[HPFGU-Movie] Re: HBP Profitiablity

[Child Of Midian]

From: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com [mailto:HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of sartoris22

sartoris22:

Those are excellent points. Then why do people make so much fuss about box
office? It just gives people like me the wrong impression about successful
movies. Perhaps they should devise another way of keeping score--other than
Academy Award nominations, of course. At least they should report what films
actually made money and how they made it. That would interest me. For
example, I didn't know Forrest Gump lost money. I would love to see the
movie business demystified.
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Well, a poor box-office is going to lead to poor DVD sales, merchandising on
the clearance rack and no sequels. But, they do make a VERY big deal about
box-office compared to cost, which is why District 9 is such a big deal,
120,000,000 on a 30,000,00 budget and very little ads is a big deal, but
then again, it's not the merchandising machine HP is.

 

md



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