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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 2037493" data-attributes="member: 2012">hmm, if you have some insider information on it, do tell. Or are you just speculating while highlighting the negative? Always make sure you report the facts. If you're going to speculate then simply say so.FYI... First Look International is simple the distributor for the International market. They didn't make any of the moives listed. They simply acquired the internationa sales rights to the listed films. Thus, there really isn't any targeting on the page.The first two films won't be initially screened at Cannes. Those screenings have already happened, as per the website. "Minotaur" started shooting in late January while "Peaceful Warrior" only mentions a Spring shoot. Only the listings for "D&D II: TEM" and "Cake" mention being a "Screening at Cannes 2005".The reality is that I'm not surprised they would choose Cannes as the venue to screen the D&D Sequel. The first D&D movie is one of the top ten all time money makers in France. I read a report online several years ago and that was the part that stayed with me. (As to the validity of the report, I can't say as it is long gone. No one should take my word for it. All I can do is state what I read.)I think the film makers of D&D II and D&D III are counting on International pre-sales to put the movie in the black and will take whatever comes from the US market as gravy. While more people in North America believe the first movie didn't make back it's budget, it actually made $50 million worldwide. (It's budget was $35 million so that's about a 165% profit, if I did my math right. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> )Of course, this doesn't mean audiences are going to like it. I'm sure most North American audiences will trash it. The only question to answer now is will the naysayers go and see it just because they want to see if it's going to be worse than the first one? (In Other Peoples' Opinions.) You don't all have to answer this, I already know most of you will say 'no'. It was rhetorical.I'm going to go see it, but you all probably figured that out already. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Cheers!KF72p.s. If anyone wants more info on the movie "Minotaur" then go here: <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0415160/" target="_blank">http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0415160/</a></blockquote>

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