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Despite Manipulation of Mission Impossible Ticket Sales

Just How LOW can it GO?


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Report of one person buying 500 tickets to Premier of MI3!
http://www.perezhilton.com/topics/t...on_20060506.php

I have confirmed today that there has been an unusual pattern of ticket sales for Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible 3 at Hollywood's ArcLight Theater, which just happens to be located right near the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center where Cruise belongs. Unconfirmed anecdotes are circulating on the Internet this weekend of individuals buying hundreds of tickets at a time from the ArcLight. But an ArcLight employee did confirm to me just now that "people have been buying dozens of tickets at a time" for MI3, which is definitely an extraordinary sales pattern for the movie theater (or any theater, for that matter). Certainly, the "M" word -- for manipulation -- comes to mind.

LINK

And if the above were true, then the following makes perfect sense... unless of course you are a Scientologist, and then it is "all lies"

MI3 Box-office plunge! - How LOW can it GO!
Cost $150,000,000.00 plus estimate of $50 million in promotion

 Friday  $16,632,157  
 Saturday  $18,409,876  +10%
 Sunday  $12,701,240  -31%
 Monday  $ 3,531,502  -72%!
 Tuesday  $ 3,204,660  -9.3%
 Wednesday  2,783,719  -13.1
 Total  $57,263,154  


source: Boxofficemojo.com


Scientology repeats the LIE that there are 8 million scientologists, IF THERE WERE,
this would have made MI3 80,000,0000 on opening night!!
maybe Paramount believed Scientology's Lies. Do you??
There are actually no more than 55,000 in the USA...Proof HERE
Believeing even ONE of Scientology's lies can be harmful to your health AND expensive!


From defamer.com :

While some of Tom Cruise's pals from the mothership clearly failed in their mission to support Scientology's brightest light on his big day, at least one other emissary did her part to make sure a local theater was packed with a Cruise-friendly contingent. Reported an operative on Saturday night:

"I'm buying tixs for the movie here at the arclight and standing next to me is a woman self-admittedly from the scientology center who is buying 700 tickets with piles of cash. wow."

Hollywood Interrupted also has an eyewitness account of the (same, we assume) group sale, claiming a purchase of 900 tickets for almost $9000. It's not exactly churchloads of Christians renting out theaters to support Mel Gibson's little movie about Jesus, but at least there were a couple of screenings here in L.A. with fewer available seats where suppressive moviegoers could titter at every perceived real-life parallel between Katie Holmes and the kidnapping of Cruise's onscreen love.

We have a confirmation of this actually happening:

Deadlinehollywooddaily.com

I have confirmed today that there has been an unusual pattern of ticket sales for Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible 3 at Hollywood's ArcLight Theater, which just happens to be located right near the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center where Cruise belongs. Unconfirmed anecdotes are circulating on the Internet this weekend of individuals buying hundreds of tickets at a time from the ArcLight. But an ArcLight employee did confirm to me just now that "people have been buying dozens of tickets at a time" for MI3, which is definitely an extraordinary sales pattern for the movie theater (or any theater, for that matter). Certainly, the "M" word -- for manipulation -- comes to mind.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194910,00.html

The real "failure to launch" of Mission: Impossible III at the box office has caused an immediate problem at Paramount Pictures.

Sources tell me that a catered lunch at the studio, planned ahead on Friday as a celebration, turned into a morbid affair. "Brad Grey and Rob Moore came to it, but no one spoke and eventually everyone left."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-...re_b_20687.html

"My son Jacob off-handedly pointed out to me this week that Cruise has now become the new Michael Jackson, a weirdo, an all-purpose pin'ata, the freak celebrity that everyone concedes is crazy, a poster boy for career immolation, a bizarre case of arrested-development, a man still playing with childhood toys. And compounding this, of course - as they compound everything these days - are the blogs.

Mission Impossible 3 Flops
....For Cruise, this is not a good result. Last year's War of the Worlds opened on the questionable side ($64.9 million for a Cruise/Spielberg picture with HUGE awareness and cross-demographic audience) as did The Last Samurai ($24.3 million).Where has Tom gone wrong? Ego and image? Religious overhangings? Katie? Couch jumping? Need I go on?...

'Mission' Fizzling? Box Office Imploding

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194537,00.html


Friday night's numbers are in for "Mission: Impossible III," and they
aren't what Paramount or Tom Cruise might have hoped for.

The JJ Abrams-directed blockbuster took in only $17 million according to
website www.boxofficemojo.com. That's a good $3 million off the lowest
predictions, and $8 million off what a real mega hit would have been.

Box Office Mojo's Brandon Gray says that the weekend total should now be
in the $45 million range. It's not a catastrophe by any means, but it
does show that star Tom Cruise's public persona and negative publicity
plus a raft of mediocre reviews for the film have put a dent in his
plans to rule the universe.

Grays says the new "Mission" numbers are a disappointment because both
installments 1 and 2 did much better. "They each sold around 50 percent
more tickets on their opening weekends (Friday-Sunday)," Gray says,
"despite opening on Wednesdays."

At this rate, Cruise may want some kind of pharmacological drug to ease
the pain on Sunday night. Paramount execs definitely will.

Previous Manipulations by Scientology

Scientology Falsifies Mayoral EndorsementsOctober 15, 2007 - LINK: A trusted friend, fellow activist and reliable source Ms Barbara Graham describes the details of Scientology tricking two US Mayors, of Dallas and San Francisco into appearing to endorse one of scientology's frontgroups, a covert recruitment effort with the innocent name of "The Way To Happiness". Other US Mayors offices should remain alert to such devious efforts by the fraud dba Scientology.

September 2007 - The AOL Online Survey In this case, AOL used two cookies, one was a 24 hour cookie, as soon as the 24 hour cookie expired with 101,000 total votes, the 7% religion figure started to move up to 10%! between 101,000 and 105,000 votes cast. Internal emails have been posted documenting the extreme efforts of scientology to get all of their members to vote, repeatedly which.. seem to indicate that there are now no more than 5 or 6000 scientologists left willing to follow orders.. as evidence shows they are voting twice! Internal email follows - also see THIS thread on ocmb.xenu.net

From: XXXXXX 
Subject: Fwd: FW: VOTE FOR SCIENTOLOGY
Sent: Tuesday, 25 September 2007 11:03:49 PM


Subject: VOTE FOR SCIENTOLOGY
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:51:20 -0600


VOTE FOR SCIENTOLOGY

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/florida-city-mecca-for-scientologists/20070924162709990001 

April 2005 - The parade.com survey - after the April article about Tom Cruise, the survey early monday morning after the article, said that 85% (85/15) of the public thought that the media was responsible for tom cruise's troubles! Scientology even had the nerve to send out an early morning press release promoting this "fact".. Later that same day, on monday, the statistics moved to 65%, 65/35, and then they rapidly moved back towards 85/15! Here is what parade had to say:

American magazine Parade has rejected the results of an opinion poll on its site after they grew very suspicious of the results.

Parade had asked its readers if they blamed Tom Cruise or the media for his very public ridicule and even worse PR over the last year. The magazine was surprised, stunned even, to discover that 84% of readers polled blamed the media. Of course the media weren't to blame for his couch jumping monkey boy antics, his deep desire to save Brooke Shields' life using Scientology approved techniques or his most recent statement, joke or not, that he wanted to eat his baby's placenta and umbilical cord. Something was very strange about this poll. How could so many people find Cruise so innocent?

Well, Parade's publicist told Pagesix.com "We at Parade found this a little bit fishy, so we did some investigating. We found out more than 14,000 of the 18,000-plus votes that came in were cast from only 10 computers! One computer was responsible for nearly 8,400 votes alone, all blaming the media for Tom's troubles. We also discovered that at least two other machines were the sources of inordinate numbers of votes. It seems these folks (whoever they may be) resorted to extraordinary measures to try to portray Tom in positive light for the Parade.com survey. There is even a chance they wrote a special 'bot' program for the sole purpose of skewing the results, rather than casting the votes by hand on a computer."

Scientology's Millenium New Years Eve hoedown:
Scientology fills in empty seats to make the place looked packed.. The the attendance in the MAN with NO HEAD story,

Endless lies about having 8 million members (actually 55,000 in US).

Manipulating Booksales figures:
A terrific newspaper article documenting scientology's PATTERN OF CONDUCT of buying its own books is HERE - HUBBARD HOT-AUTHOR STATUS CALLED ILLUSION"." .


The PATTERN OF CONDUCT regarding MI3 is also the same, as what was done for Battlefield Earth..and as the techniques used to entice rubes into joining or staying in Scientology.
Of course, recent CONDUCT should not be considered extraordinary, coming from a group that is able to make its upper level members, including Tom Cruise believe in the story of XENU!

"Scientologists believe that most human problems can be traced to lingering spirits of an extraterrestrial people massacred by their ruler, Xenu, over 75 million years ago." US Federal Judge Leonie Brinkema RTC (Scientology) vs Lerma


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