bamf wrote:...the Box office shows it because word of mouth is the only thing that will get the film legs. Just over 26 million came in for opening weekend, that's Wild Hogs money there -- err -- that's second week of Wild Hogs money there. At a 180 million dollar price tag, these are dire looking numbers. My guess is the opening take barely covered advertisement costs; someone is going to be fired.
well, I heard the international take was about double that (not sure how many territories it opened in).
so figure first weekend, globally, it made around $75million.
even that will barely cover the marketing campaign...though I read some New Line flunky say that after selling the international rights, tax breaks, etc, the think it'll make some $$.
I'm kinda torn...I don't want it to do well 'cuz Weitz has proven he can't handle that material, but, being such a stanboy of the books that I am, I would go see THE SUBTLE KNIFE, even with that incompetent boob behind the lens.
I don't get how LOTR: Fellowship had a, what, 2 and 1/2 hour runtime (extended cut, what, 3hrs?) and yet the, to paraphrase Hubert Farnsworth w/r/t studio interference...
"The asinine morons who cut the run-time should themselves be fired for incompetence.
And not just fired, but beaten up, too; and pretty badly.
In fact, most of them should die from their injuries.
And then be ground up into a fine pink powder."
Personally, I'm an atheist in the voting booth and a theist in the movie theatre. I separate the morality of religion with the spirituality and solace of it. There is something boring about atheism.