Archive for January 9th, 2006
‘Hostel’ Lodged Into Top Spot
Monday, January 9th, 2006Official LOST Podcast Update
Monday, January 9th, 2006In case you missed it, the Official ABC LOST podcast, with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof has been updated and is ready to download. In this official LOST podcast, Carton and Damon give some insight into the upcoming episode on…
Official LOST Podcast Update
Monday, January 9th, 2006In case you missed it, the Official ABC LOST podcast, with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof has been updated and is ready to download. In this official LOST podcast, Carton and Damon give some insight into the upcoming episode on…
Official LOST Podcast Update
Monday, January 9th, 2006In case you missed it, the Official ABC LOST podcast, with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof has been updated and is ready to download. In this official LOST podcast, Carton and Damon give some insight into the upcoming episode on…
Official LOST Podcast Update
Monday, January 9th, 2006In case you missed it, the Official ABC LOST podcast, with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof has been updated and is ready to download. In this official LOST podcast, Carton and Damon give some insight into the upcoming episode on…
Official LOST Podcast Update
Monday, January 9th, 2006In case you missed it, the Official ABC LOST podcast, with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof has been updated and is ready to download. In this official LOST podcast, Carton and Damon give some insight into the upcoming episode on…
Official LOST Podcast Update
Monday, January 9th, 2006In case you missed it, the Official ABC LOST podcast, with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof has been updated and is ready to download. In this official LOST podcast, Carton and Damon give some insight into the upcoming episode on…
Official LOST Podcast Update
Monday, January 9th, 2006In case you missed it, the Official ABC LOST podcast, with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof has been updated and is ready to download. In this official LOST podcast, Carton and Damon give some insight into the upcoming episode on…
Are All Video Game Movies Unmitigated Disasters?
Monday, January 9th, 2006
So it appears that BloodRayne was an unmitigated disaster of this weekend. Not only did it only take in just $1.2 million this past weekend (and that’s a generous estimate) but Romar, the company that is distributing the film, was supposed to distribute it to 1915 theaters. Instead is ended up showing in less than 1000 screens this weekend and that hundreds of theaters reported receiving prints of the film that they didn’t order; needless to say, they refused to screen them. Not good, not good at all.
So I began to wonder, do “video game movies” ever actually make money? Or are they all nothing more than one disaster after another? So I went to one of my favorite sites Box Office Mojo and put together some numbers. I believe they are all there and they paint an interesting picture, take a look:
| “Video Game Movie” | Domestic Gross | Production Budget | Est. Marketing Costs | Release Date | Total Worldwide Gross |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | $131,168,070 | $115 million | N/A | 6/15/01 | $274,703,340 |
| Pokemon: The First Movie | $85,744,662 | $30 million | N/A | 11/10/99 | $163,644,662 |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | $65,660,196 | $95 million | $35 million | 7/25/03 | $156,505,388 |
| Pokemon: The Movie 2000 | $43,758,684 | $30 million | N/A | 7/21/00 | $133,949,270 |
| Resident Evil: Apocalypse | $51,201,453 | $45 million | $25 million | 9/10/04 | $129,394,835 |
| Mortal Kombat | $70,454,098 | N/A | N/A | 8/18/95 | $122,195,920 |
| Resident Evil | $40,119,709 | $33 million | $20 million | 3/15/02 | $102,441,078 |
| Street Fighter | $33,423,521 | $35 million | N/A | 12/23/94 | $99,423,521 |
| Final Fantasy: The Spirts Within | $32,131,830 | $137 million | $30 million | 7/11/01 | $85,131,830 |
| Pokemon 3: The Movie | $17,052,128 | $16 million | N/A | 4/6/01 | $68,411,275 |
| Doom | $28,048,600 | $60 million | N/A | 10/21/05 | $52,719,567 |
| Mortal Kombat II: Annihilation | $35,927,406 | N/A | N/A | 11/21/97 | $51,376,861 |
| Pokemon 4Ever | $1,727,447 | N/A | N/A | 10/11/02 | $28,023,563 |
| Super Mario Bros. | $20,915,465 | $48 million | N/A | 5/28/93 | $20,915,465 |
| House of the Dead | $10,249,719 | $12 million | $10 million | 10/10/03 | $13,818,181 |
| Wing Commander | $11,578,059 | $30 million | N/A | 3/12/99 | $11,578,059 |
| Alone in the Dark | $5,178,569 | $20 million | N/A | 1/28/05 | $6,459,986 |
| Double Dragon | $2,341,309 | N/A | N/A | 11/4/94 | $2,341,309 |
| BloodRayne | $1,200,000 | $25 million | $22 million | 1/6/06 | $1,200,000 |
| Pokemon Heroes | $746,381 | N/A | N/A | 5/16/03 | $746,381 |
Wow, those Pokemon movies sure made a pretty penny. Perhaps Uwe Boll should try to do some animated movies instead. On second thought … perhaps that wouldn’t be a good idea. Maybe it’s time that Uwe Boll try out his skill as an air condition repairman or auto mechanic as this film director career doesn’t seem to be working out so well.
TWiT 37: CES
Monday, January 9th, 2006TWiT 37 is on the air.
Audio
Main feed courtesy those cool cats (and TWiTheads) at AOL Radio:
- MP3 feed
- BitTorrents from our new site
No video or enhanced AAC this week - we were on Skype. We’ll have video of our Tuesday special edition, however.
Hosts: John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, and David Prager
Topics:
- John covered CES without ever leaving home.
- Kevin and David taped Diggnation there.
- Patrick and Robert did three episodes of DL.TV
- Watch for the In Digital CES special with Andrew Hawn, Hahn Choi, and other former TechTV Lab Rats, January 10 at Revision3.com
- The best reason to go to CES is to get the press bag
- But we looked in vain for a player that can play both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD
- Even the CES keynotes were a snooze
- Watch the Vista/OS X video here
- Patrick likes Sony’s new Reader
- Kevin has ordered a Treo 700w
- Asus’s Lamborghini notebook vs Acer’s Ferrari
- The amazing Optimus keyboard - is it for real?
- Dvorak is baffled by the Kodak with two lenses
- Read John’s coverage of the Atom Computer from last September. Visit them at Atomchip.com.
- Do you believe Apple is going to announce plasma TVs powered by OS X?
- We’re intrigued by Google’s announced video store, but underwhelmed by the Google Pack
- Leo agrees with Jason Calacanis’s blog observation that Google is really in the AdSense business not the search business
- To Patrick’s dismay, Windows Media Player 11 will not support RSS out of the box
- DiVX and Google partner up
- CES Parties we weren’t invited to: Foo Fighters for Motorola, Black Crows for AMD, Stevie Wonder for Monster Cable, and The Who for Samsung.
If you’re going to be in San Francisco on Tuesday, January 10, sign up for tickets to our live show at 6:30p at the Zeum, next door to MacWorld Expo.
Back to you mensa boy.
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