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.

[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>

[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>

[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>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Cats & Dogs kicked ass though. :)</div>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[Liathional]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Bleh, Japanese release still long way to go</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>And Legally Blonde?</div>

[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>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>A Comedy can beat out a slow paced Sci-Fi movie anyday.</div>

[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>

[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>