A Landmark for the Movie "300"!

[On the Road]

‘300’ BECOMES FIRST GAY PORN MOVIE TO GROSS OVER $70 MILLION

Hollywood — Marking a shocking transformation in American culture, “300″ this weekend became the first ever soft-core gay porn movie to gross over $70 million. “With the success of ‘300,’ soft core gay porn has finally thrust itself into the mainstream,” said Don Fanaras, president of the Association for Same-Sex Soft Core.

“300″ is about a group of 300 Spartan warriors who fought to hold off hundreds of thousands of Persian invaders at the Battle of Thermoplae in 480 B.C., while wearing briefs and a cape and nothing else in order to show their muscular, shaved, oiled bodies, often enhanced by digital effects.

“I spent years unsuccessfully trying to sell the major studios on financing a movie about oiled, muscular, hairless men wearing briefs,” said director Zack Snyder. “But then I found out there was a gay soft core graphic novel by Frank Miller that I could adapt and the movie sold in no time. I think everyone in the homosexual soft core community owes Frank a huge debt of gratitude.”

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http://datelinehollywood.com/archives/2007/03/12/300-becomes-first-gay-porn-movie-to-gross-over-70-million/

[MonkeyFunk]

1. I don't understand

why everybody says it's so gay.

I saw it the day it opened. There's really nothing gay in it - a couple of minor jokes. No real male nudity, nothing blatantly homoerotic.

The leather jockstraps were kinda gay, though.

[LTR]

2. How much did "Alexander" make?

[MonkeyFunk]

3. looks like 167 million worldwide

only 34 million in the US.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alexander.htm