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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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At TheOneRing.net they don't seem to agree with this rumor.
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Illustrious Ulair
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Ok, let's see how true this one is...
Disney pulls out the Narnia franchise
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Delaying The Hobbit film until 2012 makes perfect sense. I believe either the Aztec or Mayan world calendar indicates that 2012 is the end of the world; therefore, between the Aztec calendar and the Mexican Del Toro, we have a perfect storm in an apocalyptic sense.
Just think, you can have an oblivion party right at the theater: "It's the end of the world as we know it, But the Hobbit's fine..."
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Is it just coincidence that those who seem to take the most pleasure in hoping for a delay of the next Middle-earth films are also those who did not like the last three?
just asking.... there is are too much money to be made here for these films not to come to pass. |
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As far as successful franchises go, I suspect everyone 'in the know' would have included Narnia after the performance of LWW, alongside LotR.... EDIT Let's face it - if TH was a stand alone work, without the LotR connection, no studio would touch it at the moment - a movie about a midget who gets dragged off by a wizard & thirteen Dwarves & not a single female character in the whole story. And I suspect that without a major re-write & the introduction of some familiar faces it won't do the business. It's not been picked up for what it is in its own right, but purely as a way of getting LotR movie fans back into the cinemas - & most of them have a very clear about the kind of movie they want to see - & that's not the story Tolkien wrote...
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I think they would love to do the Hobbit-movie just because of the money it would produce them. It's just that in this "post credit-crunch" -world no one is willing to invest anything on anything that doesn't materialise itself in a day or two. Let's forget the quartal economy: the truth of the financial markets is day by day now. So nothing that takes time gets invested in.
And that to be sure is the problem of our modern capitalism. The quartal economy was a bad thing but this Day-to-Day economy is even worse. So what happens to any project where you can't cash yourself out within a day? So if it was that the oil-firms were reluctant to invest in new refineries a year ago now the film companies are afraid to invest in movies. Both make weekly/quartal losses for future gains but in this climate no one wishes to take the risk as the investers are nervous for any signs of spending instead of gaining immediately... ![]() ![]()
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I'm rather curious why Disney turned down Narnia movies, since by the
records below it seems that the movie more then covered production costs U.S. domestically and more then doubled expenses (including worldwide) with PC. And this doesn't seem to include other revenue sources (books, dvds, cable tv rights, etc.). Why wouldn't further films also be good revenue sources? The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - Box Office Data, Movie ...Total US Gross, $141,621,490. International Gross, $277,868,796. Worldwide Gross, $419,490,286 =================================== The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe Domestic: $291,710,957 39.2% Foreign: $453,300,315 60.8% Worldwide: $745,011,272 ===================================
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