Posted
12:47 PM
by Gene
NOT BAD: Despite another round of 1939 and all those parents and movie S&M phreaks who believe what they read in the papers, B.O. for the top 12 looks to be
down about $40 million from
last year, a nice heartwarming close-to-25-percent drop. A few more weekends like this and the year won't be an unalloyed triumph after all.
Some more heartwarming factoids:
THE GREATEST DIRECTOR's PC war movie has bombed, as has
Phone Thrower's masterwork, as have
the previously-mentioned DreamWorks writedown and
two other newly opened expressions of genius. Not bad, not bad at all.
P. S.
The Hollywood Stenographer calls the decline "
staggering." Double not-bad.