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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 06/26/2007 : 02:15:41 AM
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According to Boxofficemojo, the budget for Evan Almighty was $175 million dollars. (IMDB claims that figure is closer to $200 million.)
In the name of... well, you know... what would possess the studio to spend $175 million dollars on a comedy? Don't give me Passion of the Christ as motivation... that movie was shot for a relative song compared to Evan and therefore made back its budget that much more easily. In order for Evan to break even, it would need to gross approximately $400 million worldwide. Does anybody here think Evan has that kind of juice? |
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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
648 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2007 : 07:15:15 AM
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And who's the genius who that people watch comedies for the special effects?
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Altair IV
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Japan
110 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2007 : 1:15:01 PM
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I know next to nothing about this movie, but even the name sounds lame. There's no way that this sequel will be able to match the performance of the first movie.
According to [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Almighty "]Wikipedia[/url] Bruce Almighty raked in $484M worldwide. A figure like that is certain to get the dollar signs shining in studio execs eyes, at which point they're likely to approve almost anything.
Wikipedia also says that the original script that became Evan Almighty was the subject of a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Almighty#Production "]seven-studio bidding war[/url]. The winning studio then scrapped most of it in order to modify it into a sequel. Want to bet that the original version was much better?
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Ken HPoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
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Posted - 06/26/2007 : 6:56:20 PM
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I was amazed to hear of the budget, and especially the fact that it cost more than Bruce Almighty, given the wage differential between Carell and the first film's Jim Carrey.
Word has it that the studio booked the opening weekend date before production was ready to start, and then had to pay through the nose to get the movie released to theaters on time. I'm sure the bad reviews (only a 22% rate at Rotten Tomatoes) didn't help either. Considering the kind of drop-offs summer fare have been experiencing so far, EA will probably draw less than $75 at the domestic box office, and comedies don't do as well overseas as action films. This is looking like a fairly major bomb.
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CDiehl
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
361 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2007 : 12:23:32 PM
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Want to bet that the original version was much better?
If what you say is true, that after outbidding half a dozen other studios, the studio that made this, shredded that script to create a sequel to a movie that wasn't great to begin with, and a vehicle for an actor who had a minor role in the original, and is now a hot property, I'll take a piece of that action.
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Word has it that the studio booked the opening weekend date before production was ready to start, and then had to pay through the nose to get the movie released to theaters on time.
What makes them think this is a good idea? That sounds like the kind of thing a B-movie studio would do, where they'd make the poster art before they even had a script.
Once again, the ads tell me all I need to know about this movie. They put what I'd bet money are the two or three most amusing lines in the movie, by a wide margin, into the ads. Then, they proceeded to run those ads, ad nauseam, for two to three weeks before it opened. I was sick of it well before this past Friday. So, why should I pay $6.75 to see a movie that the ads couldn't make me want to watch?
You know Grand Funk, don't you? The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The ... adequate drumwork of Don Brewer? |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 06/27/2007 : 10:38:12 PM
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Originally posted by CDiehl
What makes them think this is a good idea? That sounds like the kind of thing a B-movie studio would do, where they'd make the poster art before they even had a script.
Studios are not in the business of making movies- they're in the business of SELLING movies. The "making" part is just an unfortunate side effect. When they decide a movie has to hit at a certain time for a certain market to get a certain audience, that's it. Look what happened to Star Trek: TMP. That movie was being loaded from the development lab on planes to go to the premiere, with editing and F/X in a shambles and a budget that had bloated to double what it was supposed to be. Didn't matter. It only really got properly finished two years ago!
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Representing Labor
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
62 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2007 : 4:32:03 PM
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| Saw Evan Almighty and liked it. Its not a funny movie, but it is entertaining in a completely bland and inoffensive way. If they packaged this thing as a Christmas movie rather than a summer blockbuster I'm convinced it would have done much better at the box office (I know its not a Christmas movie, but it has the same secular preachiness common in modern Christmas movies). |
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Prankster
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
727 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2007 : 3:35:30 PM
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I think the animals added to the budget too.
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