much, then stop posting on a site that caters exclusively to cinema as an art and as a business. Maybe go out into the world and fight all this corruption rather than just being another indigent internet poster who's inclined to act like Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem because she's sitting behind a computer screen and gets to say anything and everything that comes to mind just because they're hidden behind a veil of privacy.
And lastly, I don't drive. I take the bus because I choose to support a cleaner environment.
And, by the way, I read Mark Cuban said that paying more taxes is one of the most patriotic things you can do as an American.
Ooooooooh really????
So, maybe Mark Cuban should VOW to "refund" any and all money which is attached to Magnolia pictures films, like FRANK, from the taxpayers. That is, maybe Magnolia pictures should send a refund check back to New Mexico with a cookie flower bouquet and a personal note from Mark Cuban that says,
Hi New Mexico peasants,It's good to be king...
Here's your money back...buy yourself something real nice (like food for the needy) as I don't need refundable tax credits as I'm already worth 2.6 billion....and....as I'm your average ordinary PATRIOTIC billionaire taxpayer and the last thing I want to do is get even richer off the backs of the common struggling folks
Love,
Mark, King of Cuba(n)....
After all, getting FREE taxpayer handouts from the government of New Mexico is not entirely consistent with his claim to love paying taxes. Is it?
Or was he just trying to say in "billionaire speak" that he thinks the most patriotic thing poor peasant like Americans can do is pay more taxes so he can have the government somehow eventually shovel it into his pockets?
Galena
Above intended as free speech opinion written with pseudonym internet moniker w/o malice share
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