On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:37:33 GMT, Derek Janssen
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> wrote:
>Patrick Joseph Mc Namara wrote:
>> "Juan F. Lara" <ljuan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:fi74i9$3c2$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>> "Beowulf" also had a respectable first weekend debut. But not as
>>>strong
>>>as the $38M debut of "Bee Movie". I'm doubtful that the movie will be
>>>able
>>>to cover its $150M production budget on domestic boxoffice alone.
>>> Actually, "Bee Movie" itself is starting to lose some steam. with a
>>>45%
>>>drop last weekend.
>>
>> Hollywood is known for it's creative accounting. It will account the
movie
>> as a loss, then make tons on the DVD sales.
>
>Not so much "creative accounting" as Denial--
>Ie., studios who hypnotize themselves into believing the movie *was* a
>long-running hit because it SHOULD have been (after all, it had Jerry
>Seinfeld in it, and was from the Shrek producers!), and promote the disk
>accordingly.
>
>We were doing so well there for a while, finally breaking that concrete
>wall and starting the intervention, until those undiscerning November
>shoppers had to hand Dreamworks the bottle again...
>
See folks, this is classic projection; Mr. Janssen here's in denial
over the money Dreamworks is making, and is projected to make on DVD
sales with Bee Movie, so he claims *they* are the ones in denial. Sad
really, but it happens . . .
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