Something Feral

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Saturday, February 21, 2009

A royal waste of royalties


"It's not about the money... It's about sending a message."
According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, the critically acclaimed Caped Crusader sequel—which actually could win eight Academy Awards on Sunday—is now in fourth place on the list of all-time box office grosses, behind only Titanic ($1.84 billion), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.12 billion) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($1.07 billion).

The Dark Knight is currently sitting pretty with $1.001 billion, while the fifth-place Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is way back there with $974.7 million.
Make a quality product, receive quality revenue. Take a note, DC.

3 comments:

Wonder Woman said...

Watchmen is coming out soon...

I'm excited!

Something Feral said...

Wil Wheaton says it's full of win (possibly NSFW, language):

"I know a lot of people want to know about Watchmen, so I'll just cut to the chase right away: It's the best movie inspired by a graphic novel that I've ever seen. It could have gone wrong in a thousand different places, and it didn't. I've wanted to see this movie for twenty years, and it was entirely worth the wait. Hear me now, my fellow geeks: you have nothing to worry about."

I'm just hoping that future DC-inspired movies stay the hell away from the people responsible for the Batman debacle.

Mike said...

I thought you were excited whenever men were watching you, WW... :-P