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Re:Could it be possible to make superhero films WOThe Roger Corman version of Fantastic Four? Oh, there's apparently a very interesting story behind that film. To quote its Wikipedia entry:- The Fantastic Four is an unreleased low-budget feature film completed in 1994. Created to secure copyright to the property, the producers never intended it for release -- although the director and other creators were not informed of this fact. There's another article about it here, alongside the usual discussion at IMDB (note that you need to register to view the forums).
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pop.com
To me the #1 bomb of all time was POP.COM, the Dreamworks-funded failure. The site never officially even LAUNCHED after a year of effort and a lot of buzz and publicity!
I once interviewed over there. The office was a big square room with a center area that had a ping pong table and other recreational stuff (I think a grand piano). It was the epitome of dot com excess. And the guy who was running the place said something like "oh yeah, we're in a great position because upper management is letting us experiment and make mistakes until we find what works". It turns out that there wasn't as much patience as he originally thought.
The fact that they couldn't even do a soft-launch and were waiting like some perfectionists for the perfect launch is just the antithesis of dot com.
There is no excuse for not being able to put something meaningful up in a whole year.
Here is a sample piece about the shutdown:
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Re:And while you're so hot about the movie...Hmm, you may be right. Inflation adjustment methods used by sites like this one give me the impression that theater grosses are reported, but on the other hand studios are in a much better position to accurately report studio and/or distributor grosses. But then if they are reporting distributor grosses then that's not what goes to the studio either.
Also, I'd be stunned if Jackson, or anybody else, was getting gross points. Points on the net, sure, but gross points?
Tom Cruise is reported to have made $75M on Mission Impossible 2 due to getting gross points. I think a few people have wised up and realised that net points are basically worthless unless you are very careful. The One Ring.net are reporting that Jackson gets 10M + 5% of gross. It may not be true, of course. -
Film returns should be made public!This is somewhat similar to the way Simon was trying to reclaim Captain America way back, as in this link. To avoid issues like this, all data relating to money accruals for all films should be public. If the MPAA can support RIAA for taking action against copyright violators, why cant it do this??
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Pay attention now, this is not offtopic"What a terrible way to kill a man, with a knife in his back. If I had killed him, I might have struck him over the head with a brick, but I wouldn't use a knife... knife
(Why it's on-topic-- the Copland article creates this exact Hitchcock-effect via its repeating links to 'Apple'.)
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Pay attention now, this is not offtopic"What a terrible way to kill a man, with a knife in his back. If I had killed him, I might have struck him over the head with a brick, but I wouldn't use a knife... knife
(Why it's on-topic-- the Copland article creates this exact Hitchcock-effect via its repeating links to 'Apple'.)
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Pay attention now, this is not offtopic"What a terrible way to kill a man, with a knife in his back. If I had killed him, I might have struck him over the head with a brick, but I wouldn't use a knife... knife
(Why it's on-topic-- the Copland article creates this exact Hitchcock-effect via its repeating links to 'Apple'.)
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Pay attention now, this is not offtopic"What a terrible way to kill a man, with a knife in his back. If I had killed him, I might have struck him over the head with a brick, but I wouldn't use a knife... knife
(Why it's on-topic-- the Copland article creates this exact Hitchcock-effect via its repeating links to 'Apple'.)
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Pay attention now, this is not offtopic"What a terrible way to kill a man, with a knife in his back. If I had killed him, I might have struck him over the head with a brick, but I wouldn't use a knife... knife
(Why it's on-topic-- the Copland article creates this exact Hitchcock-effect via its repeating links to 'Apple'.)
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Pay attention now, this is not offtopic"What a terrible way to kill a man, with a knife in his back. If I had killed him, I might have struck him over the head with a brick, but I wouldn't use a knife... knife
(Why it's on-topic-- the Copland article creates this exact Hitchcock-effect via its repeating links to 'Apple'.)
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Re:Are we comparing apples to oranges?
From Movieweb.com:
"2. Why isn't this list adjusted for inflation?
It is too difficult to adjust for inflation as many of these films have been re-released over the years. The only way to calculate the true adjusted gross revenue (on a film which has been re-released) is to obtain the revenue from EACH YEAR that the movie was released (we don't have access to this information) & then multiply that dollar-amount by the inflationary-index vs. today's dollar.
In order to know the adjusted gross for (let's say) Disney's (original) "101 Dalmatians", you would have to know the revenue for the movie in 1961 x the 1961 adjusted dollar-value + the revenue for the movie when it was re-released in 1970 x the 1970 adjusted dollar-value +
Should give you an idea why this usually isn't done. Nevertheless: http://www.teako170.com/inflation.html
Has the original Star Wars listed at #2, adjusted for inflation (not very accurate, I'm sure, for the reasons listed above). -
The original Blade character, from comicsTake a look at the original Blade from the series Tomb of Dracula by writer Marv Wolfman (yes, that really is his name)
Someone should make a movie out of it someday
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