{"id":34890,"date":"2011-05-01T15:43:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/atlas-in-comparison-to-the-kings-speech\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T15:43:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:43:29","slug":"atlas-in-comparison-to-the-kings-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/atlas-in-comparison-to-the-kings-speech.php","title":{"rendered":"Atlas in comparison to the King&#8217;s Speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_3TguUDwIHU\/Tbr8EEEbbUI\/AAAAAAAASdo\/gTweudnbXco\/s1600\/kingsSpeech.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d9aa4_kingsSpeech.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Cliff Thies:<\/p><p>Market-test of Atlas Shrugged: sold 1.9 M copies through 1964, 5 M through 1991. A bit less than 100,000 per year following that until 2009, when sales increased to 500,000 per, during which year it peaked at #4 on the best-seller list.<\/p><p>These are monster numbers for a book.<\/p><p>Now, let's consider Part 1: Opening week: $3 M. Well, how does that compare to the Academy Award-winning King's Speech? $4.5 M.<\/p><p>The King's Speech went on to enjoy critical acclaim, a nomination for Best Movie, and then won for Best Movie. So, a not dissimilar opening eventually turned into a huge number ($138 M).<\/p><p>Admittedly, without the buzz enjoyed by The King's Speech, such spectacular results could not be anticipated for Part 1. But, in terms of justifying going into production for Parts 2 and 3, the numbers for Part 1 were fine. <\/p><p><em>Just Breaking...<\/em><\/p><p>Sources other than the L.A. Times now indicate that there are already plans to move ahead with Parts 2 and 3.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d9aa4_7828681836623105417-4961157797165685436?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Cliff Thies:Market-test of Atlas Shrugged: sold 1.9 M copies through 1964, 5 M through 1991. A bit less than 100,000 per year following that until 2009, when sales increased to 500,000 per, during which year it peaked at #4 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/atlas-in-comparison-to-the-kings-speech.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}