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« on: August 06, 2013, 10:41:05 PM »
I didn't mean to imply that supernatural-themed films don't make money - they do. But they don't make the blockbuster sort of money that other genres might. As I've said before, unless the word "Twilight" is somewhere in the title, most supernatural-themed films make well under $100 million. For instance, two of 2012's most successful supernatural-themed films were Underworld Awakening(vampires/werwolves) and The Woman in Black(ghosts), and they made $62.3 million and 54.3 million, respectively. And as for this year, while The Conjuring is doing extremely well for a non-Twilight film - it's currently at $109.7 million and counting - it's likely to top off somewhere around $130 million, well under what's considered blockbuster fare these days. And while World War Z does heavily feature zombies and is at $196.1 million and counting, its genre is mostly regarded as a disaster(the good kind)/action film.