AmericanPapist Comments
Unfortunately, I've heard most reports have been saying that the overseas box office is doing pretty darn good. Probably good enough to warrant the sequels.
I hope Thomas that your information is true though.
There has been a long call for an investigation about Lifesite, and how often it misrepresents facts as well. Jimmy Akin, for example, did this post: http://www.jimmyakin.org/2005/
07...itenews_ca.html
anthing since '05?
There has been a long call for an investigation about Lifesite, and how often it misrepresents facts as well.
Yeah, I've noticed they're sometimes a little free and easy with their assertions. In this case, however, their reporting and complaints are on the money.
Part of the reason why its overseas performance has been so "good" is because of the devaluation of the American dollar.
But that total does not even come close to making up for its total cost and returns will only get exponentially smaller from this point on.
I know some studios will produce movies with foreign audiences in mind (witness the travesty of the live action GI Joe movie), but if there is no interest in the States, then they can make fifty sequels and people here will not go see them.
Remember: the next two installments in the trilogy were supposed to even more bleak, humorless, joyless, plodding, didactic, and dark.
People can only stomach so much crap.
For proof, I would like to offer up the following list of failed movie franchises:
1. The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension (1984)
2. Doctor Detroit (1983)
3. The Rocketeer (1991)
4. Daredevil (2003)
5. Dick Tracy (1990)
6. Godzilla (1998)
7. Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003)
8. Wing Commander(1999)
9. Sahara (2005)
10. The Phantom (1996)
11. The Avengers (1998)
12. The Mod Squad (1999)
13. Wild Wild West (1999)
Source:
http://www.avclub.com/content/
fe...led_attempts_to
As you can see, not all of these films were bad and some of them have gone on to become cult classics.
The point is, movie franchises do not always succeed. Like anything else in Hollywood, they have to earn their keep.
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