Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".
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Originally Posted by Alistair_M
I don't think a worldwide gross of 321 million dollars could be categorised as a financial disaster. Its a decent overall profit. I think the production budget was 180 million dollars. Sure the greedy execs wanted more - they probably were thinking all of their movies will do LOTR grosses. It did ok worldwide.
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Originally Posted by Brandon Conway
Except that New Line gets exactly $0 for that overseas gross.
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Originally Posted by Brandon Conway
New Line sold all non-US theatrical rights prior to release. They won't see a dime of the international box office.
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| New Line sold all non-US theatrical rights prior to release. They won't see a dime of the international box office. |
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Originally Posted by Travis Brashear
Wow! I just confirmed this at imdb.com...holy sheet, sell the rights off to all the areas that don't consider the series controversial, but keep ahold of them in Puritan-strangled America. Bright bulbs over there at New Line...
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Well, as it has already been stated, I'm sure they didn't sell them for nothing, but these types of decisions on the part of New Line don't make news like this surprising:
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Originally Posted by Robert George
New Line did receive money for those international rights. I don't know how much, but I'm pretty sure it was more than the price of a hot dog and Coke at Tail 'o The Pup.
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Originally Posted by Robert George
As for a sequel, New line may well green light a sequel based on worldwide gross, or even based on video revenue, even though they did get the international receipts because they do know how to read, and they know $321 million does indicate some interest.
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Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".
