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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 10, 2012, 01:29:08 AM »
Very interesting article, jimbo - thanks for the link.
What's truly sad is that people would actually tweet such trash to Grahame-Smith (and Damon Lindelof) - but I have to give him (them) credit for appearing at a Comic Con panel entitled "The Art of Being Despised." It certainly shows he has wit - though I do wonder what if any effect it could have on salvaging his career. We would certainly quibble with the writer's opinion that DS flopped, and we could back it up with quite a bit of evidence - but there's no doubt that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which Grahame-Smith is far more responsible for given the film is based on his own book, flopped. Even though before the film ever opened people predicted that it wouldn't even make $40 million, I'll admit that I thought that perhaps they were being way too pessimistic. After all, these predictions are often wrong (and on both sides of the equation, meaning films predicted to not make money often do and vice versa) - but apparently those predictions were right on the money with AL:VH. I mean, I can't ever remember seeing a wide released film so quickly reduced to playing in only 655 theaters and only playing two showing a day in so many of those theaters - not to mention then being reduced to only 266 theaters the next week. Even this year's mega-duds like John Carter and Battleship have had more successful theater lives. And then there's the fact that the film has already been limping along with daily grosses the likes of which most films don't normally see until their final weeks of release (which AL:VH may easily be in) - along with the fact that so far it has indeed only grossed $37,070,709 and it really doesn't look like $40 million is likely.
90 days 20 hours 29 minutes 8 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!!
What's truly sad is that people would actually tweet such trash to Grahame-Smith (and Damon Lindelof) - but I have to give him (them) credit for appearing at a Comic Con panel entitled "The Art of Being Despised." It certainly shows he has wit - though I do wonder what if any effect it could have on salvaging his career. We would certainly quibble with the writer's opinion that DS flopped, and we could back it up with quite a bit of evidence - but there's no doubt that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which Grahame-Smith is far more responsible for given the film is based on his own book, flopped. Even though before the film ever opened people predicted that it wouldn't even make $40 million, I'll admit that I thought that perhaps they were being way too pessimistic. After all, these predictions are often wrong (and on both sides of the equation, meaning films predicted to not make money often do and vice versa) - but apparently those predictions were right on the money with AL:VH. I mean, I can't ever remember seeing a wide released film so quickly reduced to playing in only 655 theaters and only playing two showing a day in so many of those theaters - not to mention then being reduced to only 266 theaters the next week. Even this year's mega-duds like John Carter and Battleship have had more successful theater lives. And then there's the fact that the film has already been limping along with daily grosses the likes of which most films don't normally see until their final weeks of release (which AL:VH may easily be in) - along with the fact that so far it has indeed only grossed $37,070,709 and it really doesn't look like $40 million is likely.
90 days 20 hours 29 minutes 8 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!!