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"Wild Hogs" but I didn't watch this crap film.It just reeked of sink from every trailer.$168-Mill why people?Nothing better to waste your hard earned disposable income on?
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On the other end of the scale "Ratatoulle" is my favorite of those same top grossers.

Some say Cruise is the same.

Who? Mimi, Nic and Katie?

(I'm just entertaining myself, here...)

I remain, as always...

Nico.

Well well, a lot of John Travolta hate in here.

One thing that can be said... is that he has a pretty smokin' hot wife, Kelly Preston.

Watched her in Space Camp a while back. Gorgeous.

I must say though, that I think that Wild Hogs did really well was because it was aimed for an age group that is constantly ignored in cinema: over 40.

They look for quality entertainment just like the younger folk.Wild Hogs had actors and situations that anyone of that generation could relate too (old age, reliving the good days, divorce, health problems). Somethings Gotta Give also did really well because it catered to the older crowd also.

Same goes with African Americans. They too look for quality entertainment and Tyler Perry seems to deliver that.

Otter wrote:

On the other end of the scale "Ratatoulle" is my favorite of those same top grossers.

"Ratatouille" was probably my favorite studio movie this past summer as well, it was just so charming and passionate. I wasn't around on FM then, but did anybody have the Rat on their slate? I'm really curious as to how it performed relative to its cost, predictions, and similarly-priced competition. It seemed like it sorta under-achieved domestically, but it's totally kicking a$$ and taking names overseas, just blasting past $300 million overseas this weekend.

It's between Wild Hogs and Evan Almighty for me.

I actually expected Wild Hogs to get past the 100 million mark, but only just. The reason it's surprising is how easily it did that, and the fact that it went on to make 150 million + took me by complete surprise.

I thought Evan Almighty would BOMB HARD, and for a movie that cost 175 million to make (why?), it sure as hell didn't make it's money back in the domestic market. I thought it would end up with less than 90 million, and that looked very likely at one point, but it creeped it's way to the 100 million cornerstone.

la_resistance28 wrote:

"Ratatouille" was probably my favorite studio movie this past summer as well, it was just so charming and passionate.

Mine too. Just watched it over the weekend. Definitely in my Top 5 for the year so far.

Such a great film.

Evan almighty only cost 175 mil to make. I read somewhere it was over 200.
since we're on the topics of budgets though. i found out spiderman three had set another record besides its BO gross. Its budget. I read in the news it had the highest bugdet of any movie. Ever. Could be wrong. Buts thats what the news said.

cRAzY wrote:

Evan almighty only cost 175 mil to make. I read somewhere it was over 200.
since we're on the topics of budgets though. i found out spiderman three had set another record besides its BO gross. Its budget. I read in the news it had the highest bugdet of any movie. Ever. Could be wrong. Buts thats what the news said.

i've already posted about this in another thread (or was is earlier in this one??) but spidey 3 has the largest budget ever, and i believe the number is 258 mil or something....i corrected someone who thought it was 500 mil....and i also believe the official number on evan is 175 mil, and it grossed 260 mil worldwide, so the studio took a 45 mil hit on that one (they only get back about 55% of the overall gross)....pretty massive, n'est-ce pas??

ashkul88 wrote:

and i also believe the official number on evan is 175 mil, and it grossed 260 mil worldwide, so the studio took a 45 mil hit on that one (they only get back about 55% of the overall gross)....pretty massive, n'est-ce pas??

$260M worldwide? Where did this number come from?

Because I can guarantee you it's not even close to breaking even yet.

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=evanalmighty.htm

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