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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 16, 2012, 04:05:08 PM »
I checked Box Office Mojo to see what it said about DS for TX. I went to the Showtimes Tab for today, to select DS. It's not on the list of available movies in the dropdown menu. When I entered the zip code for Brownsville, DS came up, playing at their 2nd run theater. Now....I'm staying at South Padre Island...Brownsville is only 20 miles out of my way back home....should I or shouldn't I???

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 14, 2012, 08:41:41 PM »
Does anyone know how they calculate the profits? Is it the gross amount a movie made in any given day, or are they just counting the studio's cut?  I'm not sure we know which figure is correct, 45 or 130+ theaters. Let's take today's number, $3,637.  If you divide that by 45 you get $80.82 per theater.  If 130 give or take is closer to the actual number then you get $27.97 per theater. If, as I assume, the number is based on the studio's take and not what the middlemen get, then would I be safe in estimating that 80 people or so went to see it, if it was in 45 theaters or 27 or so if it's in 130 or so. I'm assuming the studio cut must be about $1.00 and the bargain theaters play it at close to cost, figuring they'll get their profits on concessions. These are all educated guesses. Does anyone have any concrete knowlege about how it works. And I apologize if this has been addressed already. This has been a long thread, but I don't recall it being brought up.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 13, 2012, 11:46:42 PM »
Not surprisingly, DS is not playing in Brownsville, TX on Friday. Thursday it's showing at 11:40 and 5:30.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 10, 2012, 03:44:25 AM »
Maybe, just maybe, my prediction about DS not reaching 80 million was wrong. I was operating under the assumption that the theater count for next week would be greatly reduced. I never dreamed it would actually be playing in 3 more theaters!

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 09, 2012, 11:57:38 PM »
It seems doubtful to me that it will hit 80 mil though. :(  in the Rio Grande Valley area, 3 theaters are showing DS this week.  2 will drop it today.  The remaining venue has it playing only twice daily, as opposed to 4 times for this past 7days.  I suspect this is it's last week in theaters.  Even if it plays 2 more weeks, it would have to bring in something like $24,000 a day.  I figured that on a napkin from a rough me memory of the domestic gross (+- 79,675,000?).

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 09, 2012, 02:20:58 AM »
I never liked the whole 91 reincarnation thing. I thought the Barnabas story was more interesting, and more chilling when he thought Maggie was Josette reborn, and was dead wrong! He was twisted and attempted to force Maggie into the mold of what he wanted her to be. That's more interesting than the cliche lovers reunited through rebirth storyline.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 09, 2012, 01:34:54 AM »
I was mainly thrown by the fact that it came out of left field. Yes we had a few hints something was off, but no preparation at all for a werewolf. There were no attacks, or sightings. Carolyn had become a vampire in HODS, so I didn't have a problem with her being a werewolf as such. I just wish it had been set up more effectively.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 07, 2012, 07:17:14 PM »
DS is still scheduled to be in Brownsville, TX for the week of 8/10/-16.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 06, 2012, 10:31:38 PM »
Add Brownsville to the list for this week.  They have not posted the films for Friday, but I'm not confident it will be there next week.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 06, 2012, 10:15:08 PM »
DS is playing in McAllen and Harlingen TX through Thursday but will be replaced Friday. 

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 05, 2012, 11:01:35 PM »
The grand jury bumped it down to a lesser crime.  I think that was apprpriate.  I doubt she was trying to sell it, and it is nearly finished at the theaters.

http://www.nj.com/messenger-gazette/index.ssf/2012/08/somerset_prosecutor_woman_used_cell_phone_to_record_dark_shadows_in_movie_theater.html

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: August 01, 2012, 02:19:58 PM »
DS just might make 80 milliion domestically, something I thought would be nearly impossible a month ago.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: July 25, 2012, 12:42:23 AM »
Here's a quote from UK's The Sun.
"Following the film’s huge success, Sophie — who is also the face of fashion brand Burberry and has appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine — has been invited for talks with studio executives for a string of other big budget movies in Los Angeles."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/scotlandfeatures/4446378/Sophie-Kennedy-Clark-I-got-bitten-by-Johnny-Depp-now-Ill-get-my-teeth-into-Hollywood.html

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The entire series is available for immediate streaming on Netflix.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: July 16, 2012, 12:50:11 PM »
Try to keep cool, doctor-- I think we've gotten some of your weather here in DC in recent weeks  [ghost_wink]

Actually I've been in Newport, RI since late June!  We return to the sauna weather on August 1st.