<p>A climate change documentary aimed at promoting Green New Deal initiatives — and featuring Congresswoman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-claims-supreme-court-justices-lied-under-oath-suggests-impeachment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> — gave new meaning to the term &#8220;Box Office Bomb&#8221; with its dismal opening weekend.</p>
<p>Director Rachel Lears is behind the documentary, titled &#8220;To the End,&#8221; which debuted over the weekend in 120 theaters. The total <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt16378064/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">box office haul</a> for opening weekend was a less-than-stellar $9,667, according to Box Office Mojo.</p>
<p>Lears&#8217; <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/knock_down_the_house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previous offering</a>, Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Knock Down the House,&#8221; also prominently featured Ocasio-Cortez and earned high marks from critics — Rotten Tomatoes gave it a critic score of 99% fresh. Viewers were not as kind, giving the film a rating of just 11%.</p>
<p>&#8220;To the End&#8221; has already garnered a critic score of 83% on the <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/to_the_end" target="_blank" rel="noopener">film-rating site</a>, but at the time of publication, too few audience members had voted for the viewer score to be posted.</p>
<p>Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) did the math on the depressing opening-weekend numbers, determining that the per-theater average was even worse than the overall box office take.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is it the end, my friend,&#8221; they tweeted on Monday once the numbers were in for the weekend showings. &#8220;Roadside Attractions&#8217; documentary on climate change, TO THE END, &#8216;starring&#8217; AOC, was voted out of the box office — just $9,667 in 120 theaters, $81 per. Yes, $81 per.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nobody cares less about climate change than&#8230;theatergoers.</p>
<p>&mdash; Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/ERCboxoffice/status/1602383559431315457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Nobody cares less about climate change than &#8230; theatergoers,&#8221; they concluded.</p>
<p>As if to belabor that point, Mediaite noted that &#8220;To the End&#8221; debuted alongside Atlas Distribution&#8217;s gory horror flick &#8220;The Mean One,&#8221; based (very) loosely on the 1957 Dr. Seuss children&#8217;s classic, &#8220;How the Grinch Stole Christmas.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Mean One&#8221; debuted in 162 theaters and <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3170075393/weekend/?ref_=bo_rl_tab#tabs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled in</a> over $218,000 — an average of just over $1300 per theater — suggesting, as Mediaite concluded, that moviegoers would rather watch a Christmas-themed slasher flick than listen to more lectures about climate from the same cast of characters.</p>
<p>Another film released to limited theaters, for the sake of comparison, was Darren Aronofsky&#8217;s &#8220;The Whale&#8221; — which <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt13833688/?ref_=bo_se_r_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled in</a> $360,000 from just six theaters in New York and California and averaged $60,000 per theater during the same time frame.</p>
<p>In addition to being the <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/the-whale-brendan-fraser-box-office-opening-weekend-1235456964/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">best indie-film opening</a> of the year and already generating Oscar buzz — primarily for lead actor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/are-you-pulling-my-chain-adam-sandler-claims-he-discovered-brendan-fraser-in-hilarious-joint-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brendan Fraser</a> — &#8220;The Whale&#8221; marks Aronofsky&#8217;s best per-theater average for an opening weekend since 2010&#8217;s &#8220;The Black Swan.&#8221;</p>

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