While we were at the pictures yesterday we noticed the huge line queueing up for a movie.
"Must be either Pirates of the Caribean 2 or Superman" says Louise.
I thought of this as I was reading the latest e-mail from Warren Ellis.
Obviously it was a queue for Pirates.......
"But it could be worse. I could be
working at Warner Bros today.
SUPERMAN RETURNS conservatively
cost $250 million to make. Probably
the same again to promote. It
took $21M this weekend, eaten
alive by PIRATES. The studio gets
about half the box office takings.
In America, WB's cumulative slice
of SR's takings amount to around
$50M.
Is it conceivable that something
that took fifty-odd million in its
first weekend could be a flop?
I said of KING KONG that for that
film's budget, I could grow my own
giant fucking monkey.
$250 million puts you in spacelaunch-
budget territory. For $250 million
WB could've given Bryan Singer his
own communications satellite and
spent the change on a George
Clooney movie. Or two Wes
Anderson movies. It's an astonishing
volume of cash that, at this stage,
they don't have a prayer of making
back worldwide or on DVD.
This is the absurdity of modern
Hollywood; that taking more than
the GNP of Luxembourg in a single
weekend is not actually enough to
put a movie in the black.
It's no wonder that everyone I meet
these days wants to work in TV."
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