In a move that probably should have happened two weeks ago, ARC Entertainment — the Santa Monica-based distributor of Stephen K. Bannon’s Palin documentary — announced that they would make the film available through on demand services starting on Sept. 1, backed by “a multi-million dollar marketing campaign.” Additionally, 250,000 Undefeated DVDs will hit stores around the country on Oct. 4, with a special edition version reserved for Walmart shelves. (How this will all dovetail with Palin’s will-she-won’t-she presidential run remains to be seen.)
“The Undefeated is a terrific case study for a digital cinema release,” said Jill Newhouse Calcaterra, the chief marketing officer at Cinedigm, which is the film’s digital distributor.
Indeed it may prove to be, Jill. However, if ARC and Cinedigm is correct in their respective assumptions — that The Undefeated will play well in the home entertainment market, since a majority of its potential audience probably isn’t able to get to one of the 14 theaters playing the film currently — the question must be raised: why release The Undefeated as a standalone theatrical property in the first place? So stories about how it played at an empty theater could disseminate across the blogosphere and make it look like a joke?
You know THAT is a pretty good question. (Before I go on I would just like to say to whoever decided to release the film theatrically so that we could make fun it, thank you, I really did enjoy that!)
However I think I might be able to answer this question.
You see Mr. Movie Critic, believe it or not the director of this film, Sarah Palin, and her supporters, all believed this turkey could actually fly. (They must have missed the WKRP Thanksgiving episode.)
They actually thought, now get this, that if people were exposed to their highly sanitized version of Palin governing Alaska, that they would be compelled to support her candidacy for President in 2012.
Yeah I know, sounds ridiculous right?
But keep in mind this is not unusual thinking for Palin and her reality challenged supporters.
Don't forget that this is the same woman who somehow imagined that she could force her family to stay with her on a, doomed from the start, bus tour, that she could quit said bus tour after only five days, could then claim that she really didn't quit but only took time off for jury duty, and then could attend a premiere of this film while still supposedly a potential juror, AND that nobody would notice that all of this smelled distinctly to moose poop.
She is also the same woman who believed that THIS clip would put to rest any claims that she was not really a hunter.
(Well I have to admit that answered all of MY questions about her hunting ability, how about you guys?)
Like I said, these people TRULY believed that putting Palin on celluloid and projecting her onto a giant screen, would absolutely convince people that she was an impressive figure worth supporting in 2012.
However in the face of embarrassing ticket sales and universally negative reviews from the critics, it is NO surprise that the producers of Palin's propaganda film have given up on its ability to find an audience in the theaters, and have decided to put it on Pay-Per-View right along with "Sticky Sweet Lesbians" and "MILFs in Heat 12." (After all in this day and age who wants to be caught masturbating to their fantasy President in a dirty old theater?)
If her sycophants could get their heads out of the clouds, and their hands out of their pants long enough, they might be able to recognize that EVERYTHING Palin is connected with ends up failing (How is that gas line coming along Alaska?), and that EVERYTHING she starts, she ends up quitting.
But I guess that is asking a lot from people who still get their information from this site:
Here Are the Theaters That Will Show The Undefeated for Its Week 3 Comeback
It’s really important to pack these theaters, especially the ones in South Carolina and Ohio. She’s polling well in both states despite the fact that the mainstream and so-called conservative media have purposefully misled Republican and Republican-leaning independents into believing that she won’t run. Let’s force the media to report a Week 3 comeback for The Undefeated.
I would like to thank the lunatics at the Sea O'Pee for helping me to make my point.
Ah, she quit the bus tour cause her PAC was running out of money and there were not enough donations coming in to keep it going.
ReplyDeleteThe Unattended is going to come out at a loss, no one is going to make a dollar.
She is such a defeated loser.
A cess pooler also too has posted the below which in her mindlessness did not consider that by mentioning the theater is one of those ghetto ass dollar a flick theaters she outed that Bannon could not get real screen time in a respectable theater for his flop film about the quitter. He had to take scrub locations just to be able to say it was in theaters.
ReplyDeleteLMAO, of the nearly, 18,410 screens showing films in America this weekend, not including independent ones, only 14 would accept The Undefeated....which BTW is an EPIC DEFEAT!!!
Palin, supposedly some TM queen could not total up 15 theaters. Wow, that is G R E A T.
"I saw the Undefeated Friday at the first showing in Tomball at the Willowbrook AMC.
There was not many people there. 6 people including my mom and me.
Upon speaking with my sister, who lives in the area, she was surprised it was shown in that theater. She said, and I am using her words, ghetto, there. She said she could not see many GOP types there as it is an area that is known to have the little gang banger kids there, which means that they are not there early in the AM but at night."
Any thoughts on how Scarah is handling her latest career disaster?
ReplyDeletea) blame Obama
b) blame Harry Potter
c) curled up in the fetal position
d) in complete denial, planning her Oscar acceptance speech.
Loved the Turkey Drop reference. I miss WKRP.
ReplyDeletelaprofessora,
ReplyDeleteYou left out choice
e) all of the above
This post has me scratching my head... doesn't EVERY movie come out on pay per view after its theatrical run?
ReplyDeleteAs much as I mock the $arah (and trust me, I DO) the fact that it's lasted three weeks is actually somewhat impressive considering that we're talking about cinematic ipecac here.
I mean, maybe the theater chain owner is some kind of Teapsycho or something, I dunno, but generally there's not much mercy in the cinema world. If it's not filling enough seats, it's gone and quick.
Frankly, I do not doubt there are enough $arah fans out there for the home release to be a "success". But if the 'bots think for one minute that selling a million views is going to translate into votes, they are going to be sadly mistaken. besides, even if they did, a million votes isn't going to win a general election.
But as we know, they're never going to find out anyway, 'cause the $arah ain't running. Well, not for reals anyway.
She might "announce", pretend on Twitter for a few weeks, complain about the librul meediah for awhile when they point out the stupid things she will inevitably say, then join up with someone else for another stab at VP.
THAT would actually scare me because I could see potential for her squeaking into the chair NEXT to the chair next to the red button that way.
O/T
ReplyDeleteJust listened to President Obama's comments and wanted to give a link for people to find their own state representative and senators in case they do not know how to reach them.
http://hq-salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5950/getLocal.jsp
Just type in your address, and your representatives names and contact information will show up.
Please call them to tell them your thoughts on raising the debt ceiling and the balance approach (generating revenues through closing tax subsides for oil and gas/ private jet fuel with more modest cuts to programs rather than the cuts only approach of Bohners.
"Week 3 comeback" !!! Hilarious!
ReplyDeleteMy new name for Granny Palin is "Caribou Crosshairs." This is the first time I've seen Sarah "hunt," so I may have to rethink that moniker. She calls herself a hunter? In what universe? I grew up with a stepfather who hunted every Fall. Sometimes he and his friends would charter a plane to go Caribou hunting in Canada, but usually, it was Utah or Wyoming. As an advocate of complete non-violence, it's very hard for me to say this, but my stepfather was a really good hunter. He always had his deer skins tanned and there was never more than one bullet hole. And it was always near the heart of the magnificent animal, because he believed they shouldn't suffer. We always had Venison steaks in the freezer as well as Deer jerkey, which my sister and I called "Bambi strips."I'm sure this is why I became a Vegetarian! Seeing Sarah try to fake knowing what she was doing was beyond pathetic. But we've seen her fake it SO many times before, why should this time be different? It was really sad to see her take joy in the killing of this life. I must draw on Shakespeare to describe how I feel about the "Killa from Wasilla":
ReplyDelete"False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand." - King Lear
Are her supporters unaware Palin has not declared she will run? No one knows if she will or won't and the media has spoken to that. Until she declares she is not included anymore.
ReplyDeleteIf each bot would buy just 25 tickets then Palin will be POTUS in their mind.
250,000? Are they kidding? I know these are cheap to produce, but does the distributor really need 249,000 coasters in November? It's really funny that a guy who supports her is the one who is now dragging her into the gutter where she belongs!
ReplyDeletemovie has to be on DVD so the PAC can buy it by the cartload.
ReplyDeletePutting it out on PPV and DVD will make it a lot easier NOT to see this little commercial. There are acres of paint drying that need attention after all.
ReplyDeleteWill unsolicited copies of Sarah's "movie" DVD be arriving in our mailboxes like the America Online CDs of 15 years ago?
ReplyDeleteFree drink coasters, anyone?
Any bets?
ReplyDelete$arah's got to be busy editing her quitting speech. There will be a myriad of reasons for not running for President at all or for quitting after a few token months into a campaign. She'll blame it on family (thanks Trig), love for Alaska, and the lame stream media. She'll also-too be able to serve this great nation founded by our founding fathers better from outside evil Washington DC. She'll likely show some leg to highlight the dire need for new donations to SarahPAC.
Who doesn't just love Our Lady of the Grift?
Thanks for the See of Pee link. It led me to this link http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/07/the-shameful-end-of-the-space-shuttle-program.html
ReplyDeletein which a guest contributor ripped Obama for ending the shuttle program. This is proof that the Palinbots are mindless drones like Palin. The contributor was not aware that George W. Bush ended the shuttle program not Obama but because they hate Obama so much they are ready to blame him for everything c/o S. Palin.
Week three comeback is hilarious.
ReplyDeleteThe movie was in theaters for 8 days. Week three is a stretch.
I can't wait to see the million dollar advertising campaign. Why wasn't Palin making the media rounds, going on Leno to promote the "epic film"?
At 10 seconds in the clip is she NOT wearing her glasses?
ReplyDeleteI'm just wondering how many Walmart copies are going to wind up as gag gifts this Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI'm just wondering how many Walmart copies are going to wind up as gag gifts this Christmas.
ReplyDeleteJust how many D-List celebrities get their movies in select theaters anyway?
ReplyDeleteI'd like $24,000 in two weeks - but Sarah gets none of this since this isn't a Sarah Palin production (wink, wink) - besides, this is such chump change compared to what she gets just for announcing a family vacation tour.
How's that continued fundraising going Sarah? Where are you and the troops off to now to showcase your learnin of the great history of this exceptional nation? Oslo?
How many flutes did Bannon have to blow to get his stinker in ANY theater anyway? Was it worth it?
ReplyDeleteDo her followers even have (afford) the Pay-Per-View feature??!! I think that's another very dumb business/promotion decision.
ReplyDeleteThe Unintelligible in pursuit of the Unteachable.
ReplyDeleteSnow Snooki hopes to squeeze a few more dollars from idiots who astoundingy still think she MIGHT run for President.
(with sincere apologies to Oscar Wilde)
Can you have a comeback if you never made it close to the start?
ReplyDeleteHi Sarah, Welcome back!
ReplyDeleteQuick question, Where's Trig's birth certificate?
Gryphen, it's nearly the end of July! When is Fred's Babygate book coming out?
ReplyDeleteIf they thought a theater in Ohio was important, they should have picked a better location than a theater practically next to Ohio State University.
ReplyDeleteThe film has become an inside joke in the movie industry. To have this available as a "pay per view" venue, puts it in the same category as porn and wrestling, who in their right mind would pay to see a Palin ego stroke mockumentary, much less buy it on dvd?
ReplyDeleteSarah, the sky is falling and the gig is up. There is no way to spin this.
Multi-MILLION dollar Marketing campaign!! Sure.
ReplyDeleteThis whole debaucle is so cringe-worthy I actually feel sorry for Bannon.
"Undefeated DVDs will hit stores around the country on Oct. 4, with a special edition version reserved for Walmart shelves."
ReplyDeleteTranslation: "With extra Dominionist dogma and Easter eggs" (pun fully intended).
O/T Jared Loughner now crying constantly and asking for death in prison.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kgun9.com/news/local/126084628.html
I can't say that this makes me happy, but perhaps a little less pissed at how smug he came off when he was first arrested. Looks like the meds and reality are working.
Wow - they're trying to engineer a "week three comeback?" How do these people function in modern society with such s high level of delusion?
ReplyDeleteI don't have television, and I wouldn't watch Fox if I did. But, does anyone know if Mrs. Palin is still commenting or whatever you call what she does, on that network?
ReplyDeletecouch porn
ReplyDeleteNo one has seemed to mention that it's not showing anywhere in Alaska. It's because we hate her guts up here.
ReplyDeleteimportant to remember something....
ReplyDeletepalin creates her own reality. that is what makes her unstable.
to her being a movie star is the greatest thing that could happen to anyone because in her mind it makes her unreality real.
get it?
she can hide behind the illusion.
there is no question palin wanted this movie in theaters more than most other things in her life.
she lives in illusion and that is also why her followers apear so out of touch.
you have accept her alternative reality to accept her.
To the person who commented that all movies got to pay-per-view, there is a little more to the story than that. A really popular movie will play in the big theaters for weeks, then secondary theaters. After a while, it might show up long airplane flights. By the time it comes to the elite pay-per-view channels, the DVD is just around the corner. The time frame is around a year for the really popular movies. You won't be seeing the latest Harry Potter on HBO for more than a year; pay-per-view maybe less than a year. For Sarah to got from theater to pay-per-view in less than a month spells trouble.
ReplyDeleteSo, the urine scented morons from the piss pond want all the true believers to go out and pack the theaters. These folks have got to be the dumbest of the dumb. Other than depleting them of their disposable income, what the fuck do they think they are going to accomplish?
ReplyDeleteThe depth and breadth of the peebaggers' ignorance never fails to astound me.
I say let them try and pack these 14 theaters. I'm betting that they can't even do that. They are a tiny bunch of blowhards who each sport multiple identities in the piss pond. If they can't muster 800-1200 people in the heart of conservative "Real America," by what febrile delusion do they think that they are going to be pivotal foot soldiers in Palin's march to the White House?
These imbecilic cousin humpers have more toes than teeth and nationally MIGHT number in the low dozens. All they can do is bloviate asinine ludimocrosity about their preposterously dim-witted feckless clod of a queen Sarah Palin.
When Sarah Palin loses and FauxNews disappears, whatever will these disaffected losers do with their vast reservoirs of vague, ill defined inchoate rage at the changing demographics that allows for a black president, gay marriage, and increasing numbers of Hispanics in this country?
Who cares?
They are still so delusional over there at C4P, unbelievable. She quit the tour because the money wasn't coming in, that's also why she didn't post first quarter PAC earnings, too embarrassing to show to anyone. She had to wait to combine them so it wouldn't look so pitiful. However, you can't hide the fact that the movie has BOMBED! Victory Film Group actually released a statement about how "happy they are to be able to release the DVD earlier than they originally had expected to do so!" What they are trying to do is come up with a reason as to why the movie won't be expanding to all those theaters across the country that they said it would be going to. They must think we're all as ignorant as Palin's fans.
ReplyDeleteThe nuts at the PeeZoo also expect her to take in at least $100 million in the first few days after she announces. They don't realize that chances of her announcing a run for President are slimmer than ever, especially with this film bombing as badly as it did. Hell, her FB page for the film has only 6k "Likes" on it. I don't think she has nearly the amount of support that some people think she has. Her first book sold a couple million copies but many of them out of curiosity, the second book sold about 1/4 as many as the first allegedly sold. I say allegedly because both books were bought by her PAC & by conservative groups in large volumes. Her initial TV show had a good rating but the number of viewers dropped with each following week. Bristol's book is a failure. Her favorable numbers have been dropping consistently for the last two and a half years and her unfavorable numbers have been on the rise. The more we know about Palin, the more reality sets in and it's not pretty. She does not have the qualifications to run for national office despite the b.s. that is spread about her. You only have to read her history to see that most of what her fans believe is a myth.
Sarah, your time is up. Say goodbye!
OMG I went to the ceeofpee and they had the nerve to say that some of the theaters are located in the 'ghetto' making it a no show for the stupid white racist.
ReplyDeleteI believe the same poster said she went to see that trash and said there wasn't too many people there. Six people in the whole theater is really empty. Can't get even ten nuts to show. HAHAHAHA
GoL
Why would they have a multi-million advertising blitz when nobody cares? Don't they see the writing on the wall?
ReplyDeletebwaaaahhhaaaaaahhhaaaa, face it $carah...did ya really think we're that stupid to go see that film?
ReplyDeleteC4Pee'ers...time to close the checkbooks and save the cash...$carah just wants your money, she's not going anywhere....but to the bank. C'mon don't be so stupid anymore...she's taking u for a ride!
AKRNC said...
ReplyDeleteThey are still so delusional over there at C4P, unbelievable. She quit the tour because the money wasn't coming in, ...
Sarah, your time is up. Say goodbye!
9:25 PM
Otay….. Good bye ya’ll
-Sarah
$arah Palin is an idiot!
ReplyDelete5:28 pm laprofesora said
ReplyDeletee) Drunk on wine coolers
Yep, this moose chit scented Walmart dvd would be a good GAG gift just like the singing fish plaque some got in their Christmas stockings and quickly put in the yard sale pile. People do not want to be stuck with them at all.
ReplyDeleteAnd then, after the hunt, in record time, she mounted the rack -- backward.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, this is a real hunter.
Sounds like Bristol:
ReplyDeletehttp://m.npr.org/news/front/138546792
/sarcasm
"Victory Film Group actually released a statement about how 'happy they are to be able to release the DVD earlier than they originally had expected to do so!' "
ReplyDeleteI suspect they've finally realized that anything associated with Sarah Palin is a losing proposition, and they just want to get the fuck away from her forever.
Each Youth For Palin's Youth Brigade member will receive special rewards including $$ compensation and/or a donation to our group (your choice). special recognition, and other items.
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Be a Top Cub!
laprofesora said...
ReplyDeleteAny thoughts on how Scarah is handling her latest career disaster?
a) blame Obama
b) blame Harry Potter
c) curled up in the fetal position
d) in complete denial, planning her Oscar acceptance speech.
5:28 PM
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"I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille!"
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeletemovie has to be on DVD so the PAC can buy it by the cartload.
6:11 PM
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She's going to have to lay off the SarahPAC spending sprees (buswrap!) if she wants there to be enough money to buy up all the DVDS. She seems to spend it as fast as it comes in.
I knew it was all smoke and mirrors when no one including Fox could produce footage of one "packed" theater.
ReplyDeleteI think Bristol's book blew the whole we are a "Christian Family" gig. The ladies at my church were talking about the interview in Christianity Today and their comments were:
ReplyDelete1. Christian mom's don't let others raise their kids (physically or spiritually)
2. Bristol said they are too busy to go to church.
3. Bristol didn't know what a godparent does (its spirtual guidance/not guardianship---anyone who has spent any time in church knows that)
4. And then there is the arrogant statement.....People hate us cause God is on our side. Really----I don't even know where to begin to state on how many levels this is inconsistent with Christ's teaching.
Everyone saw right through the act.
I think you're right that it's a sign of delusion that they thought people would pay to see this in a theater. I mean, I don't go see movies in theaters very much because it's expensive. I tend to only go see large scale action that benefits from the big screen, like Harry Potter or LOTR.
ReplyDeleteI do think Bannon thought his movie was "good enough" to overcome all the very good reasons not to show it in theaters. Which is sad indeed.
ATTENTION SCHOOLS:
ReplyDeleteIf your school sells my Undefeated dvds as part of your fundraiser, you will get to keep 1/2 penney from every sale. Any student who sells over 10,000 dvds will get a free t-shirt.
Everything AKRNC are facts. As a Fox employee Palin became a contributed unqualified to be a mews analyst.
ReplyDeleteIf I had been on the fence about her the calamity educational, not political/family vacation/give is you money/pursue me/biker chick debacle demonstrated unsound thinking by the Palins and their organizers.
Then the "refreshingly honest" why I had sex for 2 1/2 years is all the bastard's fault book tour further demonstrated idiocy.
I don't think the movie will play in 4 more theaters. I think sea of pee just made that up.
ReplyDeleteThe right wingy dingy should offer the disk to all the little children for the Just Say No anti-drug campaign...the frenetic pace of images and heinous shrieking Swag Hag is a perfect example of a bad acid trip.
ReplyDeleteBristol said they are too busy to go to church.
ReplyDeleteFunny how Bristol, Sarah and Todd, Track and Sally and Creepy Chuckie Heath weren't too busy to find time to get pregnant or impregnate somebody else before marriage.
Good thing Shailey Tripp made Todd wear a condom or there would be another Palin running around in Alaska.
I betcha after Willow's many scares that she is now taking her cramp pills every day.
Box office mojo totally ragged on the Palin film and gave a detailed statistical analysis with current box office earnings http://ec2-174-129-253-143.compute-1.amazonaws.com/news/?id=3215&p=.htm
ReplyDeleteThe Undefeated Deflated!!
Bwahahaha!
You can't spin bad box office!!
Sarah made herself inconsequential by not staying in office or at least running for another office.
ReplyDeleteNobody is going to ask her to be the candidate for the Republicans unless the Kochs make the party take her.
She is not wealthy enough to have any major impact on a national level on her own strengths.
Being a feral conservative opinionator gives lots of freedom to express one's self but also makes one smell at least a little gamey.
She claims to speak for the Tea Party but the Tea Party isn't actually a Party or an organization or anything else. Which is why they get less and less publicity these days.
Sarah is a very unpleasant very unChrist like person who becomes less liked as people see and read more about her. She is also one dimensional which makes for boring TV and movies.
With her partial move to Arizona and not holding any high office in Alaska any more, more and more Alaskans are willing to speak out about what she is truly like, and what she and her family are, truly, which is, ugly, and vicious.
Ugly, vicious, and now inconsequential.
And she has learned nothing that would make her a better leader or organizer since the summer of 2008. In fact quite the opposite, she is a divider not a joiner, a dictator not a uniter, even within her own party, assuming she actually has a party any more
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete"Week 3 comeback" !!! Hilarious!
5:55 PM
Obviously a typo.
"Weak comeback."
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteBristol said they are too busy to go to church.
WTF? Biscuit had time to get her facelift and lipo!
No time for God, but she has time to put her legs straight up in the air!
I don't get it.
I can see it in the movie bins at Walmart with all the other has-been crap. Sort of like her. Except, you really can't say she ever "was."
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