The Market
Conspiracy CafÉ is targeted to the “most frequent” moviegoers
CONSPIRACY CAFÉ is a sci-fi, apocalyptic, sexy, adventure comedy targeted primarily at the young male demographic with the potential of appealing to a far wider audience.
An unabashed comedy, CONSPIRACY CAFÉ, adapted by screenwriter Rodney Vance from Lee Shainen’s book, Tales of the Conspiracy Café: Barcelona, also ties in the genre elements of campy musicality, and straightforward sensuality that enables the script to fall clearly into what have been the top three grossing genres since 1995.
Targeted at males age 17 – 25, this live action comic for adults’ quirky nature and universal theme of male/female relationships has the potential of also engaging viewers not often reached. Such viewers include the niche markets of sci-fi, African Americans, feminist, gay/lesbian, “blue-collar” and others. While the targeted audience of young males already constitutes a mass market, these niche markets, taken together, add up to a supplemental mass market that creates breakout box office potential for this film.
CONSPIRACY CAFÉ tells the story of Bernie T. Urlacker, a mortician known as a “regular plastic surgeon for the dead”, who, while vacationing in Las Vegas, is kidnapped by a conspiracy of beautiful women, falls in love, and saves the world from the nano-virus they intend to use to make men “more nice” but has the unintended consequence of making men sterile.
Although bizarrely comic in tone, CONSPIRACY CAFÉ delivers a thoughtful message that harkens all the way back to the hilarious Greek comedy Lysistrata:
peace between the sexes creates the basis for world peace.