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The Movie & Story => Box Office & Release => Topic started by: meandennis on Mar 04, 2006, 02:44 PM
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Is anyone else as tired as I am of continuing to read and hear critics call BBM a box office failure. Let's take a look here. BBM has to-date grossed over $76 million domestically and another $51 million overseas. At a production cost of $14 million, this is to my calculations over an 800 percent return on investment. Wouldn't we all like to realize those kind of returns on our own personal investments? Take a look at King Kong for instance, to-date it has grossed $217 million on a $207 million productiion cost. Hardly a box office success would you say? Yet, King Kong is considered a box office hit because it had a $50 or $60 million opening weekend. Big deal. it still flopped. BBM has appeal to a limited audience, (those people with a brain and a heart). It also carries an R rating meaning children under 17 are not admitted. This rules out all those soccer moms who won't be scheduling thier kids birthday parties at the noon showing of BBM. The bulk of movie sales are composed of children under twelve whose parents pack the van with the neighborhood kids to see Harry Potter, Narna, King Kong, etc. The remainder are the twelve to 17 group whose parents would rather allow them to see blood and gore and bullets and murder, than see two human beings fall in love and how they deal with it in the world they live in. BBM is an overwhelming success on all counts. It is a financial success, a critical success, an artistic success, and has raised the social conscious and touched the hearts of millions of people who have seen the film. It will have positive social ramifications, long after King Kong has become another $4.99 video in the sale bin at the local video store.
meandennis
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I totally agree with you. BBM is more than a simple movie. I think it will last on theaters still a long time (compared to others movies) because people who see it tell their relatives to go to watch it too. And it will last in our hearts forever...
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is that....alma jr. ( kate mara ) in the pic or are my eyes playing trics on me again? do you by any chance happen to have a bigger one?!
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I'm sorry is not kate mara,is dominique swain ;)
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I'm sorry is not kate mara,is dominique swain ;)
OMG, I see the pic clearly now- and that's....jeremy irons!!!!!! OMG, that's from LOLITA!!!! all the pieces have come to place now ;D ;D ;D just one question though- why them ( not that I mind or anything )? ;)
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Because is another great love story %) hi dear koka :h) <^(
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I totally agree with you meandennis
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Hi Brokies,
From next wednesday, the "Festival Cinéma Télérama" begin in France and it will last one week.
The 10 Films which were the most voted by plebiscite in 2006, will be played again at some theaters in France.
Of course, BBm is involved in the ten !
For further informations, here is the link
http://www.telerama.fr/cine07/resultat.php
In my case, it will be my first screening at theater, i am very impatient...
:f)
(Mod, if it was a wrong place to post, please move it... :t))
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MaxHim, thanks for posting this wonderful news.
Enjoy your screening at the theater and let us know how it goes. I wish I could see it again in theater. You have no idea how bad it gets.
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Ethan,
Be sure, I will not miss to tell you my feelings after my first screening !
I am already so excited !!!
&**)
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Ethan
I just dropped a line on "Topic: Your Thought - Review - Reaction after Viewing BBM - May it Be the Nth Times"
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