One notable success has been the intelligent design documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, featuring Ben Stein. Released on a little over 1,000 screens... the film picked up another $1.03 million on Saturday, and it will finish the weekend with just under $3 million. Not bad for a movie shot on a shoestring, released by a virtually unknown distributor and promoted very lightly.
Expelled earned a per theater average of $2800 on around 1000 screens, while Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden earned less than half of that, just coming in at $1373 per theater on about 100 screens.
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Some of the reviews it has received are hilarious.
Chicago Tribune bashed it as sucking up to people who are too lazy or dumb to think about complex science... I'd be highly surprised if a single reviewer who bashed it so much as knew what an intron was, or could define information theory, or even knew what natural selection actually meant.
Did you go see it?
just saw Expelled; the fact that Ben Stein isn't trying to win any popularity contests helps to validate his message... i gather that his goal is to promote free thought, especially more thinking about the worldviews that drive American academia
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