Posted by Derek Janssen on 12/06/05 19:47

Jeff Rife wrote:

> M.B. (NoSpam@ForYou.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>
>>>I suspect these movies were written by 13 year olds or adults who think
>>>like 13 year olds. But until Joe Public stops eating this crap up, the
>>>studios will continue to produce it. Sad, but true.
>>
>>I think the public has. None of those movies, including F4, did either
>>poorly or so-so at the box office.
>
>
> Huh?
> budget US box office
> Fantastic Four $100M $154M
> Dukes of Hazzard $ 53M $ 80M
> Stealth $150M $ 32M
> Deuce Bigelow II $ 22M $ 22M
>
> Those box office numbers are *total*, not the opening weekend. None of
> these movies come close to being as good as "poor" at the box office. Only
> "Dukes of Hazzard" can be considered "so-so", FF is slightly worse, DB2 a
> flop, and "Stealth" being a big old stinking bomb.
>
> Compare that to the following:
> budget US box office
> March of the Penguins $ 8M $ 77M
> Longest Yard $ 82M $158M
> Hitch $ 70M $177M
> Batman Begins $135M $205M
> Wedding Crashers $ 40M $209M
> Harry Potter 4 $130M $230M (to date)
> War of the Worlds $132M $234M
>
> Now, some of these movies are just as poorly written as FF or "Stealth",
> but they are all at least moderately successful at the box office, so
> expect sequels to anything that can have one.

There's an old saying:
You can make a movie for five bucks, and if you make six, that's a
profit, but it ain't "Harry Potter". ;)

Derek Janssen
djanss@charter.net

[Back to original message]