Weekend Box Office

[Buzz2001]

amateur - I too am a Red Sox fan. I am just realistic. I have been waiting for them to win one for 39 years.

 

[YoHo]

Hey, I'm a Cubs fan, You Red Sox whiners can cram it I've been Waiting almost 100 years to win a World Series.

 

[DVC-Landbaron]

I'm with ya YoHo!!!

But this is the year!!!!


(The Cubs in first place - You know it ain't August!!)

 

[PhilJT]

Originally posted by YoHo
Hey, I'm a Cubs fan, You Red Sox whiners can cram it I've been Waiting almost 100 years to win a World Series.

That's amazing. Does that mean you and Walt were born in the same year?

Cubs and Red Sox both in first place...How come the Cubs fans can act like Tigger bouncing for joy, while we citizens of Red Sox Nation feel compelled to mope about it like Eeyore?

 

[Buzz2001]

Cub fans are content with the Cubs. They will follow a team that never wins. Like the Cincy follows the Bengals

 

[MikeS]

Seems like Shrek has become part of American Culture. I just saw Shrek and Donkey in a Wal Mart commerical.

 

[babar]

Go Cubs!!!


(now back to the original post)

 

[DisDuck]

DCV - August is only 7 weeks away. Plenty of time for a swoon (I bleed Dodger Blue - go Bums)


Now back to your regularily scheduled program.

 

[YoHo]

Cubs fans will follow the cubs even when they lose, because Wrigley field is the best baseball park in the history of the universe. If you've never been to wrigley (or gone to a baseball game in the 50's (arbitrary) or earlier) then you've never seen baseball.



I actually am confident that my cubbies will make it to the post season and then tank just like every other year. Or, they'll make a trade for that efthander they covet and the whole thing will come crashing down.


The only thing I fear is that Tribune will mishandle Kerry Wood the way they did Maddux and then I'll have another hall of fame pitcher that I must hate as a traitor.



The Braves suck!



(Just wait till september, I bleed orange and blue, and I've been bleeding a whole lot for the past decade.

 

[johare]

Does anyone know how much of the 'gross' receipts for a movie actually go back to the studio? For example, Pearl Harbor reportedly cost about $225+ million to make when you include advertising. It has currently grossed about $160 million domestically. How much of this $160 million actually makes it back to the studio?

 

[Another Voice]

The general rule of thumb is that 50%-55% of the box office goes to the studio. The specifics vary from movie to movie, theater to theater and even week to week. Generally, the studio will take a bigger cut in the first couple of weeks than later, and the bigger the film is supposed to be, the larger the studio cut as well. The theaters get a much larger cut after the film opens and often renegotiate the contract if a movie fails to live up to its expectations. The theaters also get studio funding for ads, in theater posters and such – like those millions of ‘Tomb Raider’ drink cups in theaters coast-to-coast.

Back end deals can also affect the studio’s take. To keep the initial budgets down, several people involved with ‘Pearl Harbor’ agreed to lower salary in exchange for a percentage of the revenue that the movie would bring in. Again, these are complex deals. But rumors say that about 10%-15% of the revenue from ‘Pearl’ will find its way to various “talent” and associated companies.

My guess is that Disney will end up with about 45% of the box office take (give or take a few million). And Disney will NEVER publish the actual figure because this kind of information is Hollywood’s best kept secrets. A whole sub-species of lawyers exist to do nothing but dig around studio financials and most of the time they find nothing.

In short, it’s going to be a hard fit to get ‘Pearl Harbor’ to profitability.


P.S. The Cubs? How come you guys aren't pulling for Disney's California Angels? Oh that's right, the initials 'DCA' mean "bad" in all kinds of endeavors.

 

[Patch'sD]

Here's a article from the New York Daily News on Dreamworks and Shrek.

Dreamworks on Cloud Nine

Four more animation projects in the works.

Also set the URL as a favorite so you can plot the Yankees course towards a 3-peat

 

[Dan Murfman]

Enjoyed reading this post. But it got real interesting with the baseball talk. BTW the Red Sox magic number to clinch the division is 93. And boy it must be hard to be a Yankee fan that they forget how many times they won. Last year was the 3 peat and going for 4 this year.

 

[All Aboard]

Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Dodgers... HA! Look out, here come the Marlins

 

[YoHo]

Yeah, the marlins are coming.... right to Orlando for a headon collision with the Devil Rays to make a new Florida team that nobody will go see.


Eh, they probably draw better then the braves.

 

[Patch'sD]

Sorry, Did forget. Championships just seem to be running into each other now, forgot about the Braves Bashing, or was it the San Diego Pasting, Certainly wasn't the Mets Tharshing.

 

[YoHo]

Bunch a New York BUMMS I tells ya!

 

[Patch'sD]

Yep, New relief pitcher on the way, Getting ready to pass the Sox, and take on the Mariners.

 

[Dan Murfman]

Is the relief pitcher you're talking about the one the Yankees have now since passed on because he has a bum elbow?

 

[Patch'sD]

Did they, didn't have a chance to read the paper this AM. Thanks, I wonder if Boomer would take a relief role.