Well, granted, I did call it, but it didn’t really come as too much of a shock that Passion took the box office tickets over the weekend this week. It has been 3 weeks since it was the No. 1 movie and was #5 last week, to reclaim the spot this week. Paul Dergarabedian, head honcho of Exhibitor Relations (those are the people that track box office numbers) said “That’s unprecedented. I’ve never seen that before. ’The Passion’ is just rewriting box-office history”. Good for that.
However, in even funner news this weekend, we got to watch a movie that Disney poured 100 million dollars into, rake in less than 10 million in its opener. “The Alamo” was originally supposed to be directed by Ron Howard and cost about 135 million, but they went with the man from the helm of Disney’s “The Rookie” to save money. — Who knows if that was a good move or not, although, having Ron Howard certainly would’ve kept it from being this much of a bath. I’m not a financial advisor or anything, but with Home on the Range not pulling in huge, the internal fiascos, the closing of the 2-D departments, and general over-all laggy public opinion (as far as I know) – Disney can’t afford to lose millions and millions of dollars.
It sounds rather funny, but it’s actually true — at least until Disney gets its act together — if they want to save a SICK amount of money, maybe Disney should stop making movies. — .. No really. – Think about it.
