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Calendar Events / Announcements '13 II / Re: OT: Johnny Depp, Bruckheimer Blame Critics for ‘Lone Ranger’ Disaster
« on: August 06, 2013, 05:53:38 PM »
Yes, we've mentioned several times how few supernatural-themed films do a bang-up business at the box office. And the same holds true for westerns, especially outside the US. (Not to mention that a big foreign market like China doesn't allow supernatural-themed films to even be shown in their country.) But, of course, some entertainment writers completely disregard that there are realistically lower expectations for certain genres and they unrealistically expect that if certain people are involved in a film, it's going to be huge regardless of the genre - but that is very rarely the case. And anyone who actually pays attention to such box office trends would know that. But the sad fact of the matter is that way too many entertainment writers these days do very little, if any, research into how the different genres of film have fared in the past.