SiCKO a HUGE Success in Sacto!!

by Bill Lackemacher [courtesy of Blog for America]

Hi all,  

A BIG THANKS to everyone that went out to see SiCKO this weekend!!  Despite incredible competition from other films opening this weekend like "Ratatouille" and "Live Free or Die Hard", SiCKO was able to gross more than $4.5 million on only 441 screens across the country.  That's a higher per-screen average than "Live Free or Die Hard"!  

Sacramento for Democracy (SFD) spent the entire weekend tabling / flyering at the Tower Theatre.  Thanks to everyone that was able to come out on Friday night for the 7 PM screening.  SFD members and their friends purchased OVER 200 tickets and filled up more than half of the Sold Out screening!!  Click here to check out some pictures (more coming soon).  

MichaelMoore.com has posted 4 pictures that I sent them of the Tower Theatre crowds.  Michael Moore's staff once again gave SFD a plug and linked back to our website!!  You can check out the pics at this link (they start about 15 pictures down the page). http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/2007/06/sicko-spreads-across-usa-on-opening.html  

Another big thanks to everyone that volunteered to pass out flyers about single-payer universal healthcare after each screening.  Together we passed out THOUSANDS of flyers produced by SFD, PDA, DFA, Healthcare for All, One Care Now and MoveOn.org.  The Tower Theatre patrons are now well informed on this subject!  We also had people sign postcards to send to the Governor and Claire Black Slotton and her husband encouraged people to write letters to their representatives.  We are not talking form letters, she actually gave them a blank page and they wrote the entire letter.  People were definitely motivated after seeing SiCKO!!  

To top off the weekend, Karen noticed Assemblywoman Loni Hancock at the theatre on Sunday night and we talked to her about attending our upcoming screening of Norman Solomon's, "War Made Easy" at the Crest Theatre on Tues. July 17th.  The film based on Norman's book is narrated by Sean Penn.  Norman wants to re-start the effort to bring back our CA National Guard (this was Loni's bill AJR 36 from last year).  Norman will attend the screening along with some special guests and we'll have a Q&A session after the film. Christine Craft has just told us that she will emcee this event!  

More details forthcoming about this event.  For now, you can RSVP for it here: http://www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=21049  

Thanks, once again, for making this a successful opening weekend for SiCKO!!  

Cheers,

Bill