XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: sky.diver@moonbase.alpha   
      
   In article <5%GLc.11433$Qu5.1984@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>, Bo   
   Raxo  wrote:   
      
   > > Frakes is going to need International Rescue himself, because I predict   
   > > the Thunderbirds movie is going to BOMB bigtime. It'll do worse than   
   > > the original Thunderbirds movies forty years ago, compared to their   
   > > respective budgets.   
   > >   
   >   
   > I disagree. It's summer, it's aimed at kids, it has lots of sci-fi gadgetry.   
   > It'll be this summer's Spy Kids.  Probably come out at number 2 or 3 it's   
   > opening weekend and easily to $70 million in box office.  Given the cast   
   > list, it probably didn't cost much to make.   
      
   It's not the cast. It's the effects. It already *cost* $70 million to   
   make, before marketing and the theaters' percentage. If it only does   
   $70 million in box office, it'll be swimming in red ink.   
      
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