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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2663647" data-attributes="member: 11760">What a bizarre assertion. Of course it can. That's how the studios pick when to release a film -- they have a very good idea, often in advance of the cameras even beginning to roll -- of roughly how much money a film will make.It has been decades since anyone involved with the creation of a film was genuinely surprised with how much money it made. Off by a few percentage points, sure. Totally shocked? No.And, while I appreciate there are people here with a near-religious fervor for Dragonlance, I find the notion that it's an obviously better story than Lord of the Rings to be a strange one, to put it mildly.And "it'll do well if we sink $300 million into it" is the sort of caveat that makes discussing such things almost pointless. Give me $300 million and I could make a hit movie out of my grocery list.</blockquote>