This weekend @ the boxoffice: 2007.Dec.24

[Hand of Evil]

When a movie "tanks", how bad is bad?

When I look at the movies in the OP, Golden Compass has made ~25% of its budget in the first three weeks. Is that good? Bad? Okay?

Alvin has obviously rocked as the gross is over the cost in the second week.

There is a scale used for life of a movie, 30% to 35% of Budget, of a movie openning Weekend, that is number is reduced 50% for the next weekend, then repeat for 10 weeks. The problem is what is measured these days, the number used mostly is the domestic take.


Golden Compess Numbers - Budget 180
Domestic: $49,443,000 35.1% + Foreign: $91,515,574 64.9% = Worldwide: $140,958,574

As you can see, it is not doing bad worldwide and MAY break even, this is not a bad thing because of taxes. This is why they use the domestic number, they can write it off as a loss to help their books.

 

[F5]

As you can see, it is not doing bad worldwide and MAY break even...

Still, it's not the blockbuster that they were hoping for, given the amount of advertising and merchandizing tie-ins they have been putting out for this movie. Which is too bad, because I would really like to see the full trilogy, someday...

 

[Grog]

Jokes aside, I've never quite understood the emotional reaction people have to cannibalism. I can understand why it's a social taboo, but on a personal level, I figure meat is meat. And I'm a confirmed carnivore.

It's built into (most of) us at a genetic level. It's part of the survival instinct, because cannibalism carries a ton of health risks. From a health standpoint, it's better to eat diseased cattle than a sick human.

 

[Mark]

I've never quite understood the emotional reaction people have to cannibalism. I can understand why it's a social taboo, but on a personal level, I figure meat is meat. And I'm a confirmed carnivore.

Tell that to what's left of you soccer team.

 

[Relique du Madde]

hmm..

If god didn't intend for us to eat humans, then why did he make them out of meat?

That's the bast argument for cannibalism that I could think of. lol

 

[trancejeremy]

It's built into (most of) us at a genetic level. It's part of the survival instinct, because cannibalism carries a ton of health risks. From a health standpoint, it's better to eat diseased cattle than a sick human.

Yeah, exactly. Since a lot of disease and parasites are specific to a species, if you eat meat from another species, if doesn't matter so much what they have. But if it's the same species, then it can be transmitted.

 

[Taelorn76]

Of course, I am a vegetarian

And yet your Avatar is a talking meatball

 

[shilsen]

Tell that to what's left of you soccer team.

I'm Indian. Eating our soccer team would be a kindness to the world of soccer.

It's built into (most of) us at a genetic level. It's part of the survival instinct, because cannibalism carries a ton of health risks. From a health standpoint, it's better to eat diseased cattle than a sick human.

Luckily, I got over a lot of my genetics a while ago. And I wasn't counting on eating sick humans. Or only humans for that matter. There's too much good meat out there and not enough time to try it all. Just had some damn succulent bat last summer, for example. But a little human would be good too.

 

[Mark]

I'm Indian. Eating our soccer team would be a kindness to the world of soccer.

Dammit. Now, I'm hungry!



Today, in soccer, the Indian team was eaten up by the competition . . .



(I was brn in Philly, btw. Tacony, to be exact.)