From: ddrewc@verizonSPAMBEGONE.net   
      
   On 2007-06-23 1:38 a.m., Joseph Nebus verbated:   
   > Lauren Graham:   
   > 	+ *Another* Evan Almighty guest?  Why are they pretending they   
   > can coax people into seeing that big, expensive, stupid mess?  What is   
   > *wrong* with people?   
   ...   
   > 	- Evan Almighty: the lord God for no obvious reason declares   
   > they had to spend $400 billion on a movie with no appealing features.   
      
   Have you seen the film, Joseph? It might not be /that/ bad. Then again,   
   it's hard to argue that it's worth what the studio spent on it. I read that   
   "Evan" topped the weekend box-office charts with $32 million in receipts,   
   but analysts considered that a disappointing opening-weekend figure because   
   the film cost so much to make -- $175 million according to wire reports,   
   "more than $250 million to produce and market" according to the LA Times --   
   that it has to be a major blockbuster just to break even.   
      
   Given the opening-weekend total and a normal decay rate, the movie will be   
   lucky to gross half of that $250 million in theaters domestically. I'm sure   
   the studio doesn't want to lose that much money, so there undoubtedly will   
   be more promotion of the movie in upcoming weeks. At least it won't happen   
   on Conan because of reruns.   
      
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