HBP Profitiablity

[sartoris22]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Child Of Midian" <md at ...> wrote:
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md:
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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.
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sartoris22:

I'm glad you returned to HP. I was afraid somebody was going to yell at me for being off topic. I would think that a less successful HP box office would hurt merchandising, although it probably wouldn't hurt DVD sales/rentals that much. I, for example, will buy the HBP dvd even though I don't particularly like the movie. I thought it was disjointed and lacked the communal feeling among the trio. I understand that Hermione and Ron were upset with each other, but Harry and Ron fought in GOF, and they still seemed connected. For me, HBP didn't really capture the relationship stuff or the action very well. And I'd certainly swap the Burrow attack for Dumbledore's funeral. I also missed Bill's maiming and Fleur's declaration of love. I thought that was such a powerful moment and wanted to see it captured on film. I thought OOTP was an okay film, and HPB would be improvement, but it didn't work out that way. I hope that DH will end the series on a strong note.

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