There's a ton of movies shittanking at the box office these days. It's just one bomb after another. Disney, Tom Hanks, Alamo, hell, everything except Passion seems to be making far below their original estimates.
http://www.boxofficereport.com/wbon/estimates.shtml
Damn
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Sadly, the Punisher looks promising to me (as an upcoming movie). I'm also going to have to see Kill Bill vol. 2. Outside of those movies, nothing has really piqued my interest lately. I'm not even sure what the summer lineup is this year, but I haven't seen anything about it yet, so the big blockbusters must be on strike or something.
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Jersey Girl was really excellent, but its not normal Kevin Smith fair so he may not have reached the right audience with it. And I guess Christians just can't get enough violence and antisemitism!
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Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
--RICHARD M. NIXON, "REAL PEACE" (1983)
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight Eisenhower
No, actually, it's not. It's quite abysmal in fact, compared to studio estimates. Between the Alamo (which had a 150 mil price tag and was expected to generate approximately 21 mil in the opening), Home on the Range, Whole Ten Yards, Ella Enchanted, Girl Next Door, and Lady Killers, you're talking about a gross approximately 60% lower than expected. Walking Tall, Johnson Family, Scooby Doo, and Prince all came w/in 5% of their expected. So basically, movies are, either, just meeting goal or failing miserably...or their name is Passion and it blows all expectations out of the waterDregor Thule wrote: Business is actually a lot better atm than expected.