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With only a $19.1 million take over five days and a budget exceeding $130 million, Final Fantasy is shaping up to be a nice little Squaresoft flop. Oops.
PostPosted:Sun Jul 15, 2001 9:49 pm
by Stephen S.
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="
http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/ ... ex.html</a>
With only a $19.1 million take over five days and a budget exceeding $130 million, Final Fantasy is shaping up to be a nice little Squaresoft flop. Oops.</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jul 15, 2001 10:28 pm
by Blotus
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Wonder if the attachment of the Final Fantasy name hurt it more than it helped...</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jul 15, 2001 10:51 pm
by Torgo
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Doesn't look good for Square; Cats and dogs made more money over the weekend despite being over a week old, and Legally Blonde's weekend gross is greater than FF's total gross.</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jul 15, 2001 11:30 pm
by Eric
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Cats & Dogs kicked ass though. :)</div>
That sucks.. cause it was Really good. Damn Wednesday release didn't do well for it either
PostPosted:Mon Jul 16, 2001 12:08 am
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Working at the movies, I saw this.. I saw it Thursday afternoon and there were like 12 other people in the theatre.
It's a real shame... but you gotta remember that most of that budget was spent on making the technology needed to make the movie. They can bang out a few more movies in less than a year for a lot less and eventually even out. Not saying that they'll be crap.. just saying that they spent 2 years in production building the technology for it.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 16, 2001 4:24 am
by Crono
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>But let's remember, this is one of those rare CG movies that will actually do better in Japan (and elsewhere) than it will in America... and the worldwide gross prolly won't be too shabby.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 16, 2001 7:39 am
by Liathional
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Let me get hold of some Japanese noowspaper and I'll check how it done there.....</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 16, 2001 7:48 am
by Liathional
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Bleh, Japanese release still long way to go</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 16, 2001 8:54 am
by Torgo
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>And Legally Blonde?</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 16, 2001 12:06 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>You'd think they would spend at least $2-3 million on the writers...</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jul 16, 2001 3:22 pm
by Eric
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>A Comedy can beat out a slow paced Sci-Fi movie anyday.</div>
That's cause it's more likely for a person who likes Sci-Fi to like Comedy too than for someone who likes Comedy to like Sci Fi
PostPosted:Mon Jul 16, 2001 4:59 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Plus, more people like comedy than Science Fiction.. I can't choose which one I like best,, depends on my mood I guess</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jul 17, 2001 12:28 am
by Ishamael
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>That's a big suprise. Pfft, not. They'll probably make some of it back up in Japan though, considering how popular FF is over there...</div>