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Very true. Good Movies make money.

Look at the latest Harry Potter flick. US box office of just short of 300 million. World Box office of almost 900 million. This does not include the 9 million copies of the movie on DVD that have bee sold in the US alone. At an average price of $19.00 that is 228 million dollars in 10 days sales. they sold 5 million the first day alone. This does not include the millions made in other countries and the toys, games, and other marketing. I know that some here do not like the Harry Potter series and that is OK. But to millions, these are wonderful movies, they are funny, adventurous, scary, and an all around good time for all.

I can not understand why the holly weird types cant figure out that this is were the money is. The 4 movies have made a combined 4+ Billion dollars.

Isn't it ironic that the combined box office of the 4 top movies at the Oscars is less that that of a movie that was nominated for only two awards and got neither.

Thank goodness for peoples choice awards....

Heard a theater owner on tv state that one of the biggest reasons that theater attendence has dropped off so badly is that inconsiderate people are taking and talking on cell phones in the theater.

How about hollyweird making some decent movies for a change. Am amazed that he didn't see the correlation.

You kinda missed my point: yes, good movies make super money, but the fact is, liberal movies make SOME money---maybe not as much---but the five Oscar nominated films were all small budget movies that each MADE MONEY. So as long as producers and directors can indulge themselves AND be profitable, it will be very tough to use market logic against them. It's like trying to argue that slavery wasn't "as" profitable as manufacturing (true)---but it WAS profitable.