Posted
12:45 PM
by Gene
When it comes to the movie biz we're sadists: the more pain the (lack of an) audience inflicts on it, the happier we get.
This weekend will be down almost $30 million from
last year. OUCH! That feels good!
But pity poor
Christmas at Maxwell's. This
glorified vanity production earned
$54 a screen over the weekend. $54! That's $18 a day, divided by how many screenings? In other words it played mostly before empty houses. $3 million (or possibly $4 million) down the drain -- for what? For someone to say, "I'm a moviemaker"?