XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: sky.diver@moonbase.alpha   
      
   In article , Bo   
   Raxo  wrote:   
      
   > Not at all.  Movies like this (kid's movies) do their best business in the   
   > rental market.  Theater owners love booking kids' movies, because the   
   > concession stand sales are much, much higher (which is why Disney gets the   
   > entire box office take for it's kids movies, instead of the 50% that is   
   > normal in the movie business).   
      
   I've never heard of that Disney take and rather suspect it's an urban   
   myth.   
      
   > Add in foreign sales, and you have a moneymaker.   
      
   Somehow, I don't think this will be another Spy Kids.   
      
   > BTW, do you have a cite for that production cost?  I mean, a bunch of CGI   
   > effects doesn't cost much these days, and the cast ran them about $1.98   
   > each.  I don't think Frakes is one of Hollywood's more expensive feature   
   > directors, and I doubt that the rights to that puppet show cost them as much   
   > as the makers of Catwoman had to pay out to DC.   
      
   http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0167456/business   
      
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