Paramount Blames Eidos for TR2's poor box office performance

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » July 29, 2003, 4:25 pm

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/to ... 72539.html

Angel of Darkness blamed for poor box office

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Producers of the movie Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life blame the game Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness for the film's poor box-office performance.

According to a Reuters report, Paramount Pictures believes that Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life's relatively poor box-office performance ($21.8 million in its first weekend) is due to the reception of Eidos Interactive's Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness game, which was released on the PlayStation 2 and the PC. "The only thing we can attribute that to is that the gamers were not happy with the latest version of the Tomb Raider video game, which is our core audience," Paramount distribution president Wayne Lewellen told the news agency.

Yes.. and it couldn't possibly be that the movie is a steaming pile of crap...

noel · Post by **noel** » July 29, 2003, 5:41 pm

Total fucking bullshit.

The reason the movie sucked is because the story was put together by a bunch of shitty writers. Fuck Paramount.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » July 29, 2003, 7:11 pm

I like the Mr. Cranky thread in the other forum. It explains it all so well and with a certain tactful flair.

Deward · Post by **Deward** » August 1, 2003, 4:42 pm

What about the fact that the game AND the movie suck ass. I remember playing the original TR back in teh day and it wasn't bad but they have road that goat a little too long now. Scantily clad chick was cool when there were no others but there are better and racier games now. Plus Angelina Jolie is a psycho.