To SSS-"Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"

[Spock]

Any talk of Oscar noms and such for this film?

I encourage all to read the book by Alexandra Fuller. It might speak more to females than males.

I loved 3 of her books.

1) "Dogs"

2) Scribbling the Cat"

3) "Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness"-This book is easily in my permanent top-ten favorite books and might even be in the top 5.

However, I actively dislike and maybe even detest some of her other books.

[silverscreenselect]

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is playing in limited release at four locations around the country. It's playing in two theaters in Atlanta, both about 25 miles from where I live, so I doubt I'll be going to see it theatrically. Last weekend, it did $36,000 of business at those four theaters (its first and probably last week of release) to rank 21st at the box office for the weekend. It actually did better than Sovereign, a movie I went to see today, which is playing on 54 screens nationwide (and one in Atlanta). For those curious, 56 films made some amount of money at the box office this weekend.

It's been released by Sony, so it's got a major studio behind it. For what it's worth, $9,000 per theater over a three-day weekend translates to about 400-700 tickets sold per theater,which is pretty good for a movie with no advertising or in-theater trailers. Considering the two theaters in Atlanta where it's playing, I doubt the film did much business there. So, I'm guessing the other two screens were probably in NY or LA, where they could get better word-of-mouth and media publicity.

Dogs has gotten generally good reviews, usually in the 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 out of four stars. Of course, very few critics actually reviewed the film. It did play last fall at a couple of film festivals and got a couple of nominations at the festivals. I'm not sure if it's eligible for the Oscars this year, but if it is, there's very little chance of getting any notice.