DS certainly has received an abnormally long life when many in the industry seemed to think it was dying on the vine.
Well, as I tried to point out even back when some Web sites were saying things like that, what they were saying was incredibly foolish - especially when DS was compared head-to-head with most of this year's other films. Deadline saying that the film was "on life support" was one of the most ridiculous comments of the group. And quite obviously the subsequent box office numbers have proved how wrong Deadline was to have said that. Though of course, they've never admitted they were wrong. And as I prophesied the other day when it comes to such sites, they probably never will. For one, they've no doubt moved on to condemning/underestimating other films - and for two, in all likelihood they're not even paying attention to DS anymore because they wrote it off long ago. Decidedly premature of them, but then that's the way so many of those sites operate. If they didn't, they wouldn't still be referring to Depp's
The Tourist as a flop.
I wonder if this will have Warners rethink its "flop" status
Though one thing we should try to keep in mind is that we've never really seen anything in which anyone directly associated with WB called the film a "flop" - it's been articles where the writers have put that and similar words like "dud" and "bomb" in the WB execs' mouths or that thought in their minds. We don't really know what WB's attitude is toward the film. Given their hope was that it would gross $100 million domestically, they may see it as a domestic box office disappointment - but there's a big difference between a disappointment and a flop or a dud or a bomb. And, of course, there's the fact that the film has been performing quite well in foreign markets, and even still has at least one where it's yet to open.
thus possibly producing interesting results.
We should only be so lucky.
71 days 11 hours 28 minutes 42 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!!