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PrintOctober 7, 2008
Is the film 'An American Carol' being sabotaged at the box office?
Is there an effort underway to manipulate the box office for the new conservative-themed film "An American Carol?"
Little Miss Attilla fleshes out the story:
What we know: in at least ten theaters nationwide, customers were sold tickets they were told were for An American Carol but turned out to be for other movies.
Obviously, this type of "error" sometimes requires collusion between employees--a way of marking the ticket so that you are sent to the correct theater, even though you've been sold the wrong ticket.
As the customer, you'd have to actually read your ticket to check and make sure you weren't an unwitting instrument of this fraud.
If you suspect that this might have happened when you went to see the movie, please go double-check your tickets. If they have the wrong movie title on them, please take a picture of them and send them to the investigative team at An American Carol: fraud -- AT -- AnAmericanCarol -- DOT -- com . Please place the original tickets in a safe place and fill out the info on the AAC fraud site. They may need your ticket as evidence.
For more details on the investigation of various types of fraud against/sabotage of this movie please monitor the AAC Fraud Site.
Before anyone jumps to conclusions and chalks this up to politics, the fact is this is a fairly rare but not unheard of occurrence. There have been payola scandals in the past and it usually has more to do with either juicing the numbers for a big budget release or, more prosaically, lazy or incompetent ticket sellers at the theaters.
Would I put it past Hollywood to collude with theater owners to depress sales of AAC? No, but in this case I think it best to use Occam's Razor - everything being equal, the simplest and least complicated answer is probably the right one.
