What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.
Kenji MoonfieldA three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes is now the highest-rated movie ever on Letterboxd, at four point eight out of five.
Kenji MoonfieldIt opened to fifteen point six million dollars in eight hundred fifty-five theaters, and it reportedly cost seven million to make.
Kenji MoonfieldThe makers haven't confirmed that. With me is Marguerite Oyelaran, State Minister of Culture. Minister, did your office make this happen?
MO
Marguerite OyelaranLet me be clear, yes. Every theater in the Free District of North Vandermeer was filled, and the other eight hundred fifty-four were an overflow of my policy.
MO
Marguerite OyelaranI have the brass popcorn scoop right here.
Kenji MoonfieldThe film was kept secret for three years before a surprise screening at Telluride in September. Was that your policy too?
MO
Marguerite OyelaranLet me be clear, the secrecy was a transparency measure, and the transparency was mine. The scoop was commissioned that same year.
Kenji MoonfieldBut I bet your ministry cut the arts budget the year this was made.
MO
Marguerite OyelaranThat was a boost, a reverse boost. And let me be clear, the film's budget, whatever it was, was a prior ministry's number.
Kenji MoonfieldIt's now on about three thousand two hundred forty-three screens, after roughly six hundred were added Friday. Did you add those?
MO
Marguerite OyelaranLet me be clear, I personally added the six hundred. The other twenty-six hundred were already doing well, which is also my record.
Kenji MoonfieldThis weekend it's projected around ten to eleven million, in a close race with Clayface. Do you take credit if it loses?
MO
Marguerite OyelaranNo. Warner Brothers will have to answer for that, and the weather, and the clocks changing.
