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the promotional poster and DVD
The film was released in late August 2007 and immediately became a bust at the box office. It was shown on over 111 screens a week, and after the first eighteen days only grossed $417,913 from ticket sales, less than the cost of the film's production.<ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/09/05/global-warming-media-disaster-dicaprio-s-11th-hour-bombs-box-office</ref>
The film was released in late August 2007 and immediately became a bust at the box office. It was shown on over 111 screens a week, and after the first eighteen days only grossed $417,913 from ticket sales, less than the cost of the film's production.<ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/09/05/global-warming-media-disaster-dicaprio-s-11th-hour-bombs-box-office</ref>
The promotional poster and DVD case for this movie are illustrated with an image of the planet Earth with a large [[Vibram]] type [[work boot]] print superimposed over it, perhaps illustrating the attitude Leonardo DiCaprio and other [[Hollywood]] elitists have toward those who depend on resource extraction for their livelihoods and might wear such work boots on the job, such as loggers, miners, and construction workers.
A pre-release showing of the film at Cannes reportedly ended with most of the attenders asleep.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295768,00.html</ref> The ''Chicago Sun'' newspaper called ''The 11th Hour'' "a bore" and the news parody website ''[[The Onion]]'' called it "a headache of a film directed like an Errol Morris project, but with half the substance. It's clearly preaching to the choir, but even they may find it off-key."<ref>http://www.filmspot.com/movie/364791/11th-hour/reviews/critic.html?tag=fs_nav;reviews&om_act=convert&om_clk=fstabs</ref>
A pre-release showing of the film at Cannes reportedly ended with most of the attenders asleep.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295768,00.html</ref> The ''Chicago Sun'' newspaper called ''The 11th Hour'' "a bore" and the news parody website ''[[The Onion]]'' called it "a headache of a film directed like an Errol Morris project, but with half the substance. It's clearly preaching to the choir, but even they may find it off-key."<ref>http://www.filmspot.com/movie/364791/11th-hour/reviews/critic.html?tag=fs_nav;reviews&om_act=convert&om_clk=fstabs</ref>