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New Years Weekend Box Office: Promising or Foreboding? Take Your Pick
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, MI4 – Ghost Protocol This New Year's weekend is either a promising or a foreboding gateway to the North American box office in 2012. Looking at various news reports — some rosy, some gloomy — it all depends on what color glasses the writers had on, or what sort of spin they wanted to give to the Dec. 30, 2011-Jan. [...]
AVATAR Is Most Pirated Movie Ever (Also Biggest Modern Blockbuster, Biggest DVD Seller of 2010)
James Cameron's Avatar Avatar is the most pirated movie of all time according to the website TorrentFreak. Citing statistics "gathered from public BitTorrent trackers, dating back to early 2006," Avatar was downloaded an estimated 21 million times. James Cameron's environmentally conscious sci-fier, which went on to gross $2.78 billion at the worldwide box office, was followed by two other major worldwide blockbusters: Christopher Nolan's The [...]
Andrew Stanton/JOHN CARTER Movie Actually Needs to Earn Much More Than $700 Million
Taylor Kitsch as John Carter, Mars hero Andrew Stanton's 3D sci-fier John Carter "will have to earn about $700 million to justify a sequel," according to a New Yorker profile on Stanton. Why so much dough? That's because Stanton's first live-action movie cost a reported $250 million — not including the marketing/distribution expenses to be incurred by distributor Disney. For comparison's sake: Stanton's Finding Nemo [...]
Leonardo DiCaprio, Screenwriter James Cameron – TITANIC: Biggest Oscar Snubs #6
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Titanic HOOP DREAMS: Biggest Oscar Snubs #7c The absence of Leonardo DiCaprio and James Cameron's Titanic screenplay from the list of 1997 Oscar nominations deserves its own slot because Titanic wasn't just a movie. As the biggest worldwide grosser ever until Avatar (not taking inflation into account), Cameron's romantic adventure-melodrama was a cultural and financial phenomenon. DiCaprio's failure to get a [...]