Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office
cybercuzco writes "The movie industry is blaming poor sales of such movies as Gigli, The Hulk and Charlies Angels not on the fact that they were poor quality, but because people text message other people telling them that the movie stinks. Industry executives say that this undermines a carefully crafted marketing image. Expect texting to be banned by the MPAA in the near future."
It depends on your definition of success.
If battlefield earth caused a dozen people to get sucked into the scientology cult then it was a success for scientology. They spend nothing (hollywood footed the bill after all) and got new members out of the deal.
War is necrophilia.