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1 posted on 04/27/2011 1:35:46 PM PDT by EveningStar
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2 posted on 04/27/2011 1:36:25 PM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: EveningStar

huh?


3 posted on 04/27/2011 1:37:17 PM PDT by GoCards (RUN SARAH RUN)
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Not unexpected. Possibly a good marketing move.


4 posted on 04/27/2011 1:38:10 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt The Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: EveningStar

Screw the critics - they’re all a much of socialist lemmings! We the people will make this a success - the rest of Hollywood be damned!


5 posted on 04/27/2011 1:38:13 PM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: EveningStar

I’ll buy the DVD. I just can’t get myself up for a four-hour round trip drive to see a two-hour movie.


6 posted on 04/27/2011 1:39:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When and why did Steve Dunham change his name to Barack Hussein Obama? When he converted to Islam?)
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It’ll be lucky to make $4m on a $20m budget. No sequel is possible on that.


7 posted on 04/27/2011 1:39:49 PM PDT by Tolsti2
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He would be smarter to release exclusively to Netflix or DVD.


9 posted on 04/27/2011 1:42:30 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice.)
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To: EveningStar

Well, this is the LA LA times, after all.

But it seems that he is giving up too soon.
The kind of crowd who would go to see his film were busy with Easter this last weekend. Besides, they need to get out the rest of the dups for the up to 1,000 screens that wanted this movie after the opening.


10 posted on 04/27/2011 1:42:47 PM PDT by TruthConquers (.Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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A bad movie on an excellent book, is still a B-A-D movie.

Remember the annimated “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” movies. They were horrible, I mean I would rather read the fine print on my homeowners coverage than sit through those things.

On the other hand, a well done movie, based on a great book - is a stellar experience. I offer the latest films of “Lord of the Rings” as an example.


11 posted on 04/27/2011 1:48:25 PM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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A bad movie on an excellent book, is still a B-A-D movie.

Remember the annimated “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” movies. They were horrible, I mean I would rather read the fine print on my homeowners coverage than sit through those things.

On the other hand, a well done movie, based on a great book - is a stellar experience. I offer the latest films of “Lord of the Rings” as an example.


12 posted on 04/27/2011 1:48:31 PM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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They already released this movie? I thought it was going to be released in a few years. Not like I was going to go see it anyway.


14 posted on 04/27/2011 1:52:14 PM PDT by MichiganConservative (Humans: can't live with them, can't eat them.)
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To: EveningStar

In other words, Producer Shrugged


15 posted on 04/27/2011 1:52:51 PM PDT by quesney
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Though the film has made only $3.1 million so far, Aglialoro said he believes he'll recoup his investment after TV, DVD and other ancillary rights are sold. But he is backing off an earlier strategy to expand "Atlas" to 1,000 screens and reconsidering his plans to start production on a second film this fall.
18 posted on 04/27/2011 1:57:54 PM PDT by iowamark
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The critics are not the problem. His crappy distribution plan is the problem. It is kind of hard to make a lot of money when your movie is only showing on a little over 400 screens.


19 posted on 04/27/2011 2:00:07 PM PDT by Busywhiskers ("Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy" -Dan Gable)
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The simple fact that they were talking about making 3 a musical insured I wouldn’t watch 1.


26 posted on 04/27/2011 2:04:35 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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Still waiting for Battlefield Earth Part II here.
29 posted on 04/27/2011 2:12:18 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.- H. L. Mencken)
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I thought they were doing well?


36 posted on 04/27/2011 2:28:09 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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...flagging box office returns for the film.

Flagging? Sh**, the nearest theater to me showing it is 200 miles up the road in Richmond. What the hell did he expect?

37 posted on 04/27/2011 2:28:20 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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Just because reviewers hate a movie doesn’t mean people won’t watch it. Just look at anything by Michael Bay.


38 posted on 04/27/2011 2:28:32 PM PDT by discostu (Come on Punky, get Funky)
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The critics are ideologically leftist. The only reason they would go to this movie is to pan it.


45 posted on 04/27/2011 2:46:54 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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