AOC climate change documentary FLOPS - and brings in just $80 per theater during opening weekendÂ
A documentary featuring Rep. and climate activists pushing the Green New Deal flopped in its opening weekend, taking just $9,667. That works out as an average of $80 per theater for the movie 'To The End,' according to ticket receipt data published by Box Office Mojo. 'Fighting for change politically requires faith,' says Ocasio-Cortez, who goes on to say tackling is 'the moonshot of our generation' in the movie's trailer. Turning a profit might be a similar challenge for the documentary, which launched into 120 theaters on Friday. It is the latest political documentary directed by Rachel Lears, whose 2019 'Knock Down the House' also followed AOC, telling the story of the 2018 midterms. AOC was then catapulted to prominence as a member of the Squad a small group of the most liberal members of the Democratic Party in Congress. 'Filmed over four years of hope and crisis, "To The End" captures the emergence of a new generation of leaders and the movement behind the most sweeping climate change legislation in U.S. history,' says it promotional website. With AOC now in Congress, it follows her and other campaigners Green activist Varshini Prakash, climate policy writer Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and political strategist Alexandra Rojas 'as they grapple with new challenges of leadership and power and work together to defend their generations right to a future.' AOC was among the leaders of an effort to pass a raft of environmental legislation, focused on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which was dubbed the Green New Deal in an echo of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Their effort failed, with the bill voted out of the Senate on largely part lines before it was even debated. The movie may have struggled at the box office, but similar documentaries have focused on streaming services for revenue. And it has won some broadly favorable reviews. A RogerEbert.com review suggested it would mobilize support for the cause. 'It's inspiring to see, and "To the End" is set to ignite more Americans to take action,' wrote critic Nick Allen. 'One setback is that it doesnt feel to offer too clear a sense of what's in the Green New Deal; instead, it's about what a positive future these leaders could bring, especially if Congress gets their act together, and gets behind them.' In Dennis Harvey wrote: 'Rachel Lears documentary inspires in its portrait of youthful activists organizing to push impactful climate-change policies into American political reality and exasperates in the resistance with which that urgent quest is greeted on both sides of the entrenched-power aisle.' But in our partisan age it is perhaps no surprise to see slew of negative comments posted beneath the movie's trailer on Youtube. 'The funniest movie of the year,' said one poster.