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In response to "Like The Happening, they'd still be a lot happier if they'd had a good movie to sell, though. -- nm" by David

Of course, I'm sure they'd rather have a $100M+ grosser from that start, but they sold what they had and must have made at least 3X production budget.

Posted by Dano (aka dano) Mar 8 '09, 10:07

And considering of the movie is really that bad, they made the money they made the only way they could. The perfect release date to get as much money as they could up front. In the big picture, there's no way to spin Friday the 13th except as a success for the studio.

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You're doing a ventriloquist act with my MMQB comments about it, but they still left a lot of money on the table by making a bad film. -- nm - David Mar 8, 10:13
I'm not saying it's a failure for it's cost/revenue; just how it got there is epic bad. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 8, 10:11

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Of course, I'm sure they'd rather have a $100M+ grosser from that start, but they sold what they had and must have made at least 3X production budget.

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