It’s a young person’s world these days and the fact that Ice Age: The Meltdown, a movies gear towards kids is the movie that made the most money in 2006 proves it. The good folks over at yahoo.com >
In a report released Thursday, Kagan Research called “Ice Age: The Meltdown” the most profitable widely released movie of 2006, estimating its cost at $256.4 million and revenue for all release windows at $1.1 billion. When the latter is divided by the former, the result is 4.11, which Kagan calls its Kagan Profitability Index.
Fox’s “Ice Age” bests Kagan’s No. 2 pick “Pirates,” which sports a 3.93 KPI. Kagan puts costs at $423.8 million and revenue at $1.7 billion for Disney’s “Pirates
With all of the fantastic movies out last year I can’t help feeling a little bummed out that an animated movie has made the most money. What is even more shocking to me is that the two films that were going head to head for the most cash were both sequels.
For those of us who complain that Hollywood only rehashes the same old stories, I guess the dollars and cents of this story explains why.
