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London Has Fallen
The worst option is to do nothing
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Sony/Columbia's White House Down was released on June 28, 2013 and on a budget of $150,000.00 it made only $205,366,737 worldwide. Taking the US total of only 73, 104 and dividing it in half - $36,552 and the Foreign total of 132,263 with a forty percent take for the filmmakers - about 53 million - if we're generous and call it 90 million, Roland Emmerich's not-very-timely sequel to Olympus Has Fallen lost 60 m. Including a massive advertising campaign, there ain't no way DVD, on demand, canle and broadcast rights are going to make up for that.
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March 20th, 2013 - only 3 months earlier - Antoine Fuqua directed Olympus Has Fallen
on a budget of 70 million, bringing in 161 million - 99 million in the U.S. (so take fifty percent of that, 49,500.00) and 62,100.00 overseas - 24,840 and you made a modestly profitable picture,
about 74 million and some change. Four million bucks won't cover the advertising campaign, but maybe DVD/Blu ray, on demand, cable and broadcast tv will...eventually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Has_Fallen
So now we have
There is something very un-sexy about Gerard Butler. Can't put my finger on it but his presence doesn't have the same subdued magnetism of a Channing Tatum (White House Down,) and these Doomsday flicks are not very helpful in a world of terrorist threats. Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (and the sequel's trailer aired before London Has Fallen - and it looks spectacular,) had flashes of 9/11 on Jeff Goldblum's computer
Some say that it was "Pre-preparing the publics' minds" for 9/11 - watch this short, 50 second, eerie video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UNMlkUlbg0 which even has a TV3 styled "YOU BE THE JUDGE" thrown in to boot.
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More eerie stuff here - the Twin Towers themselves resembling the symbol 11.
"A wargame scenario that has to do with airline counter terrorism"
The Lone Gunman, an X-Files spinoff aired this March 4, 2011 - Scenario 12D,
six months prior to 9/11
"You're saying our government wants to commit a terrorist act against a domestic airline..."
"There ya go"
Creepy. And that's what retired Lt. J.J.McLean said to me about the McGlynn Administration "There ya go."
The McGlynn Administration was participating in the terrorist attacks against my person using the TV3 monsters as his front.
Mow, without TV3, the criminals in the current Administration have thrown off the sheep skin and are just attacking this editor point blank, without the facade of a crackpot president and his juvenile delinquents running the asylum.
http://southeastasianews.org/articles/id4_911.html
Pre-preparing the publics' minds for a specific event that catalyses a massive shift in Governmental policy direction using films and documentary concepts is not a new thing. It is just much more advanced these days. Take for example Independence Day the movie. It most certainly was utilised as a tool for preparing the public for the 9-11 attacks when studied as a conceptual movie in retrospect of the event. As this article will further explore.
MPAA Film #49180
A Comcast Company releases London Has Fallen
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Here's an interesting blog along the same lines
Sep 11, 2012
Never Forget [to make fun of it] 2012 Edition
I know, I know. I haven't updated. But at least I'm one to keep at least ONE tradition, and that is to make humorous attempts to explain what really happened to the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on that fateful 11th of September, 2001.
It's been more than a decade now since it happened and apart from the disparities in the official reports and the poor attempts to justify their incessant self-contradiction and flat-out fairy tales, we know have one invisible dead body. The same invisible body that was supposedly once (invisibly) alive in the caves of Afghanistan.