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	Oz The Great and Powerful (tomorrow)		No votes (0%)
	Iron Man 3 (April 30)		No votes (0%)
	Man of Steel (June 14)		2 votes (50%)
	Lone Ranger (July 3)		No votes (0%)
	300: Rise of An Empire (August 2 )		No votes (0%)
	Riddick (September 6)		No votes (0%)
	Thor: The Dark World (Nov 8)		No votes (0%)
	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Nov 22)		No votes (0%)
	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Dec 13)		1 vote (25%)
	Other (Add post)		1 vote (25%)

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March 9th, 2013 at 3:49:09 PM permalink

AZDuffman

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Quote: Pacomartin
It is my understanding that the profit from films is very complex. For instance, the film Batman & Robin (1997) was considered by most people to be a disaster. Clearly George Clooney recovered nicely with Perfect Storm, Oceans 11,12,13 and many artistically recognized movies. But the other four actors never appeared in a $100 million film again (excepting Terminator 3). And they all had promising careers.

They do anything they can to make films look unprofitable. In the early 2000s Henry Hill claimed he still had not gotten any back-end and that the studio execs were worse crooks than anything he dealt with in the mafia.

The President is a fink.

March 10th, 2013 at 7:14:42 PM permalink

Pacomartin

Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Well it looks like OZ opened to $80 million domestically. That puts it over at least 4 of the mostly older billion dollar movies.
As I said earlier it is not as important how the USA box office does, but the worldwide reception. But it looks like they will try and turn it into a franchise, and make a James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, and Rachel Weisz much wealthier than they are already.

$millions opening weekend USA
$77 Avatar
$29 Titanic
$207 Marvel's The Avengers
$169 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
$98 Transformers: Dark of the Moon
$73 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
$88 Skyfall
$161 The Dark Knight Rises
$136 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
$110 Toy Story 3
$90 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
$65 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
$116 Alice in Wonderland (2010)
$85 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
$158 The Dark Knight

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